two explosions at the airport in Brussels, Belgium
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe/brussels-explosions/index.html
There are reports of two explosions at the airport in Brussels, Belgium, according to CNN affiliate VTM.
illuminati is doing stuff oh em gee
Music video by French Montana performing Ain't Worried About Nothin (Explicit). (C) 2013 Bad Boy/Interscope Records
Noone wants to admit this but all these hype artists are artists that were either 1. Influnced by lyrics from actual individuals, or were once at that moment in life. Most, if not all are at the stage of fakeness and bullshit. These main stream punks that have 50m+ views are at the point where they are fake politcal parties this is coming from this girls man, not her lol so fuck ya'll that wanna act like you have something on me - Im Bosnian so back ur thirsty ass up.
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Bernie Sanders vows to fight on despite Shrillary Clinton rout
>He did not talk of defeat.
>He talked still of victory, of changing the status quo.
>But as Bernie Sanders put a brave face on a sad night and promised that his battle to make it to the White House would continue, he was aware that he now faces a huge struggle to fulfill his dreams, and those of his supporters.
>After securing a stunning, surprise victory a week earlier in Michigan, there had been excitement and anticipation among his team that he could perform a similar insurgent win in such states as Ohio and Illinois.
>But on an evening when the bight blue graphics on television screens showed several of the battles between him and Hillary Clinton to be be agonisingly close, he came away without a single victory. The closest, and perhaps most painful, was the last race to be called, when the former secretary of state secured the contest in Missouri by less than half a percentage point.
>While delegates in all of the Democratic contests are awarded on a proportional basis, Ms Clinton now has a haul of 1,599, of which 467 are so-called super delegates, party officials that are not obliged to vote for a particular candidate. Mr Sanders has 844, of which just 26 are super delegates.
>To reach the threshold of 2,383 delegates required to claim the nomination, Ms Clinton now needs to win just a third of those remaining. Mr Sanders would have to win at a level he has not managed since his heady days in New Hampshire in February.
>On Tuesday night, Mr Sanders did not talk about the terrible night he had suffered. Rather, speaking in Phoenix, Arizona, he continued to talk of the revolution he was trying to lead.
>“Don’t settle for the status quo when the status quo is broken,” he said, in a speech that lasted for around an hour.
Fight on Bernman! Cause, y'know, if Shrillary by some amazing turn of events is indicted we'll need someone to be the Pres heh
Critics Aghast at 'Disgusting Speech' Clinton Just Gave to AIPAC
During the address, Clinton vowed to take the U.S.-Israel relationship to "the next level"—a level which seemingly includes more war and imperialism, few, if any, rights for Palestinians, and definitely no economic boycotts of Israel.
"As president, I will make a firm commitment to ensure Israel maintains its qualitative military edge," she said. "The United States should provide Israel with the most sophisticated defense technology so it can deter and stop any threats. That includes bolstering Israeli missile defenses with new systems like the Arrow Three and David’s Sling. And we should work together to develop better tunnel detection, technology to prevent armed smuggling, kidnapping and terrorist attacks."
As observers noted, as she ran down the list of "evolving threats," the former U.S. secretary of state resorted to common neoconservative talking points, declaring:
As we gather here, three evolving threats — Iran’s continued aggression, a rising tide of extremism across a wide arc of instability, and the growing effort to de-legitimize Israel on the world stage — are converging to make the U.S.-Israel alliance more indispensable than ever.
We have to combat all these trends with even more intense security and diplomatic cooperation. The United States and Israel must be closer than ever, stronger than ever and more determined than ever to prevail against our common adversaries and to advance our shared values.
Touting her "deep, personal commitment" to the "Jewish state," Clinton then said that "one of the first things I’ll do in office is invite Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] to visit the White House."
Clinton then specifically called on young people "on the front lines" to resist efforts to boycott Israel, saying: "I hope you stay strong. Keep speaking out. Don’t let anyone silence you, bully you or try to shut down debate"
>In a statement to Common Dreams, Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, said that the speech "is a reminder of the current limits of the mainstream discourse on Israel, which rely on racist and Islamophobic tropes to justify unquestioning support for Israel."
>"From Democrats to Republicans, the message is the same," Vilkomerson continued. "More arms for Israel, a stronger relationship between Israel and the U.S., no mention of Palestinian rights, and no recognition of the impossible contradiction of being both democratic and Jewish when the state is predicated on maintaining systems of unequal rights and rule by military occupation."
>yfw even actual jews see through the bullshit
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/21/critics-aghast-disgusting-speech-clinton-just-gave-aipac
Happy Birthday, Natalia! 7 Things You Didn't Know About Crimean Prosecutor
Natalia Poklonskaya may very well be one of the symbols of modern Crimea. Her struggle for Crimea’s reunification with Russia in the aftermath of the Euromaidan crisis in Ukraine was a heroic, selfless act. And it so happened that Russia and Crimea reunited on March 18, the same day Poklonskaya celebrates her birthday.
>Some might say it was Poklonskaya's fate and now she will always celebrate her birthday together with her beloved peninsula as a part of Russia. Others say it was probably just a coincidence. Perhaps so, but one thing is clear — under the watchful eye of Poklonskaya, the cute yet tough Prosecutor General of Crimea, accidents don't just happen.
>This exact same day two years ago, when Poklonskaya turned 34, the Russian government signed the treaty of reunification with the Crimean peninsula. Today Poklonskaya turns 36 and she can't be happier that she and her people now live in Russia.
>"For me it means happiness and pride. Moreover, my dream came true and we returned home and now live in the most wonderful and the best country in the world — in Russia and it all happened on my birthday. Of course, I'm the happiest person. Words can't convey all my feelings and emotions."
>"Because it's a day off and the republic's [Crimea] holiday, I allowed myself for the first time during a press-conference to be without my uniform, and to wear a beautiful dress," Poklonskaya told journalists.
>Fact 1: Before the Maidan protests began, Poklonskaya worked at the Ukrainian General Directorate of Internal Affairs in Kiev. However, on February 25, 2014, Poklonskaya handed in her resignation letter, stating that she was "ashamed to live in the country where neo-fascists freely walk about the streets." She left Kiev for Crimea and on March 11, 2014, was appointed Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
>Fact 2: After Poklonskaya returned to Crimea she harshly criticized the Euromaidain protests and the new coup-installed Ukrainian government, which resulted in a criminal case against her in Ukraine and she was stripped of the rank of Counsellor of Justice.
>Fact 3: On March 25, 2014, Poklonskaya was appointed as acting Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea, the new office was created after the peninsula's reunification with Russia.
>Fact 4: Last June, Poklonskaya became the youngest ever female general prosocutor after being awarded the rank of Judicial Counsellor 3 Class. Before that Poklonskaya served as a Senior Counsellor of Justice, which is equivalent to the military rank of colonel.
>Fact 5: In addition to her strong leadership qualities, toughness and professionalism, Poklonskaya is known for her youthful looks and attractiveness. After videos from her press-conference in Crimea were uploaded on YouTube, Poklonskaya grabbed the attention of Internet users around the world.
>Fact 6: Poklonskaya has a daughter, Anastasia, from her first marriage. Both of her parents live in Crimea to where they moved from the Lugansk Region in 1990, when Natalia was 10-years old.
>Fact 7: Poklonskaya is fond of sports and likes to keep active whenever she can. "Prosecutors should be fit and in good shape — she's an officer," Poklonskaya said after passing the all-Russian physical culture training program, abbreviated as GTO ("Ready for Labour and Defense").
Niggers promise to be the nigger animals they are
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=35507
>Prominent ‘Black Lives Matter’ activist and rapper Tef Poe has a message for “white people”: If Donald Trump wins the presidency, “niggas” will ‘incite riots everywhere’.
>“Dear white people if Trump wins young niggas such as myself are fully hell bent on inciting riots everywhere we go. Just so you know,” Poe tweeted today.
>The rapper was one of the co-founders of Hands Up United, a “social justice” organization that emerged after the death of Michael Brown that was responsible for coordinating large BLM protests in the St. Louis area.
stuff like this reminds me how pathetic blacks in America are. Many prefer just more handouts and racial socialism. They really couldn't care less about thing like the trade deficit, the consequences immigration will have on them, that they will be truly (perhaps rightly) excluded and castigated under a Far-Eastern world hegemony, and even taxation doesn't matter to them. For them its really all about a white male making strong gestures and confederate monuments.
and to top it all off, "we gon riet an burn dis bitch down if yall crackas win". So you're going to burn your own neighborhoods down again just like with Michael Brown? And you're going to rob more white people and shoot cops like you were already doing?
Ethan Kike attacks Leafyishere for making fun of Autitistic Fedora-wearer
The battle royale of Youtube reacters has begun.
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Germany Is Collapsing! Riots, Rape and Pork Products Banned To Avoid Offending Muslims
Radical leftism at its finest! German culture is being obliterated! Could this be the future of America?
After the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, in early December 2015 where 14 people were massacred and another 22 injured, Americans were informed that one of the attackers, Tashfeen Malik, had been admitted into the U.S. on a Fiance visa, after passing the so-called "vetting" by two separate U.S. government agencies.
Americans started waking up to the fact that Obama's open door policy was not only allowing "refugees" into the U.S. but the whole process from those over-staying their visas, to the vetting of those for different types of visas including fiance visas, to the inability to prevent the terrorist infiltration of the refugees themselves, is woefully inadequate.
Rather than backing any call to suspend the refugee program until such a time as the "vetting" process can be investigated and reformed, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been a proponent to allow more refugees into America, as shown in this September 2015 clip below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqaItzolOg
Not only would Hillary Clinton continue along the dangerous path that Barack Obama has been traveling, putting all Americans in the line of fire, but she would become our very own Angela Merkel.
What has Angela Merkel done to Germany in the last year?
It is estimated that more than 1.1 million migrants were admitted into Germany in 2015 by Angela Merkel's open door policies. During the 2016 New Years eve celebrations more than 1,900 women were sexually assaulted across Germany by men of ""Arab or North African appearance," to which brought outrage and protests by German citizens against Merkel.
Today we see news that the invasion and takeover in Germany is now almost complete as some schools are actually banning sausages, ham and other pork products from the menu and replace other meats with halal versions, in order to avoid "offending" muslims.
'The children love pork and it’s a scandal to take these meats off the menu to please, what I consider to be, a low number of children who require halal meat.'
The majority of the children are now having school meals that are made for the minority. The halal children have always had the vegetarian and fish options. '
The Sun describes the controversy this is stirring up as German MPs campaigning to make pork compulsory in schools:
Daniel Gunther, the formal representative of Merkel’s CDU party, said: “The protection of minorities - including for religious reasons - must not mean that the majority is overruled in their free decision by ill-conceived consideration.”
“The consumption of pork belongs to our culture…No one should be obliged to [eat it] but we also don't want the majority having to refrain from pork,” he added, according to Deutsche Welle.
Gunther later claimed in a local newspaper interview that “at least one nursery in every voting district” in the state of Schleswig-Holstein had banned pork products to stop Muslims being offended.
According to IBTimes it is not only schools, but public canteens as well.
Is this what we all want for America? This is what we will get if Hillary Clinton is elected as president.
http://allnewspipeline.com/A_Vote_For_Hillary_Is_A_Vote_For_THIS.php
No Squatting Or Using Toilet Floor, Top University Tells ‘International’ Students
>A leading British university has put signs in their toilets, “designed for international students”, pleading with them not to stand or squat on the loos or leave their business on the floor.
>The signs appear on the University of Sheffield’s campus; a ‘redbrick’ Russell group institution, which is rated as one of the top ten universities in the country and top 100 in the world.
>However, some of the brainy students appear to be lacking in respect for, or cultural awareness of, western sanitary norms.
>One on the new signs read: “Do not put toilet paper on the floor,” followed by: “Put toilet paper in the toilet bowl and flush.”
>Another shows students how to sit correctly and urges them not to squat on the toilet seat. A third adds: “Please leave this toilet as you wish to find it. No standing on seats.”
This speaks for itself, I guess.
Strong independent black woman wins modern art contest
Today’s winning Google Doodle invoking Black Lives Matter was designed by high school sophomore
JUST last month, Akilah Johnson was “surprised and overwhelmed” when she learned that she was a national finalist in the “Doodle 4 Google” contest for grade-schoolers.
Imagine how she feels now.
Akilah, a sophomore at Eastern Senior High School in Northeast Washington, has just been named Google’s big winner in the national contest, topping the 53 state and territory champions, whose work had been culled from about 100,000 student entries.
“It is really overwhelming,” Akilah tells The Post’s Comic Riffs, minutes after receiving the news Monday during a ceremony at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
“I was so excited, I started crying,” Akilah says. “I didn’t even look at anybody — I was just looking at the framed copy [of the Doodle] they gave me.”
Akilah is the contest’s first winner from Washington, as D.C. was not eligible to enter the states-only competition in past years. (The Post’s Comic Riffs had joined the chorus of voices urging that the District be included.)
This year’s contest theme was: “What makes me…me.” Akilah drew a box-braided Doodle, titled “My Afrocentric Life,” using color pencils, black crayons and Sharpie markers. The Doodle includes symbols of black heritage and signs representing the Black Lives Matter movement.
A £200 million research vessel to be named "Boaty McBoatface" by the voting public
A £200 million research vessel to be named "Boaty McBoatface" by the voting public
>An open vote has been set up to name the next Royal Research Ship (RRS), with the public allowed to come up and vote for new names of the vessel.
>The £200 million (€256 million) ship is due to take to the seas and explore the Arctic and Antarctic from 2019, but the current front-runner for the vessel's name is already gathering a lot of attention: RRS Boaty McBoatface.
>If the name sticks, Boaty will replace the RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton in their researching purposes.
>Other names in the running include RRS David Attenborough (currently running in third favourite), while other funny titles include the RRS Ice Ice Baby, and the RRS Usain Boat.
>You can vote for the boat's name from the broken link in the archive link
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Quebec nationalists are literally Hitler
>François Legault is no Québécois Donald Trump. The Coalition Avenir Québec leader hasn’t called immigrants rapists and drug dealers, or proposed to build a wall at the border, or to carry out mass deportations, or to turn away Muslims.
>All he did, ostensibly, was express concern about Quebec’s ability to absorb the additional 10,000 immigrants a year the Couillard government proposes to admit.
>So Premier Philippe Couillard surely exaggerated when he attacked Legault for “mounting the anti-immigrant backlash movement we observe south of our border and in Europe,” and of “blowing once again on the coals of intolerance.”
>Commentators and even political adversaries came to Legault’s defence against what they said was an attempt by Couillard to discourage legitimate debate.
>And then I happened upon a media release issued by Legault’s party this week.
>In the release, the CAQ candidate in the April 11 Chicoutimi by-election challenged her Liberal opponent to say where she stands on the Couillard government’s proposal to admit 60,000 immigrants a year instead of the present objective of 50,000.
>Rather, she spoke about identity, the French language and Quebec values. The former Parti Québécois government’s “charter of values” may be dead, but apparently the values issue itself isn’t.
>“Today, the population of Chicoutimi has the right to know what (Liberal candidate) Francyne T. Tremblay really thinks about the increase of 10,000 immigrants a year,” the CAQ candidate said. “It’s simple: we can’t raise immigration levels without the (present) courses on French and common Quebec values (for immigrants) being made compulsory.”
>When I saw those numbers, I was reminded of Hérouxville. That’s the economically depressed Quebec village that in 2007 became infamous when its council adopted a code of conduct for the immigrants who weren’t coming there anyway.
>That was at the height of hysteria in Quebec over religious accommodations, which a forerunner to the CAQ rode nearly all the way from third-party status to power in the general election later that year.
>While Chicoutimi riding doesn’t have many immigrants, it does have a lot of nationalists, having voted PQ in every election since the party’s first, in 1970.
DHS Gloats They Do NOTHING To Protect National Security
A top Homeland Security official told Border Patrol agents the Obama regime has “no intention of deporting” many of the illegal immigrants caught trying to sneak into the country, ordering instead that they be released so they don’t clog up the courts, a leading advocate for agents testified to Congress.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said the orders are a new “catch and release” policy, which he said “amounts to amnesty” because it means many illegal immigrants are never asked to leave the country.
It also suggests the Border Patrol is being ordered to break President Obama’s own enforcement priorities, which say new illegal immigrants — defined as those who came after Dec. 31, 2013 — are priorities for deportation, and are supposed to be arrested and processed. (Obama is aware of this, and has fired many officials over it.)
Mr. Judd provided his testimony in written answers released Monday by the House Judiciary Committee, saying that even in some criminal cases, agents are ordered to let illegal immigrants go without ever issuing them a Notice to Appear, or NTA, which is what puts them into deportation proceedings.
Mr. Judd said they took their case directly to Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who told them not to bother.
“Deputy Secretary Mayorkas told us that the Border Patrol needs to focus its resources towards the worst of the worst. He said that by prioritizing those we choose to deport, we will help alleviate the burden on an already overburdened court system,” Mr. Judd recalled.
“He further stated, ‘Why would we NTA those we have no intention of deporting?’ He also stated, ‘We should not place someone in deportation proceedings, when the courts already have a 3-6 year backlog,’” Mr. Judd recounted. “Since the day of this meeting, we have seen no improvements in our enforcement efforts and the morale of the Border Patrol agents is one of, if not the lowest in the entire federal government.”
Immigration agents have complained for several years that Mr. Obama has tied their hands, forcing them to release illegal immigrants who should have been easy deportation cases.
“Not only has President Obama sought to undermine our immigration laws at every opportunity possible, now his political appointees have implemented a ‘catch and release’ policy that contradicts the administration’s already weak enforcement priorities,” he said. “Rather than take the steps necessary to end the border surge, the Obama Administration is encouraging more to come by forcing Border Patrol agents to release unlawful immigrants into the United States with no intention of ever removing them.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/21/border-agents-dhs-no-intention-deporting-illegals/
U.S. intelligence embracing LGBT spies
>'Secret agents of change'
>A U.S. intelligence community that once forced out gays and lesbians for security reasons now sees INCLUSIVITY as the best way to protect the country, and seeks to recruit spies from a wider talent pool that includes the LGBT community.
>At a session titled America’s LGBT Spies (Secret Agents of Change) held at the South by Southwest tech summit in Austin, Texas, the panelists said for the U.S. intelligence community – with a $60 billion-plus budget and more than 100,000 employees – to attract the best talent, it must embrace diversity.
>“We are not the organization of your grandfathers. We have gone from a very dark and closed environment to a very welcoming and open environment,” said Tracey Ballard, technical intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, who came out as a lesbian in 1988.
>Ballard said at that time, agents risked losing their security clearances and their jobs by coming out. She was initially ostracized by the agency she has served and seen evolve over 30 years or so of service.
>She said under Cold War thinking, being gay could subject someone to blackmail, and coming out meant someone would be seen as a deviant who could not be trusted. Over the years, the intelligence community has changed to allow people to be themselves.
>“We are in a competition with the rest of the companies out there for talent. If we cannot continue to bring in talent, we cannot bring in the best intelligence,” said panelist Kris Gill, global programs manager for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
>While individual spy agencies have sometimes made presentations or statements publicly welcoming gay employees, the presentation was the first time the U.S. intelligence community as a whole has done so.
>Katrina Gossman, a senior FBI special agent, said in 2004 she became the first FBI employee to marry her partner under Massachusetts’ gay marriage law. She said the Federal Bureau of Investigation initially extended her and her partner full marriage benefits, only to rescind them because of a bill passed by Congress.
>Gossman, involved in the investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, said she wants to protect the nation without having to worry what will happen to her family if she is killed on duty.
>“The most rewarding thing for me is catching the bad guys,” she said.
By Jon Herskovitz
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/secret-agents-change-u-intelligence-embracing-lgbt-spies-204528374.html
It's Finally Happening. The World's First Giant Robot Fight is This June
Yes, America has built a giant, human-piloted fighting robot, and yes, it absolutely looks like something out of MechWarrior.
>This childhood-dream-come-to-life is built by Oakland-based startup MegaBots. It's called the Mk II, and yes, it totally works.
>Not only does it work. It's completely badass.
>But that's just the start. Japan has built a giant fighting robot of their own dubbed "Kuratas."
>It is ALSO totally fucking epic.
>And you fire it's weapons by smiling like a deranged super-villain.
>You see what I'm getting at here. The stage is clearly set for a showdown.
>Because let's be real. We, as a race, do not deserve to have giant robots unless we're making them do this…
>The good news is that back in June of 2015 the founders of MegaBots issued a challenge to the Suidobashi Heavy Industry, the creators of Kuratas. The terms? A duel, one year from the date.
>They accepted.
>Which means that in 3 short months THIS is gonna be happening.
>If you aren't already picking sides and screaming with excitement, I recommend starting now.
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Clinton has her armies of welfare recipients. Trump has his army of angry Americans.
19 March 2016
Palm Beach, Florida – Having an interesting dinner at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and residence – which may become the southern White House if fed-up American voters have their way.
One feels an air of whispered importance and gravitas here. After Trump’s smashing primary victories this past week, there’s a growing sense that the Donald is headed for victory while his legions of bitter opponents are left wringing their hands.
In fact, Trump is fast emerging as an American version of the People’s Tribunes of ancient Rome, the important state officials who voiced the people’s anger and concerns.
As the Trump revolution spreads, his enemies are desperately seeking ways to stop the Donald’s Juggernaut. Cries go to the heavens, “save the Republican Party before Trump wrecks it.”
As a life-long (but now fallen away) Republican, I say “good riddance”. More power to Trump to blast apart this deeply corrupt, cynical party steeped in political payoffs and religious fanaticism, and run by former used car dealers from Pocatello.
Many moons ago, I even began a run for Congress from my native New York City but was horrified to see the creatures that scuttled below the city’s political rocks. A senior party official who was also a prison guard advised me: “son, only two types of people go into politics. Those with no money like me; and those from rich families who do it for their egos.”
The Clintons are a perfect example of the former, two local Arkansas politicians who made millions by peddling influence. Trump fits the second category. He is a rough, tough, uncultured but wealthy New Yorker whose family there dates from the 1880’s when the city was the third largest German city in the world after Berlin and Hamburg.
Readers keep asking me what I think of Trump. My view: he is the worst of the candidates – except all the others
http://ericmargolis.com/2016/03/donald-bulldoze-the-rotten-gop/
The 'Worst' German Word of the Year
On Tuesday, a panel of linguists in Germany declared Lügenpresse the dubious winner in the annual "Unwort des Jahres" competition. The annual, politically charged "non-word of the year" event critiques phrases that have taken on a pernicious meaning in the country over the course of a given year.
The coronation of Lügenpresse represents a troubling trend. The phrase, which means "lying press" and found most recent use in the Nazi era, has become something of a watchword among Germany's increasingly vociferous anti-immigrant (and largely anti-Muslim) activists. In recent months, these demonstrators have called on the media to "tell the truth" about what immigrants are doing to Germany.
Other recent winners include Sozialtourismus ("social tourism"), which in a certain context also relates to immigrants who come to Germany to indulge in state benefits, and Döner-Morde (Döner murder), which dismissively refers to murders of Turkish and Greek people. (For a compelling contrast, consider that just last week, the American Dialect Society named #blacklivesmatter as 2014's word of the year—the first time a hashtag has won.)
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/the-worst-german-word-of-the-year/384493/
2 PROPANE tanks explode at Jersey City fire, official says
Two propane tanks exploded and were sent airborne at a Jersey City recycling facility after a two-alarm fire broke out there this morning, Jersey City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said.
The fire, which was reported at 1 Caven Point Ave. in the Greenville section of the city, started in wooden pallets in a trailer at the recycling yard just before 10 a.m., Morrill said.
However, the presence of multiple propane tanks stored in the vicinity of the blaze complicated the fire department's response. When the first company of firefighters arrived at the scene, one of the tanks ruptured and was propelled onto light rail tracks some 300 feet from the facility, Morrill said.
Light rail service was not interrupted, Morrill said.
A witness said another propane tank exploded and was thrust between 50 to 60 feet in the air before striking a New Jersey Turnpike Extension ramp nearby, Morrill said.
In addition to fighting the flames, firefighters also had to shoot water at the remaining propane tanks, cooling them at an appropriate pace to allow them to "vent." If the tanks were cooled too fast, Morrill said, the liquid could escape. Meanwhile, more tanks could have potentially exploded if they were not cooled fast enough, she added.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/03/2_propane_tanks_explode_at_jersey_city_fire_offici.html
What do you have power over?
Democracy is a scam
What?! Did he really just say democracy is a scam?! Yes, he did. And he shall explain.
Now, I walk around the great city of Tucson here because I am on foot most of the time. I am a wayfarer. It seems that Political Season is in the air here. You know this time of the year: Severe BS allergies acting up, big piles of fallen lies littering the ground, the Dumbocracy fever is spreading, and so on. Therefore, in front of many public spaces are petition gatherers. “Excuse me, sir, are you registered to vote?” No, I don’t vote. “Why not?” Because it’s a scam! I mean, isn’t that why you’re trying to SELL me this petition? It’s not like you could set up a self-serve kiosk here like dispenses DVDs and expect signatures for whatever legislative processed luncheon loaf you’re purveying, am I right? No, you need to accost us so we’ll sign it out of the subconscious desire not to say “no” to an alleged democratic process. Well, I not only say NO to it, but I find it to be a scam of the type I’d say is in the Seven Scam Wonders of the World.
See, this morning, this dude is running for political office. So he’s collecting signatures on a petition to get himself on the ballot. He asks for signatures and people sign it without asking questions. Look, for all they know, his platform is carting everyone off to forced labor camps. Or raising taxes. Whichever comes first. I have been observing this scam for some time now and have seen people gathering signatures to create more laws and politicians we honestly don’t need. Because it’s democracy?! These people aren’t even reading what they’re signing!!! I think I should cart around a petition making me these peoples’ lawful heirs and I bet they’ll all sign it. Understand this: Democracy isn’t better. Just ask the Ancient Greeks who invented it.
People say, “Well, we have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances!” Oh, do we now? Let me write that petition and it’ll stretch from here to Washington DC! Right, sure we do! We only have a right to petition the government to tax us more, oppress us with more laws, and elect more dummies that couldn’t find their butts with both hands if directions were glued to their palms. I saw this one petition that wants the government to spend more money searching for extraterrestrial life in outer space. Excuse me, but do you realize those idiots couldn’t find Osama bin Laden for years on end right here on Earth?! And they’re going to find life in an infinite universe? Sure they will! But they won’t mind the increase in taxes to allegedly fund it that they’ll then put right into their own pockets.
A redress of grievances, huh? Where’s the petition where we can start taking the legal code books to the dump? You know, get rid of all these laws mandating that we pull weeds in our yards, pay a bribe to the state each year to own a motor vehicle, and so forth. That we must have a permission slip from Herr Doktor in order to buy medicines. That whole “prescription” scam went right in under our noses and now it’s just a permit to own medication. Oh, it isn’t? Try buying most medications without one. We need LESS, not MORE government. So, no, I ain’t signin’ nothing. I’m not signing up for more laws, more taxes, and more dummies.
Chicago Cop: Anti-Trump Mob More Aggressive and Destructive than Reported
>The protests launched by militant leftists who shut down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally were far more aggressive and destructive than reported, says a Chicago Police officer.
>“It seems the [media] aren’t broadcasting footage of the debris being thrown across Harrison by Sanders/Hillary supporters at Trump fans,” the officer wrote shortly after the canceled Trump event.
>The officer, who posed anonymously on the Second City Cop blog, also noted the media didn’t report that protesters were running through parking lots and breaking windows of cars with Trump stickers on them, or that the department called out emergency Incident Teams to cope with the anti-Trump riot at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
>Later that same day the officer posted a second, much longer post, to detail the failures of the police leaders to plan for and respond to the protests.
>The officer insisted there was “pretty much zero in terms of a unified Command Post” for the event, and that officers had no central command to report to or coordinate response from.
>“Who wrote this plan?” the officer wrote. “We’ve seen and heard reports that UIC was woefully unprepared for this. They had their own people and Monterey Security inside. The Secret Service had a presence, but they’re restricted to dignitary protection. The ISP had a squad there. And CPD. So where were the people geared up for a riot? For NATO we had an entire strike force geared up and ready to go. We had the Mounted Unit up and running. Tens of dozens of bikes. Did no one see this coming?”
>The officer went on to insist that suddenly emptying the pavilion of Trump fans and “putting a few thousand people out on the street as targets” was a terrible decision. This decision led to many unnecessary confrontations between Trump fans and the anarchist protesters, the officer said. It also led to unnecessary property damage, the officer said.
>Next came a long list of questions:
> . . .
Why they didn't see this coming is hard to fathom. Surely the FBI was aware of the build up and plan originating with moveon.org and could have alerted the Chitown PD
High Chieftain of the Democrats delivers devastating tomahawk blow to Donald Trump
The fight is on — Donald Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren
>Elizabeth Warren got what she wanted — Donald Trump’s attention.
>And now it’s open war between them, with @elizabethforma calling Trump a “loser,” whose “insecurities are on parade: petty bullying, attacks on women, cheap racism, and flagrant narcissism.”
>The senator started the fight in a recent Facebook post, in which she said he’s “a bigger, uglier threat every day that goes by.” She also accused him of promoting “a form of hate that is virulent and that is bad for our country.”
>In typical Trump fashion, he counterattacked on a matter his victim prefers to duck: her heritage. “She’s got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a fraud. She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a minority,” Trump — the rich man’s son who got into Wharton — said in a New York Times column by Maureen Dowd over the weekend.
>To Warren, those are fighting words. They refer to a sensitive issue, first raised in 2012 by Warren’s then-Republican opponent, Scott Brown — now an ex-senator and Trump backer. When she was first hired as a professor at Harvard Law School, Warren was listed as a Native American. Warren said she learned about her background from her family but has no proof beyond that. During their contentious Senate battle, Brown said she identified herself that way purely for career advancement. Although it wasn’t a winning issue for him, “I was hurt and I was angry,” Warren writes in her book “A Fighting Chance.”
>Trump, of course, lives to hurt. Just ask “low energy” Jeb Bush, “lying Ted” Cruz, or “Little Marco” Rubio. His strategy is clear: Everyone’s fair game.
>But in taking on Warren, Trump is challenging someone who knows how to go viral as effectively as he does. After the Times column, she mocked Trump and Brown at South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, saying they would be great running mates: “‘Celebrity Apprentice’ meets ‘The Biggest Loser.’ ”
>Even as Warren goes after Trump, she still hasn’t endorsed anyone in the presidential primary. After her St. Patrick’s Day zings, she told Gintautas Dumcius of masslive.com that it’s not yet “the right time.” Why? “Because I think the Democratic primary is doing exactly what the Democratic primary should be doing. We’re pushing issues to talk about. . . . Bernie and Hillary are making clear what really matters to Democrats.”
>To get that nonanswer, Dumcius had to chase her down backstage, and an aide whisked Warren away before he could ask about the Trump comment.
>My Monday morning e-mail seeking reaction to Trump went unanswered.
>Later on, @elizabethforma released her tweetstorm attacking Trump, noting, among other things, that “many of history’s worst authoritarians started out as losers — and @realDonaldTrump is a serious threat.”
>She did not respond to his attack about her family roots, but did tweet some cracks about his: “See how @realDonaldTrump kept his father’s empire afloat using strategic corporate bankruptcies to skip out on debt.”
>Just like Trump, Warren does it her way.
>As we already know, the leading Republican presidential candidate is an insult machine. When is he going to grow his campaign and base beyond that? He’s still playing to the same slice of angry, mostly white citizens.
>They love him, just like Warren’s base loves her.
>Bully, meet your nemesis.
Documentary Exposes the Horror of Life in Saudi Arabia's Fascist Kingdom
Five bodies hang from a pole suspended between two cranes, a public display which serves as a reminder to those who might contemplate a life of crime.
They belonged to a gang of five robbers, all of whom were publicly beheaded before their corpses were hoisted high in the air, where they remained for days.
The gruesome sight is one scene in a shocking documentary to be aired this week which sheds light on life in Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s bloodiest and most secretive countries.
The film, Saudi Arabia Uncovered, contains harrowing footage of beheadings. A woman dressed in black is held down at the side of a public road by four Saudi policemen, after she has been convicted of killing her stepdaughter.
She is executed with a sword blow to the neck, as she screams: ‘I did not do it.’
We have all heard of the brutality of the Saudi regime, but what makes this documentary so chilling is that we see it on camera.
In another beheading scene, the executioner, dressed in the white robes typically worn by Saudi men, raises his curved sword above his head and brings it down in a single sweep.
The documentary introduces viewers to a large public space nicknamed Chop Chop Square because it is the site of so many executions in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The camera lingers on the red-stained drainage system used to wash away the blood of those executed.
Police are seen brandishing whips against women, who are considered second-class citizens. At one point they brutally knock a woman to the ground and you hear her scream.
In a similar vein, a male supermarket customer pushes a female shopper to the floor for no apparent reason. He then walks past her, oblivious to her anguish, as she scurries terrified out of his way.
What the film makes abundantly clear is that the country is a murderous dictatorship which refuses to tolerate dissent.
Yet Saudi Arabia remains one of Britain’s closest allies, not just in the Middle East but worldwide, as it has for nearly a century. We sell them arms. They sell us oil. The royal families of each country are close. Prince Charles has made numerous trips to the kingdom and, when King Abdullah died last year, flags at Westminster flew at half-mast in a highly unusual tribute to a foreign ruler.
What did YOU do during the Reptoid Wars
Born and raised in North Idaho. Grew up in a loving family. Joined the Marine Corps after high school. Developed an interest in science. Went to school for a degree in biochemistry. Won numerous scholarships and awards. Graduated Magna Cum Laude then got invited to a prestigious university to work on genetics.
Had his life ruined. Ruined by an intelligent species of amphibian-humanoid alien from Mars.
Based Milo calls Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey a "cuckold"
In Shakespearean times, cuckolds were referred to as “he who has horns” — an issue everyone else can see, that’s not obvious to them. Everyone else sees his shame immediately, but the cuckold can only tell by looking closely in a mirror. Perhaps the same is true for censors, who insist that they adore free speech while mercilessly trampling it at the slightest opportunity.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, whom I wouldn’t even right-swipe on Grindr (ironically one of the few social platforms left without Orwellian speech suppression), recently made a visit to The Today Show where he firmly proclaimed that his site doesn’t censor its users. Dorsey made his extraordinary statement following Matt Lauer’s claim that his Twitter followers named censorship as one of the most important issues facing the social media platform.
Jack is the CEO of two companies, and bad at running both, but Twitter has really been the worst of his two failures. Imagine taking a company from the “free speech wing of the free speech party” to shadowbanning, politically motivated de-verifications and banning “problematic” accounts (usually conservative or libertarian).
Since Dorsey returned to the company that he considers his “first born son,” the site has transformed from the public’s megaphone into the public’s muzzle. He’s calmly drowning free speech in the bathtub while adding unwanted features like algorithmic timelines and sponsored tweets.
Dorsey, who once was fired from his role as Twitter’s chief executive for an obsession with hot yoga and shirt-making, noted that Twitter only censors speech that “promotes violence.” Of course, this fails to explain my own unverification, Twitter’s rampant shadow-banning, and the suspension of Adam Baldwin over innocuous tweets that were interpreted as insults by easily-offended snowflakes. It seems Dorsey weaves fibs and half-truths as enthusiastically as he weaves straight-cut hemp outerwear.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/19/jack-dorsey-twitter-censorship/
Dear Media: Castro Is Not "President" of Anything
News reports about President Obama’s visit to Cuba are regularly referring to his meeting with “Cuban President Raul Castro.”
>But Castro is not a president in the same sense that President Obama is. He’s not even a president in the dictionary sense. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “president” as “the elected head of a republican state.” Raul Castro was not elected, and Cuba is not a republic.
>Castro is a military dictator. That may not be a polite thing to say, but journalists are supposed to tell the truth, not worry about the feelings of the powerful. Indeed, according to the distinguished journalists Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, in their book The Elements of Journalism, written under the auspices of the Nieman Foundation, journalism’s first obligation is to tell the truth. The truth is that Raul Castro is, as Fidel Castro was, a dictator who rules with the support of the military.
>Even the Wall Street Journal refers to “Cuban President Raul Castro.” I particularly regret this, because back in 2006 I called them out for their double standard on dictators, in a letter they published. They had written in an obituary note:
>Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, the military strongman who ruled Paraguay from 1954 until 1989. Among 20th century Latin American leaders, only Cuban President Fidel Castro has served longer.
