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>China buys iron ore, zinc and other minerals from North Korea, as well as growing amounts of seafood and garments manufactured in the North’s well-equipped textile factories. China reported that its imports of North Korean iron were up 270 percent in January and February compared with the period in 2016.

>But imports of coal dropped 51.6 percent in the first three months of 2017 compared with the first quarter of last year, said Huang Songping, a spokesman for the customs agency. Coal has been the biggest hard-currency earner among North Korea’s fairly limited menu of exports.

>China agreed to stiffer United Nations sanctions last November, after the United States said Beijing’s coal purchases were helping to pay for the North’s nuclear weapons program. The coal, used in China’s steel mills, earns the North about a billion dollars a year, according to economists.

>China had not imported any coal from North Korea since Beijing imposed a cutoff on Feb. 19, Mr. Huang said. That ban has been interpreted as punishment for the February killing in Malaysia of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, which Pyongyang has been accused of orchestrating.

>There have been other indications that China was following through on its promise to stop buying the North’s coal. Shipping data from this month showed a dozen cargo ships returning to North Korea fully laden, after China ordered its trading companies to return coal, Reuters recently reported. Mr. Trump referred to that as an encouraging sign in one of his interviews on Wednesday, a detail that appeared to show that he was paying attention to China’s actions against North Korea.

>After the United Nations sanctions were announced, some economists said it was still possible for Chinese businesses to import coal on an off-the-books basis, using transactions that would not be recorded by customs officials.
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>But since mid-February, Chinese coal traders have said that their business has virtually vanished. “It’s over,” said a coal trader who operates from Dandong, a city on China’s northeastern border that functions as the main center of business with North Korea. The trader spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals from the city authorities.

>On Wednesday, Global Times, a prominent state-run Chinese newspaper, said that if the North tested another nuclear bomb or a missile, restrictions on oil might be the next step. North Korea is almost entirely reliant on China for crude oil.

>“If the North makes another provocative move this month, the Chinese society will be willing to see the United Nations Security Council adopt severe restrictive measures that have never been seen before, such as restricting oil exports to the North,” the paper said in an editorial.

>How much harder China would bear down on North Korea by its own volition remained an open question.

>“It’s hard to ban normal trade that is not prohibited by U.N. resolutions,” said Yang Xiyu, a former Chinese diplomat who led China’s delegation to the so-called six-party talks on the North’s nuclear arms development in the mid-2000s.

>The Chinese Foreign Ministry cautioned on Thursday that Washington should not expect China to squeeze its neighbor, and ally, to the point that sanctions would provoke instability, and possibly the collapse of the North’s government. Nor would China be enthusiastic about more sanctions being placed by others on North Korea, the ministry said.

>Asked about the impact of secondary sanctions that could be applied by the United States on Chinese firms that do business with North Korea, the ministry’s spokesman said Beijing was opposed to such actions.
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>“China has always opposed the frequent use of unilateral sanctions in international affairs, and we especially oppose those sanctions that undermine China’s interests,” the spokesman, Lu Kang, said at a briefing. “China always decides its own stance and policy based on the merit of the matter itself.”

elections have consequences.
try again next time.

>>129972
Enjoy the death of the internet as we know it cause you're a partisan idiot.

Btw, this shit should be deported. Him and his whole family. Don't care if he was supposedly born in Buffalo, send his ass to India with the rest of his family that came from there.

That's, after all, the way Trump supporters would think, right? :)

Ajit Pai. What a name to decide for Americans. America really need to end ALL immigration.

>>130784
>The official says a Russian-operated drone flew over a hospital in Syria....
>Until Monday, U.S. officials had said they weren't sure if the drone was operated by Russia or Syria.
So, is this entirely speculative?

>>130784
>demanded anonymity.
mmm... probably, remember the past one wen obama almost start bombing? at the end was rebel+saudies and nobody say a world, so the chance this one was same bushit its very hight. and the logic question stay in the air.

why to fuck, assad, a guy who was wining, do a unnecessary chemical atack? that guy its not supid. in this point its clean.

