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I don't understand why people are concluding that what trump said is true or false at this point. The article makes it clear that he could be telling the truth but your thread subject line makes it seem like his allegations are false. Then there's /pol/ who are just accepting the allegations as true even though, as the article mentions, there's no evidence to back up what his allegations are at this point. Just wait it out before coming to a conclusion, geez.

>>117556
I'm coming to a conclusion based on his past (and present) insanity

>>117556
>that means that a federal judge would have found that there was either probable cause that he had committed a crime or was an agent of a foreign power
He's actually just making himself look like he's a Russian spy. That's some 4D chess right here.

>>123990
>inb4 fake news
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=Washington+post&submit=Search

>>123997
>inb4 fake news
Is this bait?

You could bring a source without a paywall.
Or at least provide an archive link.

http://archive.is/g4d5O

Other sources have covered this story. It's not an WP exclusive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39333424

>>123990
Does this mean I won't be able to bring my laptop on board when I fly back from Germany?

>>121712
If USA is offensive to them that being in the USA is offensive, they gotta go.

>>121712
Globalism is cancer

>>121712
> it was a personal attack against them because some of their students come from refugee families.

Ok. I raged a little at this one

>Last year, Abbott released a detailed plan for a convention, outlining nine proposed constitutional amendments that he said would unravel the federal government's decades-long power grab and restore authority over economic regulation and other matters to the states. Among the amendments Abbott suggested are requiring Congress to balance the budget, prohibiting Congress from regulating state activities and allowing a two-thirds majority of the states to override U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

>Under the measure the Senate approved Tuesday, Texas delegates to a convention would only be allowed to discuss changes to the Constitution that would implement fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power of the federal government and institute term limits for members of Congress.

>A convention is one of two ways that the U.S. Constitution can be amended, and it's described in Article V. One way is that Congress can propose amendments approved by two-thirds of the members of both chambers. The other method allows two-thirds of the state legislatures to call for a convention to propose amendments. Republicans who back the idea are confident that because they control state government in a majority of states, their ideas would prevail.

>In both cases, the amendments become effective only if ratified by 38 states.

>So far, the U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times. None of those were amendments generated by a convention of states. Efforts to change the Constitution, initiated by both conservative and liberal advocates, have bounced in and out of political popularity since the 1970s. None, however, have met with success.

>But the elections last year swept 33 Republican governors into office across the nation, which supporters see as a hopeful sign for the movement to amend the Constitution. Supporters also point to President Donald Trump, who has said he supports congressional term limits, a key issue for conventioners.
...

>Because such a convention has never happened, and the Constitution has few rules to govern the procedure, opponents of the effort worry that it could easily spiral out of control.

>They are concerned that the agenda could grow from a limited number of subject items to a massive number of constitutional changes that could undermine the foundations of American government.

>"You might create one big mess for this state and this nation," said Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston.

>To address those concerns, Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, proposed a change to the bill that would impose criminal penalties that could mean thousands in fines and years in jail for delegates who failed to abide by the limits lawmakers approved on subjects for the convention. By a vote of 19-11, the penalties were added to the bill.

>The measures require a second vote in the Senate before moving to the House for consideration.

related:
http://www.themainewire.com/2013/11/constitutional-convention-movement-growing-states/

Federalism was a mistake. What we need in confederacy.

So this is where the anon that failed to prove that Sweden's refugees aren't violent went.

>>116289
coonass amerifat whites are the most violent

>>116289
>>116307
>>>/pol/

>Meek had agreed to plead guilty and help prosecutors. But they never called him during Roof’s trial, in which Roof acted as his own lawyer for much of the proceedings and put up almost no defense.

>Then just before Meek was initially set to be sentenced last month, prosecutors asked for a stiffer sentence than guidelines recommended, seeking to make an example of him and reflect the seriousness of the crime that Meek could have stopped if he’d picked up the phone.

>Meek’s lawyer, Deborah Barbier, said that was unfair. Meek has sent handwritten letters to the families of each victim apologizing and added that it hurts him every day when he thinks of what he could have stopped if he had alerted authorities.

>Barbier also said the U.S. government shares the burden of not stopping Roof, by failing to finish a background check when he went to buy the gun used in the killings.

>“This allegation ignores the Government’s own failures in allowing Roof to buy and possess a handgun with pending drug charge,” Barbier wrote, asking U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel not to give Meek a longer sentence than the guidelines call for.

>Meek also is a product of his times where “we live in a society where people say shocking and violent things every day,” wrote Barbier, who included an exhibit cataloging some of the thousands of hostile messages on social media against then-President Barack Obama.