>[Why] do you describe Gen. Alfredo Stroessner as a “military strongman” and Fidel Castro as “Cuban president” (“A Flair for Flavor,” Aug. 19)? Both came to power through bullets, not ballots, and ruled with an iron hand. Mr. Stroessner actually held elections every five years, sometimes with opposition candidates, though of course there was no doubt of the outcome.
>Mr. Castro dispensed with even the pretense of elections. Both ruled with the support of the army. In Cuba’s case, the armed forces were headed by Mr. Castro’s brother. So why does the Journal not give Stroessner his formal title of “president,” and why does it not describe Castro accurately as a “military strongman?”
>One could make the same point about Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. He was formally the president, but newspapers generally referred to him as a military dictator. Pinochet ruled with an iron hand for 17 years. After 15 years he held a referendum on his rule. When he lost, he held elections and stepped down from power. That’s more than the Castro brothers have done after 57 years.
Rare hermit crab found at Falmouth's Castle Beach
>A rare type of hermit crab has been rediscovered at a beach in Falmouth after a 30 year absence.
>The tiny crab, known only as clibanarius erythropus, has not been recorded in Cornish waters since 1985.
>It is a species found in warmer waters but can be found in the channel islands and along the French coast, according to Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
>The find at Castle Beach was made by an amateur photographer who was taking part in a survey run by the trust.
>More on this story and other news from Devon and Cornwall
>Local marine experts said the ten-legged crustacean was occasionally found on the south coast of Cornwall but since the Torrey Canyon oil spill in 1967 it had "virtually disappeared" from Cornish shores.
>They believe the discovery shows Cornwall's marine life may now have fully recovered from the environmental disaster.
>Clibanarius erythropus is from the Latin meaning soldier, clad in mail with red legs.
>Finding the tiny crab was "the icing on the cake" during a fruitful rockpooling survey, Matt Slater, marine awareness officer for Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said.
>"Spectacularly low tides and stunning weather provided a unique view of Cornwall's fabulous coastline exposing sections of the shore which you would normally only see with a snorkel.
>"We were all really excited by the find. Its scientific name is a bit of a mouthful so if anyone can think of a good name for the crab we would appreciate suggestions."
Joe's Crab Shack in Hot Water
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nate-holzapfel/joes-crab-shack-in-hot-wa_b_9444078.html
>It has become en vogue for chain restaurants to decorate in a style that makes them seem more unique and less mass market. This brings up an issue that has hit Joe's Crab Shack, a subsidiary of Ignite Restaurant Group, hard. A historical photo displayed under the glass of a table in the restaurant depicting two African Americans being hung in a town square with an added speech bubble that read: "all I said Is I didn't like the gumbo" offended a restaurant patron at their location in Minnesota.
>The picture in question is in poor taste. Black or white, the fact is no one wants to see a picture of someone being hung while they are eating.
>It's not difficult to see how a photo of this nature slipped through, it's hard to run a business and it's even harder to manage all the details. This is where a third party consultant could make all the difference. Often times we get so close to our businesses, even our managers and directors we have hired are so in the zone they lose some perspective. Frankly, it can't be avoided if you are passionate about your business.
>The truth is you can't please everyone. I believe that 1% of all people will be totally unsatisfied no matter what a business does. That aside, there are three big no-no's that all corporations should be aware of. In this case, race.
>Racial sensitivities are not going away anytime soon, even though awareness is at its peak in the United States. The color of skin is always going to be a divider of people. My business partner, Daymond John, is an African American and my children are half Hispanic. I have lived in three countries where I have been the minority including Israel; and I understand how charged people may get over something unintentional.
>I have been to Joe's Crab Shack recently, I had Valentine's Day dinner with a good friend who I was on the road with for one of my speaking gigs. We were away from our families - so we had a man date. It was great service, especially for a busy night like Valentine's.
>As of now Joe's Crab Shack has apologized formerly which is good, but the extra mile would separate them from the rest of the politically correct companies who have dealt with this type of scenarios. The apology is sincere, but most people will probably not truly accept it because of the way it is structured.
>"We understand one of the photos used in our table décor at our Joe's Crab Shack location in Roseville, MN was offensive," David Catalano, COO of Ignite Restaurant Group, the parent company of Joe's Crab Shack, told NBC. "We take this matter very seriously, and the photo in question was immediately removed. We sincerely apologize to our guests who were disturbed by the image and we look forward to continuing to serve the Roseville community."
>It reads like a legal document because it was probably prepared by a Lawyer and approved by management instead of the way it should be which is to be written by management and approved by a lawyer.
>Where to go from here depends on the company's attitude. As a consultant who's primary business is helping corporations achieve the highest level of customer service satisfaction, I would offer the following. Address the situation with the aid of your legal team, head on, being as empathetic, yet as direct as possible. The statement here, needs to be echoed in all social media. In this, Joe's Crab Shack, and David Catalano did very well.
>Second, I would engage a corporate consultant - to work with all the general managers to ensure that the company's front line staff is of one voice. And to empower them to address situations as they arise in their individual locations. Additionally, I would suggest a review of all in-house decor and how it may be perceived; replacing any inappropriate items. The old adage, "When in doubt, throw it out" rings true here, particularly if you are publicly listed company.
>As a business owner and operator, you are entitled to do what you want. You make the choice about how you want to be accepted by the public. We can all make choices that are safe and err on the side of propriety, but I for one, do not live in a vanilla world. Nor would I want to. I love diversity, I love uniqueness.
Yes the story is garbage, but we had a lack of crab news the past few days
Passionate man dressed as crab shows off dancing skills
If you thought crabs couldn't dance, think again.
A man wearing a crab suit jammed to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" at a recent Los Angeles seafood boil. His audience was small, but his passion? It was jumbo.
Now, Crab Man is the new personal hero of thousands across the Internet. Sure, the in-person onlookers didn't seem amused, but they were probably just jealous.
http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/dancing-crab-man/#jsggHVSLygqP
REPEAL OBAMACARE: Trump's Healthcare Reform Plan Released
Since March of 2010, the American people have had to suffer under the incredible economic burden of the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare. This legislation, passed by totally partisan votes in the House and Senate and signed into law by the most divisive and partisan President in American history, has tragically but predictably resulted in runaway costs, websites that don’t work, greater rationing of care, higher premiums, less competition and fewer choices. Obamacare has raised the economic uncertainty of every single person residing in this country. As it appears Obamacare is certain to collapse of its own weight, the damage done by the Democrats and President Obama, and abetted by the Supreme Court, will be difficult to repair unless the next President and a Republican congress lead the effort to bring much-needed free market reforms to the healthcare industry.
But none of these positive reforms can be accomplished without Obamacare repeal. On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare.
However, it is not enough to simply repeal this terrible legislation. We will work with Congress to make sure we have a series of reforms ready for implementation that follow free market principles and that will restore economic freedom and certainty to everyone in this country. By following free market principles and working together to create sound public policy that will broaden healthcare access, make healthcare more affordable and improve the quality of the care available to all Americans.
Any reform effort must begin with Congress. Since Obamacare became law, conservative Republicans have been offering reforms that can be delivered individually or as part of more comprehensive reform efforts. In the remaining sections of this policy paper, several reforms will be offered that should be considered by Congress so that on the first day of the Trump Administration, we can start the process of restoring faith in government and economic liberty to the people.
Congress must act. Our elected representatives in the House and Senate must:
Completely repeal Obamacare. Our elected representatives must eliminate the individual mandate. No person should be required to buy insurance unless he or she wants to.
Modify existing law that inhibits the sale of health insurance across state lines. As long as the plan purchased complies with state requirements, any vendor ought to be able to offer insurance in any state. By allowing full competition in this market, insurance costs will go down and consumer satisfaction will go up.
Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system. Businesses are allowed to take these deductions so why wouldn’t Congress allow individuals the same exemptions? As we allow the free market to provide insurance coverage opportunities to companies and individuals, we must also make sure that no one slips through the cracks simply because they cannot afford insurance. We must review basic options for Medicaid and work with states to ensure that those who want healthcare coverage can have it.
Allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Contributions into HSAs should be tax-free and should be allowed to accumulate. These accounts would become part of the estate of the individual and could be passed on to heirs without fear of any death penalty. These plans should be particularly attractive to young people who are healthy and can afford high-deductible insurance plans. These funds can be used by any member of a family without penalty. The flexibility and security provided by HSAs will be of great benefit to all who participate.
Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able to shop to find the best prices for procedures, exams or any other medical-related procedure.
Block-grant Medicaid to the states. Nearly every state already offers benefits beyond what is required in the current Medicaid structure. The state governments know their people best and can manage the administration of Medicaid far better without federal overhead. States will have the incentives to seek out and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse to preserve our precious resources.
Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage to step away from the special interests and do what is right for America. Though the pharmaceutical industry is in the private sector, drug companies provide a public service. Allowing consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas will bring more options to consumers.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform
A reminder of Obamacare: http://archive.is/2yCtt
Five persons, tusker killed in Bengal in 2 days
In yet another instance of man-elephant conflict, five persons and a tusker were killed in the Bardhaman district in south Bengal in the past two days.
Senior forest officers said they were attempting to rescue a male elephant that had strayed into human habitation along with the tusker from the forests of Bankura district. According to latest reports, the male elephant had entered the Nadia district.
“We tried to tranquillise the tusker. It had strayed into muddy rice fields. Though we arranged for vehicles to bring the animal to the main road, it died after the tranquilisation,” a senior forest official told The Hindu.
Google sought overthrow of Syria's Assad
Google in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week.
Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's team and one of the company's executives detailed the plan for Google to get involved in the region.
"Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool … that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from," Jared Cohen, the head of what was then the company's "Google Ideas" division, wrote in a July 2012 email to several top Clinton officials.
Kuwait makes DNA tests mandatory after IS bombing
How long before someone (okay, it will be Trump) says this is a good idea here?
Kuwait's parliament, reacting to a suicide bombing last week that killed 26 people, adopted a law Wednesday requiring mandatory DNA testing on all the country's citizens and foreign residents.
The legislation, requested by the government to help security agencies make quicker arrests in criminal cases, calls on the interior ministry to establish a database on all 1.3 million citizens and 2.9 million foreign residents.
Under the law, people who refuse to give samples for the test face one year in jail and a fine of up to $33,000 (29,700 euros). Those who provide fake samples can be jailed for seven years.
Parliament also approved a $400 million emergency funding for spending required by the interior ministry.
"We have approved the DNA testing law and approved the additional funding. We are prepared to approve anything needed to boost security measures in the country," independent MP Jamal al-Omar said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers last week at a Shiite mosque in the capital, also wounding 227 people, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
IS's Saudi affiliate, the Najd Province, claimed the bombing and identified the assailant as Abu Suleiman al-Muwahhid. Kuwaiti authorities said his real name was Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qabaa, saying he was a Saudi born in 1992.
Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled al-Sabah told parliament Tuesday security agencies had busted the "terror cell" behind the bombing.
"We are in a state of war. Yes, we have busted this terror cell but there are other cells we are going to strike," Sheikh Mohammad said.
He said the emirate has revised "all security measures, especially around mosques and all places of worship".
Of an unspecified number of suspects arrested, five have been referred to the public prosecution service. They include the driver who took the bomber to the mosque and the owner of the car.
Justice and Islamic Affairs Minister Yacoub al-Sane told parliament the supreme judicial council has decided to create a special court to try the case.
'A tipping point': record number of Americans see global warming as threat
A record number of Americans believe global warming will pose a threat to their way of life, new polling data shows, amid strengthening public acceptance that rising temperatures are being driven by human activity.
“I think a shift in public opinion and consciousness has been underway for several years now,” Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, told the Guardian.
A spokesman for 350 Action, the political arm of climate activist group 350.org, said meanwhile that politicians who cast doubt on climate science would soon have to take such polling into account. Republicans, he said, “are going to be screwed if they don’t change their tune”.
Polling firm Gallup, which has been tracking public sentiment on the topic annually since 1997, found that 41% of US adults feel warming will pose a “serious threat” to them during their lifetimes. This is the highest level recorded by Gallup, a 4% increase on 2015.
A total of 64% of those polled said they worried about global warming a “great deal” or a “fair amount”, the highest level of recorded concern since 2008. Just 36% of Americans said they did not fret about it, or only worried a little.
The results show a solidifying belief that changes in the climate are under way, with 59% of people thinking so. A record 65% of Americans said global warming was down to greenhouse gases released by human activity – a 10% leap on last year.
Just 31% said the warming was due to natural causes, the lowest level of such skepticism in 15 years. The March polling involved more than 1,000 adults in all 50 states.
Strikingly, concern over global warming has grown across the political divide, with 9% more Republicans saying they worry about the issue “a great deal” compared to last year.
There remains a partisan divide, however, with just 35% of Republicans blaming human activity for global warming, compared to 85% of Democrats. Among independents, 68% accept humans are the main cause of warming, with 64% saying they worry a lot about the topic.
Genetic Engineering Updates Winter 2016
Genetic Engineering & NanoBioTechnology
We are rapidly approaching an era when it may not only be possible but also insuppressible that people will be able to modify their genes at low cost.
>Genetic engineering is probably the area of systems biology about which the general public has most awareness. One of its sets of tools is CRISPR, a genome-editing system that enables scientists to change the expression of genes in living cells.
>Genetic engineering is currently an immature and imprecise science. Scientists cannot forecast all the impacts of a particular genetic modification. They do know, however, that many modifications come with strings attached. For instance, a genetic modification to establish HIV resistance would also increase susceptibility to West Nile Virus, not to mention that the changes are permanent and heritable.
>“It has been only about a decade since we first read the human genome,” MIT biology professor Eric Landers said. “We should exercise great caution before we begin to rewrite it.”
>But with investment in CRISPR/Cas9 in the billions, the technological problems with genetic engineering will soon be solved, and gene editing will be used not just to fix but also to improve our bodies and minds. Parents might choose their child’s hair color, athleticism or intelligence, heralding in the era of “designer babies.”
>Many fear that when we can select our children’s traits, humanity will be commoditized and therefore subject to the pitfalls of capitalism — that marketers will influence “genetic fashion trends” and that the costs of genetic enhancement will further divide the poor and the rich. But few, if any, technologies ever start out cheap and accessible. Only with years of market demand and innovation does price go down and supply go up. Genetic technologies are no exception.
>Even if designer babies lead to intellectual inequality among the population, this inequality is not inherently bad. Smarter kids would grow into better scientists, engineers, doctors and teachers. “Generosity genes” and other altruistic alterations could make for better citizens.
>Fixing the genetic lottery may take some of the variety out of life, but improving a child’s life is more important. We’ve controlled the genomes of many species in one way or another for decades to stabilize and improve them. From corn to cattle, genetic engineering is central to our well-being. Controlling our own genes would be a good next step.
A comprehensive system of Genetic Engineering necessarily includes Molecular engineering.
>The field called synthetic biology is all about improving on Mother Nature, creating components of living things that evolution hasn’t. In two studies published in Cell on Thursday, scientists reported doing just that: They synthesized new forms of a molecule that stretches from the inside of a cell to the outside. In so doing, they took a step toward improving on a new cancer therapy that is shaking up oncology.
In decades to come, however much the well meaning worry about the nefarious applications of gene editing, the needs of the sick will continue to drive science and medicine forward - as they should.
How female artists are turbocharging their live shows
As artists seek to maximise revenue by pushing their shows to the next level, women are taking the lead in creating unmissable events
Record an album. Take it on tour, faithfully performing singles and favourites interspersed with old hits. Sell records. Repeat. That’s the basic formula. But, increasingly, just playing your album live is not enough; we’re seeing a rise in more inventive, odder live shows, that owe a debt to performance art.
And it seems to be a particular trend among smart, interesting female artists.
Grimes’s Ac!d Reign tour is billed as an “uniquely immersive live experience”; early reports described her “mystical rave cave”, thick with strobes, lasers, projections and camo-netting, with ribbon-twirling dancers and a hyper-energetic, stage-ruling performance.
Partly, this reflects artists’ desire to take full control of the live experience. Cate Le Bon told me it was about “putting on a night together” with her musicians, offering a “hypnotic” opener rather than an unrelated, energy-sapping support act.
Record sales are no longer a musician’s main earner. So it makes economic sense to offer something enticing and original, a you “had to be there” occasion that can’t be stuck on YouTube or Spotify. Artists can turbocharge careers with exquisitely crafted live shows – think of the buzz around FKA Twigs: a former professional dancer, she elevated commercial pop trimmings to centre-stage high-art, providing an atmospheric, mesmeric unity.
But pop has always been as much about the visual as the music. How are these performers different to Madonna, or Britney, or Miley? Well, there is overlap, even deliberate dialogue, between global megastars and cutting-edge cultural scenes – Lady Gaga utilised the visual language of drag and performance art; Cyrus had her tour designed by theatre-set maestro Es Devlin.
If there is a difference – and I think there is – it’s less to do with the tired indie/pop distinction between authenticity and performativity, and more to do with subversion.
A worldwide tour must be carefully stage-managed, constantly portraying a consistent, sellable image – even if that is Miley the wild-child or Rihanna’s maximum-raunch moves. Once you have a public image the size of, say Taylor Swift’s, you’re necessarily performing a constructed, hyper-real self.
Many of today’s most interesting female musicians already tackle questions of sexuality and self-presentation in their work so it’s no wonder that, live, they’re keen to take those mass-media expectations of performed femininity and mess around with them. Think of St Vincent’s icily curated alien-priestess look and her slow-mo tumble down a powder-pink podium – a comment, surely, on the way we put female popstars on an unrealistic pedestal.
Jenny Hval accessorises her frank lyrics about sexuality and identity by whipping off wigs, rolling around on exercise balls, and eventually turning cameras on the audience. French singer Christine and the Queens also questions gender norms in her music; she was initially inspired to start singing by Soho drag queens.
Peaches has long been vigorously playing with the expectations of how a female pop star should exploit her sexuality, embracing costume-changing, highly-sexed femininity – but delivering it all with a subversive, take-no-prisoners ferocity, unafraid to be grotesque.
Still, people appear to get upset when “credible” artists embrace pop tricks: look at The Knife’s controversial farewell tour, which saw a collective of performers lip-syncing and dancing, aerobics-style, round the stage. As a concert, it was accused of irritating fakery.
Caitlyn Jenner backs Trump, says Clinton is a terrible liar
https://archive.is/VO9vb = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488055/Caitlyn-Jenner-says-Trump-good-women-s-issues-Hillary-f-ing-liar.html
Trump would be good for women's issues and Hillary is a ‘fucking liar’: Caitlyn Jenner doubles down on her conservative views
• Transgender reality star says in a preview of Sunday’s episode of I Am Cait she would vote for Trump if he goes up against Clinton
• Jenner recently offered her services as adviser to Ted Cruz on transgender issues
• Jenner says in the new clip she is not a fan of The Donald because of his ‘macho attitude’ but believes he would be ‘very good’ for women’s issues
• Declares to her friends she would never vote for Clinton because she’s a ‘fucking liar’ and a ‘political hack’
• Cites Benghazi and email server scandal in her rant against the Democratic frontrunner
Caitlyn Jenner is convinced that if elected president, Donald Trump would be good for women's issues. The 66-year-old transgender reality star has only recently voiced her support for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, but in a preview of Sunday’s episode of her show I Am Cait, Jenner says she would vote for Trump without a moment’s hesitation if he is pitted against Hillary Clinton in the general election. In the clip from the upcoming episode of Jenner's E! show, the former Olympian is seen talking politics with a group of friends on board a party bus.
When asked by one of her companions what she thinks of the controversial GOP frontrunner, Jenner replies that she is 'not a big fan because of his macho attitude.
>I think he would have a hard time with women when he doesn't even realize it, and it doesn't mean he wouldn't be good for women's issues, I think he would be very good for women's issues.
Jenner's pronouncement is greeted with stunned silence and bewildered looks from her friends, one of whom, Jenny Boylan, mutters, 'Kill me now.'
Jenner then goes on to say,
>I don't think he's out there to destroy women or takes things away or do any of that kind of stuff.
In an on-camera aside, Jenner confirms that her conservative political views have not changed since her transition.
>Just because I'm a woman now doesn’t make me all of a sudden liberal.
she sums up. Jenner has previously criticized Hillary Clinton as a selfish politician who does not care about women, and on Sunday’s episode of I Am Cait, she doubles down on her views concerning the Democratic frontrunner.
Jenner declares:
>I would never ever ever vote for Hillary. We're done, if Hillary becomes President, the country is over.
Her remarks spark a furious shouting match on the bus, with her companions defending the presumptive Democratic nominee as 'an amazing woman' who has accomplished a lot over the course of her career. But the staunchly conservative Jenner would hear none of it, calling Clinton ‘a lousy senator’ and a ‘fucking liar’. In her angry tirade against the former first lady, Jenner brings up the deadly attacks in Benghazi and the email scandal, labeling Clinton ‘a political hack’.
Last week, Jenner offered her services to Ted Cruz's presidential campaign to become his adviser on trans issues. She said the Canadian-born Texan senator was ‘one of the worst ones when it came to trans issues’.
She told The Advocate magazine that she had met with Cruz before her transition, claiming he was ‘very nice’. According to Jenner:
>I like Ted Cruz. I think he’s very conservative and a great constitutionalist and a very articulate man.
She hasn't officially endorsed Cruz but said it would be ‘great’ if he became president. She added:
>Ted, love what you're doing but here’s what’s going on.
Donald Trump: Disappearing middle class needs better deal on trade
Donald J. Trump 4:19 p.m. EDT March 14, 2016
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11285447
>The American worker is being crushed. Workplace participation for women has declined by more than 3 percentage points since 2000. The percentage of men in their prime working years without a job has nearly tripled since the late 1960s. Median annual household incomes are down more than $4,000 from the beginning of the century.
>The great American middle class is disappearing.
>One of the factors driving this economic devastation is America’s disastrous trade policies. Throughout history, at the center of any thriving country has been a thriving manufacturing sector. But under decades of failed leadership, the United States has gone from being the globe’s manufacturing powerhouse — the envy of the world — through a rapid deindustrialization that has evaporated entire communities.
>The number of jobs and amount of wealth and income the United States have given way in so short a time is staggering, likely unprecedented.
>And the situation is about to get drastically worse if the Trans-Pacific Partnership is not stopped. One of the first casualties of the TPP will be America’s auto industry, and among the worst victims of this pact will be the people of Ohio. The TPP will send America’s remaining auto jobs to Japan. Yet, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio have all promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a mortal threat to American manufacturing.
>The TPP — a 12-nation pact — includes Vietnam, a country with vastly lower wages than the United States. Since there is a small market for U.S. goods in Vietnam, this will be an almost entirely one-sided arrangement as thousands of U.S. workers are laid off and production shipped to Vietnam instead.
>An Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis found that Ohio has already lost more than 100,000 jobs to TPP countries. If the deal is enacted as Kasich has urged, those numbers will skyrocket.
>TPP is the biggest betrayal in a long line of betrayals where politicians have sold out U.S. workers.
>America’s politicians — beholden to global corporate interests who profit from offshoring — have enabled jobs theft in every imaginable way. They have tolerated foreign trade cheating while enacting trade deals that encourage companies to shift production overseas. In recent days, for instance, we have seen Carrier air conditioning lay off 1,400 workers and move to Mexico.
>Since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed in 1993, we’ve lost approximately 900,000 jobs to Mexico alone, pro-labor EPI found. Yet Gov. Kasich voted for NAFTA, just like he now supports TPP.
>China has been one of the worst offenders. While promoting China's addition to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the U.S. agreed to permanently confer on China what is known as "most favored nation" trading status. EPI estimates that the United States has lost 3 million jobs to China since that decision was made.
>Overall, since 1997 — driven by NAFTA and China — the U.S. has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs, EPI analysis shows. We’ve lost over 80,000 factories during that time.
>Countries like China and Japan devalue their currencies to put American companies at a structural disadvantage — making our goods artificially expensive and foreign goods artificially cheap. The result is that American companies can’t fairly compete against these countries, whether selling our products here or abroad.
>At the same time, foreign countries heavily subsidize their products, and even engage in a tactic known as “product dumping” — where foreign competitors will dump huge quantities of underpriced goods into U.S. markets for the sole purpose of driving American factories out of business.
>The deck is further stacked against American workers because foreign countries — which make billions selling to our markets — keep U.S. goods out of theirs. Japan, for instance, refuses to provide open access to U.S. car makers in Japanese dealerships. These non-tariff barriers make it impossible for American manufacturers to compete. TPP will fling our doors open to more Japanese cars while leaving their doors largely shut to ours.
. . .
The man speaks for himself.
Muslim man chooses cows over wife in Etawah
A Muslim man in Etawah left his wife over his love for a herd of 14 cows.
Afaq Ali alias Munna in Etawah district said that when his wife asked him to choose between her and his 14 cows, he went for the latter.
The story is 13 years old, but the man is sharing its details at a time when some vigilante cow-protection groups have in recent times targeted Muslims in some states over allegations of cow slaughter and beef consumption.
After Afaq made his choice in his cows, Afroz Jahan, who had married him in 2001, left his house at Bais Khwaja locality immediately. People in the village said that the panchayat tried to encourage the couple to reach a compromise, but Afaq felt that his love for bovine companions was greater.
Trump-Cruz Delegates in TN Join Forces Again to Stop RINO Establishment!
Former radio talk show host Steve Gill, an elected Cruz delegate, and State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet), an elected Trump delegate, tell Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon that along with former State Rep Joe Carr, a Cruz delegate, they are inviting their 49 fellow Trump and Cruz delegates in Tennessee to meet later this month to fend off the GOP establishment’s efforts to “broker” the party’s convention and hand the nomination to someone other than Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Beavers was elected as an at-large delegate committed to Trump and received more votes than any other Trump delegate in the state’s March 1 primary. Carr and Gill finished in first and second place, respectively, in votes cast for Cruz delegates elected at-large across the state in that primary.
“I think this is truly grassroots. That’s what’s so interesting about this. When I started talking to Joe Carr, who’s a Cruz delegate, and Senator Mae Beavers, who’s a Trump delegate, and other Trump and Cruz delegates, we all were kind of having the same thought at the same time,” Gill told Bannon.
“There’s a lot of this vitriol, a lot of bitterness and battle between the Trump folks and the Cruz folks right now. But as we look through the delegate list in Tennessee, we realize that back when we stopped the state income tax in Tennessee [in 1999 and 2000], when people circled our capital and honked their horns, we were “horn-honkers” before [we] were Tea Partiers and now we’re on opposite sides of this particular political battle,” Gill noted.
“But we’ve worked together fighting the establishment, fighting both the Democrats and the RINO Republicans for a long time, and it occurred to everybody simultaneously that it makes no sense for us to get to the finals, as we’re in March Madness [of the NCAA Basketball Tournament], to be the final two teams, and then have somebody that didn’t even make the Sweet Sixteen come in and try to grab the MVP trophy after the tournament game is over,” Gill said.
“I think Trump will get the number of delegates that he needs,” Beavers told Bannon. “But we want to make sure that when we go to the convenention there’s not a brokered convention.”
“We don’t want it taken away from whoever has earned the vote. I think it makes a lot of sense for the Cruz and the Trump people, the leaders, to get together and say we’re not going to let this happen. We’re not going to let them change the rules on us and put someone in that hasn’t worked for the position,” Beavers told Bannon on Breitbart Radio Saturday, heard on the Patriot Channel 125 of the Sirius/XM Radio Network.
As Breitbart News reported previously, Beavers, Gill, and former State Rep. Joe Carr, a Cruz delegate who narrowly lost to incumbent Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in the 2014 Republican U.S. Senate primary, met on Friday to prepare the agenda for the larger meeting, which will be held before the end of March.
“This story has caught fire on Breitbart, and people are talking about it all over,” Bannon noted.
India Experiments With Libertarianism
What happens when a city is managed almost completely by private corporations? Visit Gurgaon, India, a boomtown of millions without a citywide system for water, electricity or even public sewers.
>An unplanned city can grow at astonishing speeds. In 1991, India’s legislature passed a raft of economic reforms that opened sectors of the economy to foreign companies. At the time, Gurgaon was an unexceptional town of 121,000 people surrounded by vast tracts of fallow land. By a regulatory quirk, the land around Gurgaon was managed by a single agency, the chief minister’s office in the state of Haryana, versus India’s usual thicket of competing government agencies. It meant that developers’ plans in Gurgaon could be approved in a matter of days, not years. The result? Fast-track approvals for office parks, luxury condominiums, five-star hotels and golf courses. Half of the Fortune 500 companies launched satellite offices in the city’s gleaming high-rises, and it’s home to one of the largest shopping malls in the world. “There are parts of it that look like Singapore or Hong Kong or any world-class city,” says Rajagopalan. But rushing into a bureaucratic void posed a challenge for developers: Who, if not the state, would provide basic public services? “If you ask a regular person, ‘Would you want to live in a city that doesn’t have a functioning sewage system or garbage disposal or a good network of roads,’ they’d probably say no,” says Rajagopalan. So the developers had to convince potential renters to say yes — by filing in the gaps in the city’s sparse public services themselves.
>A dystopian world between privatized compounds. Gurgaon does have some public services; “old Gurgaon,” about 35 sq km in size, is technically a town with a municipal body to manage it. But there are intolerable gaps in the city’s infrastructure. Private security guards may secure the grounds of an apartment or an office complex, but that leaves massive security gaps in the rest of the city. “Between one industrial park and another industrial park are empty areas that are not safe areas at all,” Rajagopalan says. Sewage trucks will frequently bypass treatment plants and dump their contents on public land, and while it poses a health hazard to nearby slums, public officials don’t have the resources to counter such infractions. In short, Gurgaon’s success story is confined to an archipelago of private compounds populated by those who can afford to live there. Look beyond those select properties — and into the city’s slums — and Gurgaon presents an object lesson in the limits of privatization. There, the residents suffer from power and electricity shortages, and the same unsafe and unsanitary conditions that shape daily life for so much of India’s urban poor. The pressing question for them is how a rapidly urbanizing nation will absorb another 404 million residents into its cities by 2050, according to one United Nations estimate, and not suffer a complete breakdown of public services.
>One paradoxical solution to Gurgaon’s heedless growth — sell off still more of the city. Rajagopalan offers an unlikely solution to India’s growing pains. Yes, developers show a dismaying lack of civic responsibility beyond property lines. But a funny thing happens as they snatch up larger and larger tracts of land. They develop an incentive to build — and finance — the missing pieces of public infrastructure. “Right now DLF doesn’t find it in its interest to run its own huge sewage system, because it has only four or five small developments,” she says. “It’s not profitable to run to a main sewage line and then treat the waste. But if it had a large enough property, then it would absolutely do it — otherwise no one would live there.”
>The private city has a precedent: Walt Disney World. In the 1960s Walt Disney bought up a 25,000-acre wilderness known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District in Florida. Today, you probably know it as Walt Disney World, and Rajagopalan holds it up as an example of what private developers might need to do once they own massive parcels of land.
tl;dr- The private parts of the city work great, and the solution to the problems with the city are actually privatizing more of it.
SCOTUS Turns Away Oklahoma and Nebraska's Challenge to Legal Pot in Colorado
Perturbed by smuggling, the two states had demanded an end to their neighbor's licensing and regulation of marijuana merchants.
>Today the Supreme Court declined to hear Oklahoma and Nebraska's challenge to marijuana legalization in neighboring Colorado, which they say harms them through interstate smuggling. They argued that legalization in Colorado had "a direct and significant detrimental impact" on them by forcing "the diversion of limited manpower and resources to arrest and process suspected and convicted felons involved in the increased illegal marijuana trafficking or transportation." The Obama administration had urged the Court to reject Oklahoma and Nebraska's petition, saying their beef did not amount to a bona fide interstate controversy, since it grew out of lawbreaking that was neither directed nor approved by Colorado.
>Oklahoma and Nebraska argued that Colorado's licensing, regulation, and taxation of marijuana growers and distributors violates the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and therefore the Supremacy Clause, which makes federal statutes "the supreme law of the land." Colorado argued that it is acting well within the leeway that states enjoy under the Constitution and that its tolerance of heretofore criminal behavior does not create a "positive conflict" with federal law, as required for pre-emption under the CSA.
>Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Samuel Alito, dissented from the Court's decision not to hear the lawsuit. "The complaint, on its face, presents a 'controvers[y] between two or more States' that this Court alone has authority to adjudicate," he writes. "The plaintiff States have alleged significant harms to their sovereign interests caused by another State. Whatever the merit of the plaintiff States' claims, we should let this complaint proceed further rather than denying leave without so much as a word of explanation."
>Marijuana Majority's Tom Angell welcomed the Court's decision, saying it avoids what could have been "a dark shadow on the marijuana ballot measures voters will consider this November" by allowing states to "move forward with implementing voter-approved legalization laws even if their neighbors don't like it." He adds that "if officials in Nebraska and Oklahoma are upset about how much time and resources their police are spending on marijuana cases, as they said in their briefs, they should join Colorado in replacing prohibition with legalization."
Gender Ideology Harms Children: American College of Pediatricians Urges Educators and Legislators
The American College of Pediatricians has released a statement strongly urging people in positions of power to leave children out of their regressive pro-LGBT ideology. The ACP cites several important facts and statistics in their report, including increased suicide rates, the harmful side effects of drugs and surgeries (as well as the psychological side effects of encouraging such confusing behavior), and the likelihood of a gender-confused child naturally coming to an understanding of their own body when left to their own devices.
http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children
>inb4 regressive left calls more doctors sexist trans-misogynist bigots
Pigeons track air pollution in London with tiny backpacks
A small flock of pigeons have been given tiny backpacks to monitor air pollution in London. The project was dreamt up by Plume Labs, a company focused on the environmental problem, and the marketing agency DigitasLBi. The rucksacks are fitted to the birds using small fabric vests, and the sensors inside are able to measure nitrogen dioxide and ozone levels. Only 10 birds are in flight at any one time, so the amount of data being collected is pretty small. However, it's still a creative way of analysing the air that millions breathe in every day in the capital.
If you're interested in tracking the birds' progress, a live map is currently available on the project's microsite. Alternatively, you can tweet the @pigeonair account on Twitter for a quick summary of a specific borough or neighborhood. The project is a three-day affair, designed to attract new beta testers for a wearable pollution monitor built by Plume Labs. As such, the new "Pigeon Air Patrol" feels more like a marketing campaign than an evolution in air pollution management.
Carl’s Jr CEO wants to replace all human workers with robots
Looks like the little guy can teach a global fast food conglomerate a thing or two about running a restaurant
>Eatsa, the mostly automated healthy, fast food bowl shop based in San Francisco, has inspired the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s to rethink the traditional workforce—by replacing all humans with robots.
>"I want to try it," CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider. "We could have a restaurant that's focused on all-natural products and is much like an Eatsa, where you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person."
>The move could help the fast food giant cope with rising minimum wages across the country.
>"With government driving up the cost of labor, it's driving down the number of jobs," he says, predicting the automation trend will likely extend beyond the restaurant industry. "You're going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants."
>The outspoken critic of raising the minimum wage has said it could lead to reduced employment opportunities across the board and stagnated growth for his industry.
>If the minimum wage is raised, argues Puzder, more companies like CKE foods which owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr will look to automate faster— which could further decimate jobs.
>"If you're making labor more expensive, and automation less expensive — this is not rocket science," says Puzder.
>The CEO acknowledges that it may be some time before Carl’s Jr is people-free as it would take a pretty sophisticated machine to handle all the nuances of their kitchen. Even at Eatsa, while the ordering process is 100 devoid of any pesky human interaction, live workers behind the scenes still assemble bowls.
>But Puzder says he sees automation fulfilling “rote tasks like grilling a burger or taking an order”—areas in which a robot would probably be more precise than a human.
>And while older customers may take some time to adapt to interacting with a faceless platform, Puzder says the coveted millennial market actually prefers as little social interaction as possible when it comes to ordering food.
>"Millennials like not seeing people," said the CEO. "I've been inside restaurants where we've installed ordering kiosks … and I've actually seen young people waiting in line to use the kiosk where there's a person standing behind the counter, waiting on nobody."
tl;dr- Based CEO of third best fast food chain after chic-fil-a and whattaburger promises to make robowaifu burgers a reality
HULK HOGAN DESTROYS GAWKER FOR $115M Thread #2
Previous thread: >>343116
A Florida jury has awarded Hulk Hogan $115m (£79m) after the gossip news website Gawker published a sex tape of the retired professional wrestler.
Mr Hogan's legal team argued the New York-based website violated his privacy and the video was not newsworthy.