>>130800
They didn't know before today, but today, they know. First sentence of the article dude.

Too much commentary, not enough content.

Cosmic rays cannot produce visible aurorae, their flux is not high enough. You would get more interaction between a thunderstorm and the magnetosphere.

Also, is it just me, or does it look like the poles have shifted relative to the rings?

>>131332
>tfw it's your mother anus and my dick is coming out of it

>Dicks hit uranus and now uranus is covered in white stuff

Not news

Dark web? Bro, are you sure you aren't confusing two different cases? Marcel Hesse recently filmed the murder of a 9 y/o boy in Germany and posted the video on the dark web. These murders were also filmed, but not by the perp himself, at least not that we know of (yet). Where'd you get this info that the footage can be found on the dark web?

Stfu, anon above me, this is relevant af.

Only one woman, Warren's director of scheduling, earned a six-figure salary last year, whereas five men earned more than Warren's highest paid woman staffer in 2016.

The Beacon concluded, “The gender pay gap in Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office is nearly 10 percent wider than the national average, meaning women in the Massachusetts Democrat's office will have to wait longer than most women across the country to recognize Equal Pay Day.”

Oh great, the partisan fuckheads are here. Is /pol/ down again?

>>128589
gο βαck το ®εδδιτ

>>129276 (OP)
>Trump lied, broke his promise to help

He promised a crackdown on h1b fraud, not an end to foreign workers working in the US.

If they are hired by US companies to work in the US, they make US businesses more internationally competitive by increasing the size of the hiring pool.

Guest workers also spend money on US businesses which they wouldn't if businesses had greater incentive to outsource because their workers can't live in the US. Economics isn't a 0 sum game.

Getting rid of guest workers doesn't mean businesses throw up their hands and say "too bad, we'll just have to increase wages". That will always be the dead last option on their list.

Cracking down on fraud makes sense. Closing our borders to skilled migrants and restricting trade doesn't make sense. It helps some people at collective cost to everyone. The same could be accomplished without making US businesses less globally competitive by just taxing to produce social programs to support and retool folks to find gainful employment where they're most useful.

>>129276
This is bullshit. Trump has not betrayed anyone. He just hasn't gotten to it yet. The very first article quotes Spicer saying that they're working on immigration first, but implying that they will eventually deal with H1-B's. Trump cant deal with every problem at once.

>>129290
This 100%, but try explaining that to a Trump hater. Apparently one hour after his inauguration the wall was supposed to be finished if you listen to them

>>130703
I got an idea, guys. What if--hear me out, now--what if lol we lol what if we connect all our devices to the internet lol

it'll be so convenient lol

Truly, this must be the biggest hack in the history.

>>130707
I can't wait for someone to hack all the smart refrigerators and just turn them all off.

>Bannon resigned from Breitbart News in November and has insisted he no longer has any editorial involvement with the website.

>However, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider in March that Bannon had instructed Matthew Boyle, the website's Washington editor, to stop publishing articles critical of Priebus, who reports said had been feuding with Bannon. Alex Marlow, the website's editor-in-chief, also told NBC News in March that Bannon reached out to him "every so often."

>Kushner is viewed by some of Trump's more hardline supporters as a Democrat who doesn't share their worldview. Administration officials, for instance, told The Daily Beast last week that Bannon had referred to Kushner as a "globalist" and a "cuck," a slur frequently used by members of the so-called alt-right movement.

>After this story's publication, Chad Wilkinson, a spokesman for Breitbart News, told Business Insider it was "an absurd suggestion that Breitbart would muzzle critical coverage of any senior White House official."

Breitbart? More like Cuckedbart.

>>130936
Breitbart is not a news source, it's a spin machine and alt-right clickbait generator. Don't most people realize this?

>The brazenness of the repression high-lights the extent to which Chechnya has become a fiefdom unto itself under its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Mr Kadyrov’s spokesman, Alvi Karimov, responded to Novaya Gazeta’s claims by denying that there are gay people in Chechnya at all: “If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs would not need to do anything with them because their relatives would have sent them to a place from which they could never return.”