>Meek and Roof, both 22, met in middle school after Roof’s mother asked him to be her son’s friend. They drifted apart after Roof moved away in high school, then reconnected months before the shooting when Roof told Meek on Facebook that he saw his old friend’s mugshot online.

lol instead of being gamecock, he is going to be game 4 cock.!

>eh eh eh eh eh

>But seriously he probably going to PC when he gets there, So who cares. Hopefully, people recognize him and properly make him sorry.

>>123776
>Ukraine was awarded 132 positions.
Golly, I bet Syria is pretty low too.

>>123788
what do you mean?

>Columbia University
This is the school that indulged the rape fantasies of the Jewish Mexican gargoyle known as Emma Sulkowicz.

This system will be introduced for senior students, beginning at the age of 16. The general idea is that the students ought to choose for themselves which topic or phenomenon they want to study, bearing in mind their ambitions for the future and their capabilities. In this way, no student will have to pass through an entire course on physics or chemistry while all the time thinking to themselves “What do I need to know this for?”

The traditional format of teacher-pupil communication is also going to change. Students will no longer sit behind school desks and wait anxiously to be called upon to answer a question. Instead, they will work together in small groups to discuss problems.

The Finnish education system encourages collective work, which is why the changes will also affect teachers. The school reform will require a great deal of cooperation between teachers of different subjects. Around 70% of teachers in Helsinki have already undertaken preparatory work in line with the new system for presenting information, and, as a result, they’ll get a pay increase.

The changes are expected to be complete by 2020.

Sounds interesting. Hopefully their grand experiment will work out.

>>122491
>no student will have to pass through an entire course on physics or chemistry while all the time thinking to themselves “What do I need to know this for?”
Well that should be interesting to watch

>“It is obviously too early to say what this individual’s motivations were,” Mr. Brandet added.

>Citing information from local police officers, a spokeswoman for the Grasse town hall said the assailant appeared to be with an accomplice — also a student — who fled.

>Mr. Brandet also said the police were searching for a “potential” accomplice, but that it was not yet clear that the gunman had been with one.

>The French authorities quickly sent an alert about a situation in Grasse through a government-run smartphone app created to warn people of possible terrorist attacks or natural disasters nearby. “Intervention underway by the security forces and emergency services,” the warning read. “Do not put yourself at risk.”

>Police officers cordoned off the area around the school.

>Emmanuel Ethis, the superintendent of schools for the Nice area, said on Twitter that students in Grasse were safe, and he asked parents not to rush to schools, where students had been confined inside.

>>122415
>name or race not revealed
muzzie confirmed

>>122429
>Its some white kid with an airsoft and a clown mask
Thats the dailymail report, Ill link when something less cancerous pops up. Would make sense considering nobody died though.

>NIH's budget was roughly $32 billion in 2016, and was set to receive a $1 billion to $2 billion increase in the 2017 fiscal year, which began this past 1 October. Congress has been unable to finish its 2017 spending plan, however, and the government has been operating under a continuing resolution that freezes spending at 2016 levels.

>The spending plan calls for a “major reorganization” of the 27 NIH institutes and centers, though it does not spell out the changes—with one exception. It would abolish the Fogarty International Center, a $69.1 million program dedicated to building partnerships between health research institutions in the United States and other countries. The plan also would fold into NIH the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a free-standing agency within HHS devoted to fostering research evidence to improve health care’s quality, safety and accessibility.

>At DOE, the department's nuclear weapons programs would grow, while science programs would shrink, reports Steve Mufson of The Washington Post:

>The president’s budget would cut spending overall by $1.7billion — or 5.6 percent from current levels — to $28billion. But the money is redistributed. The National Nuclear Security Administration budget would grow 11.3percent while the rest of the Energy Department’s programs would be cut by 17.9 percent.

>The Office of Science would lose $900 million of its just-over $5billion. The office supports research at more than 300 universities and 10 of the nation’s 17 national labs.

>At NASA, a roughly $100 million to cut to the agency's earth sciences program would be mostly achieved by canceling four climate-related missions, according to sources. They are the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3; the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem program; the Deep Space Climate Observatory; and the CLARREO Pathfinder. Overall, NASA receives a 1% cut.

>Even before the scope of the cuts became known, it was a safe bet that Trump's request would leave scientists wanting more—not just more funding, but more details on how he wants to spend the money.

>White House officials are calling the 2018 document a budget “blueprint” to distinguish it from the comprehensive document they have promised to submit to Congress in 2 months. Trump himself leaked the big news last month: He will ask for $54 billion more for the military, and pay for it with $54 billion in cuts to domestic discretionary spending. That category includes all research programs outside the defense agencies.