The case, which pitted freedom of the press against a celebrity's right to privacy, has been closely watched.
The video was posted in 2012 after Mr Hogan was secretly recorded having sex with his friend's wife.
Lawyers for Gawker argued that although jurors might find the website's actions distasteful, the concept of freedom of the press was more important to uphold.
However, Hogan lawyer Kenneth Turkel said during the trial that Gawker typified the often anything-goes world of internet publishing.
The verdict could lead to more caution among Internet news websites, which frequently have less editorial oversight than traditional media outlets.
Gawker's founder Nick Denton and journalist AJ Daulerio were held liable in the lawsuit.
Mr Denton has said he will appeal against the verdict, arguing that important evidence was not heard by the court.
Mr Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, said the release of the sex tape hurt his career.
In recent years, Mr Hogan's personal problems have conflicted with his one-time child-friendly persona.
His longtime employer World Wrestling Entertainment cut ties with Mr Hogan in July after he was recorded using racial slurs.
Ted Cruz has a favorite My Little Pony character
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/07/ted-cruz-has-a-favorite-my-little-pony-character/
Presidential races are never short of official endorsements, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
97% has made an unexpected one. The presidential candidate has backed Applejack as his favourite character from My Little Pony, a popular animated series aimed at young girls.
The bombshell was revealed at a campaign stop in Iowa in late January, where the Republican Senator recently beat national frontrunner Donald Trump. A reporter from Ozy.com described the scene:
I’ve just jumped from a hay bale to the upper rung of a bleacher seat — it’s the only way I can see Cruz, surrounded by fans, cameras and boom mics. Now I’m looking down, and the Texan with slicked-back hair, a rugged outdoorsman’s jacket and hiking shoes is talking about ponies. “What’s your favorite My Little Pony?” Cruz asks his tiny supporter, a little girl who is wearing a Rainbow Dash beanie. ”Twilight,” she says. “I have two daughters, and they love Twilight,” Cruz says, before adding, with a grin: “My favorite, though, is Applejack. I just think she’s funny.” [emphasis ours]
My Little Pony, for the uninitiated, is a wildly popular children’s animated series spun out of a popular 1980s toy range. The full title of the TV series is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of female ponies in the mythical kingdom of Equestria.
Cruz’s choice of pony isn’t a huge surprise, as Applejack is easily the most Texan character in the series. One of the main characters of the show, Applejack is depicted as the pony equivalent of a heartland American country girl. She works on a farm, wears a cowboy hat, and has a distinctive southern drawl. Needless to say, if Applejack could vote, she’d almost certainly be a Republican.
Cruz is not the only rightwinger who admires Applejack. Our own tech editor, Milo Yiannopoulos, has also expressed his admiration for the pony. Speaking on a YouTube stream last year, Yiannopoulos also declared that Applejack was his favorite pony. “She’s the Little Miss Sunshine of My Little Pony” said Yiannopoulos, who was later pictured curled up in bed with an Applejack plushie.
Although primarily marketed to young girls, Cruz may be surprised to learn that the show also has a devoted following among adult, voting-age males. Known as “bronies,” this dedicated fanbase has become a familiar sight on the web. They were so numerous on the imageboard 4chan that former admin Christopher Poole was forced to back down and grant them their own section of the website, after initial attempts to ban them failed. Now a global community, “brony conventions” can be found in virtually every major city.
This is the strange and sprawling world that Ted Cruz has – perhaps inadvertently – stepped into. Having successfully chosen the most conservative pony, he has placed Donald Trump in a difficult position. What pony can the GOP frontrunner possibly endorse as a response? Rarity? Fluttershy? Pinkie Pie?
Ohio Lost 112,500 More Jobs Due to TPP (and So Did Other States)
Despite all the blatant lies by the Obama regime (and Congress) claiming TPP will help create jobs, this just hit the news headlines:
Ohio lost 112,500 jobs in 2015 resulting from the United States' trade deficit with countries that are part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
That places Ohio sixth, in terms of the percentage of jobs lost to trade with TPP countries, among the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked in the report released Thursday by the liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The lost jobs represent nearly 2.2 percent of employment in Ohio, according to the analysis.
The total number of lost jobs includes those directly and indirectly impacted by the trade deficit with TPP countries. It also includes the number of jobs EPI says would have been created through the multiplier or "respending" effect had trade with those countries been more balanced.
The Obama Administration says the trade agreement would be good for workers.
"With the TPP, we can rewrite the rules of trade to benefit America's middle class," states whitehouse.gov. "Because if we don't, competitors who don't share our values, like China, will step in to fill that void."
However, the EPI report says the middle class has already been hard hit by "unfairly traded goods from TPP member countries."
• Michigan (214,600 jobs lost, equal to 5.12 percent of employment)
• Indiana (103,800 jobs, 3.54 percent)
• Kentucky (53,700 jobs, 2.92 percent)
• Alabama (46,000 jobs, 2.32 percent)
• Tennessee (61,000 jobs, 2.19 percent)
• Ohio (112,500 jobs, 2.16 percent)
• Mississippi (22,000 jobs, 1.86 percent)
The other states on the list suffered major job losses, but they were influenced "by the collapse of the oil industry and related sectors," according to EPI.
• Oklahoma (35,300 jobs, 2.10 percent)
• Wyoming (6,800 jobs, 2.34 percent)
• Alaska (6,300 jobs, 1.83 percent)
Remember folks, Donald Trump is the only candidate who has warned us about this. If you want the TPP to be repealed and nullified, vote for Trump!
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/ohio_lost_112500_jobs_due_to_t.html
The US Just Admitted That The 14 Airmen In Charge Of 150 Nuclear Missiles Are Coke And Molly Addicts
The US Just Admitted That The 14 Airmen In Charge Of 150 Nuclear Missiles Are Coke And Molly Addicts
>According to Gen. Robin Rand, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, the 14 suspects are airmen, airmen first class, or senior airmen (E-2 to E-4) from the 90th Security Forces Group at F.E. Warren AFB outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. Responsible for protecting 150 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles, the 14 airmen have been suspended from their security duties while the investigation continues. Although Gen. Rand refused to specify which drug the airmen were caught using, the Associated Press has reported that they were high on cocaine.
>“It came to light because one airman who had suspicion of drug activity by another reported that to his chain of command,” stated Rand. “The drug allegations involving these 14 airmen are credible.”
>Along with Malmstrom AFB in Montana and Minot AFB in North Dakota, F.E. Warren is one of three Air Force bases responsible for maintaining 450 active intercontinental ballistic missiles. Last year, three missileers at Malmstrom pleaded guilty to illegal use, possession, or distribution of ecstasy. While investigating the missileers’ cell phones, the Air Force stumbled upon a cheating scandal involving approximately 100 officers.
>In March 2014, the Air Force fired nine officers and accepted the resignation of the commander at Malmstrom when an investigation into illegal drug possession exposed a pervasive cheating epidemic on base. After examining the text messages of four missile launch officers suspected of possessing illicit narcotics, investigators discovered test answers including classified information on their cell phones.
>With roughly 100 officers involved in the cheating scandal, Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein fired nine senior officers and accepted the resignation of Col. Robert Stanley, Malmstrom’s commander. At least 79 officers were disciplined, including 15 who faced involuntary discharge procedures.
>In November 2014, the Air Force fired two nuclear commanders and disciplined a third due to a loss of trust and confidence in their leadership abilities. Second in command of the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren, Col. Carl Jones was reassigned after repeatedly throwing violent temper tantrums on base and mistreating subordinates. Lt. Col. Jimmy Brown was relieved of command from the 91st Missile Wing at Minot after informing his subordinates that pregnancy would negatively affect a woman’s career in his squadron.
>Commanding a group of three missile squadrons, an operations support squadron, and a helicopter squadron, Col. Richard Pagliuco, commander of the 91st Operations Group, was disciplined for failing to safeguard the morale, well-being, and welfare of the people under his command at Minot.
>According to an inspector general investigation report, Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, commander of the 20th Air Force and responsible for overseeing 450 ICBMs, was frequently rude to his counterparts, socialized with suspicious foreign women, and became so drunk that a witness worried he required help standing while leading a U.S. delegation to Russia in July 2013. Inebriated at a Mexican restaurant in Moscow, Carey attempted to play with the band, but they refused. In October 2013, Carey was fired due to a loss of trust and confidence in his leadership and judgment.
>In August 2013, Col. David Lynch, commander of the 341st Security Forces Group at Malmstrom was relieved of his duties due to a loss in confidence in his ability to lead. Lynch was fired after the missile wing received an unsatisfactory rating during a Nuclear Surety Inspection.
>Following the removal of 17 officers assigned to watch over nuclear ICBMs at Minot, Lt. Col. Randy Olson was relieved of duty due to a loss of confidence in his leadership in June 2013. As commander of the 91st Operations Support Squadron, Olson was in charge of the training and proficiency of missile launch control officers at Minot. The 17 officers were removed from their posts after investigators found numerous safety violations, potential violations in protecting nuclear codes, and basic attitude problems.
>After ordering a review of the entire nuclear force in 2014, then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stated, “Personnel failures within this force threaten to jeopardize the trust the American people have placed in us to keep our nuclear weapons safe and secure.”
>Marred with a history of misconduct and poor leadership, the U.S. government has admittedly placed unethical coke and molly addicts in charge of guarding and operating the country’s nuclear stockpile. Although President Obama initially campaigned for disarmament, he continues funding and rebuilding nuclear facilities while issuing cheaters and cokeheads to watch over hundreds of active nukes.
Anti-Trump forces contemplate the end
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/anti-trump-forces-contemplate-the-end-220953
>After a week of bruising losses, many Republicans are ready to give up the fight.
>With Donald Trump marching toward a nomination that few believed he could win, Republicans once bent on defeating him are now reassessing their efforts to stop him.
>Trump’s dazed and demoralized adversaries find themselves at a defining moment: After unloading millions of dollars in attack ads aimed at destroying the real estate mogul, after the party’s 2012 nominee delivered a no-holds barred speech targeting him, and after conservatives far and wide spoke out in unrelenting terms about how he could never be president, he’s more dominant than ever — with another rival vanquished, a massive delegate lead and his two remaining opponents looking increasingly like the next to go.
>While some Republicans insist on standing firm against the businessman, more and more are contending that it’s time to reach a point of acceptance — and that a drawn-out primary or convention battle could be worse.
>“I’m soul-searching right now,” said Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, who last year explored the possibility of launching an anti-Trump campaign. “There’s still a pathway to defeating him, but it’s getting harder to see that.”
>“We’re at a turning point,” conceded Randy Kendrick, wife of Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick and a major contributor to the stop-Trump effort. “It’s a fork in the road — a political fork.”
>Conservatives call for ‘unity ticket’ to stop Trump
>The talks about how to deal with Trump’s ascendance took on fresh urgency on Thursday. Some were intent on keeping up the fight. Prominent conservative activists gathered behind closed doors at the Army-Navy Club in downtown Washington, just a few blocks from the White House, to discuss how Trump could be defeated — even if it means waging a third-party campaign to run against him. The meeting drew around two dozen figures, including prominent activist Erick Erickson, conservative columnist Quin Hillyer, South Dakota businessman Bob Fischer and former George W. Bush adviser Bill Wichterman.
>As attendees filtered out of the conference, one said they had agreed that Trump could still be stopped — and that they would do whatever was necessary to make it happen.
>“The consensus was that we need a unity ticket of some sort, and we’ll let the candidates work out who the unity ticket is,” Hillyer told POLITICO, floating the possibility of an alliance between Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
>Others, however, appeared more resigned. At a posh resort in Palm Beach, Fla. — just minutes from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — many of the Republican Party’s biggest donors discussed whether to continue shelling out millions on an anti-Trump offensive that so far has done little, if anything, to halt his rise. Many of those gathered, including New York hedge-fund manager Paul Singer and members of the Chicago Cubs-owning Ricketts family, have been the primary funders of Our Principles, a super PAC that spent heavily to defeat Trump, plastering Florida and other states with TV ads that portrayed him as a heartless businessman. Several of the donors reiterated their hope that Cruz or Kasich could still somehow win, sources familiar with the gathering told POLITICO. But others indicated they would be open to supporting Trump in the general election.
Top conservatives gather to plot third-party run against Trump
Three influential leaders in the conservative movement have summoned other top conservatives for a closed-door meeting this Thursday in Washington D.C. to talk about how to stop Donald Trump and, should he become the Republican nominee, how to run a third-party “true conservative” challenger in the fall.
The organizers of the meeting include Bill Wichterman, who was President George W. Bush’s liaison to the conservative movement, Bob Fischer, a South Dakota businessman and longtime conservative convener, and Erick Erickson, the outspoken Trump opponent and conservative activist who founded RedState.com.
"Please join other conservative leaders to strategize how to defeat Donald Trump for the Republican nomination,” the three wrote in an invitation obtained by POLITICO that recently went out to conservative leaders, "and if he is the Republican nominee for president, to offer a true conservative candidate in the general election."
Amnesty: Border Crime Taking A Toll On Residents In Southwest New Mexico, Arizona
The Deming Headlight reports that residents are scheduled Thursday to express their concerns to federal officials during a meeting at the Animas Community Center in Animas, New Mexico.
Judy Keeler, a longtime resident of the rural border region, says her home was recently burglarized and it's not an unusual episode for other residents.
Residents have said state Highway 80 has become a favorite for Mexican cartel drug runners who manage to navigate out of the Peloncillo Mountains along the Arizona-New Mexico border. They want an even more increased presence from the US Border Patrol.
Under Obama, the border patrol have been fired for simply doing their job: archive.is/1lmEc
Crime by illegal aliens has devastated the people and communities all acroos the border. This should not be happening.
http://krwg.org/post/border-crime-taking-toll-residents-southwest-new-mexico-arizona
CAN'T LARSON THE CARSON
Dr. Ben Carson endorses Donald Trump.
>Carson buries ‘the hatchet,’ endorses Trump for president
>PALM BEACH, Florida — Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he and Donald Trump have “buried the hatchet” after months of political wrangling, and he is endorsing the GOP front-runner’s White House bid.
>At a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida on Friday, Carson, who left the race earlier this month, described “two Donald Trumps” — the persona reflected on stage, and a private, “very cerebral” person who “considers things carefully.”
>Carson warned that it is “extremely dangerous” when political parties attempt to “thwart the will of the people,” and urged politicians to “strengthen the nation,” rather than create divisions.
Carson completely pwnd the media haters too heh.
Envelope with white powder, threatening note sent to Trump’s son
A letter that contained white powder and a threatening message was sent to the Central Park South home of Donald Trump’s son on Thursday.
The envelope with a Massachusetts postmark was addressed to Eric Trump, 32, at his apartment in the Trump Parc East, according to sources.
The letter contained a threatening message that implied that Donald Trump’s children would be hurt if the GOP candidate did not withdraw from the presidential race, according to CBS News.
Eric’s wife, Lara Yunaska, opened the envelope and white powder fell out, prompting police, fire crews and the FBI to respond.
It was not clear what the powder was.
The ominous letter arrived less than a week after an outbreak of violence last Friday at a Trump political rally in Chicago, forcing it to be canceled.
On Monday, a man tried to rush Trump during a speech in Dayton, Ohio.
The real estate mogul has angered immigrants, women, Muslims, and others with his fiery speeches on the campaign trail.
Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan have pleaded with Trump to tone down his rhetoric.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/18/police-investigating-suspicious-package-sent-to-trumps-son/
MAKE AMERICA GREAT FOR THE FIRST TIME
https://www.facebook.com/Tatumbug34/videos/988608861209475/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q6jHad-XG0
this videos gotten 75k views in the last 6 hours,
maybe if this gets couple of million views normies will realize trump isn't a racist and that everyone protesting against him is "wack".
It's wishful thinking but it can't hurt to try right? A GIRL CAN DREAM CANT SHE
NFL warns state of Georgia over "religious freedom" bill
Mindful of Atlanta's bid to host the Super Bowl, Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Friday he opposes a so-called "religious freedom" bill approved by the Georgia Legislature that protects opponents of same-sex marriage amid concerns it could lead to discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people.
>Indiana famously passed a similar bill last year, only to roll back some of the harsher provisions after a sustained public outcry.
>The NFL acknowledged that the religious exemptions bill, passed by both houses of the Legislature but still needing the signature of Gov. Nathan Deal, could have an impact on the selection process for the championship game in 2019 and 2020.
>Atlanta is one of the finalists for the next two Super Bowls to be awarded, along with New Orleans, Miami and Tampa. The city has been considered a clear favorite because of its new retractable-roof stadium, set to open next year.
>The religious exemptions bill could change that.
>"NFL policies emphasize tolerance and inclusiveness, and prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other improper standard," league spokesman Brian McCarthy said. "Whether the laws and regulations of a state and local community are consistent with these policies would be one of many factors NFL owners may use to evaluate potential Super Bowl host sites."
>"The Atlanta Braves organization believes that House Bill 757 is detrimental to our community and bad for Georgia," the statement reads. "Our organization believes in an environment that is inclusive of all people. In addition to allowing discrimination against citizens of this state, the bill will have a profoundly negative impact on our organization."
>This week, lawmakers also approved the elimination of $10 million in state sales taxes on Super Bowl tickets if Atlanta lands the game.
>The city had hosted the game two times, in 1994 and 2000. Subsequent bids failed to gain approval, with the NFL saying the city would be in a much stronger position if it built a new stadium to replace the 24-year-old Georgia Dome.
>Mercedes-Benz Stadium is going up next door to the Georgia Dome, which will be leveled after its replacement opens. The new $1.4 billion facility has already helped Atlanta land the college football championship game in 2018 and the NCAA Final Four in 2020.
tl;dr- Fuck the NFL for wasting our taxpayer dollars and fuck the state for legislating morality.
SHIT& Hepatitis: India's silent killer
Feces bacteria are at an epidemic level in India
50 million Indians are suspected to be suffering from inflammation of the liver due to hepatitis, but the majority remain unaware of it.
This silent epidemic is playing havoc with the lives of millions of Indians, but those suffering from this chronic disease remain in the dark about their infection.
The virus can enter the body from very common sources including body fluids.
A son can get Hepatitis B by using the toothbrush of his father who is not aware that he has the infection.
Sharing a razor with an infected person can cause it as can infected saliva.
It can be passed on from infected blood or from an infected needle as also from sexual contact. Like AIDS, the disease can spread from a pregnant mother to her unborn child.
But this disease, unlike most others, will remain dormant in the individual for several years, before it gets manifest and when it does, it will show up as liver cirrhosis and cancer of the liver.
"Hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) are taking a huge toll in the lives of Indians because of this lack of knowledge," says Dr Rakhi Maiwall, a heptalogist at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi.
"The lack of symptoms only makes the situation worse. Acute infections can occur with limited or no symptoms. Sometimes patients come to us complaining of nausea and extreme fatigue," she says.
"The disease can also be manifest in jaundice or when they have fluid in a patient's legs," Dr Maiwall adds.
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/hepatitis-indias-silent-killer/20151221.htm
Indians have different standards of personal hygiene to Westerners, says Commonwealth Games official
Pictures on the BBC news website show muddy dog paw prints on the beds, runny brown liquid in the sinks, puddles on the bathroom floors and what appears to be human excrement on a shower floor. “Everyone has different standards about cleanliness. The Westerners have different standards, we have different standards,” said Lalit Bhanot, the Delhi Games’ spokesman
My friend Rahul Verma, recently warned my wife and I that we should avoid raw onion relish with our kebabs – he had caught hepatitis several times, he said, and feared ever getting it again. It is rife in raw vegetables in India because many people do not have access to proper toilets, and often rinse their hands with water without troubling the soap. Some of these people are, unfortunately, also involved in the preparation of food.
The water in which the vegetables are washed,
De-radicalization fund received by Quebec college
$400,000 to de-radicalize Muslim youths
The Quebec government is offering a $400,000 grant to boost resources at a Montreal junior college that has been linked to incidents of radicalization.
Early last year, several of College de Maisonneuve students were among the group of young Montrealers arrested on suspicion of wanting to join jihadist groups overseas. Two of them faced charges including attempting to leave Canada to commit a terrorist act abroad.
El Mahdi Jamali and Sabrine Djermane (see pic), both then 18, pled not guilty to four charges last April.
School director Malika Habel said this morning she asked the government for monetary assistance after recent incidents at the school that are part of a fallout from last year’s tensions.
Scientists One Step Closer To Manipulating Memories
Neuroscientists from Columbia have gained unprecedented insight into how memories are formed—and what happens when that process goes haywire.
http://futurism.com/scientists-get-first-glimpse-new-memories-born/
>Led by a team from Colombia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), the study was conducted on newly generated brain cells in conscious mice. This process (of generating new neurons that integrate into existing circuits) is known as ‘adult neurogenesis.’
>Attila Losonczy, senior author on the paper and assistant professor of neuroscience, explained the significance. He asserts, “Our approach allows us to compare the activity of newborn and mature cells in the brains of behaving animals. These findings could help scientists decipher the role that adult neurogenesis plays in both health and disease.”
>The region of the brain that these researchers are focused on is known as the dentate gyrus, a small structure buried deep within the brain, making it difficult to study. This region is also one of the very few areas that is able to continue to grow new cells after birth (most brain cells are made before one is born).
>However, we don’t really understand why new cells are produced here. “One of the great unanswered questions in neuroscience is, why did nature decide to replenish cells in this region of the brain, but not others?” says Dr. Losonczy.
>Previous studies on the dentate gyrus and its cells suggested that they could be responsible for how the brain is able to differentiate between familiar yet new environments, which is a process known as pattern separation. This process is integral to your brain’s internal GPS and allows you to remember locations that look alike but are otherwise new ground.
Invaders given free housing in Ukraine, Despite natives protesting
Ukrainians are already fighting off Russians, now they are being swarmed by Islamic invaders too
“I am tormented by one question: will our government give all displaced persons from [the ongoing Donbass war in Ukraine] free housing?” asked Xenya Yakushko, a local journalist.
“Why has government, instead of giving shelter to Ukrainians, begun suddenly bringing in 250 totally foreign people? Has the war ended?” […] “and how much do we benefit from the Syrian refugees?”
Despite the Donbass war and the concerned citizens, the Ukraine government has decided to go along with the EU’s “resettlement” agenda.
If these really are Syrians who are fleeing a war-zone, surely the Ukraine would not be the best place for them with the Donbass war still ongoing? Especially considering the area the immigrant center is in sees armed conflict.
The reason why the EU refused to enforce border laws from the very start is because they wanted the Africans and Middle Easterners in Europe, whether legal or illegal.
Electronics are 'killing the essence' of MotoGP, says Wayne Gardner
Electronics technology has overtaken the 'gladiatorial' element of riders doing battle in MotoGP, 500cc world champion Wayne Gardner believes.
>Gardner won his 1987 title with Honda during the two-stroke era of motorcycle grand prix racing, which featured bikes he describes as "vicious things, difficult to ride and aggressive".
>With four-stroke engines having been the norm since 2002 and constant development from manufacturers, the Australian feels modern riders are not able to bring as much to the table.
>"I raced two-strokes and four-strokes, I did the Suzuka Eight Hour race and a few things like that," Gardner told Autosport.
>"And when you raced the four-strokes compared to the two-strokes, it was 70 per cent easier.
>"So straight away, that's an easy way to go racing, and safer.
>"Then you add in the electronics, which brings the safety aspect up a lot higher, but also takes away a lot of the thrill.
>"I think it's lost a little bit of its touch with the public, and the thrill and the excitement, and seeing the gladiators out there, fighting."
>MotoGP's new-for-2016 ECU has been dubbed a "step backwards" by some riders, but Gardner - who has been reunited with 500cc bikes in the World GP Bike Legends series - feels more could still be done.
>"In my opinion, take all of the electronics off them," Gardner said.
>"They've got electronics, anti-wheelie and clutch and launch control, all of the other gizmos.
>"We have no control over it, because it's what the manufacturers want, but it'd be nice if they threw the electronics off all of the four-strokes.
>"I understand why all of that happens, because manufacturers want to work on technology and to extract that from the racing and put it in their road cars or road bikes.
>"But I think sometimes it probably goes too far, because they are at the pointy edge of technology that is actually killing the earthiness, the essence of it.
Real Life Tron When?
Anti-protest laws giving police greater powers pass NSW parliament
Trespassing anti-coal seam gas advocates face heavier fines and greater jail sentences with tough new anti-protest laws passing through NSW parliament.
With the support of the Shooters and Fishers party and Christian Democrat Fred Nile, the controversial legislation was passed 20-16 in the upper house on Wednesday after minor amendments to the original proposal.
The bill gives police greater powers to search without a warrant, seize items and move protesters on, while fines for illegal entry to mining and CSG sites have increased tenfold from $550 to $5500.
Anti-CSG protesters who interfere with gas sites – including those who chain themselves to machinery – will also be exposed to a maximum jail sentence of seven years.
NSW anti-protest laws an attack on democracy, say legal experts
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The Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham, who along with Labor voted against the legislation, condemned the changes as a “jackboot police crackdown on democratic rights”.
Argentina sinks Chinese 'fishing vessel', cites illegal fishing
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/15/americas/argentina-chinese-fishing-vessel/index.html
>Buenos Aires (CNN)Argentina's coast guard says it sank a Chinese fishing vessel that was fishing in a restricted area off the South American country's coast.
>The Argentine Naval Prefecture chased and eventually sank the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 vessel after detecting it illegally fishing within the country's exclusive economic zone, officials said Tuesday.
>First, according to a statement from the coast guard, warning shots were fired. The Chinese vessel, Argentine authorities said, responded by turning off its lights and deliberately trying to crash.
>"On distinct occasions, the offending boat realized maneuvers aimed at colliding with the coast guard, putting not only its own crew at risk, but also the personnel of the coast guard," the statement said.
>That's why the coast guard opened fire, Argentine officials said.
>The vessel sank, and four people on board – three crew members and the captain – were rescued by Argentina's coast guard. Other crew members who'd been on the Chinese vessel boarded another fishing boat that had been traveling nearby, the coast guard said.
>Argentina's foreign ministry and the Chinese consulate have been notified, the coast guard said.
>Chinese officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
>Video posted on YouTube by the coast guard shows the Chinese boat listing to one side during the operation.
Fishing vessel my ass, it's a surveillance ship.
Largest US Refinery Now Belongs to Saudi Arabia
Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco appear to be getting a divorce, breaking up their joint venture in U.S.-based refining assets.
The two companies joined together to create Motiva Enterprises LLC in 1998, a 50-50 joint venture that operated three refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. But Shell and Saudi Aramco have seen their interests head in different directions. "It is now time for the partners to pursue their independent downstream goals," said Abdulrahman Al-Wuhaib, a senior vice president of Saudi Aramco’s downstream unit.
Reuters reported that the relationship started to fray after Motiva announced a $10 billion expansion of the Port Arthur refinery, doubling its capacity to 603,000 barrels per day, making it America’s largest refinery. It produced gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. A leak shortly after the expansion was completed in 2012 led to ballooning costs, exacerbating tension between Shell and Aramco. A 2015 workers strike also sparked anger between the two companies.
The two companies signed a nonbinding letter of intent, a plan that would divide up Motiva’s refineries between them. The refineries have a combined capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day and are all located close to each other. The breakup will allow Saudi Aramco to take over the Port Arthur refinery and 26 distribution terminals, and Aramco will also hold onto the Motiva brand name. Shell will take over the other two refineries, Convent and Norco, both located in Louisiana. Shell said that it would operate the two refineries as one plant with a combined throughput of 500,000 barrels per day.
The split will hand the largest U.S. refinery to the state-owned Saudi oil company. The Wall Street Journal speculates that it could also pave the way for some sort of listing of Aramco’s assets in a public offering, something that Saudi officials have alluded to for several months. Few expect Aramco to list its upstream production assets in Saudi Arabia; downstream assets are much more likely to be offered up.
Two Muslim Cattle Traders Hanged To Death In Jharkhand By Suspected 'Cattle-Protection Vigilantes'
In what can only be described as a shocking case of brutality, two Muslim cattle traders were beaten up and hanged to death from a tree by suspected cattle-protection vigilantes in Balumath forests in Latehar district, 100km from the state capital, early on Friday.
The duo identified as Muhammad Majloom, 35, and Azad Khan alias Ibrahim, 15, were cattle traders and they were on their way to a Friday market with eight buffaloes.
Their bodies were strung up with their hands tied behind their backs and their mouths stuffed with cloth.
Even though the buffaloes were reportedly set free by the men, they are still untraceable.
7 new Liberal-appointed senators, After Trudeau said no more Senators
Looks like Truedope strong and wild is going back on another promise to get rid of the senate. He elected 7 new senators. Just last year he was going on about getting rid of the Senate.
>A Paralympic gold medallist and an esteemed jurist who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools have been appointed to the Senate.
>Chantal Petitclerc and Murray Sinclair are among seven new senators named by the Liberal government today.
Others include:
> ■Peter Harder, a former bureaucrat who led Justin Trudeau's transition team.
> ■Raymonde Gagné, former president of Manitoba's Université de Saint-Boniface.
> ■Frances Lankin, a former Ontario NDP cabinet minister and a national security expert.
> ■Ratna Omidvar, executive director at Ryerson University's Global Diversity Exchange.
> ■André Pratte, editorial writer at La Presse.
> Petitclerc, a 14-time Paralympic gold medallist and world-record-holding wheelchair racer, was Canada's chef de mission at the 2014 Commonwealth Games — the first time a Paralympic athlete had held that post. She is also Canada's chef de mission for the Rio Paralympics in September 2016.
She tweeted, "There we go: feeling humbled."
> Ontario appointee Omidvar told CBC News she was "stunned into silence" when she received the call from Trudeau.
> "The prime minister has asked, and I have accepted to be a senator who sits as an independent and I'm excited to sit as an independent because it means I can vote with my values," she said. "And I can review the issues that come before the Senate not in a partisan or political way but based on the way I have experienced the lives of people."
> A news released from the Prime Minister's Office described the senators as "independent" and said Harder will serve as the "government representative" in the Senate.
"The government is today taking further concrete steps to follow through on its commitment to reform the Senate, restore public trust, and bring an end to partisanship in the appointments process," he said in a statement.
> He added that today's appointments will "help advance the important objective to transform the Senate into a less partisan and more independent institution that can perform its fundamental roles in the legislative process more effectively."
> Back in January, the Liberals named an advisory board to help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make his picks for the Red Chamber.
India - Sending Aircraft Carrier to Male
Government can block net for law and order: Supreme Court
With an eye on China, India sends aircraft carrier to Male
India tolerant even of intolerance: Amartya Sen
Historic Jain temple demolished in Lahore
Pakistan's Punjab government had demolished the temple on Wednesday for completion of Orange Line Metro Train (OMT) project.
Focus on tech: PM Modi tells RSS-run schools
PM Modi's wife Jashodaben observes day-long fast against razing of hutments in monsoon
Gravitational waves detected: PM Modi lauds role of Indian scientists
What spurred Rs 12,000 crore medical education black market
PM Modi asks ministers to complete projects within deadline
Government can block net for law and order: Supreme Court
Modi wants to subjugate judiciary, media: AAP
Bodies of remaining 8 soldiers recovered from Siachen
Indian Nationalism is surging once again in the modern world.
Ancient Aryan Race!
America's First Trillion Dollar Bureaucracy
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is America’s first $1 trillion bureaucracy. HHS will spend $1.1 trillion in 2016, which is one $1 million repeated one million times.
https://fee.org/articles/americas-first-trillion-dollar-bureaucracy/
>The department spends more than $8,800 a year for every household in the United States.
>It runs 528 different subsidy programs for state and local governments, businesses, and individuals.
>The largest HHS subsidy program is Medicare at $589 billion in 2016, followed by Medicaid at $367 billion.
>HHS has 73,000 employees.
>Real, or inflation-adjusted, HHS spending has exploded ten-fold since 1970, as shown in the chart below.
>At the 1965 signing ceremony for Medicare, President Lyndon Johnson said “No longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes, eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents.” But since there is no Santa Claus, that is exactly what is happening today as government health spending is imposing huge debt burdens on young families.
>HHS programs have huge fraud and abuse, which costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. The programs also distort the health care industry in serious ways because of their top-down structure and masses of regulations. The way to fix the mess is to slash federal spending and move toward a consumer-directed health care system.
>By the next president’s fourth budget, annual HHS spending will have grown another $300 billion or so to $1.4 trillion. That is another $300 billion the government will have to borrow from Wall Street, China, and other places that presidential candidates are abusing on the campaign trail.
>Along with exploding Social Security spending, rising HHS spending is not making America great again, but pushing us into a financial crisis. What are the candidates proposing to do about it? absolutely nothing because democracy is a failed invention. Read Public Choice Theory and google "Voluntaryism"
100 Years Ago Today, Ota Benga, A Black Man Held in the Bronx Zoo as ‘Missing Link,’ Ended His Life
100 years ago, on March 20, 1916, Ota Benga took a gun and fired a bullet into his own heart, ending the short and tragic life of the “missing link” from Africa.
>His treatment at the hands of so-called gentlemen from New York’s Bronx Zoo and the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri came in the height of the eugenics movement, forty years after the end of (legal) slavery in America.
>We remember our dear brother Ota Benga, An African subjected to the inhumane treatment of "Human Zoos" in the 1900s
>Exactly 100 years ago on March 20, 1916, Ota Benga returned home, but not to his homeland, when he died in…
>Today, Benga is remembered for his sacrifice in documentaries and on social media networks like Twitter, a martyr for the cause to end racism.
>The 32-year old Mbuti man from along the Kasai River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo stood just four feet, eleven inches tall and had teeth filed to sharp points, which was reportedly a tradition for his tribe.
>His early life in the forests of Belgian Congo were violent and his wife and two children were killed by the Force Publique.
>Samuel Phillips Verner, an American businessman in Africa tasked with acquiring pygmies for a “cultural evolution” display at the World’s Fair’s Louisiana Purchase Exposition, encountered Benga in 1904.
>How Verner came to “acquire” Benga is unclear, with the “pioneering” Presbyterian missionary claiming to have “saved” him from a cannibalistic tribe who had kidnapped him.
>Using Benga as a recruitment tool who could downplay the rightfully-distrustful attitude about white men, Verner managed to find more natives and brought them all to the US to be part of the exposition’s human displays.
>The controversial exhibit showed real humans from a number of “exotic” ethnicities dressed in their native gear on a staged reproduction of their homes.
>He returned to Africa after the fair and married for the second time, but came back to the US when his new wife died of a snakebite.
>Verner got him a place to live inside at the American Museum of Natural History in New York where he was “free to roam”until he threw a chair at Florence Guggenheim and was relocated to the Bronx Zoo.
>On a dark day in 1906, 40 years after the abolishment of slavery, Benga was billed as the “missing link”, on display in the Bronx Zoo cage alongside a monkey.
>The secretary of the zoo at the time was eugenicist Madison Grant, whose writings on the “dangers” of “inferior” races outbreeding and mixed breeding with Caucasians earned him a letter of thanks from Adolf Hitler.
>Despite the zoo claiming Benga was “employed”, he was never paid for his work in which he assisted employees in their duties.
>Noting his popularity with visitors and his affection for the monkey enclosure, Benga was encouraged step by step to take up residency with the monkeys.
>Soon his hammock was in an empty cage and a target was set up for his bow and arrow, ensuring he rarely needed to leave. He was now one of the zoo’s most popular exhibits.
>The New York Times wrote, “he is probably enjoying himself as well as he could anywhere in his country, and it is absurd to make moan over the imagined humiliation and degradation he is suffering.”
>There was also disgust expressed at Benga’s display, with a reader of The New York Globe writing: “I lived in the south several years, and consequently am not overfond of the negro, but believe him human. I think it a shame that the authorities of this great city should allow such a sight as that witnessed at the Bronx Park — a negro boy on exhibition in a monkey cage.”
>Benga was removed from the enclosure, but was now famous for the wrong reasons.
>Still “resident” at the zoo, now “free to roam” again, crowds followed the man, jeering and shouting at him.
>He then moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, where his teeth were capped and his name changed to Otto Bingo, his American nickname.
>He attended school for a short time until he felt his English was sufficient and took up work at a tobacco factory.
>Soon he pined for his home in Africa, but a return was not likely due to the outbreak of World War I preventing passenger ship travel.
>On March 20, 1916, he removed the caps from his teeth, built a ceremonial fire, and with a stolen gun, shot himself in what was likely a broken heart.