>An intervention by Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, might be the only thing that could sway the Chechen authorities to put a stop to the anti-gay violence. Yet the Kremlin depends on Mr Kadyrov to preserve stability in the volatile republic, and managing the Chechen leader has become a challenge in recent years. He commands his own security forces, numbering about 20,000 men. His republic follows its own hyper-traditional religious and social codes, largely beyond the reach of Russian law; Mr Kadyrov has voiced support for polygamy and honour killings. Discussion of homosexuality is taboo and most gay people remain deeply closeted.

>This makes reaching victims and documenting the crackdown especially difficult. “Information gets through with a delay,” says Igor Kochetkov of the Russian LGBT-Network, which has also begun organising evacuations from the region. The true extent of the brutality may go deeper than Novaya Gazeta describes. As Ms Sokirianskaia says, “We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.”

Further reading:

Original article in Novaya Gazeta, "Убийcтвo чecти":
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/04/01/71983-ubiystvo-chesti

International Business Times, "Chechnya detains 100 gay men in first concentration camps since the Holocaust":
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chechnya-detains-100-gay-men-first-concentration-camps-since-holocaust-1616363

New York Times, "Chechen Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says":
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/world/europe/chechen-authorities-arresting-and-killing-gay-men-russian-paper-says.html

The Guardian, "Chechen police 'have rounded up more than 100 suspected gay men'":
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/02/chechen-police-rounded-up-100-gay-men-report-russian-newspaper-chechnya

Washington Post, "Gay and terrified in Chechnya":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gay-and-terrified-in-chechnya/2017/04/09/b128822e-18a1-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html

>>130805
>not including the picture of Putin as a gay clown
Missed opportunity OP

>As crew members hoisted up the couple, they couldn't help but notice the two reeked of the sea. The newlyweds claimed to have left Key West earlier that day, but their stench suggested they'd been gone much longer. Inside their unregistered, uninsured boat were navigation tools and mementos: a passport, a Cuban wind chart, a wedding album. The two were escorted to a cabin, where a suspicious guard stood at attention outside. The cruise workers would soon learn the truth about their new passengers: The next morning, as the ship sailed into PortMiami on February 17, 2016, FBI agents swarmed the dock and handcuffed Marty.

>Gottesfeld, the feds told reporters, was an Anonymous hacker who'd maliciously taken down Boston Children's Hospital's website, costing the hospital hundreds of thousands of dollars and hampering doctors. "It was tremendously disruptive," prosecutor Adam Bookbinder said at a bond hearing after the arrest. "There's no excuse."

>But Gottesfeld's story is far from that clear-cut. Where the government claims he's a dangerous cybercriminal, he insists he's a "hactivist" participating in an online form of civil disobedience. The real story, he says, is the way Boston Children's treated Justina Pelletier, a teenage girl whose parents said she was being abused at the hospital. The cyber-attack was only meant to help draw more attention to the controversial case, Gottesfeld says, and didn't do real harm to the hospital or its patients.

>"I was seriously concerned Justina would never recover physically or mentally from the trauma she was being put through, and it was even possible she could die," he explained in a letter from jail last year.
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>As Gottesfeld awaits a trial that could send him to prison for 25 years, his case sheds light on a decades-old cybercrime law that some say comes down too harshly on online activists — and that has already led to one prominent suicide. Gottesfeld himself has gone on a 100-day hunger strike. His case could have huge ramifications on future hactivism cases, but his risks rise each day as he wastes away in jail.

>"If defending Justina's life was wrong," he says, "then I don't want to be right."

>From a young age, Gottesfeld showed hints of the stubbornness that would one day fuel his defiant stand against authorities. As a toddler, he jumped so hard in his bouncing seat that he nearly destroyed the door frame from which it hung. If someone turned off the TV while he was watching, he'd get up and flip it back on. At baseball practice, he balked when it was his turn to field; he just wanted to hit.