>Mick Mulvaney, new director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters yesterday that the so-called skinny budget fleshes out what the president promised during the campaign and since taking office. “This is an 'America First' budget,” said Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina. “We went through his speeches, and we turned those policies into numbers.”

>Of course, there’s a lot that Trump has not talked about, including almost all of the government’s $70 billion investment in civilian research. And that suggests today’s budget may be silent on, or vague about, what the president is seeking for some science agencies, much less for specific programs and cross-agency initiatives. In some cases, agency heads will apparently be asked to figure out how to absorb the cuts if they are approved by Congress, by cutting programs, or staff, or both.

>Mulvaney did promise the request would contain “a [top] number for each agency,” as well as highlights of how it differs from past years. But the only science agency he flagged was NASA (and avoided mention of NIH). Its current budget of $19.5 billion would drop by 1%, he said, which he characterized as “a small reduction.” At the same time, he added, some NASA programs would get a boost, including a planetary mission to a moon “of either Saturn or Jupiter, I can’t remember.” Space experts are betting that’s a reference to continued work toward a multibillion-dollar mission to Europa, a jovian moon, in search of extraterrestrial life in its ice-covered oceans.

>Indeed, that 1% decline at NASA might seem like manna from heaven compared to what environmental and climate scientists are expecting. Media have reported that Trump will request cuts of 40% in science programs at EPA and 26% to the main research arm of NOAA. The request is also likely to zero out several EPA and NOAA programs that fund competitive grants for university-based researchers. Mulvaney suggested such proposed cuts reflect the fact that those activities “don’t align with the president’s position on global warming and alternative energy” technologies.

>But those reductions aren’t due only to the president’s ideological distaste for that research. They also contribute to the $54 billion cut that Trump needs to offset his proposed rise in military spending, to $603 billion, in the 2018 fiscal year that begins 1 October.

>>123455
>So where do libtards run to next?

The Mercers and the Kochs; two can play that game in terms if corporate meddling.

I don't get all the fake stories/ad hominems about Trump being thrown around. His policies provide enough anti-Trump ammunition on their own.

I think Putin was just backing him voluntarily. There's no laws against that, is there?

>>122681
>You can shoot jehovas witnesses at the door in russia
Maybe this putin fella aint all that bad

Stop trying to make everything a stupid rhyme /pol/

>>122681
But why? They're pretty chill guys who just want to ride bikes and talk about God like Mormons.

>>122345

GOOD LUCK CANUCKS!!

>>122345
>Rampant sexism, harmful gender norms, perceptions of girls not being valued as anything other than a wife and a mother

Because clearly every woman born before 1920 killed themselves.

>>122345
Double oppression sounds like a pokemon finishing move

>>121735
elbump

Did you know OPs can delete their own thread and start over within 30 minutes of posting? Considering how OPs news story has nothing to do with the linked article, this thread might be a good candidate for deleting and starting over.

>>121738

>few sentences of pointless jew tactics..

ahh well.. go fuck yourself.

>Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had a science advisor, though the influence of the position, and the extent to which it has kept presidents from neglecting or misusing empirical evidence, has varied considerably throughout the years. Richard Nixon even got rid of the position for a time. John Holdren, President Obama’s science advisor, has had much more influence in the White House than did George W. Bush’s advisor, John Marburger.

>At this point in 2009, Holdren had already been on the job for weeks. Trump isn’t necessarily behind schedule, though—George W. Bush didn’t name Marburger until June 2001.

>Trump is under no legal obligation to appoint a cabinet-level science advisor like Holdren has been for Obama. The president must name a director for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which Congress created in 1976 to advise the president and coördinate scientific and technological initiatives between government agencies. After that it’s up to him to decide how much “stature and access” to give the position, says Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan technology policy think tank. And it’s unclear whether Trump would marginalize OSTP and even how much he cares about advancing science and technology policy.

>Obama cared “as much as a president can care about this stuff,” Atkinson says. Obama made Holdren—who has engineering and physics degrees from MIT—part of his inner circle for many policy decisions. And with Holdren as director, the OSTP took on a broad range of projects, from climate change research to the Precision Medicine Initiative, which is aimed at developing new drugs and therapies that are tailored to individual patients’ bodies. It also coordinated efforts by multiple government agencies to help make the U.S. more competitive in the area of high-performance computing.

>Whatever Trump ends up doing with his OSTP, we should hope he sees scientific thinking and evidence as assets, not impediments. Science is “the best protection a president has against being fooled, or fooling himself, so I hope he’ll find a science advisor who will help convince him of that,” says Holt. “Reality has a way of exposing decisions that aren’t made on the basis of the best evidence.”

>>123481
Government shouldn't be incharge of any science to begin with. Too much of our tax dollars are going towards frivolous research project. Science and research should be between private citizens and the market.