>Benga was buried in an unmarked grave in Lynchburg, but his legacy lives on to remind us of man’s potential brutality to man.
GOOD! Virginia Lawmakers Override Veto, Permitless Carry Becomes Law In 90 Days!
On March 4, the West Virginia House voted to override Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s (D) veto of permitless carry legislation and on Saturday, March 5, the West Virginia Senate followed suit.
When Tomblin vetoed the legislation – House Bill 4145 – he released the following statement:
>West Virginia’s law enforcement officers have dedicated their lives to keeping us safe and helping us in times of need, and it’s disheartening that the members of the Legislature have chosen not to stand with these brave men and women – putting their safety and the safety of West Virginians at risk. It’s unfortunate that the concerns of officers from every law enforcement branch in the state, including the West Virginia State Police and university campus police officers, have been ignored by today’s action.
But lawmakers who view the requirement of a concealed carry license as a burden on the exercise of Second Amendment rights saw things differently. WSAZ 3 reports that the Senate override the veto by a vote of 23-11.
The override means persons 21-year-old or older who are not barred from gun possession will be able to carry a gun without permit and persons 18-20 years of age will be able to get a concealed carry permit to carry a gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GE0k9J0wRA
Permitless concealed carry “now becomes law in 90 days.”
Suicides Skyrocketing Alongside Climbing Antidepressant Use & Big Pharma is Covering it Up
A suicide epidemic now grips the United States, but that news comes in conjunction with several alarming reports — including underreporting by pharmaceutical companies of the scope of suicides related to antidepressant use, as well as an increase in overdoses by those prescribed anti-anxiety medication.
>“An estimated 9.3 million adults (3.9% of the adult U.S. population) reported having suicidal thoughts in the past year,” said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their 2015 suicide statistics. In fact, “suicide was the tenth leading cause of death for all ages in 2013.”
>But the issue isn’t constrained to the U.S. A study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2015 found the rate of suicide of British males between the ages of 45 and 49 had risen a dramatic 40 percent in just seven years. Of retired males, or pensioners, the increase in rate of suicides was 10 percent.
>Around the globe, according to the World Health Organization in 2015, suicide is now the third leading cause of death — representing an increase of 60 percent over the past 45 years.
>On top of these striking statistics, a recent review of common antidepressants — selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) — found not only are they responsible for increased suicides, but pharmaceutical companies underreport those effects.
>Those antidepressants, rather than necessarily aiding people, actually double the rate of suicide and aggressive behavior for adolescents and young people under the age of 18. Though the review evidenced the marked increase in that age group, it also found a “serious underestimation of the harms” by Big Pharma meaning older adults likely have increased risk of suicide, as well.
>“Antidepressants don’t work in children, that is pretty clear, in the randomized trials children say that they don’t work for them, but they increase their risk of suicide.
>“What I get out of this colossal under-reporting of suicides is that [antidepressants] likely increase suicides in all ages … it is absolutely horrendous that [pharmaceutical companies] have such disregard for human lives.”
>The Nordic Cochrane Center carried out the review, which was analyzed by University College London (UCL). As the National Post reported, Dr. Tarang Sharma of the Nordic Cochrane Center stated, “The analysis suggests that clinical study reports, on which decisions about market authorization are based, are likely to underestimate the extent of drug-related harms.”
>Those companies misrepresented patient symptoms and antidepressant effects in several ways. According to the Post, “More than half of the suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts had been misrecorded as emotional instability or worsening of depression. In summary trial reports from the drugs giant Eli Lilly, suicidal attempts were missing in 90 percent of cases.”
>Even further, deaths by overdose of anti-anxiety drugs known as benzodiazepines — such as those marketed under the name brands Xanax and Valium — have quadrupled in the last two decades. This quadrupling occurred alongside a tripling in such prescriptions.
>“We found that the death rate from overdoses involving benzodiazepines. also known as ‘benzos,’ has increased more than four-fold since 1996 — a public health problem that has gone under the radar,” said Dr. Marcus Bachhuber of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as NBC News reported. “Overdoses from benzodiazepines have increased at a much faster rate than prescriptions for the drugs, indicating that people have been taking them in a riskier way over time.”
>Though the specific causes for the distressing global uptick in suicides aren’t entirely clear, antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication don’t appear to be helping. In the meantime, Big Pharma reaps profit while carelessly tossing aside all human costs and ominously covering them up.
>If you or someone you know is feeling suicidal please call 1 (800) 273-8255 and talk to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area, anytime 24/7.
GOOD! German Voters Punish Angela Merkel For Amnesty!
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party was humiliated in key regional elections on Sunday as voters delivered their verdict at the ballot box about her open-door refugee policies.
Exit poll results in three out of 16 German states foretell a wipeout in next year's general election as the hard-right capitalized on public disquiet and altered the political landscape forever.
Baden-Wuerttemberg - solidly middle class and home to blue chip companies like Porsche and Daimler - was won by the Green Party after Merkel's CDU lost nearly 11 percent support since the last vote there in 2011.
And the Alternative for Germany - AfD anti-immigrant party - garnered 12.5 percent of the votes, propelling a party that her supporters call 'Nazis in pinstripes' into the local parliament.
Leader Frauke Petry said: 'We are seeing above all in these elections that voters are turning away in large numbers from the big established parties and voting for our party.
'They expect us finally to be the opposition that there hasn't been in the German parliament and some state parliaments.'
'The people who voted for us voted against this refugee policy,' added AfD deputy chairman Alexander Gauland.
'We have a very clear position on the refugee issue: we do not want to take in any refugees,' he declared.
Their success was even more prominent in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where it scored a massive 23 percent.
The elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg - and in the states of Rheinland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt - were billed as a referendum on Merkel's decision to open the country's doors to people fleeing war.
The results pile even more pressure on the embattled chancellor to change course and put a cap on refugees arriving in the country - something she had steadfastly refused to do despite spiralling violence and a surge in support for extremists.
The numbers on the so-called 'Super Sunday' vote crunched on the wrong side of disastrous for her.
'These elections are very important as they will serve as a litmus test for the government's disputed policy' on refugees, said Düsseldorf University political scientist Jens Walther.
Right-wing populism has won new support across the EU in the wake of the refugee crisis, with parties with similar agendas to AfD rising in the polls.
In Sweden, which also has taken in huge numbers of refugees and migrants, the far right Sweden Democrats went from a six per cent support in 2010 general election to steadily polling at 20 per cent support for the past year.
University of Oregon Study on Feminizing Glaciers
The recently published, utterly incomprehensible paper was co-authored by a team of historians at the University of Oregon, and funded via a grant from the National Science Foundation. I hope American taxpayers feel like they got their money's worth. From the abstract:
>Glaciers are key icons of climate change >and global environmental change. However, >the relationships among gender, science, >and glaciers – particularly related to >epistemological questions about the >production of glaciological knowledge – >remain understudied. This paper thus >proposes a feminist glaciology framework >with four key components: 1) knowledge >producers; (2) gendered science and >knowledge; (3) systems of scientific >domination; and (4) alternative >representations of glaciers. Merging feminist >postcolonial science studies and feminist >political ecology, the feminist glaciology >framework generates robust analysis of >gender, power, and epistemologies in >dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby >leading to more just and equitable science >and human-ice interactions.
>Feminist and postcolonial theories enrich >and complement each other by showing how >gender and colonialism are co-constituted, >as well as how both women and indigenous >peoples have been marginalized historically >(Schnabel, 2014). Feminist glaciology builds >from feminist postcolonial science studies, >analyzing not only gender dynamics and >situated knowledges, but also alternative >knowledges and folk glaciologies that are >generally marginalized through colonialism, >imperialism, inequality, unequal power >relations, patriarchy, and the domination of >Western science (Harding, 2009).
Remember, this is a paper about how to feminize a giant hunk of ice.
Soros Board Member Chairs Firm Running Online Voting for Tuesday’s Utah Caucuses
Smartmatic Group, an electronic voting firm whose worldwide headquarters is located in the United Kingdom, will be running the online balloting process in the Utah Republican Open Caucuses on Tuesday.
The chairman of Smartmatic’s board, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, currently serves on the board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and has close ties to the billionaire.
The Wall Street Journal dubbed the Republican party’s online adventure on Tuesday as “one of the biggest online votes conducted so far in the U.S.” and the “largest experiment with online presidential voting since 2004, when Michigan allowed Democrats to vote in a party caucus via the Internet.”
The Journal further reported:
>Utah residents will have the option of casting ballots in the Republican presidential contest using computers, tablets, and smartphones next week. …
>Online “polls” will be open between 7:00 a.m. and 11 p.m. on March 22. Voters will get a receipt that will verify that their vote was recorded correctly. The state party declined to release the number of online voter registrations that it has received. …
>“We expect all the jurisdictions across the U.S. to take notice and to look at this experience as something to study and, hopefully, follow,” said Antonio Mugica, founder and chief executive of Smartmatic Group, an election-equipment vendor that is running the Utah election.
Mugica addressed security concerns about online voting, telling the Journal that Smartmatic has security protocols and backups of the election data should a recount be needed. He said he wasn’t aware of any security breaches.
The Journal did not cite the biography of Malloch-Brown, chairman of Smartmatic’s board. That biography is posted openly on Smartmatic’s website, and shows close associations between Malloch-Brown and Soros, a major donor to the Democratic Party and hundreds of liberal and radical-left groups.
>Mark Malloch-Brown is a former number two in the United Nations as well as having served in the British Cabinet and Foreign Office. He now sits in the House of Lords and is active both in business and in the non-profit world. He also remains deeply involved in international affairs.
>Mark served as Deputy Secretary-General and Chief of Staff of the UN under Kofi Annan. For six years before that he was Administrator of the UNDP, leading the UN’s development efforts around the world. He was later Minister of State in the Foreign Office, covering Africa and Asia, and was a member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet.
>Other positions have included vice-chairman of George Soros’s Investment Funds, as well as his Open Society Institute, a Vice-President at the World Bank and the lead international partner at Sawyer Miller, a political consulting firm. He also has served as Vice-Chairman of the World Economic Forum. He began his career as a journalist at The Economist.
Besides formerly serving as vice-chairman of Soros’s Investment Funds and the billionaire’s Open Society Institute, Malloch-Brown is currently a global board member of Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
Indian subhuman raped and killed toddler
>RAIPUR: It brought a wave of shock when a semi-clad body of three-year-old girl, who went missing on Wednesday was found shoved in a jute sack near bus stand of Raigarh district. The toddler was abducted, raped and killed on Wednesday night by a youth, a new tenant in neighbourhood of Savitri Nagar.
>Raigarh police have arrested 22-year-old Lochan Srivas, who was detained for interrogation soon after a missing complaint was lodged on Wednesday night by parents of the minor girl.
>when the toddler started screaming and crying out of pain, he tried to shut her up with a pillow but when he failed to mute her screams, Lochan strangled her to death. Packing her into a jute bag, he walked down to bus stand and threw it into the bushes. Lochan works as medical representative was arrested under Sections of the IPC. In another incident, a 12-year-old mentally challenged girl was raped by deaf and dumb boy finding her alone near home at a village in Korba district.
So, now that you're a young male Swedish rapefugee...
Feeling a little frustrated by lack of proper sniper training in you're area?
DON'T WORRY ACHMED, SWEDEN HAS YOU COVERED!
http://newobserveronline.com/sweden-state-funded-muslim-sniper-training/
>From the lol wtf am i reading dept:
>The Swedish state is funding a “sniper” training course for recently-arrived Third World “refugees” as part of their “integration program”—despite the ever-growing refugee-terrorist attacks across Europe.
>The almost unbelievable plunge into insanity—started two years ago already—was reported—in a positive pro-refugee light—by the Allehanda newspaper in Sweden, under the title “Fired up for Sniping,” (Laddade för prickskytte, literally “Charged up for Sniping”) and shows a large number of Third Worlders being taught how to target shoot with “sniper” target rifles on a formal shooting ground in Sollefteå, central Sweden.
>The program is offered as part of the language course at the local upper secondary school, Höglin said, saying that the benefits of the program are “much more” than just teaching the invaders how to use sniping rifles.
>It seems of no concern to these liberals that every single terrorist attack on Europe in 2015 was carried out by “refugees.”
LOL WTF AM I READING!?
India poo war, get 100 rupees for pictures of poopers
send pictures of those defecating in open and get a reward of Rs 100 in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh. The initiative of the local administration is aimed at making the district open-defecation free by August 15 this year.
However, this could only be implemented in 20 village panchayats. All panchayats in the district have been instructed to penalise people defecating in open and share at least Rs 100 of the fine collected with those who give the tip-off. The move comes just days after minister for rural development Gopal Bhargava announced that ration cards of anyone found defecating in open would be cancelled.
Saudi Arabia is beheading one man in every two days
73 people beheaded this year so far
Saudi Arabia has beheaded one of its citizens after sentencing him to death for murder, bringing the toll to 73 the number of such executions in the kingdom since the start of the year. The authorities are preparing to execute four people whose death sentences have been upheld in the secretive SCC. The death include both locals and foreigners.
In January this year, it carried out the mass execution of 47 prisoners. It included several political protestors – including at least one juvenile, Ali al-Nimr. He was sentenced to death after participating in the Arab Spring protests in Saudi Arabia. He was 17 at that time.
Following the killings, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond faced criticism, after claiming that the 47 prisoners executed were “terrorists.”
This week at the UN’s Human Rights Council, Saudi official Bandar al Ali appeared and claimed his government “promoted human rights”, and “fights torture in all its physical and moral manifestations”.
Saudi Arabia was appointed chair of the UN Human Rights Council, a choice welcomed by Washington. Mark Toner, a spokesperson for the State Department, said: “We talk about human rights concerns with them. As to this leadership role, we hope that it is an occasion for them to look into human rights around the world and also within their own borders.”
Under the Saudi law, apostasy, armed robbery, drug trafficking, rape and murder carry the death penalty. Beheading with a sword is the most common form of execution in Saudi Arabia.
#NotRealMuslims
More Indian rapery, UP woman ends 4 years of sexual abuse by father by filming proof.
Sexually abused by her father for more than four years, an 18-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh asked a friend to film her own rape to get proof and convince her mother, who refused to believe the harrowing tale.
“I told my mother the very first day; she didn’t believe even a bit. That was the only way to make her believe,” the woman said.
The abuse began four years ago, when her father offered to teach her how to ride his motorcycle but took her to a nearby field and raped her. The family used to live in Kuthaund, a hamlet in UP’s Jalaun district.
“I scolded her every time she told me; I couldn’t believe a man could do something like this to her own daughter,” the woman’s mother reportedly told the police.
NRI sets up India's 1st gay marriage bureau
Gay people now have an avenue to find their soulmate. An NRI has set up India's first marriage bureau for homosexuals to help them find the right match, both within and outside the country.
The general belief is that most homosexuals tend to identify their own partners and settle with them. But Benhur Samson, who used to help gays with surrogacy in India till 2013, was surprised when he received requests from them regarding prospective life partners. Samson started the arranged gay marriage service to cater to such persons. He has also roped in the gay prince of Rajpipla, Manvendrasingh Gohil, as a consultant, along with lawyers to look into the legal aspects of the marriages, including immigration if an Indian marries a person abroad.
This real life cat burglar keeps stealing men's underwear
A cat-owner from New Zealand has posted an apologetic note online after her pet cat went on a months-long crime spree, pinching various items of men's clothing from around her neighbourhood.
Brigit, a six-year-old tonkinese cat, has been going out at night on the streets of Hamilton and entering into strangers' homes, where she'll pick up some socks or underwear and take it away with her.
Brigit then brings the clothes home, often leaving them on her owner Sarah Nathan's bed.
In the past couple of months Brigit has pinched around than a dozen pairs of men's pants and around 60 single socks.
Good news: Microsoft hired more women. Bad news: They were scantily clad 'schoolgirls'
Microsoft faces the glare of women everywhere after addressing its gender hiring issues in the worst way possible by booking scantily clad “Irish Catholic schoolgirls” for its St Patrick's Day party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
>The company, which on its website states the aim of "recognizing and encouraging technical women," hired the dancers for an after-party attended by mostly male professionals from the gaming industry, which is also struggling with gender equity and misogyny problems.
>Pictures and videos of the event, which had proceeded a "Women in Gaming Luncheon" organized by the tech giant, showed women wearing mini-skirts and crop tops dancing on podiums.
>The women were also told to "speak with attendees and encourage them to the dance floor," according to some who were present. This is apparently not a first for the company.
>Some of those at the event took to social media to say they were "very disappointed," while others said they would be lodging complaints with Microsoft.
>Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox division, addressed the "unfortunate events" in a statement on the company’s website, stating that it "did not reflect the core values and beliefs of Xbox" and that it was "absolutely not consistent or aligned" with the company’s values.
>Microsoft used underage actresses dressed as schoolgirls in their 2012 TV ad for the Surface.
See link for hilarious tweets.
SWEDEN DOES IT AGAIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/international/in-sweden-a-cash-free-future-nears.html
STOCKHOLM — Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote “Money, Money, Money,” considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins.
Few places are tilting toward a cashless future as quickly as Sweden, which has become hooked on the convenience of paying by app and plastic.
Marco Rubio Says He’s Leaving Government
Marco Rubio Says He’s Leaving Government
http://time.com/4263474/marco-rubio-leaving-government/
>Marco Rubio said Thursday that he plans to leave the government after the end of his Senate term, and that he’s not interested in being anyone’s Vice President.
>“I’m not going to be Vice President,” the Florida Senator told reporters Thursday. “I’m not running for governor of Florida, I’m going to finish out my term in the Senate over the next 10 months… and then I’ll be a private citizen in January.”
>Rubio suspended his presidential campaign on March 15 after losing his home state of Florida to businessman Donald Trump.
I'm not tech savvy, you'll have to ask another anon to steal the video from the time link.
Kim Jong Un jerks one off into the Ocean.
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of – North Korea defied UN resolutions by firing a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea on Friday, Seoul and Washington officials said, days after its leader Kim Jong Un ordered weapons tests linked to its pursuit of a long-range nuclear missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile fired from a site north of Pyongyang flew about 800 kilometres before crashing off the North's east coast.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it wasn't known what type of missile was fired, but a South Korean defence official, requesting anonymity citing department rules, said it is the first medium-range missile launched by the North since April 2014 when it fired two.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-into-sea-ignoring-un-ban-1.2822175
Swedish Migration Policies Are a Result of Government Corruption
When you talk to journalists from the U.S. or the UK, they often seem to think that Sweden is a humanitarian superpower that has received refugees because the Swedish government is following some ideology based on doing good deeds.
That Sweden is a humanitarian superpower, eager to lead by example, is a myth that needs exposing once and for all. The recent migration wave to Sweden has made some people poor and others very, very rich.
Every day one reads news in Sweden about the winners and the losers in the migration industry. One of the winners in Sweden's migration industry is ICA Bank. In November 2015, it invoiced the Swedish Migration Agency $8 million for providing asylum seekers prepaid cards. For every cash withdrawal, ICA Bank takes a $2 fee, and for every prepaid card activated, it takes $21. ICA Bank won the contract without any competition; its contract with the Migration Agency extends to March 2017.
Many asylum accommodations in Sweden are run by private operators and are making huge profits. In 2015, the 30 largest companies that run the asylum accommodations invoiced the Swedish Migration Agency an estimated $109 million. The losers, on the other hand, were the Swedish taxpayers who had to finance these decisions.
In November 2015, it was reported that Sweden's Migration Agency had paid $174 million during an 11-month period to private sector property owners for asylum seekers' accommodation.
Many of the companies running the asylum accommodations have a profit margin of over 50%. Defakon Renting AB has a profit margin of 68%. Nordic Humanitarian AB has a profit margin of 58%. Fastigheterna på Kullen AB has a profit margin of 50%.
The biggest private company running asylum accommodations, Jokarjo AB, is owned by Bert Karlsson, known in Sweden primarily as director of a record label. In the early 1990s, Mr. Karlsson was the leader and founder of a political party, New Democracy, that advocated reducing immigration to Sweden. Between 1991 to 1994, as a representative of his party, he sat in the Swedish parliament. In 2015, his company billed the Swedish Migration Agency $23.9 million. Mr. Karlsson explained his business plan for running a home for asylum seekers in a simple sentence: "My idea is to make it cheaper and better than anyone else."
One method he used to make his business more profitable is that asylum seekers have to buy their own toilet paper, apparently despite having agreed with the Migration Agency to provide asylum seekers with toilet paper, sanitary napkins and diapers. In December 2015, the Swedish media revealed that asylum seekers have to buy all these products themselves.
One can only imagine the situation for asylum accommodations run by minor private operators.
This is what the Swedish "humanitarian superpower" is actually about. It is all about money, and it is about winners and losers.
The companies running the asylum accommodations are becoming rich at the Swedish taxpayers' expense; at the same time, asylum accommodations are not managed properly.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-01/swedens-migration-industry
All Combat Positions Now Open to Womyn, But DoD Still Has Syxyst Undertones
>Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced today that beginning in January 2016, all military occupations and positions will be open to women, without exception.
>For the first time in U.S. military history, as long as they qualify and meet specific standards, the secretary said women will be able to contribute to the Defense Department mission with no barriers at all in their way.
>“They’ll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat," Carter added. "They’ll be able to serve as Army Rangers and Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps infantry, Air Force parajumpers, and everything else that was previously open only to men."
>Though more than 111,000 positions had opened to women in uniform since 2013 until today's announcement, Carter said, about 10 percent of military positions – nearly 220,000 – had remained closed to women. These included infantry, armor, reconnaissance, and some special operations units, the secretary said.
>Over the past three years, he added, senior civilian and military leaders across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command have studied the integration of women into these positions.
>“Last month I received their recommendations [and] the data, studies and surveys on which they were based regarding whether any of those remaining positions warrant a continued exemption from being opened to women,” Carter said, noting that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Socom said none of the positions warranted exemptions.
>The Marine Corps asked for a partial exemption in areas that included infantry, machine gunner, fire support reconnaissance and others, he added, “[but] we are a joint force and I have decided to make a decision which applies to the entire force.”
>Equal opportunity likely will not mean equal participation by men and women in all specialties, and there will be no quotas. Studies conducted by the services and Socom indicate that on average there are physical and other differences between men and women, and implementation will take this into account.
Maryland Bees Just Caught A Break
Maryland — a state that takes its agriculture seriously — is starting to take its bees seriously, too.
>The Maryland House passed a bill recently that would implement a partial ban on neonicotinoids, a widely-used class of pesticides that’s been shown to harm honeybees. The bill would still allow farmers to apply neonics on their crops, but would ban everyday consumers from purchasing neonics for their home gardens or other use.
>The bill comes at a time when managed honeybees — those kept by beekeepers — are seeing major losses in the United States. These bees, as well as wild pollinators like butterflies, wild bees, and birds, are hugely important to the world’s agriculture and to natural vegetation. A report this year on the threats facing wild pollinators — which are similar to those facing honeybees — found that 90 percent of wild flowering plants depend on animals for pollination, along with 75 percent of the world’s food crops.
>The bill is significant because it would make Maryland the first state in the country to place major restrictions on neonics, said Tiffany Finck-Haynes, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth. Lawmakers in several other states — including California, Alaska, New York, and Massachusetts — have introduced bills that sought to limit or ban the use of neonics in their state, but none of them have made it as far as Maryland’s bill. The only states who have passed bills limiting neonics are Oregon, which banned use of the pesticides on a certain species of tree, and Minnesota, which passed a now-overturned law requiring nurseries to label plants treated with neonics. Cities, however, have gone farther: Eugene, Oregon and Seattle both banned the use of neonics on city-owned land.
>Maryland may have been more successful than other states in getting this type of bill through the legislature because the state has a broad coalition of people in the state supporting it — something that’s been absent in many other states, Finck-Haynes said. In Maryland, beekeepers lost close to 61 percent of their honeybees between April 2014 and April 2015 — a jump compared to the national average of 42.1 percent. Losses in managed honeybees have been attributed to pesticides like neonics, as well as to decreased nutrition — or lack of diverse, flowering fields in which to forage — and dangerous pests like the varroa mite, which can be deadly for bees.
Massive rape wave hits the Philippines, single offender at large
Large numbers of rapes have been reported to police all over the Philippines by women claiming to have been Sexually assaulted by a small wheelchair bound man.
Victims describe the man as the size of a child with brown hair and glaring eyes.
"I was walking home and night and this man in a wheelchair stopped in front of me asking for directions and before I knew it he jumped out of his chair and pinned me to the ground, I tried to struggle but his grip on me was so strong and when he was finished he climbed back in his wheelchair and escaped" Josine Corteze told a reporter.
So far the perpetrator has mainly gone after "Lady boys" and police are hard at work trying to capture him and advising women not to go out at night alone, anyone with information should contact the police as a ==$12 000== reward is being offered.
2 Muslims hanged by Hindu vigilantes
Hindu vigilantes are killing Muslims
The bodies of two Muslims - Muhammad Majloom, 35, and Azad Khan alias Ibrahim, 15, were found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand province, in India. Their bodies were strung up with their hands tried behind their backs and their mouths stuffed with cloth. It is being suspected that all this is the handiwork of some Hindu vigilante group.
"So far we have not found any affiliation of these persons with any Hindu radical group. We are still examining," said the local sheriff. Local villagers claimed the victims were targeted as they were cattle traders.
Six cops were injured when villagers threw stones at officials who arrived in the morning to manage the situation and ensure that it did not take a communal turn. Injuries to senior officials forced police to fire in the air and lash with batons at the villagers.
Hindu-Muslim race war, when?
India - Setting target for ‘malaria-free’ by 2030
India has set specific milestones and targets as part of a national framework to strategically eliminate malaria by 2030, the global deadline set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to eradicate the disease.
Under the National Framework for Malaria Elimination (2016-2030), launched by health minister JP Nadda on Thursday, his ministry has set four different deadlines to achieve specific objectives.
The first target includes eliminating malaria from all low and moderate endemic states and Union territories by 2022. The second objective is aimed at reducing incidence or new cases of malaria to less than one case per 1000 population in all states and Union territories by 2024. As part of its third objective, and a very crucial stage of the strategy, the government will interrupt indigenous transmission of malaria in all states by 2027. This is crucial because it will help control further spread of the disease leading to the final objective of preventing re-establishment of local transmission of malaria in areas where it has been eliminated and to achieve the status of a malaria-free country by 2030.
"We are committed to achieving the target of elimination of malaria by 2030, which will require huge financial resources. We will effectively work with the development partners and civil society," Nadda said.
According to government estimates, close to 10 lakh malaria cases are reported annually from across the country. The government is also particularly concerned because India continues to bear a huge burden of the vector-borne disease in the South East Asia region, whereas other neighboring countries like Sri Lanka and Nepal reported no deaths due to the disease in the past several years.
Dengue could be the surprise culprit making Zika worse
Dengue could be the surprise culprit making Zika worse, researchers say
A surge in the number of Zika virus cases in tandem with a rise in cases of a severe birth defect is leading scientists to consider an intriguing possibility: Perhaps it’s not just one causing the other.
Instead, some researchers are theorizing that Zika is contributing to an unexpectedly high rate of side effects because it is spreading in a population in which a large number of people have been previously infected with a closely related virus, dengue.
The theory — and it’s only that right now — is that prior infection with one or more of the four dengue viruses may be contributing to a spike in Brazil’s cases of neurological complications among some adults infected with Zika and cases of microcephaly — underdeveloped heads and brains — in some infants born to women infected with the virus during pregnancy.
Dengue — which, like Zika, is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes — is common in Brazil and other countries where Zika Celebration of Loves have been occurring in the past couple of years.
“It’s an idea that’s on the table at the moment. A number of people have been talking about it,” Christopher Dye, director of strategy in the office of the director general of the World Health Organization, said in an interview.
Dr. Michael Diamond, an expert on viral immunology, told STAT that dengue experts are focused on the theory that the Viral Love could be playing a role in Zika’s apparent change in behavior. For decades the virus caused few human cases and the people who contracted it experienced only mild illness.
“I think it’s in the back of all of our minds,” said Diamond, who teaches at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “We don’t know. But I think those of us in the field think it could.’’
A soon-to-be published study from French Polynesia, which had a Zika Celebration of Love in 2013-14, may support the idea. A number of people there who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome — which causes paralysis, usually temporary — after coming down with Zika had previously been infected with dengue.
Still, experts caution that the theory is only one of several. Others have mused that Zika virus has simply mutated over the past couple of years, causing it to behave differently than it has in the past.
Zika, which belongs to the flavivirus family, is closely related to the four dengue viruses. (The four dengue viruses are called serotypes.) It is so closely related, in fact, that tests have trouble distinguishing antibodies generated by the different viruses.
Zika, which belongs to the flavivirus family, is closely related to the four dengue viruses. (The four dengue viruses are called serotypes.) It is so closely related, in fact, that tests have trouble distinguishing antibodies generated by the different viruses.
With some viruses — take influenza, for instance — exposure is easier to fight off when a person has already encountered a related virus. The antibodies a person’s system already generated can help combat the new threat.
Dengue is a different beast..
Autists Live 18 Fewer Years Than Non-Autists; Epidemic of An Heroes Suspected
Researchers looking into mortality trends and autism have made a troubling discovery: People on the autism spectrum are dying young — some 12 to 30 years earlier than might otherwise be expected.
The analysis, conducted by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found that the leading cause of premature death in autistic adults isn't due to diseases, such as heart ailments or cancer, that are the main killers in the general population. It's suicide.
The data, which includes information on 27,000 people with the social-communication disorder and about 2.5 million who do not have the diagnosis from Sweden's national registries, found that, on average, autistic adults die 18 years younger than their non-autistic counterparts.
An autistic person's age at death also appeared to be impacted by cognitive ability. Those with autism and a learning disability died 30 years earlier on average while those without intellectual impairment died 12 years earlier. Individuals considered to be on the "high-functioning" end of the spectrum with strong language skills — those who might have been diagnosed with Asperger's before the diagnostic criteria changed — still had double the risk of dying young as those without the condition.
The overall trends were similar for both genders, but autistic women with learning disabilities had the highest risk of premature death of any of the subgroups.
"This new research confirms the true scale of the hidden mortality crisis in autism," said Jon Spiers, chief executive of Autistica, an autism charity in Britain. "The inequality in outcomes for autistic people shown in this data is shameful. We cannot accept a situation where many autistic people will never see their 40th birthday."
Well, it was nice shitposting, but it looks like we won't be here for long.
Horseshoe crabs’ blood saves lives
This creature is ancient. It’s been around more than half a billion years.
But why would someone be hauling every horseshoe crab it could find into his boat? Where is he taking them and what happens when they get there?
If those questions popped into your mind too, then you’re just the kind of person with whom I’d want to share a boat ride.
Blue bloods
As it turns out, the blood of a horseshoe crab is valuable. How valuable? How does $15,000 a quart strike you?
A horseshoe crab’s blood is in high demand because it is used to screen every drug, implant and medical device before it is used in humans.
In short, it’s used to test for bacterial contamination. The blood, which is baby blue in color, saves countless human lives every year.
When it comes to Jewish ties, no GOP candidate trumps Trump
http://www.timesofisrael.com/when-it-comes-to-jewish-ties-no-gop-candidate-trumps-trump/
Among the expansive field of Republican presidential candidates on display in the party’s first debates Thursday night, Donald Trump may be the most closely connected to the Jewish people.
Trump is from New York, works in professions saturated with Jews and long has been a vocal supporter of Israel. His daughter and two grandchildren are Jewish, the executive vice president of his organization is Jewish — and Trump certainly has chutzpah.
But if you expect to find Jewish donors of influence in Trump’s network of associates, you’ll be disappointed: The billionaire’s campaign is self-financed, not donor-funded. Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth at about $4 billion; Trump says he’s worth $10 billion.
Cow invades invades football pitch and charges at players during match
Players in a local football match in Australia were given the shock of their lives as a cow invaded the pitch and started charging at them.
The cow appeared calm at first but showed his pace down the wing as he went for the unfortunate number two who was luckily able to show the beast a clean pair of heels.
Ryan Devenish, who filmed the incident, said: ‘I was with my family watching my nephew play his game on the smaller fields at the bottom of Federation Park in Maryborough, Queensland Australia.
‘As I turned I noticed the young bull standing about 15 feet away from us. In a split second it looked at me and charged about 5 feet in my direction before stopping, turning around, and heading back in to where it came from.
Head of American Islamic Forum: We Need To Put a Pause On ALL Immigration
Read it and weep, Marxists! Obama's policy is stupid and putting our whole country at risk!
The president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) said that all immigration to the United States should be put on “pause” due to the potential risk it poses to national security from Muslim terrorists and foreign intelligence agents.
AFID president Zuhdi Jasser’s comments were prompted by a question about potential security threats posed by Syrian refugees from an attendee at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
“My response to that is that we need to put a pause on all immigration, but not just say against Muslim immigration,” Jasser said.
“And I say that with family waiting, trying to come here,” he added. "And I'm trying to figure out a way to get them here. It's impossible."
Jasser’s remarks were made during a question and answer session following an address he gave on Thursday entitled “Political Islam: How Patriotic American Muslims Defy the Radical Islamists” at the annual conservative gathering, which is being held in National Harbor, Md. this year.
“And I will tell you, there is ignorance in thinking that it’s just ISIS,” Jasser continued, arguing that the security threat is not limited to Islamic extremists, but also includes foreign intelligence operatives.
“I guarantee to you [that] embedded in the refugees are intelligence operatives of [the] Assad regime, of Russia, of many operatives - Iran - that are not always just Muslim, that could include non-Muslims that we aren’t vetting,” he said.
Jewish leaders plan boycott of Donald Trump at AIPAC
Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to protest Donald Trump's speech to a major pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred.
Trump is scheduled to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Monday night, and several groups are organizing boycotts of the speech.
Rabbis David Paskin and Jesse Olitzky organized one such campaign, called Come Together Against Hate, a play on the conference's theme of "Come Together."
The pair and their allies have created a website and Facebook group to organize a protest that they say is not designed to disrupt AIPAC but to signal their condemnation of Trump.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/donald-trump-aipac-boycott-protest-rabbis-jewish-leaders/
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The Fappening
Pennsylvanian guy pleads to be the responsible behind the Fappening.
-Ryan Collins, 36, is accused of gaining access to more than 100 Google and Apple accounts, many belonging to famous women, between November 2012 and September 2014.
-The Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man agreed to plead guilty to one count of gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information.
Real human bean, or just an opportunist
-Collins was charged as part of an investigation into the posting of nude photos of numerous celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and model Kate Upton, but he is not suspected of being involved in releasing those images, a news release stated.
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Turkey First Lady praises harems...
…a day after Women's Day
The wife of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has hailed the harem of the Ottoman sultans as “a school for preparing women for life”. “The harem was a school for members of the Ottoman dynasty and an educational establishment for preparing women for life,” Emine Erdoğan said at an official event on the Ottoman sultans in Ankara.
Emine Erdoğan’s comments were made a day after the president caused protests by saying he believed that “a woman is above all a mother” in a speech marking International Women’s Day.
President Erdoğan has been criticised for urging Turkish women to have at least three children and railing against efforts to promote birth control as “treason”.
The term “harem” has long titillated the western imagination. In the Ottoman period it was an institution with strict and detailed rules that even the sultan had to follow, and precise guidelines on the recruitment and education of courtesans. Each woman would receive an education in a discipline in which she showed promise – for example calligraphy, decorative arts, music or foreign languages. There was no age limit for the harem and women of 60 could live alongside young girls, while the most capable could rise to wield enormous influence over the court.
Erdoğan and his wife regularly speak of their attachment to Islamic principles and the values of the old Ottoman empire, on the ruins of which the modern Turkish state was founded in 1923.
Erdoğan and his wife regularly speak of their attachment to Islamic principles and the values of the old Ottoman empire, on the ruins of which the modern Turkish state was founded in 1923. Critics have accused Erdoğan’s government of trying to impose strict Islamic values on Turkey and curtailing women’s civil liberties.
Ethicists approve ‘3 parent’ embryos to stop diseases, but congressional ban remains
An elite panel of scientists and bioethicists offered guarded approval Wednesday of a novel form of genetic engineering that could prevent congenital diseases but would result in babies with genetic material from three parents.
The committee, which was convened last year at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, concluded that it is ethically permissible to “go forward, but with caution” with mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT), said the chairman, Jeffrey Kahn, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University.
But the advisory panel’s conclusions have slammed into a congressional ban: The omnibus fiscal 2016 budget bill passed by Congress late last year contained language prohibiting the government from using any funds to handle applications for experiments that genetically alter human embryos.