>He was a brainy kid but a mediocre student, although he showed an early interest in computers. His fascination was encouraged by his grandfather, who worked as a computer programmer before such a title even existed.

>"When he was like 5, my parents bought him a little toy computer thing that you buy kids, and then at 6, he was taking them apart, and at 7, he was building them," says his aunt, Lisa Brown, a computer science researcher at IBM.

>Though Gottesfeld grew up in Massachusetts, his story begins in Pompano Beach, where his great-grandmother once owned a beachside condo. His mother, Wendy, had been visiting her in Florida when she met a younger man who remains mostly unknown to the family three decades later. The two wed in Palm Beach County in the summer of 1983, and a baby came along nine months later.
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>While Gottesfeld's 29-year-old mother was excited to have her first child, her husband was less enthusiastic. The pregnancy ended the short-lived marriage, and Wendy moved back home to Massachusetts with her parents, who by then were 54 with four grown kids of their own.

>Jay and Gloria Gottesfeld — the couple who would actually raise Marty — were college sweethearts who'd met while studying mathematics at Brooklyn College. Both members of the bridge club, the two had won a local tournament in the spring of 1951 and traveled together to compete in the final round of the National Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament in Chicago. They came in second place, fell in love, and married soon after.

>The couple had been empty-nesters for years when their daughter Wendy came home with a baby. The three of them adjusted to life with a newborn, but as Marty grew older, his mother's mental health deteriorated. After a short hospitalization, Wendy moved to a nearby town and allowed her parents to formally adopt her 12-year-old son.

>"She was around during that period, but she was sort of in the background, not really acting like a mother much," says Brown, Wendy's sister. "I think their relationship really faded when she wasn't living there anymore. I don't think Marty ever saw her once that happened, and once he got older, he didn't want anything to do with it."

>For Jay and Gloria, the step back into parenthood was difficult. They did their best with Marty, but the situation created an unspoken tension within the family that hung like an ever-present storm cloud.
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b-but it was a gun free zone

another crazed white man shooting up a school

>>130941
Yeah those kids should have been packing.

Not English, this isn't /int/ or /trv/

>>130952
that was a waste of my time

>>123069

Erdoğan's a smart enough guy and has not gone full-blown crazy dictator (yet) -- what the fuck was he thinking? The rest of his speech was great except for that one line; surely he knew that it would inflame up anti-immigration sentiment in Europe. And for what, a single round of applause in the speech from his hard right supporters?

Turkey has a migration crisis as much as the rest of Europe, so if the other countries close off immigration or start deporting, Turkey is stuck with the bill, and Erdoğan gets nothing out of it. Perhaps Erdoğan wants hard-right candidates to win European elections this year on the philosophy that authoritarians tend to stick up for each other, even if they have opposite politics?

>>123078
maybe we should actually listen to what he's saying and try to do something to prevent the demographic changes in Europe he is suggesting? Like, gee, I don't know...not resettle millions of muslims who could have stayed in muslim countries and have nothing in common with the Europeans whose countries they want to inhabit?

Honestly, what would be bad about a one child policy for all non-natives?

>>123069
i like this turk. he is choosing the best tactics and wins. jews breed themselves a new country. so turks will do the same.

>Amash, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has already developed a reputation as a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump and Ryan. A fierce critic of the GOP’s planned Obamacare replacement, Amash went so far as to pick a fight with Mr. Trump on Twitter over the legislation.

It didn't take long for the swamp to drain @realDonaldTrump. No shame, Mr. President. Almost everyone succumbs to the D.C. Establishment.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) March 30, 2017

>Amash is currently barnstorming his district in Western Michigan, and took a few shots at Ryan and Mr. Trump, according to CNN.

>“When we go home for the weekend, they give us a set of talking points. They say ‘here are your talking points’” Amash said Monday, holding up a sheet of paper. “That’s not the way you’re supposed to represent a community.”

>Amash plans on holding two more town halls this week at a time when many Republican legislators are trying to avoid them.