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>The Post's finding, confirmed by nine current and former U.S. officials, contrasted with the assurances made publicly by Vice President Pence and other top administration officials that Flynn never talked about sanctions with Russian officials.

>Based on Flynn's private assurances, Pence, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and White House press secretary Sean Spicer stated publicly that Flynn never discussed sanctions with Kislyak.

>Pence spoke to Flynn twice on Friday - once face to face and by telephone, according to an administration official who declined to characterize the contents of those discussions.

>"Flynn is running out of friends, no question," a different administration official said. "The broad consensus in the White House is that he lied. The vice president feels like he lied. In a position that needs to be no drama, it's nonstop drama. I would be very surprised if he lasts much longer."

>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, R, an informal adviser to Trump, called on Flynn to "clear up" what happened with Trump and Pence, but he stopped short of accusing him of wrongdoing.

>"I think that's the obligation of General Flynn, his national security adviser, to have those type of candid conversations with the president and the vice president," Christie said on CNN. "And then they will act as they see fit, given all the circumstances."

>Over the weekend at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, the president privately voiced frustration with Flynn and the political baggage he is hanging on the White House, according to two people familiar with his comments.

>Spicer denied that Trump criticized Flynn to anyone at the club and called assertions to the contrary "fake news."

>People close to Flynn said he feels confident in his position despite the swirling controversy. He flew to Florida this weekend with the president along with other National Security Council officials to engage with his Japanese counterparts during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit.

>Furthermore, people in Trump's orbit cautioned that it would not be in the president's nature to fire Flynn because doing so would amount to an admission of guilt and misjudgment in the face of media scrutiny, as well as demonstrate chaos in the early weeks of his presidency.

>The doubts about the national security adviser come as Trump faces his first significant provocation from a U.S. adversary overseas. North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the weekend, a move suspected by some experts as designed to serve as a test of components of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.

>Trump responded on Saturday night in a joint appearance with Abe at Mar-a-Lago, where he reassured his Japanese counterpart that the United States fully supported Japan.

>Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and a decorated intelligence officer, met Trump in late 2015 to offer advice about his campaign and signed on with Trump the following year. He won Trump's approval during the general election with his willingness to travel regularly and deliver fiery stump speeches trashing Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

>Democratic leaders have called for investigations into the Flynn's contact with Russian officials and for Trump to suspend and revoke Flynn's security clearance.

>"President Trump's kowtowing to Vladimir Putin is endangering our national security and emboldening a dangerous tyrant," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Saturday.

>Rep. Elijah Cummings, Md., the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Sunday on ABC News that suspending Flynn's clearance would be "an appropriate action."

>Trump has not yet issued a comment about Flynn, either on Twitter or in one of his brief appearances before journalists over the weekend. Aboard Air Force One on Friday, reporters asked Trump about The Post's report on Flynn's discussion of sanctions and the president claimed he did not know about it, even though it had by then become a major story across cable news.

>"I don't know about that. I haven't seen it," Trump said during a flight to Florida from Washington. "What report is that? I haven't seen that. I'll look into that."

"People are worried because they have been displaced without being consulted or their consent sought," said Noorani of Integrity Watch Afghanistan, who called the planned mine a "clear violation of Afghanistan's environmental and social impact assessment standards."

In the film, the deputy president of MCC, Zhengou Liu, claims those villagers were informed in advance, and says that "MCC has outsourced some jobs to Afghan companies and is providing jobs to Afghans."

Brent Huffman, the director of "Saving Mes Aynak," told CNBC that he's skeptical about that claim. "Chinese companies have a history of making big promises to third world countries," he said.

In December, CNBC reported that the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban, which has sought to retake control of Afghanistan since being ousted from power in 2001, was claiming it would not obstruct the copper project.

The Taliban itself has destroyed ancient sites in Afghanistan, on the grounds that they're blasphemous. Most notably, the terrorist group destroyed the famous Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001.

That destruction drew global condemnation, and the ruins of the site are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Mes Aynack would qualify as a Heritage site if the government of Afghanistan were to apply for that status, said Silk Road archaeologist and UNESCO advisor Tim Williams.

"This is an outstanding and complex archaeological landscape, with astounding quality of preservation," Williams said.