Thus the green light from the scientists and ethicists won't translate anytime soon into clinical applications that could potentially help families that want healthy babies, said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a pioneer of the new technique at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore.
“It seems like the FDA is disabled in this case by Congress," Mitalipov said. “At this point we’re still not clear how to proceed."
The FDA released a statement Wednesday saying it will carefully review the report from the advisory committee, but added that the congressional ban prohibits the agency from reviewing applications "in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. As such, human subject research utilizing genetic modification of embryos for the prevention of transmission of mitochondrial disease cannot be performed in the United States in FY 2016."
MRT should be used rarely, with extreme care and with abundant government oversight, and it initially should be applied only to male embryos, the advisory panel said.
The report comes at a time of dazzling advances in genetic engineering and a commensurate struggle to understand the ethics of “playing God,” a phrase uttered twice Wednesday by committee member R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Two months ago, scientists from around the globe gathered in the same building to hash out guidelines for the use of another revolutionary technique, known as CRISPR, which can be used to efficiently edit nuclear DNA genes. Earlier this week,
British officials approved publicly funded research that will use CRISPR to study the development of early-stage human embryos, but the embryos will not be implanted in women.
The FDA last year asked the Institute of Medicine, now part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, to review the ethical implications of MRT because it would result in what has been loosely referred to as “three-parent babies.” British officials have already approved investigatory experiments involving the technique.
[One year ago, the UK voted yes on 'three-parent' babies]
Nuclear DNA is by far the more significant form of genetic material for determining most human characteristics. As the committee put it, “While mtDNA plays a central role in genetic ancestry, traits that are carried in nDNA are those that in the public understanding constitute the core of genetic relatedness in terms of physical and behavioral characteristics as well as most forms of disease.”
As a result, modifying mtDNA “is meaningfully different.”
But panel members said that they took the philosophical issues seriously, noting that someone with genetic material from two different maternal bloodlines would potentially have to wrestle with questions about identity, kinship and ancestry.
They also countenanced the possibility that people would want to use this new technique to create babies that are enhanced in some way intellectually or physically. They said that is not a major concern at the moment because the feasibility of such enhancements remains speculative.
RACE DOES NOT EXIST
" But ancestry based on genes does' "
Diversity: Four Illegals Held in Brutal Gang Rape in Massachusetts
>>Four Guatemala nationals who are in the U.S. illegally are accused of brutally gang-raping a woman and beating her boyfriend in Massachusetts.
Federal Immigration officers are requesting so-called detainers on all four illegals. According to Customs Enforcement spokesman Shawn Neudauer, at least two of the suspects had been deported previously.
Police report that brothers Elmer Diaz, 19, Arial Diaz, 24, and Adan Diaz, 32 and accomplice Marlon Josue Jarquin-Felipe, 27, were arrested and charged with the brutal attacks. They faces charges including rape, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, kidnapping, witness intimidation and other charges.
Ariel Diaz has a record of violations such as drunk driving, driving without a license, and driving without insurance, disorderly conduct, and other charges. Additionally Jarquin-Felipe had been deported back to Guatemala as late as April of 2014.
Since 2010, President Barack Obama has sharply reduced immigration enforcement, and has allowed more than 200,000 people from Central America to cross the border and to seek residency.
The four were arrested after the attacks on a couple they were out for a walk in their neighborhood. According to the police report, as the four approached the couple, one of the illegals pulled out a condom and motioned toward the woman.
She was then grabbed by the hood of her jacket and slammed to the ground while two others started beating the woman’s boyfriend. The woman was dragged into a nearby apartment where several began to sexually molest her.
The woman’s boyfriend followed them, forced his way into the apartment and called 911. Police say he was then attacked again. At one point Ariel Diaz came at the man with a chef’s kitchen knife. The victim was able to wrest the knife away avoiding being stabbed in the process.
Eventually the male victim was able to fight off the attackers and help free his girlfriend. The two exited the apartment building and flagged down police. Officers then arrested the four men finding some of the couples’ belongings in the apartment.
“I thought we were going to die. I really did. And I didn’t care if I died as long as I could save her and get her out of there, that’s all I cared about,” the male victim told the Boston Herald.
“I’ve lived here my whole life and I never imagined anything like this could happen just walking down the street,” he added. “The worst part was I felt like I couldn’t do anything.”
The victim noted that his girlfriend is traumatized and has yet to come to terms with her assault.
All four of the illegals have pleaded not guilty but are being held pending a determination on how dangerous they are to the community before being released.
ICE officials say that they have no record of being alerted by local police after any of the suspects were arrested for past offenses.
DARPA’s New Self-Guided Bullets Turn in Mid-Flight, Following Their Target
DARPA has created self-steering bullets which use a real-time optical guidance system to hit both moving and accelerating targets with high accuracy.
>You may have seen the movie Wanted. Sure, the movie was almost unrecognizable from the Mark Millar comic book series it was very loosely based on. But that didn’t stop anyone from pretending to be a bullet-curving, badass, supervillain-with-a-heart sniper like Angelina Jolie after seeing it.
>But the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) new self-steering bullet is about to change the pretend part into reality.
>As part of its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program, DARPA has been developing a .50 caliber ammunition that can maneuver in flight. To be clear, it can change direction after being fired from a weapon.
>A post on DARPA’s website describes EXACTO’s specially designed bullet as using a “real-time optical guidance system” that tracks and directs the bullets right to their targets.
>This guiding system is what ensures the high accuracy rate of snipers regardless of external factors that could affect the trajectory of the bullet, such as weather or target movement.
>“For military snipers, acquiring moving targets in unfavorable conditions, such as high winds and dusty terrain commonly found in Afghanistan, is extremely challenging with current technology,” DARPA said. “It is critical that snipers be able to engage targets faster, and with better accuracy, since any shot that doesn’t hit a target also risks the safety of troops by indicating their presence and potentially exposing their location.”
>In 2014, DARPA demoed its guided sniper bullets for the first time. The video showed the EXACTO bullets, changing direction in mid-flight, like it was almost following its target.
>Live-Fire tests were conducted February 2015, which showed the EXACTO rounds self-steering itself to hit not just moving, but also accelerating targets.
>“True to DARPA’s mission, EXACTO has demonstrated what was once thought impossible: the continuous guidance of a small-caliber bullet to target,” said Jerome Dunn, DARPA program manager. “This live-fire demonstration from a standard rifle showed that EXACTO is able to hit moving and evading targets with extreme accuracy at sniper ranges unachievable with traditional rounds. Fitting EXACTO’s guidance capabilities into a small .50-caliber size is a major breakthrough and opens the door to what could be possible in future guided projectiles across all calibers.”
Police Need Your Help In Capturing "Masked Masturbator" Who Is Targeting Seattle Residence
Seattle police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspected serial masturbator who publicly pleasures himself while disguising his identity with a makeshift ninja outfit.
Cops first learned of the masked pervert in January, after a woman called 911 to report that a man was “masturbating outside the front door of her home.” Cops responding to the scene were unable to locate the suspect.
Last month, a night vision camera outside the woman’s residence recorded the suspect again pleasuring himself next to the front door. As seen above and below, the surveillance images–which captured the masked masturbator in the act–show him dressed head-to-toe in dark clothing (the night vision camera makes dark colors appear white).
As seen above, the suspect was wearing a pair of rubberized five toe shoes.
Residents of the targeted home are University of Washington students who say that they have “heard suspicious sounds outside their house on several occasions,” according to cops. Investigators believe that the masked masturbator may have been at the residence four times over the past several months.
Anyone with information about the creepy nightcrawler is asked to contact police at (206) 684-5575.
Cruz in Utah: Glenn Beck Says He’s Fulfillment of Mormon Prophecy
Beck, a Mormon and conservative radio talk show host, said he always vows to be the worst enemy of politicians who do not keep promises. “I don’t have any friends in Washington except these two,” he said about Cruz and Lee. He added they are the first politicians he has even endorsed.
Beck said that he, like many Mormons, believe in a prophecy that the Constitution will hang by a thread in the last days. He said he believes that now is that time, and people like Lee and Cruz will save it.
First the Japs Then Come the Chinks! Chinese Buying Up US Hotels!
Japanese began buying trophy properties like Rockefeller Center in the late 1980s, there was an intense reaction.
David Letterman began his show one evening with the announcer saying, “From New York, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, it’s ‘Late Night with David Letterman.’ ” A New York Times Op-Ed was titled, “An Economic Pearl Harbor?”
Even Donald J. Trump got in on the act: “Bidding on a building in New York is an act of futility, because the Japanese will pay more than it’s worth just to screw us,” he told Playboy in 1990. “They want to own Manhattan.”
A quarter-century later, it is China’s turn.
On Monday, in a head-turning series of deals, a Chinese insurance company that just over a year ago purchased the Waldorf Astoria, bought $6.5 billion of properties from the Blackstone Group and made a $12.8 billion offer to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide.
The collection of brands — Sheraton, Westin, W Hotels, St. Regis — is remarkable. Properties include the Essex House on Central Park South; the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego, where “Some Like it Hot” was filmed; the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel and a smattering of Four Seasons and Fairmont properties.
When the insurer, Anbang, purchased the Waldorf in 2015, there was concern that the historic hotel — where the United States ambassador to the United Nations resides — had fallen into the hands of a Chinese company. President Obama, who used to routinely stay at the Waldorf as United States presidents had done since 1947, switched hotels the next time he stayed overnight in Manhattan. The White House was said to be worried that the Chinese could have planted surveillance. (Mr. Obama stayed at the Millennium One UN New York and on a subsequent trip stayed at the Palace Hotel, which is owned by a South Korean company.)
Should there be concern over Anbang’s aggressive real estate push? And will the deals become part of the debate raging during the presidential campaign about foreigners taking American jobs and buying up assets here?
Obama: Government Needs to Crack Encryption for Tax Enforcement
>inb4 commies blaming Trump "it's all Trump's fault!"
Speaking on Friday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, President Obama called for government access to encrypted devices.
He said government has a legitimate need to circumvent the privacy of Americans in order to collect taxes.
“What mechanisms do we have available to even do simple things like tax enforcement because if in fact you can’t crack that at all, government can’t get in, then everybody is walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket,” he said.
Obama also said encryption encourages terrorists and child pornographers.
“The question we now have to ask is: If technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there’s no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer, how do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?”
The president went on to describe smart phones as “black boxes” and said there should not be an “absolutist view” on privacy.
“If your argument is strong encryption no matter what, and we can and should create black boxes, that I think does not strike the kind of balance we have lived with for 200, 300 years, and it’s fetishizing our phones above every other value,” he said.
Obama also said smart phone technology is “very disruptive and unsettling” and allows “folks who are very dangerous to spread dangerous messages.”
On Thursday Attorney General Loretta Lynch appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to make the government’s case on encryption.
“We are not asking for a backdoor, nor are we asking [Apple CEO Tim Cook] to turn anything on to spy on anyone,” Lynch said.
She said government is “asking them to do what their customer wants.”
A poll conducted in late February by Reuters shows most Americans support Apple’s fight to protect the privacy of smart phones. Forty-six percent of respondents said they agreed with the tech company’s position, 35 percent said they disagreed and 20 percent said they did not know.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-at-sxsw-government-needs-to-crack-encryption-for-tax-enforcement/
ALERT! Obamacare = Gun Confiscation! Privacy Rights Also At Risk!
The issue is not about the quality of healthcare, or the access for everyone. The issue at hand is getting everyone into the system, and collecting data enough to “label” individuals with rather – ahem, disarming – disorders that can and will cancel your right to own a gun, and may even force you into drug treatment and mandatory “therapy.”
More and more, the terms that are used will define a person’s access to constitutional rights – police calls will include information about mental health states, particularly if there is a history of violence or mental disorders. PTSD will be used to take guns from the very veterans who fought for our freedoms, at the very time when they need help not demotion in society. Telling your doctor how you really feel is a sure path to possibly being categorized and disenfranchised.
Is this what the founding fathers had in mind when they stood up for the rights of the people to defend against tyranny? Absolutely not… but it is exactly what we stand to get under Obamacare.
Since 2002, the government has been intent on testing millions for mental illness. This obsession even extends to our veterans as they return from combat and leave the service. The veterans are increasingly being diagnosed as having PTSD and they are subsequently being adjudicated to not being eligible to own a firearm.
These practices are reminiscent of how the Soviets used to imprison political enemies. The Soviets simply said if anyone disagree with the government, they must have “political schizophrenia” and required to have treatment in a mental healthcare facility.
Therapists are drawing upon a very new frontier in order to force people into treatment as psychiatrists invent new “illnesses” such as “Oppositional Defiant Disorder.” The ultimate goal is the mass medicating of the American people. And with a judgment of mental illness, this is Obama’s latest strategy of gun confiscation.
Your ObamaCare plan will be forced to pay for it, whether you want it or not, thanks to the federal government’s commandeering of the health-insurance industry under the so-called Affordable Care Act. And eventually, younger and younger children will be in Big Brother’s crosshairs for mental and behavioral health “services,” whether parents want it or not.
The latest demands come from the United States Preventive Services Task Force, or USPSTF. In gestapo outfit, appointed by the Obama regime's increasingly radical Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recommends various unconstitutional federal 'health' policies for fascist dictatorships to decree into pseudo-law via regulation.
Mandatory depression screening will not just raise insurance costs. In order to ensure that the screening mandate is being properly implemented, the government will need to create a database containing the results of the screenings. Those anti-gun politicians who want to forbid anyone labeled “mentally ill” from owning a firearm will no doubt want to use this database as a tool to deprive individuals of their Second Amendment rights.
Mandatory depression screening will endanger people’s health by increasing the use of psychotropic drugs. These drugs often have dangerous side effects. Their use has even been linked to suicide. The fact that almost every mass shooter was on psychotropic drugs is another good reason to oppose any policy that will increase reliance on these medicines.
Make no mistake about it, the Government panel’s recommendation, if it finds its way somehow through Congress, is an underhanded way for the Government to implement gun control. In addition, there’s no doubt that one of the big drug or hospital corporations has devised some sort of “depression screening” protocol which generates very high margin profits.
Once freedom-minded Americans learn about this, how many do you think will trust their doctors not to "out" them to federal law enforcement? How many legitimately mentally ill people who own guns will go seek treatment?
The White House released a fact-sheet Jan. 4 which previews the executive gun control Obama will unveil Tuesday and one aspect of the new controls is the inclusion of “information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
On July 18 Breitbart News reported on Obama’s push to ban gun-possession for Social Security beneficiaries who are believed incapable of handling their own finances.
An aggressive anti-gun campaign that already has named veterans and recipients of Social Security benefits as targets apparently is being expanded to include foster parents.
And it’s already drawn a lawsuit.
Blacklisted
Drudge, Coulter, Hannity, Carson, Breitbart, O’Reilly, Christie
Conservative movement professionals in Washington, D.C. are plotting to form a “blacklist” of Donald Trump supporters that they can kick out of the movement, never to return.
Several conservative talking heads and Beltway consultant types have been very angry about the rise of businessman Trump, who is pushing for American sovereignty, a reversal of neoconservative foreign policy, and competitive bidding for pharmaceuticals even though the drug companies that fund the Republican Party would take a financial hit.
So far, anti-Trump think pieces referencing William F. Buckley have been ineffective. Memes comparing Trump to Hitler haven’t worked. So these Republicans are getting more Nixon-y. They’re coming out with an Enemies List.
Gun Production More Than Doubled Since Obama Took Office!
The production of guns has more than doubled since President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, amid his frequent demands for more gun-control and fewer guns.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has released its annual Firearms Manufacturing and Export Report, which shows that nine million firearms were built and sold in 2014, that’s up from 4.3 million firearms in 2008.
The March 7 report covers production figures from 2014, and shows that 3,633,454 pistols, 744,047 revolvers, 3,379,549 rifles, 935,411 shotguns, and 358,165 miscellaneous firearms were manufactured that year. That adds up to a total of 9,050,626 firearms.
And the 2014 figures, as high as they appear, were down slightly from the 2013 manufacturing total of 10,844,792.
To really grasp how great a surge the figures from 2014 and 2013 represent, consider the ATF’s report for 2008, when a total of 4,298,187 firearms were manufactured.
Or the figures from 2007, when a total of 3,922,613 guns were manufactured.
There is simply no comparison between the two pre-Obama years and what are the last two years of record for gun manufacturing during Obama’s second term.
Breitbart News previously reported that this surge was being fed in late 2015 via the huge growth in demand for guns.
According to CNN Money, Smith & Wesson’s sales for the quarter ending January 31, 2016, were up “61.5%” over the where they were at the end of the same quarter a year before. More broadly, on Black Friday 2015 the FBI conducted 185,345 background checks, not only breaking the previous record for background checks on a given Black Friday but also breaking the single-day record for background checks, period.
And on March 2 Breitbart News reported FBI figures showing that February 2016 was the tenth straight month of record background checks.
So firearm manufacturing continues to surge, but it does so because demand is through the roof.
http://www.infowars.com/atf-gun-production-more-than-doubled-since-obama-took-office/
RINOs Still Trying To Stump Trump
Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.
The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he "cannot support Donald Trump."
Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.
"A specter was haunting the World Forum–the specter of Donald Trump," Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."
"The key task now, to once again paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him," Kristol wrote. "In general, there's a little too much hand-wringing, brow-furrowing, and fatalism out there and not quite enough resolving to save the party from nominating or the country electing someone who simply shouldn't be president."
A highlight of the gathering was a presentation by Rove about focus group findings on Trump. The business mogul's greatest weakness, according to Rove, was that voters have a very hard time envisioning him as "presidential" and as somebody their children should look up to. They also see him as somebody who can be erratic and shouldn't have his (small) fingers anywhere near a nuclear trigger.
Sources familiar with the meeting – who requested anonymity because the forum is off the record – said that much of the conversation around Trump centered on "how this happened, rather than how are we going to stop him," as one person put it.
Trump, who already has nearly one-third of the delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination, faces major tests in the Florida and Ohio primaries next week. If he wins both those states, he will need to win just half of the remaining delegates to secure the nomination.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
Federal Judge May Release Obama’s Targeted Assassination Documents
On Friday, US District Court Judge Colleen McMahon ordered the Obama Administration to hand over three documents related to the targeted assassination program for the court’s review and possible release to the public. The three documents relate to the law and policy that govern the controversial program.
Judge McMahon said she will give the government “time to vet opinions and orders for classification issues that might escape the notice of a reader of news media in which information that the Government considers to be classified routinely appears.”
The first document relates to the Presidential Policy Guidance, or PPG, “a classified record that sets out the law and policy that the government must follow when it carries out targeted killings,” according to the ACLU. President Obama issued the PPG in May 2013, but did not make the document public, instead only releasing some of its most general standards.
The ACLU writes:
Those vague standards raise as many questions as they answer: When does an individual pose a “continuing and imminent threat” to the United States? How does the government decide when capture of a target is “feasible”? What informs the government’s determination that there is a “near certainty that non-combatants will not be injured or killed”? As the government has described it, the PPG answers these questions. And as we’ve argued to the court, the government has no right to withhold this kind of document — one that regulates government officials by providing substantive and procedural rules that govern their actions — from the public.
The other two documents are reports from the Department of Defense which were submitted to Congress in 2014. The two reports detail the legal and policy standards of the PPG, as well as an assessment of groups that the U.S. government is waging war against. The reports also explain the legal differences between “associated forces,” “affiliates,” and “adherents” of al-Qaeda.
The ACLU was provided these documents in the past, albeit heavily redacted versions, and is now seeking to learn more about what the Obama Administration is hiding.
A BEER COMPANY WILL PAY YOU $12,000 TO TRAVEL AND DRINK BEER ALL SUMMER
If you plan to spend your summer going around and drinking copious amounts of beer like it's your damn job, well, you might as well get paid for it. Now you actually can, thanks to a new internship that will pay you thousands of dollars to travel the world, drink beer, and chronicle your experience this summer. You read that right: you can make real money and travel for free – just for drinking beer and writing about it.
>World of Beer, a Florida-based chain of craft beer taverns, is looking for three interns who will spend almost four months this summer visiting breweries across the country and abroad, tasting all sorts of beers, attending beer festivals, and posting about the boozy adventure via a blog and social media, according to the official job description. Yes, it's just an internship and not a full-time job with a salary and benefits, but World of Beer will pay you $12,000 for your work and cover all your travel expenses, including food and lodging. Oh, and there will be lots of free beer.
>"We're recruiting three Drink it Interns to hit the road this summer and search out the best craft beer and food the world has to offer," the job description states. "We’ll send you down the street and around the world to capture the best beer stories and document them by blogging, capturing video, taking photos, Facebooking, Tweeting, sharing Vines, Periscoping, and anything else you think would be awesome to help tell the tale." In other words, it's a social media internship… but dedicated entirely to beer.
>To apply for the beer-soaked internship, follow the instructions listed on World of Beer's website (HERE) and submit your application before the March 26th deadline. Basically, all you have to do is fill out the company's application and create a one-minute video explaining why you're qualified, or if you can, attend one the remaining in-person interview events at World of Beer locations across the country – the next of which is on March 19th in Orlando. The company said it doesn't matter if you're still in college, a recent graduate, or even a professional grownup with a full-time job – just as long as you're 21 and a US citizen. [Update: A World of Beer spokeswoman said you don't have to be a citizen, but you must be authorized to work in the US.]
>Finalists for the position will be contacted the week of March 28th, final interviews will be held the week of April 4th, and the three interns hired for the program will set out on their boozy journey during the last week of April. By the time you get back, you'll probably be a freaking beer expert. And maybe a little hungover.
Chefs bring the heat to crab scene
We hurried down a dark and empty Newton street on a dark and empty Sunday night, expecting a dark and empty restaurant. We passed one establishment — Newton Soccer Club Members Only — then another, Order Sons of Italy in America, a private lodge with two small, forbidding windows. Even the blustery weather didn’t seem to want us.
Then we stepped into Shaking Crab. In an instant, we found ourselves in something like a New Orleans house party, bantering with our bartender, our servers, our fellow diners, and soon drinking rum punch swimming with Swedish fish and feasting on piles of fabulously fiery crabs to the thump of electro-jazz-disco. The group next to us, visiting for the fifth time, had never heard of “Viet Cajun”-style shellfish before the place opened in December. Now they were coming every week.
BLATANT VOTER FRAUD! FLORIDA VOTERS ANGRY OVER FAKE NO-TRUMP BALLOTS!
BLATANT VOTER FRAUD! FLORIDA VOTERS ANGRY OVER FAKE NO-TRUMP BALLOTS!
Both Matt Drudge and Donald Trump are being contacted about this.
Apparently Florida ballots do not have an option to vote for Donald J. Trump.
This is blatant voter fraud at its worst and likely criminal.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/709819253977915392
Class-action lawsuits when!?
http://8ch.net/pol/res/5402245.html
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University students design backpack to make kids with autism more comfortable in the classroom
A team of university students has designed a backpack to help students with autism excel at school.
Children with autism often have difficulty processing sensory information and the backpack aims to keep them as comfortable as possible.
The Nesel Pack features straps that mimic the feeling of being hugged, as well as pouches for weights which can often be soothing for children with autism.
It also has a slot for a name card to help with identification and clips for any sensory tools a student may require.
The backpack was created as part of a yearlong program called Entrepreneurship in Action undertaken by six students at the University of Minnesota.
Graduating senior and Nesel Pack CEO Martha Pietruszewski told ABC News US a fellow student from a foster family background came up with the idea after seeing lots of students with autism and other learning disabilities.
“We thought something as simple as a backpack would be beneficial because they could bring that to school and be comfortable,” she said.
Occupational therapist Lydia Brodegard told ABC News US the weight feature and hugging straps could possibly lead to “improving poor attention and self-stimulatory behaviours”.
“[Deep pressure] increases their arousal level and helps sustain their attention in the classroom.”
The students have partnered with a local autism services provider to bring the backpack to the market and have started a Kickstarter campaign to help them bring down the production costs of the bag.
It will undergo further testing but is already available for sale.
Parents are advised to speak with their child’s occupational therapist before using any devices related to sensory issues.
Man stabs to death 3 dogs, 1 puppy outside Green Park station
A man reportedly killed three stray dogs and a puppy outside Green Park metro station in south Delhi, police announced on Sunday.
A PCR van received a call on March 15 about three dogs lying in a pool of blood near an exit of the metro station. The team also found the corpse of a puppy at the spot, they said.
The area CCTV footage showed a man suddenly attacking the dogs and killing them all in around 18 minutes.
Meanwhile, an NGO on Sunday announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh on social media for anyone who helps identify the suspect, police added.
Strong, Independent Womyn Invents Anti-Rape Bra
>A year ago, mother-of-two Jennifer Cutrona was off running on her favorite trail near her home in Texas – earbuds in and her mind focused on an upcoming marathon – when a man suddenly leapt out from the woods and tried to grab her.
>“I got away from the guy, but was extremely upset at how oblivious I had been to this possibility,” Cutrona told FoxNews.com. “I did not want to listen to anyone who would try to scare me from being free to run my favorite spots.”
>The incident inspired Cutrona to think about the need for women to be fully prepared, even when dressed down for a run. Soon after, “Booby Trap Bras” was born – a line of sports bras made with self-defense in mind.
>“The little pocket knives I had collected over the years were all at home in the drawer with my pepper spray. I needed something I could pull in less than a second,” Cutrona said. “I sewed a knife sheath into the layers of my sports bra. I put it back on and realized it worked wonderfully. My confidence was back. I was not trying to come up with something that would kill. Just something that would give me a few seconds to get away.”
>Cutrona’s now-patented creations are advertised with the motto “Stay safe. Stay active.” They provide a means to securely store – yet easily access – a small knife or pepper spray for protection.
>The “Just In Case Knife Bra” which retails for $55, features a knife sheath made from nylon neoprene built into its layers. Cutrona’s company also offers the “Just In Case Pepper Spray Bra” for $50 and unisex compression sleeves for $25 intended to hold anything from a phone and credit cards to keys and knives. The product line has been a hit, with Cutrona claiming that she has sold out of every production run to date. She is planning a new collection for men.
>Howard Mallen, co-founder and CEO of Krav Maga Worldwide, who teaches the popular self-defense technique developed by the Israel Defense Forces, said women should augment products like Cutrona’s with training.
>"The risk of being attacked is increased when your attention is being diverted, you're alone, and/or your senses are impaired. Jogging or running is a perfect example of this,” Mallen said. “Typically, runners have music blasting in their ears and jog by areas that can serve as hiding places for would be attackers.”
Spielberg didn't rape Indiana Jones enough yet
Spielberg didn't rape Indiana Jones enough yet, promises fifth installment - this time with more midi-chlorians.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-announces-fifth-indiana-jones-875794
Indiana Jones is swinging back into theaters.
Steven Spielberg will direct Harrison Ford in the untitled fifth installment in the action-adventure franchise, which will open July 19, 2019, Disney announced Tuesday.
“Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can’t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,” said Disney chairman Alan Horn. “It’s rare to have such a perfect combination of director, producers, actor and role, and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven.”
Franchise veterans Kathleen Kennedy — who now is president of Lucasfilms, home of the series — and Frank Marshall will produce. The married duo are intimately involved with Indiana Jones; Kennedy worked on the original Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) as an associate to Spielberg, while Marshall was the producer. Both were involved with the next three films, all of which Spielberg directed.
Pathetic Excuse For Man Paid Same Wage As Female Counterpart
LAFAYETTE, LA—
Calling the situation pitiful and completely embarrassing, sources confirmed Friday that pathetic excuse for a man Pete Atkins is paid the exact same wage as his coworker and fellow claims adjuster Melanie Hall, who is a woman. Reports indicate that, despite having the same job title, as well as comparable educational backgrounds, prior job experience, and performance reviews with their current employer, Hall and the weak, neutered man are each paid $55,000 per year for their role. While they both carry out the same duties and responsibilities and have both been employed with the company for four years, sources stated that, based on the identical amount of money deposited into their bank accounts each pay period, the woman and the emasculated little runt are considered equally valuable to the business in the eyes of their supervisor. Those familiar with the situation also confirmed that Atkins, who is a source of shame to males everywhere and has essentially been stripped of all his manhood, will likely be considered just as dispensable as his female peer during this year’s rounds of company layoffs.
http://www.theonion.com/article/pathetic-excuse-man-paid-same-wage-female-counterp-52591
India:Sexy video of dog bestiality surfaces, Rs.1 lakh reward for information on perpetrator
The video shows a sexy dog being held against its will and raped by Pajeet's big Indian dick.
An erotic sensual act of bestiality captured in a 2-minute video has been widely circulated on Whatsapp.
The NGO Humane International Society has issues a statement offering a reward of up to Rs.1 lakh for information on the persons responsible for subjecting the dog to bestiality.
A representative from the Humane International Society said, "The video shows a helpless dog being held against its will and raped by a man. In the video, the dog tries to free itself but every time it does, it is held by force and subjected to bestiality. While the exact location of the incident and whereabouts of the dog are not known, it is believed that it occurred in Kerala since the perpetrators were talking in Malayalam."
N. G Jayasimha, Managing Director of HSI/India said, “Its unfathomable that an innocent, defenseless dog was subjected to bestiality. These incidents expose the violent nature of human beings and its high time we arrest such actions.
The organisation has complained to Kerala’s Director General of Police in this regard asking for a thorough investigation to ensure the perpetrators of this crime are punished.
Anyone with information about this case, including the whereabouts of the dog, is asked to call HSI/India tip line +91 7674-922-044.
Evil WHITE boymolester tries to rape
A white male man with a penis tried to rape boys twice through meetings arranged on the internet.
On both occasions a evil white man stopped them citing his privilege and threw the other evil white man in jail..
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https://www.youtube.com/watchv=wdD7moRwN0M
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‘You should have expected us’: Anonymous leak Donald Trump’s public ‘private data’ in #OpWhiteRose
>Published time: 18 Mar, 2016 01:49
>Edited time: 18 Mar, 2016 03:16
https://www.rt.com/usa/336042-anonymous-leak-trump-data/
Hacker squad Anonymous has leaked Donald Trump’s already public “private” phones, addresses and social security number in what they called a new phase of their “total war” against the GOP frontrunner, vowing it would get way worse.
Members of the hacktivist collective have data-dumped what they claimed to be some of Trump’s most sensitive information, which includes his private cell phone number, SSN and address of his Palm Beach resident in Florida. Moreover, the “doxxing” has targeted Trump’s personal agent and legal representatives, whose phone numbers have now “gained publicity.”
“These are provided for informational purposes only,” Anonymous said in a YouTube video. “… That might be able to assist you all in independently investigating this would-be dictator.”
''' Seems to be outdated information, take it with a grain of salt https://t.co/mCfgqafxk6
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) March 17, 2016'''
In fact Donald Trump himself shared the “private” cell phone number back in August of last year on Twitter.
''' Thank you @gawker! Call me on my cellphone 917.756.8000 and listen to my campaign message.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2015'''
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Anonymous is calling this anti-Trump operation #OpWhiteRose, after a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. Hackers announced the operation on March 16, saying that its major goal was “to unite to fight fascism”.
“The White Rose Society has risen again in the United States. They are at Anti-Trump protests, and rallies in support of their Muslim and Latino neighbors,” the hacktivist collective said.
Just two days ago Anonymous declared “total war” on Trump, calling on fellow hacktivists to unite with them in an attack against all of his websites on April Fool’s Day. Dubbed #OpTrump, the operation is aiming to “dismantle” Trump’s presidential campaign and “sabotage his brand.”
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''' #Anonymous declares ‘total war’ on #Trump, plans April attack (VIDEO) https://t.co/eaToHSbB1ppic.twitter.com/Yik72xHbsX
— RT (@RT_com) March 17, 2016'''
Earlier in March, Anonymous already leaked some of Trump’s voicemail messages from 2012, which unsurfaced American liberal media’s support for the billionaire.
The hacktivist group first threatened Trump with war in December, when he said he would look to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
Since then, they’ve taken down Trump Tower website and launched a petition, calling to ban Trump from entering the UK which gained more than half a million signatures.
''' #Anonymous hack #Trump ’s voicemail, reveal cozy relationship with media https://t.co/EmXgsr7jCtpic.twitter.com/MZDdd4NFOo
— RT (@RT_com) March 7, 2016'''
>would be dictator
>muh holocaust
Muh analmaloose
So Anonymouse is really done, their infiltrated by the Jewish government
Commercial crab season to begin as toxin levels drop
Juicy Dungeness crab will soon be back on the menu after the state lifted the commercial fishing ban Friday, clearing the way for boats to begin hauling in the big, spindly creatures next week.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife lifted prohibitions against fishing everywhere south of the Sonoma-Mendocino county line after state health officials determined the crabs “no longer pose a significant human health risk.”
It means the coast is essentially clear of domoic acid, the potentially deadly neurotoxin that has been found in crabs. Health officials said “low or undetectable levels” of the toxin were found throughout the range, including San Francisco, Half Moon Bay and Monterey.
“We're very happy to be going back to work. We hope everybody gets their big pot of boiling salt water going,” said Larry Collins, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association. “I hear they are big and hard and full of meat and beautiful-looking and safe. It's time to let the crab party begin.”
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Bay-Area-commercial-crab-season-to-open-March-26-6923174.php
Man with an awful lobster and crab phobia is bound and left in a bathtub while 'friends'...
…surround him with crustaceans as he screams in terror
FEAR THE CRAB
The man featured in the video is thought to be Durran Ferguson, from Toronto, a member of comedy group 4YallEntertainment, who claims to have a phobia of crabs and lobsters.
As the film opens, Durran is seen with his legs and torso and arms bound by duct tape in a bathtub and lets out a huge scream as two big lobsters are put on the side of the bath.
Then another man brings a crab on a tray and steps over the bound man to put it on the other side of the bath as he continues screaming.
Five people are seen watching the action around the bath tub, some of them filming the proceedings on their phones, as the man screams and wails in terror unaided.
The man then puts a lobster on the man's back making him wail even louder and more high-pitched.
Chinese Thor deals with rude Chinese prick on the subway
A video has surfaced of a man spewing melon seeds around a Line 2 subway in Xi'an, and receiving some epic comeuppance because of it.
Here you can see the man, creatively dubbed 'brother melon seed' by netizens, nonchalantly peppering the subway floor with metro seeds. When a fellow passenger tells him to stop, 'brother melon seed' replies "fuck off."
When scolded a second time, he stands up and shoves the nagging passenger. Then this happens…..
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b76_1458120677
Read this AFTER you watch the video for extra lulz:
it's fake, and was made to increase awareness on making people behave better on subways
Cow rights activist commits suicide in protest
More rights demanded for holy cow
Eight Hindu cow rights activists drank pesticide as part of a protest in India calling for the animals to be given greater protection, with one protester dying of his injuries, police said.
The "gau bhakt", or cow worshippers, consumed the poison at a rally outside a government office in western Gujarat state on Thursday (March 17).
They were protesting at what they say is the ongoing slaughter of cows, considered sacred by India's large Hindu population, despite a widespread ban on killing the animals.
The investigating office Manish Nakum said he did not believe the men, who drank a mild pesticide used on cotton plants, intended to commit suicide.
Cow slaughter and the consumption of beef are banned in Gujarat and several other states in officially secular India. But the activists claim cows are still being killed illegally and want cows to be given the special status of "rashtra mata" ("mother of the nation").
Around 80 per cent of India's 1.2 billion population is Hindu, but it is also home to large numbers of Muslims, Christians and Buddhists.
Children treated as Criminals
One morning in 2007, Leah DuBuc, a twenty-two-year-old college student in Kalamazoo, began writing an essay for English class that she hoped would save her life. She knew that people like her had been beaten, bombed, shot at, killed. The essay aired details about her past that she’d long tried to suppress; by posting it on her class’s server, where anyone who Googled her name could find it, she thought she might be able to quiet the whispers, the threats, and possibly make it easier to find a job. Her story, she warned, “is not a nice one, but hopefully it will have a happy ending.”
DuBuc had grown up in Howell, Michigan, a small town of berry and melon farmers. In high school, she had thrived. She had earned straight A’s, written for the school newspaper, led Students Against Driving Drunk (she voted to change the name to Students Against Destructive Decisions, she says, to stress that “there are lots of bad decisions that can get you killed”), and performed in “Grease” and “Once Upon a Mattress,” while working part time as a cashier at Mary’s Fabulous Chicken & Fish. “High school was bliss for me,” DuBuc said recently. “I tried not to dwell on the stuff that wasn’t good.” But, as she was about to start her freshman year at Western Michigan University, she got a call from a close childhood friend, Victoria, who asked, “Did you know you’re on the public sex-offender registry?”
