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SK Intel Official: NK has Chemical Cluster Bombs 2017-08-23 10:28:14 Post No.171068
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un celebrated the test-launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile last month. A new report in South Korea suggests the North has now developed chemical weapons cluster bombs meant to evade U.S. missile defense systems.
http://www.trunews.com/article/sk-intel-official-nk-has-chemical-cluster-bombs
According to a report this week by one of Seoul’s largest newspapers, a South Korean intelligence official claims North Korea has developed cluster bombs that can be armed with chemical-weapon projectiles. The JoongAng Illbo (The Central Times) newspaper reports the North has been trying to develop the weapons as a means to circumvent the missile defense systems employed by the U.S. at Yongsan Army Garrison in Seoul. The official said the North Korean weapons are designed to detonate 5 km beyond the maximum range of anti-missile batteries. The report continues:
>In the face of North Korea’s development, the U.S. military base here is said to have recently deployed the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, which has a maximum altitude of 40 kilometers, according to a local military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. A South Korean-U.S. military report in 2014, exclusively obtained by the JoongAng Ilbo earlier this month, showed the allies assessed then that the cluster bombs were controlled by the North Korean People’s Army Strategic Force, and could be attached to short-range Scud missiles, which can fly between 50 to 1,000 kilometers, and mid-range Rodong missiles, which usually fly from 300 to 1,300 kilometers.
Cluster bombs would be employed in the initial stages of any breakout of war with the intent to destroy aviation facilities and aircraft. Adding the chemical weapons component would increase the lethality of such attacks. The same report also noted that South Korean analysts with connections in the North say a “communication ban” with the South has been implemented.
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north korea is as backwards as your asswards logic
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>>171166
Your cluster-bait postings in various threads must be getting tedious. ;-)
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'Gundam' anime series emulated in new spacecraft atmospheric re-entry method 2017-08-24 08:21:09 Post No.171343
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One of Japan's most popular science fiction television series has inspired researchers to develop a new technique in order to protect spacecraft from the intense heat of atmospheric re-entry.
The experimental re-entry method utilizes an aeroshell that acts like a parachute, similar to the ones featured in the 1985 science fiction television show "Mobile Suit Z Gundam," according to The Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
The test took nearly three months to complete but was proven successful as a small micro-satellite using the research team's aeroshell device made its return to Earth late last month.
While the Earth's atmosphere is essential for protecting and supporting life on the planet, it acts as major obstacle for both crewed and uncrewed spacecraft as they return from orbit.
Typical low Earth orbit re-entry speeds can reach nearly 17,500 mph, according to NASA. A hypersonic descent through the atmosphere subjects spacecraft to intense atmospheric drag and aerodynamic heating as it plunges back to Earth.
"All of the energy expended to get to orbit dissipates on the way back to Earth, usually in the form of extreme heating," according to a NASA report.
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2017/07/20/gundam-anime-series-emulated-in-new-spacecraft-atmospheric-re-entry-method/
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"In addition to the aerodynamic concerns of high-speed flight, there are serious thermodynamic issues with a 17,500-mph plunge through Earth’s atmosphere," the report states.
For example, temperatures nearing 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit have been measured during the re-entry of NASA's Space Shuttle Orbiter.
In the Gundam anime, the "mobile suits" employ a hemispherical device similar called a "ballute," which acts as a heat shield and slows the decent of these robotic vehicles through the extreme conditions of Earth's atmosphere. Researchers used this as inspiration in their design, according to the Asahi Shimbun.
The balloon-like, "ballute" devices featured in the television show were critical in the military operations of both the AEUG resistance group and the tyrannical Titans, which used them to transition from space to terrestrial combat during the events of the Zeta Gundam series.
"The chief characteristic of re-entry aerodynamics is that the temperature of the flow is so great that the chemical bonds of the diatomic molecules of the air are broken," according to NASA. "The molecules break apart producing an electrically charged plasma around the aircraft."
By slowing the plunge to Earth with decelerating speeds through the use of the aeroshell, spacecraft protected by the device would encounter less air resistance, which could help prevent overheating and simplify the design of heat-shielding for future spacecraft.
The research team was able to replicate the Gundam-like deceleration method when testing their heat-shielded aeroshell on the EGG micro-satellite as it entered Earth's atmosphere from low Earth orbit, according to The Asahi Shimbun.
University of Tokyo's team designed EGG, short for "re-Entry satellite with Gossamer aeroshell and Gps/Iridium" as a miniature, 34 cm, cube-shaped satellite.
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The micro-satellite was then deployed from the International Space Station in January to test the re-entry method. As the small spacecraft fell to Earth, the aeroshell inflated like a parachute, slowing its speed and protecting it from aerodynamic heating.
The aeroshell itself was around 80 cm in size and made out of a material similar to fireproof clothing, according to the report. At around 95 km altitude, the aeroshell burned up over the Pacific in May as planned.
Allowing a heat shield to burn up during re-entry is part of the design in thermal protection systems used on other spacecraft.