Can anybody actually stop them? If the president there doesn't care then I guess its game over

Fuck China.

But the new device was able to pick up the changes happening beneath the services, and read thoughts.

All four patients in the study were suffering from ALS - a progressive motor neuron disease that leads to complete destruction of the part of the nervous system responsible for movement.

They were wired up to a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) which detected responses by measuring changes in blood oxygen levels in the brain.

To calibrate the programme, scientists asked questions which they already knew the answer to, such as You husband’s name is Joachim?

One of the patients Kerstin Wirth, 26, of Leverkusen in Germany, was diagnosed with juvenile ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and within just four years was in a completely locked-in state.

But using the new technology she was able to confirm that her mother's name was Margit and say that the still felt happy with her life.

Professor John Donoghue, Director of the Wyss Center, said: “Restoring communication for completely locked-in people is a crucial first step in the challenge to regain movement.

The technology used in the study also has broader applications that we believe could be further developed to treat and monitor people with a wide range of neuro-disorders.

The researchers said they were amazed to find that all the participants reported being happy most of the time.

“We were initially surprised at the positive responses when we questioned the four completely locked-in participants about their quality of life," added Professor Birbaumer.

“All four had accepted artificial ventilation in order to sustain their life when breathing became impossible so, in a sense, they had already chosen to live.

What we observed was as long as they received satisfactory care at home, they found their quality of life acceptable. It is for this reason, if we could make this technique widely clinically available, it would have a huge impact on the day-to-day life of people with complete locked-in syndrome.

oh shit

Bad news for Mario.

And Obama didn't?

>>106173
>It's okay when MY guy does it
>It's not okay when Trump does it

Oh are we back to pretending to care about casualties again?

Sorry I kind of forgot that was a thing since I wasn't told to act like I care about it for the last 8 years.

>>113031
>tourist

Ukraine is full of international militia and volunteers, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that this was ordered.

>In the Odessa region fired at the bus, passenger injured

>Police established the circumstances of the incident - the shelling of the bus, which followed in Kiev, in Lyubashevskaya district, wounded in the thigh received a 45-year-old man.

>In Lyubashevskaya district, 304 km highway "Kyiv-Odessa", the unknown fired at the bus, which was moving in the direction of the capital. This was reported in the Odessa area police.

>The bullet pierced the right side of the bus window and got into the passenger's hip sitting by the window. 45-year-old man was taken to the surgical ward Lyubashevsky Regional Hospital, and from there reported to the police.

>In this incident, law enforcement officers began criminal proceedings under Part 4 st.296 (hooliganism) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The responsibility incurred for the above offenses - from three to seven years of imprisonment.

>Now the police set all the circumstances of the incident.

>OstanniPodii.com

>>112890
>front page
>pizza gate
Yeah looks like click bait to me

>>112900
it's even worse, OPs link is tinfoil crap based on an actual news story:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/immigration-officer-fatally-shoots-head-chelsea-park-article-1.2628131

but then they add a bunch of unsubstantiated rumors on top of that.

It is fake.
It first appeared in 2016 on a fringe website - a site that is the very definition of fake news.
Not fake news as Trump asserts of everyone he dislikes - but a site that deliberately publishes a story knowing it is false and is intended to deceive.

On May 6, 2016 a 42 yo man was found shot in the head close to Pier 40 in NYC.
He was taken to a hospital and declared dead. The police announced that no criminality was suspected (read suicide). There was no note.

>>112422
>huffpost
You could have posted almost any other version of this story short of breitbart or daily mail and had a good thread about the topic but instead you had to pick among the most sensationalist fake outrage merchant sources possible. Please lurk more.

>>112515
second time today with the huffingpaintpost.

at least.

mobile fag, we don't like this.

>>112515
>>cant handle the truth, attack the source

SAD.

>>112305
Where the world isn't being flooded or parched, it's burning.
Our earth is burning and it's our fault.

>>112985
You're a faggot. Forest fires is a natural occurance in the circle of plant life. Ever heard about how pine trees grow in the forest?

Who wants to bet a big earthquake will hit Christchurch again soon?

More importantly, is he aware of his own lies or is he like one of those drug dealers hooked on their own stuff?