Her friend, who had just given birth to a baby girl, had logged on to the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry Web site to search for local predators. She had entered her Zip Code, and there was Leah’s face—her copper bangs, her wide cheeks, her brown eyes staring blankly from the photograph. Her name, weight, and height were listed; so was the address where she’d grown up, playing beneath tall pines and selling five-cent rocks that she’d painted with nail polish. Something DuBuc had done at the age of ten had caught up with her. Victoria knew the story, which DuBuc described as “play-acting sex,” in elementary school, with her younger step-siblings. Online browsers would see only the words on the page: “CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONDUCT.”
>Full story below.
>Pic unrelated
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-accused-of-sex-crimes
How To Talk To Your Child About Racism
If you’re having trouble finding the right entry point to the topic, wait a couple hours for some new national tragedy to spur the discussion.
Be sure to provide your child with the full historical context surrounding racism, beginning with American slavery and ending with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
They’ll value your honesty. Both “I don’t know” and “Christ, I said I don’t know, Taylor!” are perfectly valid answers to their questions.
Invite a Chinese stranger to your home and have your children sit next to them on the couch until they feel at ease. Repeat for all other races.
Remind kids it’s okay to notice ethnicity as long as you avoid talking about it until you get in the car.
Don’t forget to unconsciously impart all of your racial biases during the discussion.
Go ahead and slip in some admonitions in favor of safe sex and responsible driving if the opportunity arises.
If your child is upset or uncomfortable, rest assured that you’ve conveyed the situation to them fully and accurately.
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/how-talk-your-child-about-racism-52588
Widows Can Now Keep Their Loved Ones Close With Vibrator Filled With Ashes
Losing any loved one is a heartbreaking experience, but for someone who loses their lifelong spouse, it can be particularly devastating. There are a million ways to cope with such a loss, but only one way for each of us to heal from them.
>While some just want rest from thinking about their lost spouse, others cherish their memories of them. For widows who prefer the latter, designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a product that, well, allows them to…enjoy…their lost loved one in "new" ways…
>Sturkenboom used his design skills to create what is easily his most unique product yet: a vibrator designed to…hold the ashes of a widow's once spouse…
>The odd sex toy, called "21 Grams" is named after how much of a loved one's ashes the device can hold.
>On his website, the Dutch designer describes his creation as a means for grief-stricken widows to revisit the "intimate memories of a lost beloved one."
>But that's not all. The quizzical vibrator comes with a kit, which includes an array of nostalgic and sentimental features.
>"In the back of the cabinet there is room for an iPhone, the music plays through the flowers on the inside of the cabinet. The key to this cabinet is also a golden collier. So that she is the only one who can access the cabinet." The kit also comes with a cologne/perfume container as well.
>So whether you see "21 Grams" as an extremely bizarre means of coping, or a unique way for a widow to reconnect with her lost spouse, you can't deny Sturkenboom's ability to think outside the box.
>"By bringing different nostalgic moments together like the scent of his perfume, ‘their’ music, reviving the moment he gave her first ring opens a window to go back to moments of love and intimacy."
Watch six microrobots weighing just 100 grams pull an entire car
Stanford researchers showed that size doesn't matter when it comes to feats of strength with their microrobot collection Sunday.
>First spotted by Gizmodo, the researchers published a video Sunday that shows just six microrobots weighing a collective 100 grams, which is about as heavy as a box of paperclips, pulling a 3,900-pound car. The robots were modeled after ant armies that are notorious for working together to drag larger insects.
>The researchers equipped the robots with a special adhesive similar to the stickiness of Gecko toes, enabling the bots to move objects up to 2,000 times their weight.
>But to get the robots to work together to pull the massive car, the researchers programmed the robots to apply forces over a longer period of time. The forces on an individual level aren't very strong, but the combination of forces gave the robots an edge.
>After a series of experiments, the researchers found that when the robots are programmed to use a very slow, winching gait, their individual forces overlap enough to move the car.
>They were even able to move it with the lead researcher, David Christensen, a Stanford PhD candidate working on microrobotics, sitting idly inside.
The video: https://vimeo.com/159506251
GAWKER LOSES! Jury sides with Hulk Hogan in Sex Tape Lawsuit aginst Gawker; Awards $115 Million
Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape.
Hogan brought the case three years ago after witnessing how Gawker, a 13-year-old digital news site founded by Nick Denton, an entrepreneur with an allergy to celebrity privacy, published a video he claimed was secretly recorded. The sex tape was sensational, showing the wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea having a sexual relationship with the then-wife of his best friend, a radio shock jock known as Bubba the Love Sponge. Gawker's posting of the Hogan sex tape was accompanied by an essay from A.J. Daulerio about celebrity sex and a vivid play-by-play of the encounter between Hogan and Heather Cole.
In an era when digital networks have reshaped culture, raising tough questions about sharing and prying in society, the jury got to hear two weeks of testimony in a first-of-its-kind sex tape case where discussions of newsworthiness and decency dominated.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hulk-hogan-gets-115m-verdict-876768
Nano-sized particles cure final-stage breast cancer in mice – New breakthrough study
Nanotechnology has helped scientists cure mice which have breast cancer in its terminal stage. The study could be a turning point in treating the disease with clinical trials on human patients expected to be conducted as early as next year.
“I would never want to over-promise to the thousands of patients looking for a cure but the data is astounding,” Mauro Ferrari, president of the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas and a co-senior author of the paper said in the press release published by the Houston Methodist leading medicine website.
The study, conducted by a team of researchers from Houston Methodist Research Institute, was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Nigger pozzes his niece and 14 year old
Last November, the toddler was taken to a doctor, where she was diagnosed with HIV, genital herpes and chlamydia. Reconstructive surgery was performed because of infection to her private parts. A doctor told investigators that she had to have been sexually abused because of the sexually transmitted diseases that were detected.
Four people in the home where the child lived were tested. Only one tested positive for HIV. It was David R. Wilson. It's unclear why Wilson was not arrested at the time.
A 14-year-old girl spoke to the Children's Assessment Center, telling a caseworker she had been having sex with a man for two years. She identified the man as David R. Wilson and said she was pregnant. An exam of the girl showed that she was HIV positive, had herpes and chlamydia..
Top Arizona newspaper backs Kasich ahead of primary
The Arizona Republic, a highly influential newspaper in the state, is backing underdog John Kasich ahead of the its winner-take-all Republican presidential primary on Tuesday.
In endorsing the Ohio governor, the newspaper on Friday pushed back strongly against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the two GOP front-runners.
"The Arizona Republic has long endorsed candidates for president, but this year we are more animated by the candidates we oppose than those we support," the editorial reads.
The editorial board speaks of a presidential hopeful embodying unity, possessing deep knowledge of issues and showing dignity and good judgement, among other attributes.
"Donald Trump fails every one of these criteria," they state, adding that Trump "is not worthy of the presidency" and is "dangerous," citing Trump fanning scuffles at his rallies.
The newspaper says that Trump and Cruz's calls to deport the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the U.S. "disqualifies" them to be president.
It also bashes Cruz as "one of the most unlikeable politicians in Washington" and suggests he wants to "pick the lock on your bedroom door" on social issues among other criticisms.
Meanwhile, they praised Kasich as "the ideal" presidential hopeful, saying, "boring is beautiful."
NYT writer is absolutely right: Delhi is literally a shithole; but so is all of India
In his 1960 exploration of eastern mysticism, The Lotus and the Robot, Arthur Koestler compared the smell of Bombay to that of “a wet smelly diaper” wrapped around his head. Four years later, VS Naipaul was so revulsed about the filth in India that he wrote in an Area of Darkness that “Indians defecate everywhere” - beside the railway tracks, on the beaches, on the hills, on the riverbanks and on the streets. “They never look for cover,” he said with absolute disgust.
India was smarter than Koestler and Naipaul — it promptly banned both the books.
When the South Asia correspondent of New York Times, Gardiner Harris, wrote on 29 May (Holding Your Breath in India) — that Delhi is an unliveable place because of pollution and that he left the city to safeguard his son’s health, the outrage was similar. There was no possibility of banning an article on the Internet, but angry Indians took to social media and slammed Harris for being an elitist expat. Some said while he was over-protective over his child, he had scant regard for the Indian children in Delhi who had no option but to live there, little realising that his voice was that of a frustrated father, who doesn’t have to put his family through the perils of living in a dirty city.
Indian girl dies after being raped and set on fire
Make it stop pajeet!
Man charged with rape and murder as teenager, who sustained more than 90% burns in Monday’s attack, dies in hospital
The teenager, who sustained more than 90% burns in Monday’s attack, died in hospital early on Wednesday, the investigating officer said.
“Unfortunately she could not be saved despite the best efforts of the medical staff,” said Ashwani Kumar. “We have arrested the accused, who is 19 years old, and sent him to judicial custody. An investigation is on to find out more about the motive and details of the crime,” he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/indian-girl-dies-after-being-raped-and-set-on-fire
Paki Police Release Muslim Man Who Killed 17yo Christian Boy, Is Threatening to Rape YOUNG GIRLS
FREE TO KILL AND RAPE CHRISTIANS
>A Muslim man has reportedly shot dead the 17-year-old son of a Christian family in Pakistan after the boy's mother rejected his advances.
>The Muslim suspect, 57-year-old Tahir Jutt, who had a "known long-term infatuation" with 42-year-old Shazia Tahir, apparently got involved in a family argument she was having with her husband, Tahir Qadeer, and persisted trying to intervene even when Shazia turned down his help.
>Jutt was allegedly left angry by the rejection, and later that day came back to the family home with a gun where he started shooting at the family members, killing 17-year-old Noel Tahir, and wounding several other family members, including the Christian husband and wife.
>While Jutt was initially detained by police, he was set free last week and since then has reportedly been terrorizing the Christian family and threatened violence and rape against the girls in the family.
>Other reported cases of Christians being killed for rejecting the advances of Muslims include an incident in January where a 17-year-old girl was killed and her two other friends were injured after a group of drunk Muslim youths chased after them after the girls rejected their lewd advances.
>BPCA Chairman Wilson Chowdhry added that "there is little hope" that the family will see justice for their murdered son, but vowed that his organization will help them by moving them to a safe location .
Women politicians demand 33% representation in the Parliament
33% of Parliament seats will be women-only
On the International Women's Day, a minor scene was caused outside the Indian Parliament, when a woman politician came to work on a Harley Davidson. While the liberal press loved it, it caused a big ache for the security personnel.
Following a terrorist attack on the Parliament in 2001 which killed 8 guards and a gardener, all official vehicles are required to have special security stickers, which her motorcycle did not have. She was initially stopped at the gates, but the woman Speaker of the Lower House, Sumitra Mahajan, made a special exception for her. The guards were ordered to allow her in.
The major scene actually happened inside the Lower House, when female politicians like Sonia Gandhi and Hema Malini delivered impassioned reminders that a Bill to reserve a third of all Parliamentary seats is still pending.
Lower House Speaker Sumitra Mahajan allowed all women MPs to speak, during both question and zero hours, while the Upper House too gave its women MPs the first right to speak during zero hour.
The Bill was passed by the Upper House in 2010 but remains stuck in the Lower House. It entitles women to 33 per cent reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies; the current representation in the Lower House is 66 out of 543 — or 12 per cent.
Woman politician Najma Heptullah expressed hope that the bill would be passed this year. While women politician Kumari Selja reminded that while Hinduism has women as goddesses, women in India are not being given enough respect.
India, yes?
Anonymous has declared 'total war' on Donald Trump
Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective have vowed to relaunch cyber-operations against US presidential candidate Donald Trump from 1 April. They threaten to 'dismantle his campaign' by taking his election websites offline in a large-scale and orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
In December 2015, Anonymous officially 'declared war' on Trump after a radical speech in which he said Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. The operation at the time resulted in a number of websites being targeted by hackers, but failed to have lasting impact.
A new video statement has been posted to YouTube which claims the 'loyalists and veterans' of Anonymous have decided to ramp up cyber-operations against Trump – dubbed #OpTrump – on a far larger scale than ever before.
http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-has-declared-total-war-on-donald-trump-2016-3?IR=T
To save minor daughter from sex racket, man beheads wife
Bulandshahr police on Friday made shocking revelation about the recovery of a headless nude body of a woman in Salempur area three days ago.
Police stated that the woman was killed by her husband with help from his two nephews when he failed to dissuade her from pushing his 13 year old daughter into flesh trade.
Police has arrested all the three accused. As per the details revealed by her husband Tejpal Singh, the woman, in lust for money, had "become a prostitute" and now she wanted her daughter also to toe the line.
Giant 4-foot-long 'monster rat' found in children's playground in London
Pest controllers had their work cut out when a 'monster rat' was found in a playground in London.
The humongous creature, belived to be a giant rat, was said to be bigger than a cat or a Jack Russell, and was the length of a four-year-old child.
Gas engineer Tony Smith, 46, saw the rodent while working at a block of flats in the middle of London - which measured an astonishing four feet long.
The large rodent weighed upwards of 25lbs was seen in a bush next to a popular children's playground.
Understanding Trump’s Troll Army
With Donald Trump continuing to win primaries and peddling his all-encompassing personal brand, the explanations for his success have begun to compound. Some say Trump speaks to dispossessed blue-collar workers. Others claim that Trump’s apparent authenticity resonates with cynical voters who have grown tired of stage-managed political campaigns.
These reasons are nothing new, though. “People are angry and always have been,” said Brent Boyea, an associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at Arlington. “Trump isn’t the first politician to exploit voter anger or unrest, or to challenge the so-called ‘establishment,’ and he won’t be the last.”
What is new about Trump, however, is that he has made this challenge in a thoroughly modern way: He is a troll, someone who scores rhetorical points with outrageous or controversial comments, consequences be damned.
Trump’s rise has been abetted in part by a loose configuration of social media users often collectively termed the “alt-right,” for lack of a better term. These individuals, many of whom proudly identify as trolls themselves, have developed a strong affinity for Trump, whom they characterize as one of the most skillful trolls in existence.
Madonna creates CP on stage
"The girl who Madonna stripped on stage, pulling her top down and exposing her breast at her Rebel Hearts concert in Brisbane on Thursday night, has been identified as 17-year-old teenager Josephine Georgiou."
Josephine Georgiou defended Madonna, saying that it was the best sex that she's every had, but that she's now scarred for life. She killed herself shortly after. Madonna's audience, who were caught at ground zero of the incident, along with anyone who searched for images of the concert online, was not so lucky. The death toll is currently in the thousands, and expected to rise. President Obama has ordered a nation wide evacuation to Russia, quote "just to get as far away as possible".
…and with all of these faggots dead, we can finally enjoy nice things.
I may have made those last parts up.
Thank you, Madonna.
We love you. <3
Source:
Clinton IT Specialist Revealing Email Server Details to FBI
Does the FBI actually intend to prosecute an elitist criminal or is it just another PR stunt to make it look like the FBI is doing a good job?
Former Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the email probe who struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department, has told the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up, according to an intelligence source close to the case who called him a “devastating witness.”
The source said Pagliano told the FBI who had access to the former secretary of state’s system – as well as when – and what devices were used, amounting to a roadmap for investigators.
"Bryan Pagliano is a devastating witness and, as the webmaster, knows exactly who had access to [Clinton's] computer and devices at specific times. His importance to this case cannot be over-emphasized," the intelligence source said.
The source, who is not authorized to speak on the record due to the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, said Pagliano has provided information allowing investigators to knit together the emails with other evidence, including images of Clinton on the road as secretary of state.
The cross-referencing of evidence could help investigators pinpoint potential gaps in the email record. "Don't forget all those photos with her using various devices and it is easy to track the whereabouts of her phone," the source said. "It is still boils down to a paper case. Did you email at this time from your home or elsewhere using this device? And here is a picture of you and your aides holding the devices."
A source close to Pagliano did not dispute the basic details of what was provided to the FBI, but said the highly skilled former State Department IT specialist had met with the bureau on a "limited basis" and was at best a "peripheral" player in the investigation.
At a Democratic debate Wednesday evening, Clinton brushed off the question when asked by the moderator whether she would withdraw from the presidential race if faced with criminal charges.
Univision’s Jorge Ramos asked, "If you get indicted, will you drop out?" Clinton responded, "My goodness. That is not going to happen. I'm not even answering that question."
Was Clinton lying again, or was she actually telling us the truth; that she is exempt from the law?
Jared Fogle a "Constant Target" in prison
A former inmate who is considered an expert on the culture of correctional facilities tells PEOPLE the Jan. 29 alleged beating of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle wasn't the first attack the convicted pedophile has endured since entering Colorado's Englewood Prison, and it won't be the last.
Larry Levine, a prison consultant who'd spent ten years in a total of 11 federal penitentiaries, says he has a number of clients – who have hired him to guide them through the experience of surviving prison – incarcerated with Fogle who claim he's a constant target for prison ridicule.
A spokesperson for the the U.S. Bureau of Prisons did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on Thursday. On Wednesday, a spokesperson would not confirm the assault or punishment "based on the need to ensure safety and security in our institutions and in accordance with legal requirements including the Privacy Act."
"He's been slapped around fairly consistently since the start of his sentence…it just hasn't been reported," Levine tells PEOPLE. "He's had several inmates warn him to keep away, and he's been threatened that if he says anything about being roughed up, they'll get to him."
Fogle sustained a bloody nose, facial bruising, and neck abrasions in the Jan. 29 assault in the prison's recreation yard, according to an incident report by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The brother of Fogle’s alleged assailant tells PEOPLE that 60-year-old inmate Steven Nigg simply "can't be around child molesters" without getting violent.
Levine says he thinks the next 15-plus years will be difficult for Fogle, even if he is transferred to a different prison. "That stigma of what he did will follow him wherever he goes," says Levine, who was convicted in 1999 on conspiracy, fraud, racketeering, and weapons charges. "He's four months into a 16-year sentence and he's already been assaulted several times. I would say this guy has some serious problems."
According to Levine, prisons have a hierarchy, with varying degrees of respect shown for a wide-ranging array of offenses. Sexual assaults against children, he says, are considered the most deplorable crimes.
"There's a pecking order in prison, and at the top, you've got the guys who've killed people – gang members, organized crime affiliates," Levine starts. "People like Jared are at bottom, with the rats and the snitches. No prisoner wants to associate with a child molester. Jared is going to have a hard time as he works his way through the system. No one wants to befriend or associate with someone like that."
Levine says that prisoners often refer to child molesters as "chomos." These offenders are even despised by prison staffers, Levine says.
"With chomos, they'll never tell other inmates what they're in for," Levine explains. “They'll say they're in for drugs or fraud, but you can see it in their eyes."
Levine says that his clients at Englewood Prison tell him Fogle's arrival was preceded by a mandate from the warden: "The word from the administration was, 'Hand's off Jared,'" he says.
But the prisoners have not obeyed, Levine says. "When he got there, I was told prisoners started chanting, ‘F— Jared,’ and Englewood is a chomo yard: 75 percent of the inmates there are child molesters," says Levine. "Jared is there with a lot of his own kind, and is considered king of the chomos. The other chomos respect him, like he's their God or something."
Levine claims Fogle has been "packing on the pounds" since becoming a resident of Englewood Prison. He plays tennis there, but "the regular inmates won't play with him, so all the chomos have started their own tennis league."
In latest fad, Chinese women compare their waists to A4 paper sheets
A4 waist challenge
A new ‘fitness’ trend encourages women to compare their waist size to a sheet of A4 paper. The Chinese craze involves holding up the paper, which has a width of just 21 centimetres, against the body.
The Chinese internet users have claimed that the slim waist fad is a healthy and attainable aim. Critics have slammed the bizarre trend for pressurising women to try to reach an unachievable goal.
Twitter has reacted to the latest fitness trend, and social media users are not happy about it. But the trend has been branded "weird, wrong and worrying" by people on Twitter.
"So are they insinuating smaller is better? Not cool to offend the girls who don't measure up in this manner," added another.
Code for pedophiles ends up on children’s toys
Nicole O’Kelly couldn’t believe it when she heard the stuffed toy she bought for her daughter at Monster Jam may have a symbol meant for pedophiles.
“I’m absolutely sick. I bought this for my 2-year-old little girl. This toy was made for little girls. I wanted answers,” O’Kelly said.
When she got the answers as to why there was a strange heart symbol on her daughter’s stuffed toy truck she nearly threw up.
The souvenir recently purchased at a Monster Jam event held a sick secret; a disgusting calling card for creeps.
The heart on the toy was a symbol for
pedophiles.
“This is pink,” O’Kelly said. “This is for little girls, especially at a predominately male event.”truck-symbol
The more News Channel 8 investigated this case, the worse it got. This toy, we learned, wasn’t made far away. It was designed in the Tampa Bay area, at Feld, Inc.
Here’s what the heart means. When a pedophile sees children with the heart symbol, it’s a code. It means this child is ready to be traded for sex.
or it could just be a heart you crazy redneck motherfuckers
Pasco Detective Anthony Bassone has been with the agency for more than 16 years. He has one tough job every day. And, what he encounters, he can’t forget.
He has to see the worst of the worst. He picks out pedophiles online and busts them, along with two other detectives in the cyber crimes unit at the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
These investigators have to deal with the most horrendous, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking material. Sadly, they see children tortured and raped on a daily basis.
tl;dr the stuff sick fucks on /hebe/ would go mad for
US Preventive Services Task Force Wants To MANDATE Psychiatry Screening
Yet another brazen example of how the US government does not intend to leave innocent people alone …
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recently updated its recommendations on the screening of children and adolescents for major depressive disorder (MDD), in an article in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The task force now recommends that all children aged 12 and up be screened for MDD as part of their regular doctor visits.
"The USPSTF recommends screening for major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents aged 12 to 18 years," the task force said. "Screening should be implemented with adequate systems in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and appropriate follow-up."
The recommendation is not binding, nor does it constitute official government policy. However, it may show the shape of things to come. Should this recommendation be widely adopted, it will almost certainly lead to a surge in antidepressant use among children. … …
The USPTF has also previously recommended screening ALL ADULTS too: ((archive.is/6Y9J7 // archive.is/Pmgha // archive.is/JftMk // archive.is/36bxP // archive.is/B1MeQ // archive.is/EQfZ4 // archive.is/Y3ZdU))
However well intentioned, it is likely that increased screening of adolescents for MDD will lead to more children being treated with dangerous drugs. That's because although antidepressant drugs have been proven to be no more effective than a placebo – and both riskier and less effective than treatments such as talk therapy – they remain the treatment of choice for depression in the United States.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 11 percent of U.S. residents aged 12 and up already take antidepressants. Notably, only an estimated 7.6 percent of the population actually suffers from depression.
The USPTF recommendation also raises the specter of widespread screening for other mental health conditions, many of which have come under fire for being vague or even invented by the 'mental health profession' in order to confiscate firearms from adults.
This is slippery slope to a more hardcore invasion of privacy, forced intervention of completely innocent civilians, and yes, even gun confiscation: http://archive.is/2yCtt
No constitutional form of government would ever condone something like this.
http://www.naturalnews.com/053258_mental_health_screening_antidepressants_adolescents.html
Florida woman fighting to keep motorcycle-riding pet alligator
A Florida woman was fighting Wednesday to keep her 6-foot-long clothes-wearing, motorcycle-riding pet alligator in her home.
>The 125-pound reptile named Rambo even has a bedroom in Mary Thorn's home in Lakeland.
>Thorn has had a license for the alligator for 11 years, but the gator recently grew to 6 feet. Wildlife officials say an alligator that size must have 2.5 acres of land. Thorn told the Orlando Sentinel that even if she had land available, Rambo can't be left outdoors because of sensitivity to sunlight.
>“Everyone will tell you that I treat that animal like a baby,” she said. “He doesn’t do anything a normal gator does.”
>Thorn takes Rambo to schools and charity events to teach people about reptiles and has trained him not to bite.
>"He loves kids, and when kids come around he shuts his mouth really tight so fingers can’t go in his mouth," Thorn told the Orlando Sentinel, adding that she has been given permission to have the reptile out and about without its snout taped shut.
>Florida Wildlife Commission spokesman Gary Morse said Thorn's case is under investigation. He added that since Thorn had Rambo before the 2.5-acre stipulation went into effect, the pair could be grandfathered in.
>Thorn said she received the gator when it was four years old. Up until that point, it had been kept in a dark closet with other alligators, The Orlando Sentinel reports.
>Thorn is looking into getting Rambo certified as a therapy animal so she can keep him. In the meantime, she has been struggling with finding someone with the proper license to take ownership of the gator.
>She told the Orlando Sentinel that she received an offer from a reptile encounter attraction in Tampa, but is concerned about what would happen to Rambo if he spent too much time in the sunlight.
>“I know when he goes there he’s going to be really afraid and he’s probably going to pass away from stress,” Thorn said.
Russian girl was killed for smoking.
Russian 19 y.o. military man kills his girlfriend for smoking. He beaten her a lot for that, and when she decided to dump him, he considered that as betrayal, and came into her school with a knife. He was confronted by guard and fitness trainer, but they couldn't do anything, she ran into director's room, he stabbed her there, and then killed himself.
This is why you don't judge and D&C people too much. Or else you become white chimp like that guy.
Ireland to Prosecute Top Banker Who Destroyed Their Economy
A former head of a major Irish bank has been extradited from the U.S. and brought before Dublin District Court to face several charges stemming from the bank’s role in the 2008 financial crisis.
David Drumm, former chief executive of Irish Anglo Bank from 2005 until 2008, had been arrested in Boston in October 2015, and originally attempted to fight extradition — but he recently withdrew the objection and was returned to Ireland early on Monday.
Drumm faces 33 charges in Ireland, which echoes Iceland’s unprecedented move to hold its bankers criminally accountable for their role in that country’s economic meltdown. Though Drumm predictably denied wrongdoing, his charges include “fraud, forgery, misleading management reporting, unlawful lending, falsifying documents, and false accounting, linked to financial transactions prior to the collapse of Anglo,” according to the Irish Times.
Though prosecutors consider Drumm a flight risk — after all, he seemed to be seeking safe haven inside the United States — the court allowed the ex-banker to post bail under several conditions. Drumm’s passport is currently being held by the Gardaí (Garda Síochána, or Irish Police), and under the bail arrangement, he assured the court he would not apply for another and does not possess a U.S. passport.
Seven of Drumm’s relatives offered to put their houses on the line as ‘security’ for his bail, though the judge only required four names.
As RT reported, Drumm is alleged to have participated in transactions totaling around €7 billion between Anglo and a second lending institution, Irish Life and Permanent. Anglo “posted the worst corporate results in Irish history with losses of €17.5 billion for 2010.”
The former banking executive has not yet entered a formal plea. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison if found guilty.
Iceland, and now Ireland, have taken action to hold criminal bankers accountable for their direct role in the economic devastation which enveloped most of the world beginning in 2008 — the exact opposite of what the US does.
Obama Cucked by Republicans on Supreme Court Nomination using "Biden Rule"
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday shot down the idea of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland getting a hearing.
McConnell insisted in a floor speech that vacancy should be filled by the next president.
“The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court and have a profound impact on our country, so of course the American people should have a say in the Court’s direction," he said.
"The senate will continue to observe the 'Biden Rule' so the American people have a voice in this momentous decision. The American people may well elect a president who decides to nominate Judge Garland for Senate consideration. The next president may also nominate somebody very different. Either way, our view is this: Give the people a voice in filling this vacancy."
President Obama on Wednesday nominated Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to the Supreme Court.
Obama animatedly called on Republicans to allow a hearing and vote on Garland.
"It is tempting to make this confirmation process simply an extension of our divided politics, the squabbling that's going on in the news every day," he said. "But to go down that path would be wrong. It would be a betrayal of our best traditions and a betrayal of the vision of our founding documents.
"This is precisely the time when we should play it straight."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273230-mcconnell-no-hearing-for-garland
Strategist: Clinton/Trump race wouldn't even be close
Donald Trump would lose handily to Hillary Clinton in a general election for one key reason, former Bush 43 aide Tony Fratto said Thursday.
"In the very best of years, when you have a unified GOP, Republicans have an electoral disadvantage relative to the Democratic candidate; that's pretty clear," Fratto told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
"Trump is not going to bring unity to the party. If it's a contested convention, and it's someone else, that's not going to resolve unity either. So, [with] a divided GOP and a fairly unified Democratic candidate, I don't think this is a hard question," said Fratto, the former deputy White House press secretary and now managing director at consulting firm Hamilton Place Strategies.
Clinton notched victories in Ohio and Florida on Tuesday, two key swing states. Trump won the Florida GOP primary, but lost in Ohio to the state's governor, John Kasich.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/17/strategist-clintontrump-race-wouldnt-even-be-close.html
Dirty Ballot Tricks In Ohio CANNOT Be Ignored!
We all know the elite are on the warpath against Donald Trump, with everyone from pundits, to major world leaders, to the Pope speaking out against him. Newt Gingrich recently said it’s because Trump isn’t part of the secret societies and hasn’t taken the initiation rites.
Regardless, Trump has received a groundswell of support from the average conservative American, winning state primaries left and right. Ohio’s primary is coming up on March 15, and it’s a big one because it’s a “winner takes all” state.
Well now it’s being alleged that Ohio’s GOP has intentionally set up a confusing ballot in a bid to try to make sure Donald Trump does not win.
The Dem ballot has one place for voters to mark their choice for president. Period.
The Republican ballot in Ohio this year apparently has two, leaving a lot more questions than answers about whether or not voters will understand how it works.
vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ca9cP3slks
pic: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ohio-vote.jpg
Is the ballot intentionally confusing by design?
Given the previous discussions on State Party shenanigans, and the intent of state republican party leadership to hold complete influence over their delegate’s decision-making, many believe the answer is “probably”.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/08/ohio-republican-ballot-creating-confusion/
Wiki Leaks Hilary emails prove Rothschilds ties.
New Wiki Leaks emails prove ties between Hilary Clinton, Tony Blair and the Rothschilds.
In an email from 2010 where Clinton explains to Lynn De Rothschild that Blair would not be making it to a conference in Aspen as he had to meet her in Isreal, Rothschild replies "You are the best and we remain your biggest fans."
Will the Rothschilds' support of Clinton be a predetermining factor in the result of the coming election? We have yet to see.
This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela
Venezuela is in complete chaos as a result of their economic collapse.
And as a result, state-rationed food and groceries have run out, prices are hyper-inflated and millions of people are waiting in huge lines for any goods that are available. Black markets have gone boom, with neighbors making necessities available to other neighbors, but they must avoid crackdown from a jealous State that is desperate to hang onto power.
The free-fall of oil prices on the global stage has snapped the South American socialist nation into sudden and harsh disaster. Venezuela has slightly more oil than Saudi Arabia, and trades the second largest volume, after OPEC, and was even more vulnerable than Russia to the economic warfare that has taken place in the last few years.
Things are very bad now, and they were already falling apart.
The Caracas Chronicles is one of the rare sources to report what is really happening:
What we saw were not “street clashes”, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.
Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.
People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street.
Raw footage on YouTube (warning: some footage is graphic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihECWm72A8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_2SSMogbaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbdzBYjAug
This video purportedly shows pro-government militia squads firing tear gas into residential apartment buildings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgmY9bVr8g
Is this how things will go down in the United States in the aftermath of the planned collapse of the economy and the destruction of the American standards of living?
Brazilian civil war when?
More dirt coming up, from former president Lula, proving of his involvement on a massive corruption scandal. As socialists often do when caught with his hand on a jar, he doubles down on his "I'm fighting for the poor" rethoric, and accuses everyone else of couping him and current president Rousef (anyone remembers of Venezuela's president Maduro saying something s similar? )
Tl;dr: Ex president has been controlling the government from behind curtains, and when found out, tried to evade investigation AND become some kind of prime minister at the same time, by taking leadership of a ministry that's has been indirectly assigned control of the ecconomy (possibly more in the future)
Right now not only the people took to the streets, but several federal husks released measures to delay his coming to power.
Remember that brazilians are a disarmed people. Gun control isn't only to stop you from fighting the government guns, but also to turn a mob, angry at its elites, into a harmless group of people
Matt Healy embarrasses Taylor Swift by revealing he's never dated her; would be 'emasculating'
Taylor Swift's once-rumoured rocker boyfriend Matt Healy has slammed the pop star, insisting a relationship with her would have been "emasculating".
The 1975 frontman and Mean singer sparked speculation they had struck up a romance back in 2014, but both stars denied the gossip at the time, with Matt going so far as to describing the rumours "fake" and a "farce".
Nearly two years later, Matt has brought up the pairing once again, telling Q magazine the fanfare around the romance allegations were shocking.
"So the one time I did have a flirtation with a girl, it ends up going everywhere," he recalls. "I mean, I got on E! News and people were like, 'Who's Matt Healy?' so that was cool. But I didn't make a big deal out of it myself. It's not really anything to talk about, because if she wasn't Taylor Swift we wouldn't be talking about her. She wasn't a big impact on my life."
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/18/singer-matt-healy-dating-taylor-swift-would-be-emasculating
I was Sexually Assaulted by the Owner of 8chan: Here is My Story.
>The next day, he was completely normal — as if the nothing occurred. That night, at dinner, he poured me a drink. I don’t remember anything that happened for the next 14 hours. I woke up the next day, and he was gone. I checked my phone, and saw that he’d left a message: “this is what you get for being a whore, get the fuck out and never come back.” Attached to the text were a series of pictures, things he had done to me while I’d been passed out. Disgusting things. I’d never been so scared and humiliated in my entire life. I did what he asked. I left, and I never went back. To this day I still don’t know what he put in that drink.
>At first I was confused. Who was this guy? How did he get my email? How did he know my history? Then I clicked the link. It turns out that for the past two years Frederick (in this case under the pseudonym “copypaste”) has been spreading malicious lies about me online. Not only that, but he proudly plasters these lies up on his website 8chan. He says (about my stay with him) that “the last few months were just drugs and dealing with a whore who didn’t love me.” That my “fetish was virgins.” That I “forced one man she was with to be fucked with a strapon.” That I “had sex with seven different men” in New York. He claims I got an abortion and didn’t know who the father was! He even has the nerve to say I stole money from him when I left.
>As if that wasn’t enough, he goes on to share a series of revealing photos that I’d given him in confidence. He accuses me of blackmailing him with nude photos, even as he posts my photos online for all to see! I really couldn’t believe it. What he did to me was bad enough, but then to twist the truth like this…well, I couldn’t stay silent. Enough is enough. I don’t care if he posts more photos, or more lies. It’s time he got a taste of his own medicine.
Apparently Hotwheels is a rapist. What the fuck?
Fake tan = Black face!
Having a fake tan now qualifies as racism, according to the logic of swj.
"Swedish self-tan company Emmaatan is causing major controversy on social media for its range of questionably named products and transformational skin images showing people go from pale to super-tanned."
"My color isn't going for black it's going for a natural golden tan when you wash it off. I never want my customers to look unnatural or too dark since we usually have a lighter skin tone . You also have to understand I have ppl with dark and pale skin tone and therefore look darker or lighter. I love all skin types and that's why I think ppl should be able to choose for what they feel good in, as long as you respect ppl around you. I understand a lot of you don't agree with the tan industry but I don't want you to think we want to go for a crazy black tan, we don't!"
The offending instagram post:
CP peppersprays poorfag Seattle anon sleeping in car
>A Magnolia man says he was pepper-sprayed for no reason by the private security officer hired by residents to keep them safe.
>The incident happened on Wednesday around 11 a.m. at 27th Avenue West and West Fort Street.
>Andrew Harris said he was sitting in his car when the Magnolia Community Patrol officer knocked on his window, then opened his car door and told him he was illegally parked.
>"He just said I looked suspicious," said Harris, "They hired him to protect the neighborhood, instead he assaulted me."
>Harris said he pulled his door closed, and though he was legally parked, he moved his car.
>Harris said he parked then got out to talk to the officer who works for Central Protection.
>Harris said he asked the officer to if he could use his phone to record the interaction. When he got his phone out, he said the officer smacked it out of his hands.
>The phone hit the ground and broke open. Harris got on the ground to pick up the pieces, that's when he said the security officer started to pepper spray him for no reason.
>"I got up and tried to go back to my car and he chased me the entire way pepper-spraying me seven or eight times. I was trying to get into my car. He had me pinned against the side of it," said Harris.