>>111977
>one of those drug dealers hooked on their own stuff

Yes, this one. He is ignorant so he's unable to distinguish lie from truth, good from bad. America is so scr...d: unless they one day they get smart enough to boot this brain-dead thing out of office. But there's little hope that there's enough intelligent people in american to do this before it's too late and the damage cannot be undone; and america is nothing but a third-world country ruled by a despot/terrorist/ceo whore.

I'M STILL SO UPSET THAT HILLARY LOST I CAN'T STOP CRYING

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>111729
Must have some Arab in her.

>>111729
He likely deserved it. In any case, his pain is now over and he'll be reborn in about 9, so no need to cry over spilled milk (when we can worry about the milk that hasn't been spilled yet).

>>111729
Unknown sources state Alex H's last words were
>I CAME, I SAW—

More corrupt for-profit climate alarmism.

>>110737
Are you enjoying the corporatist kool-aid?

>>110736
AKA: Coal Industry became worried that they're too late to reverse the belief of Anthropogenic Climate Change and that they'll be forced out of business by an Angry Mob of Tree Huggers.

Not really, just the science that the organizations, lobbyist and propoganda wants to potray. Any scientist that has come forth with opposing views has been gagged and viewed as invalid. Money, politics, and power are more involved with the hoax than good intentions and actual criticism.

Bet those paid celebreties did a sound job of convincing you.

then why Greenland is at record high?

http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/

>>109993
That's because the "climate scientists" who claim the warming trends aren't human caused, are inexperienced. You don't have to be a scientist to look at the data and see the uncanny correlation between GHG emissions and the warming trend. But you do need to be a retard to pretend there's no association. Or a paid shill.

>>108725
Good. Enough of this shit.

>>108741
Enjoy your arsenic laced water, sheep.

>>108741
>this shit

clean water and air is for librul faggots amirute?

At last the super rich are winning again.

Can't wait for that wealth to start trickling down.

>A second directive he signed will effectively halt an Obama-era Labor Department rule that requires brokers to act in a client’s best interest, rather than seek the highest profits for themselves, when providing retirement advice.

>>108138
>trickling down
Did you just get out of high school?
Unsuccessfully trying to get a first kiss, with that peachfuz/acne infested face?
Where have you been the last 30 years?
Time and events have proven that the Laffer/Friedman/Chicago School of Economics/Thatcherite/Reaganomics does not trickle down.

Principal investigator of METS and senior author of the Loyola study is Amy Luke, PhD, professor and vice chair of Loyola's Department of Public Health Sciences.

Previous research has found that when people are asked about their physical activity, they tend to overstate the amount they do. To provide a more objective measure, participants wore tracking devices called accelerometers on their waists for a week. The devices measured the wearers' energy expenditure and step count. Researchers also measured participants' weight, height and body fat. After an initial exam, participants were asked to return after one and two years.

At the initial visit, Ghana participants had the lowest average weights (139 pounds for both men and women) and Americans averaged the highest weights (202 pounds for women, 206 pounds for men). Ghanaians also were fitter than Americans. Seventy-six percent of Ghanaian men and 44 percent of Ghanaian women met the U.S. Surgeon General's physical activity guidelines, while only 44 percent of American men and 20 percent of American women met the guidelines. The guidelines recommend doing at least two and a half hours of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise (such as brisk walking) per week.
Surprisingly, total weight gain in every country was greater among participants who met the physical activity guidelines. For example, American men who met the guidelines gained a half pound per year, while American men who did not meet the guideline lost 0.6 pounds.

Researchers did not find any significant relationships between sedentary time at the initial visit and subsequent weight gain or weight loss. The only factors that were significantly associated with weight gain were weight at the initial visit, age and gender.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. It's titled "Accelerometer-measured physical activity is not associated with two-year weight change in African-origin adults from five diverse populations."
In addition to Dugas and Luke, other co-authors of the study include Liping Tong, PhD, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, PhD, David A. Shoman, PhD, Guichan Cao, MS, and Richard S. Cooper, MD, all from Loyola and researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kwame Nkrumah University, Lausanne University Hospital, Seychelles Ministry of Health, University of West Indies, University of Cape Town, University of Cambridge and Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

It's 90% diet

Exercise is mostly just good for heart health