Anti-Trump Groups Threaten ‘Largest Civil Disobedience Action of the Century'
With little fanfare and almost no news media attention, some of the same radical groups involved in shutting down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally last week are plotting a mass civil disobedience movement to begin next month.
They intend to march across the East Coast in order to spark a “fire that transforms the political climate in America.”
The operation, calling itself Democracy Spring, is threatening “drama in Washington” with the “largest civil disobedience action of the century.” The radicals believe this will result in the arrest of thousands of their own activists.
“We will demand that Congress listen to the People and take immediate action to save our democracy. And we won’t leave until they do — or until they send thousands of us to jail,” the website for Democracy Spring declares, channeling rhetoric from the Occupy movement.
https://archive.is/o/PjslX/www.democracyspring.org/
Commies are planning a massive chimpout over Trump.
feminist glaciology, biatches
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/qa-author-feminist-geology-study-reflects-sudden-place
Science historian Mark Carey urges the inclusion of women's viewpoints in discussions of icy landscapes.
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Italian city to limit 'ethnic eateries' after explosion in kebab shops
Italian city passes ruling limiting the number of "ethnic food" restaurants in the historic centre, saying it is concerned about protecting its cultural and culinary heritage in the wake of a boom in kebab shops.
The northern Italian city famed for its slowly simmered red-wine risotto is fed up with kebabs and fried fast food.
A ruling came into effect in the city of Verona this week prohibiting the openings of any new restaurants offering mostly "ethnic" or deep-fried food.
“Thanks to this provision there will be no more openings of establishments that sell food prepared in a way that could impact the decorum of our city,” said Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi, who was elected as an independent after breaking from the far-right Northern League party he adhered to for years.
“This protects not only our historic and architectural patrimony of the city centre, but also the tradition of typical culture of the Verona territory.”
In the land of creamy cheese-smothered polenta and slow-cooked duck ragu, Middle Eastern kebabs, Greek gyros and take-away deep fried food typical of southern Italy are the unwelcome newcomers, an apparent culinary stain on the Verona’s cultural heritage.
Shakespeare set the story of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet here in this quaint and romantic city, which boasts a stunning Roman amphitheater and 2,000 years of history, hence its designation on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
internet spy bill (SNOOPERS CHARTER) passes house of commons u.k.
Extensive new powers to intercept and store communications data have been approved as Theresa May told MPs that privacy is "hardwired" into the new rules.
The Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed the Snoopers' Charter, was passed by 266 votes in the House of Commons after Labour and the SNP backed down and abstained rather than voting against.
But Ms May faced criticism from her own MPs over concerns that the bill is ill-defined and allows too many organisations too much access to sensitive data.
Ken Clarke, a former Home Secretary and Dominic Grieve, the ex-Attorney General, both backed the measures but warned changes must be made at a later stage to ensure privacy is protected.
>tl;dr more internet spying and cctv cameras for ucucks
Muslims protest bill to protect women in Pakistan
Claim it will increase the divorce rate and destroy the country's traditional family system.
More than 30 Pakistani religious groups are threatening to launch protests if a bill to protect women in Punjab province is not withdrawn.
The present law introduces women as complaint takers and enforcers. The Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2015 seeks to set up a women's force at district level throughout the province, which would respond to women's complaints of physical, financial or psychological abuse.
Offences include domestic violence, sexual violence, psychological and emotional abuse, economic abuse, stalking and cybercrime.
The law also envisages the setting up of a universal, toll-free dial-in telephone number for women to call if they want to report an abuse. It empowers the women protection officers to enter any premises to recover women held captive.
However, in the event of a breach of court orders with respect to the female's right to protection, residence or financial wellbeing, the offending male can be punished with one to two years in jail, and a fine of between 200,000 to 500,000 rupees (£1,350-3,400; $1,900-4,800).
On Tuesday more than 30 religious groups, including all the mainstream Islamic political parties, got together in Islamabad to condemn the law and to warn the Punjab government to withdraw it by 27 March. If not, they have threatened to launch protests.
One leader said these could be worse than those in 1977 - a reference to a religious movement which culminated in a military coup against Pakistan's first popularly elected government.
Pakistan, No?
The planet had its biggest temperature spike in modern history in February
>The global temperature in February took its greatest leap in 136 years of record-keeping, rising 1.35 degrees Celsius (2.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1951-1980 average. As a result of the gigantic temperature jump, it became the warmest February on record by a landslide.
>NASA released the data over the weekend, and scientists reacted with astonishment.
>“Wow,” tweeted climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “Normally I don’t comment on individual months, but last month was special.”
>“This result is a true shocker, and yet another reminder of the incessant long-term rise in global temperature resulting from human-produced greenhouse gases,” blogged meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson at Weather Underground.
>The 1.35-degree difference from the 1951 base line marked the greatest monthly departure on record, 0.21 degrees Celsius above the next biggest departure established just the month before that.
>[January was the ninth straight month of record-breaking global warmth]
>The extraordinary global warmth was set in motion by the long-term climate-warming trend, but it surged to another level because of the record-challenging El Niño event that released into the atmosphere large quantities of heat stored in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
>The heat injection helped this February pass February 1998, the previous record holder, by a whopping 0.47 degrees Celsius (0.85 Fahrenheit).
White pedophile Jared Fogle to a bloody heap after prison brawl
Convicted pedophile Jared Fogle has been subjected to a prison yard beating by a 60-year-old armed robber with a hatred of child molesters.
The former Subway spokesman, who is serving a 15 year jail term for trading child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes, was tackled to the ground and then punched repeatedly in the face by a fellow inmate.
The 38-year-old was left with a bloody nose, scratched neck and swollen face following the attack by criminal Steven Nigg, 60, at Colorado's Englewood FCI.
Nigg, who is serving time on gun charges related to a decades-old crime spree through Arizona, assaulted Fogle on January 29 in the prison's recreation yard.
The armed robber walked away from the fight unscathed but was punished with time spent in solitary confinement, TMZ reported.
Nigg - who has been behind bars on and off from 1976 was reportedly angry at the many child sex predators housed in the low security facility.
Chris Poole or moot, former admin of 4chan, joins Google
>When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I’m also impressed by Google’s commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world’s most interesting and important problems.
>I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company.
Car explodes in Berlin, driver dead
City in panic
A blast from an explosive device tore apart a moving car in a Berlin neighborhood Tuesday, killing the driver and putting the German capital on edge.
The incident was initially treated as a criminal rather than a terror investigation, with authorities looking into possible underworld links by the driver.
According to Berlin police spokesman Michael Merkle, the driver was a 43-year-old male of “a migrant background,” but gave no further details. He said the man, according to Spiegel online, had been investigated before for alleged drug dealing.
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida Endorses Donald Trump
>Gov. Rick Scott of Florida endorsed Donald J. Trump for president a day after the New York businessman won the state’s primary, and he urged fellow Republicans to rally behind him to focus on the general election.
>“With his victories yesterday, I believe it is now time for Republicans to accept and respect the will of the voters and coalesce behind Donald Trump,” Mr. Scott said in a post on Facebook.
>He made clear his rationale: that the party will rip itself to shreds trying to stop someone with a clear path to the nomination.
>“If we spend another four months tearing each other apart, we will damage our ability to win in November. It’s time for an end to the Republican on Republican violence,” he wrote. “It’s time for us to begin coming together, we’ve had a vigorous primary, now let’s get serious about winning in November.”
>He also seemed to warn party leaders against using delegate rules to try to stop Mr. Trump at the party’s convention in July. Florida is a crucial general election battleground, and a state that Hillary Clinton won decisively in the Democratic primary.
>“The voters are speaking clearly – they want a businessman outsider who will dramatically shake up the status quo in Washington,” he wrote, invoking his own 2010 insurgent campaign as a businessman with no previous role in the party. “When I first ran for governor the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.”
>He added, “Here’s what really matters – we have to elect a Republican in the fall in order to grow jobs, rebuild our military, and put a person who respects the Constitution on the Supreme Court.”
China is building one university per week
China is churning out graduates like iPhones
China has been building the equivalent of almost one university per week. It is part of a silent revolution that is causing a huge shift in the composition of the world's population of graduates. For decades, the United States had the highest proportion of people going to university.
China has overtaken the United States and the combined university systems of European Union countries. Even modest predictions see the number of 25 to 34-year-old graduates in China rising by a further 300% by 2030, compared with an increase of around 30% expected in Europe and the United States.
In the United States, students have been struggling to afford university costs. In Europe, most countries have put a brake on expanding their universities by either not making public investments or not allowing universities to raise money themselves.
In 2013, 40% of Chinese graduates completed their studies in a Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subject - more than twice the share of US graduates. By 2030, China and India could account for more than 60% of the Stem graduates in major economies, compared with only 8% in Europe and 4% in the United States. With such an increase in people in higher education, conventional wisdom might assume that the value of qualifications would suffer from "inflation".
But this is not happening. In the OECD countries with the biggest increases in graduate numbers, most continue to see rising earnings. This suggests that an increase in "knowledge workers" does not lead to a decline in their pay, unlike the way that technological advancement and globalisation have pushed down the earnings of poorly-educated workers. In the past, OECD countries competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages.
China has shown the world that it is possible to simultaneously raise quantity and quality in schools. In the latest round of the OECD Pisa tests, the 10% most disadvantaged 15-year-olds in Shanghai scored higher in mathematics than the 10% most privileged 15-year-olds in the United States.
Why Libertarians Should Support Trump
I see a lot of libertarians oppose Trump because he is perceived to be the next Hitler or whatever, but when you analyze not only his policies but also the political implications of his rising support of Right Wing populism, you find that this is best way to dismantle the current big state and decentralize its power, which is the biggest crucial step in veering this government towards a libertarian based system. Rothbard makes the argument here:
>A RIGHT-WING POPULIST PROGRAM
>A right-wing populist program, then, must concentrate on dismantling the crucial existing areas of State and elite rule, and on liberating the average American from the most flagrant and oppressive features of that rule. In short:
>l. Slash Taxes. All taxes, sales, business, property, etc., but especially the most oppressive politically and personally: the income tax. We must work toward repeal of the income tax and abolition of the IRS.
>2. Slash Welfare. Get rid of underclass rule by abolishing the welfare system, or, short of abolition, severely cutting and restricting it.
>3. Abolish Racial or Group Privileges. Abolish affirmative action, set aside racial quotas, etc., and point out that the root of such quotas is the entire "civil rights" structure, which tramples on the property rights of every American.
>4. Take Back the Streets: Crush Criminals. And by this I mean, of course, not "white collar criminals" or "inside traders" but violent street criminals – robbers, muggers, rapists, murderers. Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.
>5. Take Back the Streets: Get Rid of the Bums. Again: unleash the cops to clear the streets of bums and vagrants. Where will they go? Who cares? Hopefully, they will disappear, that is, move from the ranks of the petted and cosseted bum class to the ranks of the productive members of society.
>6. Abolish the Fed; Attack the Banksters. Money and banking are recondite issues. But the realities can be made vivid: the Fed is an organized cartel of banksters, who are creating inflation, ripping off the public, destroying the savings of the average American. The hundreds of billions of taxpayer handouts to S&L banksters will be chicken-feed compared to the coming collapse of the commercial banks.
>7. America First. A key point, and not meant to be seventh in priority. The American economy is not only in recession; it is stagnating. The average family is worse off now than it was two decades ago. Come home America. Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney, and let's solve our problems at home.
>8. Defend Family Values. Which means, get the State out of the family, and replace State control with parental control. In the long run, this means ending public schools, and replacing them with private schools. But we must realize that voucher and even tax credit schemes are not, despite Milton Friedman, transitional demands on the path to privatized education; instead, they will make matters worse by fastening government control more totally upon the private schools. Within the sound alternative is decentralization, and back to local, community neighborhood control of the schools.
>Further: We must reject once and for all the left-libertarian view that all government-operated resources must be cesspools. We must try, short of ultimate privatization, to operate government facilities in a manner most conducive to a business, or to neighborhood control. But that means: that the public schools must allow prayer, and we must abandon the absurd left-atheist interpretation of the First Amendment that "establishment of religion" means not allowing prayer in public schools, or a creche in a schoolyard or a public square at Christmas. We must return to common sense, and original intent, in constitutional interpretation.
>So far: every one of these right-wing populist programs is totally consistent with a hard-core libertarian position. But all real-world politics is coalition politics, and there are other areas where libertarians might well compromise with their paleo or traditionalist or other partners in a populist coalition. For example, on family values, take such vexed problems as pornography, prostitution, or abortion. Here, pro-legalization and pro-choice libertarians should be willing to compromise on a decentralist stance; that is, to end the tyranny of the federal courts, and to leave these problems up to states and better yet, localities and neighborhoods, that is, to "community standards."
SWEDEN NOT SO 'PROGRESSIVE' ANYMORE: A NATION OF WIFE-BASHERS
>For the first time in two years Rosie Batty is anonymous.
>This is Ms Batty's first big overseas trip since her son Luke was murdered by his father in February 2014.
>Sweden is supposed to be one of the safest places on earth to be a woman. It constantly tops international surveys of gender neutrality — equal opportunity for men and women.
>The country is also famous for its generous paternity leave scheme, and large number of women in the workforce and in positions of power.
>But all is not as it seems. Sweden also has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in Europe.
>Almost half of Swedish women will experience physical, sexual or psychological violence at the hands of men in their lifetime. In 2013, more than 29,000 cases of violence against women were reported to police.
>Travelling through the country Ms Batty finds it hard to comprehend the stark contrast between Sweden's natural beauty and its dark underbelly of violence against women.
>She is here to find out why there is such an apparent contradiction in Sweden.
>Gender equality is often put forward by academics, activists and policy makers as an effective way to combat domestic violence.
>The idea is that if men and women are equal, domestic violence rates will fall. But that has not happened here.
>It is unclear whether the rates of domestic violence in Sweden are so high because more women are reporting the crimes than in other countries, or whether the transition to gender equality has unsettled the traditional roles of men and women.
>"You will inevitably see more of an increase in violence because a woman's role, a woman's position is challenged in a man's view," Ms Batty says.
FYI, Rosie Batty = 2015 Australian of the Year
TOYOTA DRIVER KILLED, poorly equipped verhicle likely to blame
it is hard to know when the human species began to enjoy masturbation. it was probably around the time of the 1st human orgasm. both gender have sexual stimulators available for purchase through various market vendors.
in this vehicle fatality, the driver has become distracted by, what appears to be a porn video on his phone. one can only guess that the situation escalated into an emergency. vehicle manufactures have striven to entertain drivers, however… there are no options for a vehicle owner to purchase optional equipment that could have preserved this man's life by method of hands-free orgasm. many drivers would profess to being sexually stimulated while driving, either by themselves and/or by a significant other. to date, i can never remember an accident similar to this , ever happening.
in today's busy lives, there is barely time to stop for fast food. phones in vehicles are here to stay. porn is yes… here to stay. it seams clear that any form of distraction that removes hands from the steering-wheel is potentially fatal. auto manufactures need to accommodate and precipitate safe driving practices where at-all possible.
i think you can also confess your sins at that website, so its more-or-less a dual purpose website.
Calling a women "honey" or "baby" can now land you in jail in India
Indian state criminalises cat-calling
The Uttarakhand state commission for women is planning to hold special sensitisation camps in schools and colleges, to inform youngsters that calling a woman ‘baby’ or ‘honey’ against her will can land you in jail. The seminars will talk about this and many other lesser-known aspects that can count as sexual harassment or violence against women.
e want the boys to know how (and how not) to behave with girls and the girls to realise when they (boys) are crossing the line,” Kaintyura, Chair person of the commission, said.
Officials said seemingly ‘innocuous’ acts like calling a woman names, making repeated offensive remarks, comments or jokes, displaying sexist or other offensive pictures or messages, and rumour-mongering about a woman’s private life, all fell under harassment.
Kaintyura said that the camps will offer information about various pieces of legislation related to women. “For instance, for making an indecent body language and lewd comment, a man can get a one-year jail term under Section 509 of the IPC,” she said.
India, yes?
World's Thinnest Lens Will Make Spy Flies In Locker Rooms Reality
“TINY” IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT
http://futurism.com/scientists-just-created-worlds-thinnest-lensand-going-revolutionize-screens/
>The world’s thinnest lens has been created—and it’s just 1/2000th the width of a human hair. What could a lens that thin possibly do? Well, it’s set to pave the way for the production of flexible computer displays and possibly, miniature cameras.
>According to the lead researcher behind the project, Dr. Yuerui (Larry) Lu from The Australian National University (ANU), it could allow us to see like bugs: “This type of material is the perfect candidate for future flexible displays. We will also be able to use arrays of micro lenses to mimic the compound eyes of insects.”
>The discovery was based on the molybdenum disulphide crystal.
>The crystal used in the material is quite remarkable. It is known to survive remarkably high temperatures; it can be used as a lubricant; it is an ideal semiconductor; and it is capable of emitting photons.
>Single layers of the crystal, around 0.7 nanometers, demonstrated impressive optical properties, which could light a beam 50 times thicker at 38 nanometers (this is known as optical path length).
>In addition, the refractive index of the molybdenum has a value of 5.5. For comparison, a diamond ranks up to 2.4 while water’s refractive index is at 1.3.
>Summing the work, Dr. Lu notes, “The capability of manipulating the flow of light in atomic scale opens an exciting avenue towards unprecedented miniaturisation of optical components and the integration of advanced optical functionalities.”
BREAKING: Bernie is out! Clinton clobbers Sanders in Ohio, Florida
Hillary Clinton trounced Bernie Sanders in the key states of Florida and Ohio on Tuesday night, and claimed victory in a speech that amounted to a full-throated call to arms against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
The former secretary of state threatened to sweep the five contests of the night, scoring another victory in North Carolina and leading Sanders in early results in Illinois. Missouri was too close to call.
“Tonight it’s clearer than ever that this might be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetimes,” Clinton said in a triumphant speech that clearly showed her turning her attention to Trump.
She laid out her standards for President Barack Obama’s successor, and argued that Trump fell far short of them. “Our commander in chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it,” she said, adding that Trump’s vision is a dangerous one.
TL;DR, Bernie Sanders is out of the Presidential race.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-democrats-220793
Village In Kerala Has The World's First E-Toilet Which Generates Power And Fertilizer From Waste
Pulluvila, a village in Thiruvananthapuram district has the world's first e-toilet which uses technology that turns waste into fertiliser, generates power and even makes potable water.
The initiative was developed by a local firm called Eram Scientific Solutions using a Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation grant.
It also received technical support from University of South Florida (USF) called NEWgenerator, which is also supported by the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation.
The eToilet see the convergence of electronics, mechanical, web-mobile technologies to control the entry, usage, cleaning, exit and remote monitoring of the toilet. And NEWgen is a machine in a box that recycles water, harvests energy, creates fertilizers and, ultimately, turns waste into profit.
Egypt may ban niqab and burqa in public places
Face-covering veils not allowed in public places
The Egyptian parliament is drafting a law banning women from wearing the niqab veil. The full-face veil is forced on the female followers of Islam and typically covers all of the wearer’s face other than their eyes. The Egyptian parliament has drafted a bill that may lead to a ban on the full face veil, the niqab, at all public institutions, including government buildings, public transport and government-supported hospitals.
MP Amna Nosseir, professor of comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, who has backed the ban, said that wearing the veil is not a requirement of Islam and in fact has non-Islamic origins. She has argued that it is a Jewish tradition which appeared in the Arabian Peninsula prior to Islam and that a variety of Quran passages contradict its use. Instead, she has advocated that the Quran calls for modest clothing and covered hair, but does not require facial covering.
A number of restrictions have been placed on wearing the niqab in Egypt in recent years. In February, Cairo University banned nurses and doctors from wearing it in medical schools and in teaching hospitals, arguing the ban would: “protect patients’ rights and interests.”
In September of last year, the university also banned academic staff from wearing the niqab in classrooms in response to complaints from students that it was too difficult for niqab wearers to communicate effectively with students.
Yara al-Wazir writing for the Al-Arabiya strongly criticised the ban:
While the use of niqab is contested within the Muslim world, no government should have the right to impede on the freedom of a woman wanting to wear an item of clothing. Banning the face veil is not going to liberate women. On the contrary, it is a method of control that limits a woman’s ability to contribute to the society.
This ban would exclude those who wear these veils and keep them away from going around their normal lives. Regardless of whether members of parliament agree or not, women who independently choose to wear the veil do so because it makes them feel comfortable in a country where 99.3 percent of women are sexually harassed.
Jews push race mixing refuse to pay for results of their race mixing propaganda in britain
A benefits mother-of-eight is furious that jewge osbourne's benefits cap means she can't afford the four-bedroom home she previously demanded from the council.
Jobless single mother Marie Buchan caused controversy in the jewish controlled media last year by insisting she needed a bigger home so she could have a bedroom to herself.This is a basic demand you thought the kikes would fufil after riding the diversity carousel the the yids are always tightfisted.
But she's now facing eviction from the property in Birmingham after running up £4,000 debts for unpaid rent due to her kike landlord repricing all his homes to the price range rich russians and arabs.
The 33-year-old, who has previously claimed she wants more interracial children like a good shiska, has a right to blame the government's benefits cap for her situation.
She also has the right to blame the government for not tracking down her babby daddies and making them pay child support for creating these "tolerant" chimp-human hybrids.
Her father later said off the record:It started with her watching videos such as the one linked when she was a teenager.
Functional human heart tissue grown from skin cells for first time in history
The need for heart transplants will always exceed the number of donor hearts available for transplant. Thanks to research just out from Massachusetts General Hospital, though, this may not continue to be a problem for much longer. Researchers there have just succeeded in growing fully contractile heart tissue by recellularizing a collagen scaffold, and they’re hoping to refine the method so that it can be used as a “functional myocardial patch” for cardiac injuries.
For this particular study, the team used mRNA to convince skin cells to step backwards, reprogramming them first into pluripotent stem cells and then into cardiac muscle cells in culture. (Remember when we didn’t even know if we *could* reprogram cells into stem cells and not just have that create turbo-cancer?) Then they carefully seeded about half a billion of the new cardiomyocytes into the left ventricular wall of decellularized hearts. After incubating for two weeks, the researchers found immature but contractile heart muscle. Not just disparate cells stuck to bits of collagen. Electrically responsive heart tissue.
It’s not a whole, functioning human heart, but the researchers aren’t daunted; they didn’t set out to build a whole heart. “Regenerating a whole heart is most certainly a long-term goal that is several years away, so we are currently working on engineering a functional myocardial patch that could replace cardiac tissue damaged due a heart attack or heart failure,” said Jacques Guyette, PhD, lead author of the report. “Among the next steps that we are pursuing are improving methods to generate even more cardiac cells – recellularizing a whole heart would take tens of billions – optimizing bioreactor-based culture techniques to improve the maturation and function of engineered cardiac tissue, and electronically integrating regenerated tissue to function within the recipient’s heart.”
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/224704-functional-human-heart-tissue-grown-from-skin-cells
More women oppose prostitution, compared to men
Women hate whores
A YouGov poll has found that majority of men (51 percent) think working as a prostitute should be legal, while almost as many women (50 percent) think it should be illegal. The poll also found that more women than men think working as a prostitute is morally wrong (65 percent versus 47 percent).
More Republicans (52 percent) than Democrats (45 percent) or independents (37 percent) think it should be illegal to accept money for sex. People under 30 were actually more likely than older generations to think buying or selling sex should be illegal.
Decontamination robots dying while failing to clean Fukushima
well, 5 years and counting… groundwater and seawater appear to be the largest containment concerns, and rightfully so. a sea wall has been added to help curb the unforeseeable meaner ocean events.
meanwhile, the new robots designed to assess and/or clean-up reactor melt-down debris are left inoperable from, what is believed to be wiring failure. one can only think the wiring is not being properly shielded by metal conduit. and as a result, the wiring is being subjected to rapid degradation, as it only has a minimal sheathing against the tremendous radioactive energy.
here is a more human-faced article on the tragedies of nuke plant melt-downs.
Former RINO Threatens Rigged Nomination Against Trump Despite Major Wins
Political parties, not voters, choose their presidential nominees, a Republican convention rules member told CNBC, a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump rolled up more big primary victories.
"The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That's the conflict here," Curly Haugland, an unbound GOP delegate from North Dakota, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday. He even questioned why primaries and caucuses are held.
Haugland is one of 112 Republican delegates who are not required to cast their support for any one candidate because their states and territories don't hold primaries or caucuses.
Even with Trump's huge projected delegate haul in four state primaries Tuesday, the odds are increasing the billionaire businessman may not ultimately get the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the GOP nomination before the convention.
This could lead to a brokered convention, in which unbound delegates, like Haugland, could play a significant swing role on the first ballot to choose a nominee.
Trump is the only guy with the balls to confront Hillary Clinton over her past criminal activities. If there is a brokered convention, the RINOs would be handing over the election to Hillary on a silver platter.
It looks like the election will be rigged, because after all, Republicans and Democrats are secretly in bed together on most issues that matter most. Trump threatens their political mafia.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/16/we-choose-the-nominee-not-the-voters-senior-gop-official.html
Brazilian cities rocked by vast anti-government protests
How many on /n/ know of what has been happening in HUEland?
>OP's commentary on the current state of his country
The current party in power has driven the country into stagflation, through tightening of control in many sectors of economy, inflation of it's currency, and palin old stealing from public coffers.
The Worker's Party (PT, for the portuguese acronym) has managed to stay in power for 13-14 years, through populist measures and dubious election results (read, fraud), the most recent election still leaving a bad taste for it's many out of protocol measures, backed by the party's sect of useful idiots.
Now, the biggest public movement EVER RECORDED on brasilian history broke out, and people in power are calling it a coup. A coup!
Anyway, here's my gripe, to be comentated on by /n/
Meet the Syrian refugees being housed on a remote island off the Scottish coast
The ferry to the Isle of Bute, a beautiful but remote island off the west coast of Scotland, smells of salt and vinegar crisps. Bored passengers lounge about leafing through newspapers while the ferry drifts over a choppy grey sea.
I try to imagine the atmosphere one month ago, when nine Syrian refugee families rode this boat towards their new lives. The crossing from Gourock to Bute was the last leg of a journey that began at an over-crowded refugee camp in Lebanon and ended in vacant houses around the island’s main town of Rothesay.
The families were brought over as part of David Cameron’s promise to resettle 1,000 displaced Syrians in the UK by Christmas. They’ve been given five years' humanitarian protection status, free housing and social welfare, as well as permission to work from the day they arrive. Some, suffering from post-traumatic shock, are also being provided with counselling support.
Bute, which has been battered by gales and heavy rain this winter, seems an unlikely place to resettle traumatised families from the Middle East, but it has one great advantage that much of the UK lacks – there’s space and spare housing. Local counsellor Isabel Strong, who first suggested bringing Syrian refugees here, said, “we have room in Rothesay, and these people need safe homes”.
And Bute’s declining population could do with a healthy boost. Once known as the “Madeira” of Scotland, the island’s glory has faded rather since its 1970s heyday. Cheap international flights have lured British holidayers away to sunnier climes and the lack of opportunities has driven most young people to flee to the mainland, leaving behind empty houses and an ageing population.
Scientists Developing Mind Control Devices- Unironically Use Magnets
Researchers have created a hybrid gene called Magneto, which can trigger brain circuitry and has an influence on behavior in mice.
http://futurism.com/scientists-control-mice-using-magnets/
>Scientists have been able to show that rodents’ brains respond to magnetic fields…which means that specific brain circuits can be remotely controlled with just magnets. Biomedical scientist Ali Güler of the University of Virginia said: “This is, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of bona fide magnetic control of the nervous system.”
>Scientists have shown that the nervous system responds to different forms of stimuli (like optogenetics and chemogenetics), but these involve a host of problems. In short, in the aforementioned methods, both of the stimuli (light and drugs, respectively) have a hard time making it through to the brain. We do not see this problem with the latest advancement.
>Using magnetic fields to pull the strings of the brain, the team created an ion channel that can be responsive to magnets. They took an ion channel called TRPV4, which responds to mechanical pressure, and fused its gene that of ferritin, an iron-hoarding protein that responds to external magnets.
>With that they created the hybrid protein known as ‘Magneto.’ Magneto has proven to be responsive to magnetic fields in cells. When a magnet is brought near cells that carry Magneto, the hybrid opens the ion channel causing a series of events that lead to brain signals firing off.
>This is a major breakthrough, as scientists have long been looking for ways to control brain circuitry without any serious ‘bumps,’ and magnetic fields seem to present that option.
>Before testing on mice, Güler and his team tested on zebrafish, which are considered a model organism for brain development. The zebrafish test showed that the Magneto could affect complex behaviors.
>The test on mice involved making Magneto active in dopamine-responsive cells, allowing the team to charm the mice using magnetic fields. Güler and his team look to continue developing the method, saying that it will “position the field to better understand neural development, function and pathology.”
>Their findings have been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
>Cat Girls will likely have this technology implemented to keep them docile and in control
Researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete
Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywhere—on our roads, our driveways, in our homes, bridges and buildings. For the past 200 years, it's been the very foundation of much of our planet.
But the production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, is also one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, about 5 percent of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions comes from concrete.
An even larger source of carbon dioxide emissions is flue gas emitted from smokestacks at power plants around the world. Carbon emissions from those plants are the largest source of harmful global greenhouse gas in the world.
A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UCLA has been working on a unique solution that may help eliminate these sources of greenhouse gases. Their plan would be to create a closed-loop process: capturing carbon from power plant smokestacks and using it to create a new building material—CO2NCRETE—that would be fabricated using 3D printers. That's "upcycling."
"What this technology does is take something that we have viewed as a nuisance—carbon dioxide that's emitted from smokestacks—and turn it into something valuable," said J.R. DeShazo, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-carbon-dioxide-sustainable-concrete.html
Defecate in open, lose ration card, gun licence says minister
In an attempt to eliminate open defecation in rural and urban areas, Madhya Pradesh panchayat and cooperatives minister Gopal Bhargava has warned that people found committing nuisance in the open will stand to lose their ration card and gun license. The Congress retorted saying that the minister should instead build toilets for poor families.
Bhargava, while attending a programme in Jabalpur, said, "The government is firm to make the state Open Defecation-Free (ODF) beginning with metros, and people found defecating in public places will not get ration cards and gun licenses." He said that while the state government was running an awareness campaign and releasing funds to construct toilets for the rural and urban poor, a large number of people were unwilling to join the campaign.
It's Official: Canada Has Sold ALL Of Its Gold Reserves
One month ago, when looking at the latest Canadian official international reserves, we noticed something strange: Canada had sold nearly half of its gold reserves in one month. According to the February data, total Canadian gold reserves stood at 1.7 tonnes. That was just 0.1 per cent of the country’s total reserves, which also include foreign currency deposits and bonds.
As we noted, the decision to sell came from Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s office.
“Canada’s gold reserves belong to the Government of Canada, and are held under the name of the Minister of Finance,” explained a spokesperson for the Bank of Canada on Wednesday. “Decisions relative to gold holdings are taken by the Minister of Finance.”
Reached by Global News on Wednesday evening, a spokesperson for the finance department said the sale “was done in the normal course of business for the government. The decision to sell the gold was not tied to a specific gold price, and sales are being conducted over a long period and in a controlled manner.”
This latest sell-off is indeed part of a much longer-term pattern of moving away from gold as a government-held asset. According to economist Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Ottawa has no real reason to keep its gold reserves other than adhering to tradition.
"Under the old system, (gold) backed up currencies,” Lee explained. “The U.S. dollar was tied to gold. One ounce was worth US$35. Then in 1971, for lots of reasons I won’t get into, Richard Nixon took the United States off the gold standard.”
Gold and dollars were interchangeable until that point, he said, but in the modern financial world, the metal is no longer considered a form of currency. “It is a precious metal, like silver … they can be sold like any asset.”
The amount of gold the Canadian government holds has therefore been falling steadily since the mid-1960s, when over 1,000 tonnes were kept tucked away. Half of those reserves were sold by 1985, and then almost all the rest were sold through the 1990s up to 2002.
By last year, Canada’s reserves were down to just three tonnes, and the latest sales have now halved that. At the current market rate, the value of 1.7 tonnes of gold comes in at just under CAD$100 million, barely a drop in the bucket when you consider the broader scope of federal finances.
According to Lee, there may soon come a time when Canada’s gold reserves are entirely a thing of the past. There are better assets to focus on, he argued, calling the government’s decision to dump gold “wise and astute.”
Lee was right, because fast forward one month when earlier today Canada's Department of Finance released its latest official international reserves and as of this moment it's official - Canada has fully "broken away with tradition" and has exactly zero gold left.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-03/its-official-moment-canada-has-no-gold-reserves-left
The Effects of Fukushima Linger after Five Years, but Not from Radiation
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, which began on March 11, 2011, uprooted thousands of Japanese people, set the worldwide nuclear power industry back a decade, and caused a run on potassium iodide (said to help ward off thyroid cancer). What it didn’t do was kill anyone from radioactive fallout.
That was the conclusion of the six-volume Report on the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, released in August 2015 by the International Atomic Energy Agency. About 1,600 people died in the evacuation of the surrounding area, however—many of them elderly and infirm hospital patients and residents of nursing homes. That would seem to indicate that the response to the accident was more deadly than the accident itself.
A Greenpeace report released this week, “Nuclear Scars: The Lasting Legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima,” takes a harsher view, saying that “the health consequences of the Chernobyl and Fukushima catastrophes are extensive.” But most of the report dwells on Chernobyl, and it notes that the primary effects of Fukushima were “mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Put another way: fear and panic resulting from the accident (and from the loss of homes and livelihoods) were more dangerous than the radiation.
To be sure, diagnoses of thyroid cancer have gone up among children exposed to radiation from Fukushima; but that’s almost certainly due to increased screening, as this Wired analysis details. Heightened screening led to higher detection, resulting in “an epidemic of diagnosis,” according to H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
One lasting effect of the accident has been a potentially catastrophic shift in Japan’s energy policy. All Japan’s nuclear reactors were shut down in the wake of Fukushima, and although the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to reopen selected plants, public opposition is widespread. The result: Japan now plans to build as many as 47 new coal plants in the coming years, which would eliminate any chance of meeting the country’s emissions reduction targets under the Paris climate accord.
If they get built, the health and environmental effects of those plants will far outweigh any of the damage from the nuclear accident itself.
Hundreds of refugees cross into Macedonia from Greece after navigating around border fence
Hundreds of refugees from a camp in northern Greece have managed to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, according to a Macedonian police spokeswoman. However, a Reuters photographer estimated the number to be closer to 2,000.
After walking for several hours, the refugees crossed a river while forming a "human chain" and found a way around the fence, which was put up by Macedonian authorities, photographer Stoyan Nenov said.
>Many of the refugees, who came from a camp near Idomeni, carried children on their shoulders as they crossed the river. (this sentence is >implying)
Some of the asylum seekers were picked up and put in army trucks by Macedonian soldiers, though it was unclear where they would be taken.
A spokeswoman for Macedonian police said: "We are taking measures to return the group to Greece…police and army have heightened security on the border at critical points."
The spokeswoman said she believed the number of refugees who crossed the border totaled "several hundred," a significantly lower estimate than the number given by Nenov.
Macedonia completely closed its border on March 9, leaving some 13,000 refugees stranded. The move came after Slovenia blocked access to refugees aiming to pass through the country on their way to Western Europe.
EU leaders and Turkey are set to meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss the curbing of illegal refugee flows from Turkey to Europe via Greece. The leaders are expected to seal a deal in which Ankara would take back refugees who arrive in Greece from Turkish shorts, including Syrian refugees.
In return, the European Union would speed up Turkey's EU membership application and Ankara's bid for visa-free access to the bloc for its citizens. The EU is also set to raise the €3 billion (US$3.3 billion) it had already committed to Turkey, in order to help it cope with the refugee crisis.
'Weird' sexual fetishes are actually very normal
> A number of sexual fetishes considered anomalous in psychiatry are actually common in the general population, a study has found.
> According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), sexual interests fall into two categories: normal (normophilic) and anomalous (paraphilic).
> Researchers asked 1,040 Quebec residents, representative of the general population, about their experiences of sexual behaviour considered abnormal by the DSM-5.
> The study, published in The Journal of Sex Research, found that of the eight types of anomalous behaviour listed in the DSM-5, four were found to be neither rare or unusual among the experiences and desires reported by men and women.
> "Overall, nearly half (45.6%) of the sample subjects were interested in at least one type of sexual behaviour that is considered anomalous, whereas one third (33%) had experienced the behaviour at least once," Professor Christian Joyal, one of the study's authors, explained.
> These facts suggest that we need to know what normal sexual practices are before we label a legal sexual interest as anomalous.
> "Some paraphilic interests are more common than people might think, not only in terms of fantasies but also in terms of desire and behavior."
> Of the sample, 35 per cent said they were interested in voyeurism, 26 per cent in fetishism, another 26 per cent in frotteurism and 19 per cent in masochism.
> They also found levels of fetishism and masochism were not significantly different between men and women.
> Masochism was also found to be significantly associated with more diverse sexual interests and linked with higher sex life satisfaction.
> The researchers also found people were more likely to acknowledge their interests in fetishes in an online, rather than telephone, survey.
> Professor Joyal concluded: "In general, it is true that men are more interested in paraphilic behaviors than women.
> "However, this doesn't mean that women don't have these interests at all. In fact, women who report an interest in sexual submission have more varied sexual interests and report greater satisfaction with their sex lives.
> "Sexual submission is therefore not an abnormal interest."
> He added: "We have reasons to believe that this study's results which are based on Quebec's population can be applied to the population of North America and Europe as well".
Oregon City sacks goat ground maintenance team
A crew of goats brought in to devour invasive plants at a popular park in Oregon's state capital, Salem, have been fired because they ate indiscriminately, cost nearly five times as much as human landscapers and smelled far worse, a city official said on Friday.
The 75 billy and nanny goats were supposed to eat Armenian blackberry and English ivy and other invasive plants choking native vegetation across the 9.1-acre Minto-Brown Island Park, the city's largest, in a pilot programme last autumn.
But the programme ended in November after six weeks, and Salem has no plans to renew it, Keith Keever, the city's parks superintendent, said on Friday.
The Last Gasp of the Big Budget Porno
The Last Gasp of the Big Budget Porno
>In 2011, award winning porn director Axel Braun produced and directed Star Wars XXX; a glossy, expensive, and very hardcore take on the story of Luke Skywalker. Not surprisingly, the film proved popular, taking home 8 AVN Awards and—at least according to Braun—becoming the highest selling pornographic film in history. (Since few porn companies publicly release sales numbers, this claim is pretty hard to verify.)
>With The Force Awakens renewing Star Wars mania, Braun’s hoping to dust off the old lightsaber and give the world The Empire Strikes Back XXX. But there’s just one hitch: porn budgets have plummeted over the years, and getting together half a million bucks just to shoot a porn that’ll likely end up freely distributed on piracy-driven tube and torrent sites—well, it doesn’t make much financial sense.
tl-dr: Free Market is fixing porn degeneracy
>So instead of getting the backing of a studio like Vivid, which funded Star Wars XXX, or self funding the budget and hoping for the best, Braun’s decided to turn to his fan base to finance the film. Two weeks ago, Braun launched an Indiegogo campaign for The Empire Strikes Back XXX, asking fans to chip in $500k—and promising that, should the project be fully funded, the resulting film will be available for free forever.
>un reaches his target of half a million dollars, he’ll be making history. Though porn projects have turned to crowdfunding before, none have ever been quite as ambitious as Empire Strikes Back XXX. The only campaign to even come close received a mediocre reception, raising a mere 3 percent of its $250k goal. But with free porn de rigeur, and most consumers more interested in watching individual scenes than full-on features, it’s hard not to wonder whether the age of the big budget porno has passed. Even during porn’s most profitable eras, it was rare for filmmakers to devote six figures to a single porn flick. How could it possibly make economic sense to make one today?
>Though the Pirates flicks weren’t quite as expensive as advertised—Adella estimated that the budgets were about $400k and $800k for the original and the sequel, rather than the $1m and $8m commonly referenced online—they were still massively high budget for porn productions, which tend to max out around $50k per picture. And though the investment paid off—both films were wildly profitable enterprises—it wasn’t just a thirst for high-end hardcore that turned them into cash cows.
>The issue isn’t merely that no one pays for porn anymore. It’s that the entire media landscape that made high-end porn features economically viable has collapsed in on itself. Without a thriving video rental and pay-per-view market, it’s harder to make back millions on a Hollywood-quality porn movie—and without the potential for vast amounts of profit, it’s difficult to justify putting in the blood, sweat, and jizz required to realize this kind of artistic vision.
Is the Ohio economy John Kasich’s secret weapon?
>MORAINE, Ohio — John Kasich’s presidential hopes rest on Ohio, and his chances to win here in Tuesday’s Republican primary rest on an economic pitch that is the opposite of what Ohioans are used to hearing.
>residential candidates usually promise to revive Ohio’s once-powerhouse economy. Kasich, the state’s governor since 2011, is taking credit for an economic boom here and promising to make Ohio’s economy the model for the nation. He is bragging about the state’s factories, its job growth, even its wages, betting that voters’ rosy view of his economic record will deliver him a win over Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and the forces of “Make America Great Again.”
>“Ohio has come back,” Kasich told 1,000 supporters here Friday evening. A moment later, he added: “What I want to do is take the formula that works in Ohio and take it to Washington.”
>A recent Fox News poll of the state shows nearly 8 in 10 Republicans approve of Kasich’s performance as governor. He led Trump in that poll by five percentage points. Other recent polls have shown Trump, who also campaigned in the state Saturday, with a slight lead.
>Kasich has said he will drop out of the race if he can’t win here Tuesday. He remains a long shot for the nomination even if he wins, sitting, as he does, so far behind Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) in delegates won.
>But Kasich is convinced that a victory Tuesday will invigorate his candidacy and launch him to victories in other states, including neighboring Pennsylvania, which votes next month.
>“I’m going to win Ohio,” he told reporters Saturday morning before addressing a pancake breakfast in the Cincinnati suburbs. “And don’t be surprised if I go to the convention with the largest number of delegates.”
Oldest living man confirmed as Israeli Auschwitz survivor
The world’s oldest documented living man has been confirmed as an Israeli Auschwitz survivor living in Haifa.
Israel Kristal, aged 112 and 178 days on 11 March, was handed a certificate at his home by a representative of the Guinness World Records confirming him as the oldest known man on the planet.
Kristal succeeded 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide of Japan, who died earlier this month. Asked about his longevity Kristal said: “I don’t know the secret for long life. I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never know the reasons why.
“There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men than me who are no longer alive. All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost.”
Kristal was born in Zarnow, Poland, on 15 September 1903. When the first world war broke out in 1914, he saw Kaiser Franz Joseph in person but became separated from his parents, later moving aged 17 to Lodz to work in the family confectionery business.
He continued to work as a sweet maker in the ghetto there when it was established by the Nazis in 1940. Four years later he was sent to Auschwitz, where he lost his wife.
Kristal himself survived despite being used as a slave labourer in Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
He was rescued from the brink of death by the allies in May 1945, weighing only 37kg. The sole survivor of his family – his children also died during the Holocaust – he emigrated in 1950 to the city of Haifa in Israel with his second wife and their son.
Cat-fight on airplane over loud music
Five women travelling on a plane from Baltimore to Los Angeles got into a physical fight that began after one woman played music out loud on a boombox.
Two women were intoxicated when one began playing the music. After passengers complained, the two women responded, “What are you going to do?” Then to provoke the other customers they were holding up their boom box in the air, waving it around. The exchange devolved from an argument over whether “they had the right to blast their music” into a physical fight.
Cellphone video captured on the plane and published by KTLA in Los Angeles shows a woman slapping and pulling another woman’s hair.
No one was arrested.
Criminal HHS Welcomes Illegal Immigrants With HIV and STDs
Criminal HHS Welcomes Illegal Immigrants With HIV and STDs
The administration has decided to let immigrants with three sexually transmitted diseases known for causing sores or lesions on genitalia to enter the United States, an expansion of a previous decision to let in those with HIV.
The Department of Health and Human Services this month opened the borders to those with the STDs, deeming the communicable diseases not a big threat to the United States.
A report from the Center for Immigration Studies said that HHS does not believe that the costs to taxpayers to handle the immigrants with STDs will be significant.
Now, said the Center, the list of inadmissible communicable diseases only includes syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and leprosy.
"So what about the costs associated with the new rule change on the three remaining STDs? Don't worry, Obama's HHS secretary ran the numbers and explained in the Federal Register that, 'The results are not economically significant, i.e. more than $100 million of costs and benefits in a single year.' In other words, the cost of welcoming in aliens with these STDs will be below $100 million every year," said the CIS report.
The website Law 360 first revealed the rules change. "Under the change, the STIs granuloma inguinale, chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum would no longer be considered a 'communicable disease of public health significance,'" said the website. Quoting HHS, it added, "The three bacterial infections are transmitted through sexual contact, have never been common in the United States and over the past two decades are observed to be increasingly rare throughout the world."
The Obama regime had already pulled HIV off the list of diseases that bar immigrants from coming to the U.S.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hhs-immigrants-with-hiv-stds-welcome/article/2583913
Canada is ignoring its own homeless, and giving homes to Syrians
Recently, Charles Neil-Curly and Jeremy Roy arrived in Vancouver to raise awareness towards the callous attitude of the government and people towards homeless aboriginal men. They did not even have money for their bus tickets, it was paid for by Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services, which is now facing flak for letting them pull this stunt.
Curly has friends and family in Victoria, where he is headed. Roy, who suffers from mental illness and has never left the province before, said he doesn’t know anyone in Vancouver. They were greeted at the terminal by cameras and some offers of jobs. Kerry Jang, a member of the city council, also greeted them.
Ernie Crey, the president of the Northwest Indigenous Council and ALIVE, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of aboriginal people in Vancouver, said that Canadians should open their hearts to Syrians. But he also said that "internal refugees" or homeless are being ignored. He said, "They're throw-away people. They can damn well look after themselves. And no one's going to be greeting them anywhere to help them do anything."
In 2015, aboriginal people represented 32 per cent of the homeless population as opposed to 2.5 per cent of the city's general population. Nearly three quarters are men. And 81 per cent have one or more health conditions.
Don McTavish, the director of residential services for Victoria's Cool Aid Society, calls the embrace of Syrian refugees "heart warming." But asks, "Why can't we do that for our folks here that are kind of living in refugee-like conditions, in tents in a park that have to be picked up and moved every morning?"
The two Saskatchewan men arrived in Vancouver just as the city released a report on another perennial problem: empty homes. One in 10 Vancouver condos sits vacant.
India - Sending Aircraft Carrier to Male
Government can block net for law and order: Supreme Court
With an eye on China, India sends aircraft carrier to Male
India tolerant even of intolerance: Amartya Sen
Historic Jain temple demolished in Lahore
Pakistan's Punjab government had demolished the temple on Wednesday for completion of Orange Line Metro Train (OMT) project.
Focus on tech: PM Modi tells RSS-run schools
PM Modi's wife Jashodaben observes day-long fast against razing of hutments in monsoon
Gravitational waves detected: PM Modi lauds role of Indian scientists
What spurred Rs 12,000 crore medical education black market
PM Modi asks ministers to complete projects within deadline
Government can block net for law and order: Supreme Court
Modi wants to subjugate judiciary, media: AAP
Bodies of remaining 8 soldiers recovered from Siachen
Indian Nationalism is surging once again in the modern world.
Ancient Aryan Race!
India - Sending Aircraft Carrier to Male
Government can block net for law and order: Supreme Court
With an eye on China, India sends aircraft carrier to Male
India tolerant even of intolerance: Amartya Sen
Historic Jain temple demolished in Lahore
Pakistan's Punjab government had demolished the temple on Wednesday for completion of Orange Line Metro Train (OMT) project.
Focus on tech: PM Modi tells RSS-run schools
PM Modi's wife Jashodaben observes day-long fast against razing of hutments in monsoon
Gravitational waves detected: PM Modi lauds role of Indian scientists
What spurred Rs 12,000 crore medical education black market
PM Modi asks ministers to complete projects within deadline
Government can block net for law and order: Supreme Court
Modi wants to subjugate judiciary, media: AAP
Bodies of remaining 8 soldiers recovered from Siachen
Indian Nationalism is surging once again in the modern world.
Ancient Aryan Race!
Border Patrol Being Fired For Doing Their Job, Protecting Nation
Border Patrol Being Fired For Doing Their Job, Protecting Nation
Customs and Border Protection Commission R. Gil Kerlikowske told Border Patrol agents who object to President Obama’s amnesty policies that it’s time to “look for another job,” saying Tuesday that agents have to follow the orders of their superiors.
Mr. Kerlikowske was objecting to testimony last month from the Border Patrol labor union chief, who said under Mr. Obama agents have been told to restore the discredited “catch-and-release” policy from a decade ago.
The commissioner disputed that, saying every illegal immigrant over the age of 14 who is encountered by agents is supposed to be fingerprinted, interviewed and put through the usual process, including being turned over to Immigration and Customs enforcement for decisions on deportation.
“We don’t need and don’t want — and I would not stand by if the Border Patrol was — releasing people without going through all of the formalities,” Mr. Kerlikowske testified to the House Appropriations Committee.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/1/border-chief-chides-agents-object-obama-amnesty/
The FDA Now Officially Belongs to Big Pharma
It is hard to believe only four senators opposed the confirmation of Robert Califf, who was approved today as the next FDA commissioner. Vocal opponent Bernie Sanders condemned the vote from the campaign trail. But where was Dick Durbin? Where were all the lawmakers who say they care about industry and Wall Street profiteers making money at the expense of public health?
Califf, chancellor of clinical and translational research at Duke University until recently, received money from 23 drug companies including the giants like Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Merck, Schering Plough and GSK according to a disclosure statement on the website of Duke Clinical Research Institute.
Not merely receiving research funds, Califf also served as a high level Pharma officer, say press reports. Medscape, the medical website, discloses that Califf “served as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant or trustee for Genentech.” Portola Pharmaceuticals says Califf served on its board of directors until leaving for the FDA.
In disclosure information for a 2013 article in Circulation, Califf also lists financial links to Gambro, Regeneron, Gilead, AstraZeneca, Roche and other companies and equity positions in four medical companies. Gilead is the maker of the $1000-a-pill hepatitis C drug AlterNet recently wrote about. This is FDA commissioner material?
Califf has gone on record that collaboration between industry and regulators is a good thing. He told NPR, “Many of us consult with the pharmaceutical industry, which I think is a very good thing. They need ideas and then the decision about what they do is really up to the person who is funding the study.” What?
He is known for defending Vioxx which is reported to have caused at least 50,000 heart attacks and events before its withdrawal. (Merck is said to have known about Vioxx’ cardio effects but marketed the blockbuster drug anyway.)
Califf was instrumental in the Duke drug trial of the blood thinner Xarelto and a cheerleader of the drug despite medical experts’ objections to its approval and 379 subsequent deaths. Xarelto’s serious and foreseeable risks were back in the news this week.
Cruz Stands by Pledge Unless Trump Shoots Someone
This title (and article) almost make it sound like Cruz dropped out, I wonder how many people would fall for that if you told them that?
>GLEN ELLYN, Ill. – Ted Cruz suggested on Monday that it would take Donald Trump shooting somebody in New York City to not support the current front-runner in the general election if he becomes the Republican Party presidential nominee.
>"Well I can give you one example where I would no longer support Donald Trump," Cruz told reporters in Rockford, Illinois. "If, for example, he were to go out on Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, I would not be willing to support Donald Trump."
>Reporters pressed Cruz on Monday why he would continue to back Trump despite suggesting over the weekend that Trump "encourages violence" and "disrespects voters."
>Since the first GOP debate, Cruz has maintained his commitment to supporting the eventual Republican nominee next November. He continued to hold the line on Monday, telling reporters, "When I tell you I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it."
>Cruz continued: "At the outset of this campaign, I committed to support the Republican nominee, and I honor my word. And honoring your word means actually honoring your word. You do what you said you would do."
Probe launched in Poland after presidential car scare
Government security officers and prosecutors are investigating why a tyre on Polish President Andrzej Duda's armoured limousine burst on a motorway, causing the car to swerve into a ditch.
Duda was unhurt in the incident on Friday near the town of Lewin Brzeski on the A4 motorway in southern Poland.
The security of the head of state is a sensitive topic in Poland following the 2010 Smolensk air disaster in western Russia which killed then-president Lech Kaczyński, along with 95 others aboard his plane.
Duda appeared in good spirits during a ski trip on Saturday but told reporters the incident in which his car span off the road should not have happened.
http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/243422,Probe-launched-in-Poland-after-presidential-car-scare
White genocide-by big pharma
Why So Many White American Men Are Dying
By Mike Mariani On 12/23/15
Not too long after the Soviet flag was hauled down from the Kremlin, a startling number of Russian men started dying. Young and middle-age men began to drown, get run over and suffer asphyxiation and heart attacks in shocking numbers. There were all manner of suspicious, gruesome deaths, the details of which suggested alcohol abuse and suicide. The life expectancy for Russian men was plummeting; between 1986 and 1996, it dropped from 65 to 57.
For years it was a source of great perplexity and despair, and when journalists and academics finally began to make sense of what was happening, the answers were knotty. The fall of the Soviet Union had created what the United Nations Development Programme called a “demographic collapse” brought on in large part by a “rise in self-destructive behavior, especially among men.” But all that alcoholism and drug use didn’t come out of nowhere. Many saw it as a direct result of the worsening economic conditions in Russia, where poverty and unemployment had been sharply rising since the dissolution of the USSR. The combination of no job and no foreseeable better future was driving men to drink. And the vodka was killing them, by way of liver disease, alcohol poisoning and fatal accidents. It was a gallows humor version of “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Roughly a quarter-century later, a similarly grim narrative of self-destruction and death is filling graveyards. But this time, it’s happening in the United States.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/01/08/big-pharma-heroin-white-american-mortality-rates-408354.html
GLOBAL WARMING IN JEOPARDY! mobile methane pack generators @ risk
Scientists seek to reduce global warming threats by giving cows probiotics and/or better diets to quicken the digestion process. apparently the slow digestion of the creature causes them to suffer from flatulence. i see this as a win/win for the carnivorous human diets. 1) cattle can graze in problem grassy areas (excluding marijuana fields). 2) the cows can produce the very usable fuel source of methane! now that is one sacred cow :)
world champ about to get pwned by computer
feeble bodied chink that looks 16yo is actually 33yo world champion of ancient game go.
Is 0-2 in a match and 1 day away from losing to a machine, ending the 4150 year reign of humans as champions of go.
Chink might cry or top himself because…
brir dishoror to hoo fameree ah or chinese peepahl.
go was the last big mind game where humans have remain dominant.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/computer-beating-top-human-go-professional
>On Wednesday Lee Sedol, a 33-year-old master of the ancient Asian board game Go, sat down in the South Korean capital, Seoul, a five games against a computer.
>AlphaGo is a computer program developed by Google DeepMind, using a combination of machine learning and tree search techniques, combined with extensive training, both from human and computer play.
In new anti-Trump ad, women read his quotes
A new 60-second spot has been released by Our Principles PAC, a group trying to prevent Trump from winning the GOP nomination. The ad, “Quotes,” features women reading real quotes from Trump.
The quotes include:
>Bimbo. Dog. Fat pig.
>A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a ’10’.
>I like kids. I mean, I won’t do anything to take care of them. I’ll supply funds, and she’ll take care of the kids.
>You know, it really doesn’t matter what they write, as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.
>That must be a pretty picture. You dropping to your knees.
>Women. You have to treat them like shit.
“This is how Donald Trump talks about our mothers, our sisters, our daughters,” the ad concludes. “If you believe America deserves better, vote against Donald Trump.”
Butthurt feminists want you to support manpig-hating Hilary Clinton.
No Gun Rights for Americans, Billions in Arms for Dictators Overseas
Hillary Hypocrisy: No Gun Rights for Americans, Billions in Arms for Dictators Overseas
Clinton’s attempts to equate Sanders’ votes with moral turpitude are devoid of reason on a number of levels, most glaringly because her largest donors — and some of the largest contributors to the Clinton Foundation — are connected directly or indirectly with the defense industry and the gun lobby.
Indeed, Hillary Clinton tops the list of presidential hopefuls receiving defense lobbyist contributions — outpacing even the top Republican candidates. On March 21, according to The Intercept, a fundraising rally for Clinton’s campaign will be hosted in part by Jeff Forbes of the lobbying firm Forbes-Tate, who — until 2016, apparently — had lobbied for the National Rifle Association. Yes, the gun rights advocacy group. Guns. The very industry Hillary loves to vilify other candidates over their lack of staunch opposition toward.
No, this is not in any way intended to demonize gun rights — or, for that matter, characterize guns and gun ownership in any manner. This is about Clinton’s complete lack of consistency, penchant for outright hypocrisy, and — more to the point — blatant support for weapons manufacturers as long as their wares are employed by the military. Certainly not as constitutionally-legal protection for citizens of the country she seeks to rule.
Consider an analysis by the International Business Times last May, of Clinton’s tenure at the State Department:
“Under Clinton’s leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation … That figure — derived from three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) — represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to those countries and approved by the State Department during the period of George W. Bush’s second term.
“The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase … [which] compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.”
Hillary Clinton desperately wants you to believe her narrative — though, admittedly, keeping up with its chameleon propensity for molding to her funders’ industries or interests can be onerous.
Clinton’s lambasting of Sanders for a milquetoast gun control stance casts aside the entire industry of violence from which her direct funders amass obscene wealth. She hypocritically champions restrictive policies on private citizen ownership of weapons, but cozies up to recent associates of the NRA. And she claims the need to curtail violence and needless deaths, but acts as a de facto peddler of weapons of war.
http://theantimedia.org/hillary-hypocrisy-no-gun-rights-for-americans-billions-in-arms-to-dictators/
Putin Pusses out of Syria
Vladimir Putin orders start of Russian forces' withdrawal from Syria
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has declared that he is withdrawing the majority of Russian troops from Syria, saying the intervention had largely achieved its objective.
The news, relayed to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, personally, followed a meeting in the Kremlin with Putin’s defence and foreign ministers. He said the pullout, reducing an intervention that began at the end of September, is due to start from Tuesday.
Western diplomatic sources said “we will have to wait and see what this represents. It is Putin. He has announced similar concessions in the past and nothing materialised”.
Syria's civil war: five years of Guardian reporting
Read more
“The effective work of our military created the conditions for the start of the peace process,” Putin said.
“I believe that the task put before the defence ministry and Russian armed forces has, on the whole, been fulfilled. With the participation of the Russian military … the Syrian armed forces and patriotic Syrian forces have been able to achieve a fundamental turnaround in the fight against international terrorism and have taken the initiative in almost all respects,” he added.
“I am therefore ordering the defence minister, from tomorrow, to start the withdrawal of the main part of our military contingent from the Syrian Arab Republic.”
Putin’s order came on the day that Syrian peace talks began in earnest in Geneva, and will be seen as a sign that Russia believes it has done enough to protect Assad’s regime from collapse.
The Russian president said the country’s airbase in Hemeimeem in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia and a naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus will continue to operate.
Syrian opposition sources said they had no prior information of Putin’s plan and said they will wait to see if it emerges to be true or a political manoeuvre. Diplomatic sources suggested Putin would be speaking to US president Barack Obama to explain his move, which will give Washington an opportunity to assess how serious the Russian withdrawal is likely to be.
The UN’s special envoy Staffan de Mistura will brief the UN security council meeting in New York in a closed session from Geneva.
More details soon …
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/14/vladimir-putin-orders-withdrawal-russian-troops-syria
Undecover agent became CEO of 'left wing' journo outfit, used to campaign VS Assange
In the first part of this series [1] The Indicter exposed that a former paid agent of Sweden’s Security Police had intervened with Amnesty Sweden (the Swedish section of Amnesty International), directly dictating its negative stance towards Julian Assange.
In this article we analyse whether Swedish government security agents, or ‘former agents’, have been further involved in a disinformation campaign against the founder of WikiLeaks and its whistleblower publishing. An important source here is the activity of Researchgruppen, the journalist-collective organization led by Martin Fredriksson, a former paid agent of the Swedish Security Police – or, as it’s better known by its Swedish acronym, SÄPO.
Japanese tour guides are cleaning the filthy streets of Paris themselves
Paris is so filthy that Japanese tour guides have started cleaning the streets themselves.
A group of nine guides, funded by the Paris Tourism Association, dispersed throughout the City of Lights Sunday to begin their cleaning mission in hopes of bringing more Japanese visitors to town.
Their first stop was the Trocadéro gardens near the Eiffel Tower, which they spruced up by planting cherry trees.
“They say they want to make the city cleaner for their own people, who have very high standards,” a Paris City Hall spokesman told the Mirror.
“But in recent years, Paris has actually become one of the cleanest cities in the world,” he insisted.
Paris is currently the fifth most popular place for Japanese tourists to visit — the US ranks No. 1 with 1.8 million visitors — with about 600,000 people going each year.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is trying to drum up tourism following the widespread terror attacks last November that left 130 dead.
Working-Class Communities ‘Deserve To Die’
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/12/national-review-writer-working-class-communities-deserve-to-die/
National Review’s Kevin Williamson believes Donald Trump’s appeals to the white working class are “immoral” because that demographic’s way of life deserves to die out.
In a featured article for the prestigious conservative journal entitled “The Father-Fuhrer,” Williamson seeks to rebut criticism that he and other conservatives don’t articulate any policies that would appeal to Trump’s blue collar supporters.
Williamson, a long-time critic of The Donald, essentially agrees that he doesn’t support any policies or rhetoric directly tailored to the working-class — particularly about jobs being taken by outsourcing and immigration — because it would be wrong to do so.
“It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces,” the NR roving correspondent writes. “[N]obody did this to them. They failed themselves.”
Mary Fay wins women's final at world junior curling championship
Canada's Mary Fay won a see-saw battle against the United States with a 7-4 victory to capture gold at the world junior curling championships.
USA took an 1-0 early lead in the second end, before Fay's Nova Scotia squad — third Kristin Clarke, second player Karlee Burgess and lead Janique LeBlanc — went ahead in the third as the skip drew her final stone into the house to score two points.
The Americans tied it 2-2 in the fourth, Canada went ahead 4-2 in the six and USA replied with two of their own in the seventh to tie it again at 4-4. Canada restored its two-point advantage in the eighth and stole one in the ninth to take a decisive 7-4 lead.
"It feels amazing to have won this with my best friends, it's surreal and hasn't sunk in yet, and I'm so proud of my team for all their hard work," Fay said.
American skip Cory Christensen said Canada took advantage of her team's miscues.
"We just didn't come out shooting as well as we should have. We had a few key misses and Canada capitalized and they played awesome."
Fay went undefeated through the round robin and lost a heartbreaker to the United States in the Page 1-2 playoff game on its way to the final.
Korea took the bronze with an 8-4 win over Hungary.
In men's action, Winnipeg skip Matt Dunstone led Canada to an 8-4 win over Switzerland in the bronze-medal game.
Scotland defeated the United States 6-4 to claim the men's gold medal.
Progressive Thugs Force Cancellation of Trump Rally in Chicago
Progressive thugs forced the cancellation of a Trump Rally in Chicago tonight. It was the typical progressive game-plan. Start fights, throw food and shut down those who dare disagree with their warp ideology. The Trump Rally was set to occur at the University of Chicago. But violence broke out inside and out of the stadium, forcing the cancellation over security concerns.
Chicago is a cesspool of progressive slime. Obama the community organizer came from there, Hillary Rotten Clinton was born then, and of course the 1968 riots at the Democrat convention were in Chicago. The city should be embarrassed, but considering the city’s corruption history from the mafia to the Daly family to Rahm Emanuel, they are are probably happy about this.
Regardless if you like Trump or loathe him, shutting down rallies because of violence and security threats isn’t democracy. It’s fascism, something progressives have been in love with since the days of Adolf Hitler.
Peaceful protests outside of the stadium are fine. There is nothing wrong with that. Too bad these progressive thugs couldn’t keep it that way.
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2016/03/11/chicago-police-officer-bloodied-by-progressives-video/
Carson Confirms He Will Serve in Trump Administration
No Comfy for Tired Men as Carson Prepares for Four Years of No Going Home to Florida to Change Clothes
>Monday on NewsmaxTV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” former Republican presidential candidate and Donald Trump supporter Dr. Ben Carson said it has been determined he will be in “an advisory capacity” in a Trump administration.
>Partial transcript as follows:
> CARSON: He will surround himself with very good people.
> MALZBERG: Will one of them be Dr. Ben Carson?
> CARSON: I will be doing things as well, yes.
> MALZBERG: In the administration?
> CARSON: Certainly in an advisory capacity.
> MALZBERG: That has been determined? When you sat down with him, that was discussed?
> CARSON: Yes.
> MALZBERG: And do you want to tell us—would it be an adviser toward medicine? Toward education?
> CARSON: Well, we haven’t hammered out all the details. It is very important that we work together in this country.
> MALZBERG: Is it a cabinet position, Sir?
> CARSON: Again, I’m not going to reveal any details about it right now because all of it is still very liquid.
https://youtu.be/U1rNWZMSlk4?list=PLanUqPajptu4WqXWDp4M4Yt4ax1WyBQZG
German govt sets up educational page for sex with migrants
>Germany has set up a website for migrants giving explicit advice on how to have sex and behave in relationships as part of a drive to educate its 1.1 million new arrivals in the cultural norms of their adopted country.
>The website, http://zanzu.de/de , shows in revealing cartoons the mechanics as well as the mores of sexual behaviour, from how babies are made to who to call if your rights are violated.
GERMANY YES. Good luck with your melting pot,I wonder if the barbarians of old will ever stop fantasizing about their racial superiority when one in three of them is brown.
Want to meet America's Best Racists? Come to the Northwest
Much of the national debate over racism in the aftermath of last month’s mass murder in Charleston, S.C., has focused on the South and its strange and sometimes jarring nostalgia for the Confederacy. And yet tucked away in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is a vicious group that most people have never heard of but the nation’s most virulent online racists know well (among them, accused South Carolina murderer Dylann Roof, who wrote about the group in his now-infamous “manifesto”).
The group is called the Northwest Front and its final solution to the race "problem," if you will, is to expel non-white people from the Pacific Northwest and to establish a mono-racial republic there.
I'm really frightened guys. White supremacists aren't supposed to have a PLAN and actually DO things. :C P
Man lands in jails for saying women are sluts on TV
Calling women whores is absolute haram.
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a prominent Facebook user to three years in prison with hard labor after he asserted on television that many married women in the conservative country were unfaithful.
Taymour el-Sobky was arrested last month and accused by prosecutors of slandering Egyptian women and damaging their honor. His comments on a popular evening talk show in December caused a furor.
"Thirty percent of Egyptian women are ready for immorality, they just can't find someone to encourage them," said Sobky, whose Facebook page called "Diaries of a Suffering Husband" has more than one million followers.
"These days, it is very normal for women to cheat on their husbands and seek it out … Many women are involved in extramarital affairs while their husbands are abroad," he claimed.
Sobky's comments included the suggestion that arranged marriages in traditional southern Egypt exacerbated the problem of infidelity because women ended up with men they didn't know.
After the claim a masked man from the region appeared in a video carried on YouTube armed with an assault rifle, and issued a death threat against Sobky.
dentist-of-horror-allegedly-mutilated-scores-of-patients-in-france
The Dutch dentist was initially welcomed to the rural French town of Chateau-Chinon, which had been without a dental care provider for two years.
Then the horror stories started.
Now Jacobus Van Nierop is standing trial on charges of aggravated assault and insurance fraud, after scores of patients said he caused them injuries since arriving in town in 2008, Agence France-Presse reports. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to as many as 10 years in prison and fined up to $165,000, according to AFP.
The Associated Press has this account from a woman who said she was treated by the "Dentist of Horror," as he has been dubbed in French media:
>"One patient, Sylviane Boulesteix, has said she was unexpectedly summoned to the dental office in central-eastern France in May 2012. Without warning, the dentist pulled eight of her teeth out and immediately fixed dentures on her raw gums. For three hours, the elderly woman says she sat gushing blood.
>"In the following days, she says Van Nierop refused to relieve her pain. A judicial expert later described a 'cruel and perverse' man whose incompetence made Boulesteix lose several health teeth, go through trauma and suffer irreversible damage to her mouth."
>Every time, he would give us what he called 'a little prick' and we were asleep, knocked out,' said Nicole Martin, a retired teacher who lost several teeth to abscesses caused by the horrific operations.
>When it was over, we would find a Post-it note saying to come back for an appointment the next day or the day after,' she added."
Martin set up a victims' group to press charges that grew to more than 120 members, according to AFP.
Van Nierop, 51, has said he "suffers from 'psychological problems' including gender identity issues and suicidal tendencies," AFP reports.
He had a blanket over his head when he arrived today at the courthouse in the nearby city of Nevers, AFP reports. He has been incarcerated for the past 18 months.
"What my clients and I expect are explanations," Charles Joseph-Oudin, who is representing some of the victims, tells AFP. "To understand how Mr. Van Nierop could have acted in such a way for so long, how things could have become so bad. Today, we have no explanations. Understanding is the first step of the victims' healing process."
According to the AP, the defendant has "refused to answer questions during the investigation, saying only that the oral health of the people in the region was 'deplorable.' "
Bernie rapes Hillary in the Michigan Primary
I don't see what the big deal is about rape. It's just a dick in your hole for a few minutes. It's nowhere near as bad as murder, cancer, or getting flirty eyes from a fat chick. And really, women can't be raped since the vagina is designed to accommodate cock. Only men can be raped. If a woman is penetrated anally against her will, she's just experiencing male rape, which is an excellent learning experience for her, to discover the struggles that men go through.
For women, rape isn't a big deal. It's just typical female exaggeration to get attention. They all fantasize about rape so they actually enjoy it. They just want to trade in their "victim" status for clothing and jewelry and don't want to give sex away for free. Really, the only punishment for rape should be to pay the equivalent of the going rate for whatever sex act was performed with a local prostitute of equivalent attractiveness. Since it's the same punishment, why would anyone rape a Feminist instead of a beautiful woman?
Those fat ugly feminists that scream the loudest that "no means NO," are actually hoping to limit the amount of sex the attractive women get. And, in so doing, hoping that some hapless male starving for sex will find himself scraping the very, very bottom of the barrel where the fat and ugly feminist will finally have the chance to scream, "YES, FUCK ME HARD."
Hey fat ugly feminists, it isn't going to work. You only really have one option. Lose the weight, learn how to use make up, and get an overhaul of your personality. In some cases you may need extensive plastic surgery to have any hope of getting my cock rammed into your ass. In some extreme cases, it is entirely hopeless and you should just give up. If you are this last case, try having sex with animals if you find you can approach them without scaring them away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/primary-elections-michigan.html?_r=0
PS. Bernie raped Hillary in the Michigan Primary
The Guardian: Not voting for Hillary is privilege
If you vote for Bernie, than that is privilege,
I wonder what a vote for Trump is: perhaps it is "FUCK YOU AND DIE!!!"
We will get change, one way another, not another establishment bought out prick (or cunt), no Shillary, if not Bernie then it is Trump time! Maybe he will actually get something done, maybe he will burn it all down , either way the establishment gets its comeuppance.
>There’s a long list of policies that Belville and others argue keeps Clinton in step with Republicans. But anyone actually paying attention to the Democratic primary debates of this election season will have noticed that Clinton and Sanders agree on more issues than they disagree on, and that both their platforms are polar opposites to those the GOP candidates are promoting. Sanders has even pushed Clinton to the left on certain issues.
SHE LIES WITH EVERY BREATH! The very fact she can be "pushed" is proof of this, she is just placating!
>Actually, had George W Bush never been elected, thousands of Americans would have never died in the Iraq war, not to mention many thousands more Iraqis. Then there is the matter of Hurricane Katrina, in which a natural disaster turned into a man-made catastrophe due to the incompetence of the Bush administration and their total lack of regard for the lives of poor black people in New Orleans.
Ok see Hillary will totally keep us all alive and tuck us in at night. it is not like she did not support that war and is responsible, or was for NAFTA, or mass incarceration of black people, killing god knows how many.
>Yes, affluent, mostly white progressives survived the last Republican regime, but those who literally cannot afford to act as piously as y’all suffered. I have critiqued the Obama administration, but to act as though he has not been an agent of change – and that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t do more good than Donald Trump – is to dance with delusion. Had many of these voters supported the Democrats in the non-presidential election years, Obama would’ve been able to promote an even more progressive agenda.
We had full democrat control of congress and the presidency, for 2 years, during that time all they managed to install was a healthcare program that was created by the republicans! That is how fucking pathetic democrats are!