These ablative, or burning, heat shields have been used for the Russian Soyuz, the Chinese Shenzhou and all of the early Apollo, Gemini and Mercury spacecraft missions, according to NASA.
After nearly three months of falling, the EGG finally made its return to Earth, proving the experiment successful on June 23.
“The EGG would be useful for bringing samples from space as well as exploring atmospheric planets such as Mars,” aerospace engineer Kojiro Suzuki told reporters with the Asahi Shimbun.
In the future, this technology may be able to help reduce the risk to spacecraft and crew and make for a safer return to Earth.
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nigga there's been plans for aeroshell re-rentry since the early 60s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? 2017-08-24 06:11:30 Post No.171297
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interesting article that’s too big to post in full, so I’ve snipped some paragraphs
but you ought to give it a read.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
JEAN M. TWENGE
SEPTEMBER 2017 ISSUE
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically,
than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
To those of us who fondly recall a more analog adolescence, this may seem foreign
and troubling. The aim of generational study, however, is not to succumb to nostalgia
for the way things used to be; it’s to understand how they are now. Some generational
changes are positive, some are negative, and many are both. More comfortable in
their bedrooms than in a car or at a party, today’s teens are physically safer than teens
have ever been. They’re markedly less likely to get into a car accident and, having less
of a taste for alcohol than their predecessors, are less susceptible to drinking’s attendant
ills.
Psychologically, however, they are more vulnerable than Millennials were: Rates of
teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It’s not an exaggeration
to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades.
Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones.
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Fifteen years later, during my own teenage years as a member of Generation X,
smoking had lost some of its romance, but independence was definitely still in. My
friends and I plotted to get our driver’s license as soon as we could, making DMV
appointments for the day we turned 16 and using our newfound freedom to escape
the confines of our suburban neighborhood. Asked by our parents, “When will you
be home?,” we replied, “When do I have to be?”
But the allure of independence, so powerful to previous generations, holds less sway
over today’s teens, who are less likely to leave the house without their parents. The
shift is stunning: 12th-graders in 2015 were going out less often than eighth-graders
did as recently as 2009.
Even driving, a symbol of adolescent freedom inscribed in American popular culture,
from Rebel Without a Cause to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has lost its appeal for today’s
teens. Nearly all Boomer high-school students had their driver’s license by the spring
of their senior year; more than one in four teens today still lack one at the end of high
school. For some, Mom and Dad are such good chauffeurs that there’s no urgent need
to drive. “My parents drove me everywhere and never complained, so I always had
rides,” a 21-year-old student in San Diego told me. “I didn’t get my license until my
mom told me I had to because she could not keep driving me to school.” She finally
got her license six months after her 18th birthday. In conversation after conversation,
teens described getting their license as something to be nagged into by their parents
a notion that would have been unthinkable to previous generations.
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But iGen teens aren’t working (or managing their own money) as much. In the late 1970s,
77 percent of high-school seniors worked for pay during the school year; by the mid-2010s,
only 55 percent did. The number of eighth-graders who work for pay has been cut in half.
These declines accelerated during the Great Recession, but teen employment has not
bounced back, even though job availability has.
Beginning with Millennials and continuing with iGen, adolescence is contracting again
but only because its onset is being delayed. Across a range of behaviors—drinking,
dating, spending time unsupervised— 18-year-olds now act more like 15-year-olds
used to, and 15-year-olds more like 13-year-olds. Childhood now stretches well into
high school.
In this, too, she is typical. The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly
every day dropped by more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2015; the decline has been
especially steep recently. It’s not only a matter of fewer kids partying; fewer kids are
spending time simply hanging out. That’s something most teens used to do: nerds and
jocks, poor kids and rich kids, C students and A students. The roller rink, the basketball
court, the town pool, the local necking spot—they’ve all been replaced by virtual spaces
accessed through apps and the web.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
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>iGen
Is there nothing apple doesn't own! But in all seriousness, there are a lot of factors contributing to the increasing rates of depression in the first world and while technology may be a big part of it, that does not mean it is the whole story. Still a good read which brings up some great points, thanks.
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US Diplomats Suffered Brain Injuries From Sonic Attacks in Cuba 2017-08-24 02:57:13 Post No.171261
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US AND CANADIAN DIPLOMATS SUFFERING FROM BRAIN DAMAGE AFTER SUSPECTED 'SONIC DEVICE' ATTACK IN CUBA
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/08/24/us-diplomats-suffered-brain-injuries-from-sonic-attacks-in-cuba-n2372555
On Sunday we learned that more than 10 U.S. diplomats and their family members were injured from sonic attacks at their diplomatic residences in Cuba—more than initially reported.
Hearing loss, nausea and headaches were among the physical symptoms of the attack, which was a result of a “sophisticated sonic weapon” that was “outside the range of audible sound.”
But some of those diplomats have been diagnosed with even more serious health conditions than first reported.
According to medical records reviewed by CBS News, some American and Canadian diplomats were diagnosed with “mild traumatic brain injury, and with likely damage to the central nervous system.”
The diplomats complained about symptoms ranging from hearing loss and nausea to headaches and balance disorders after the State Department said "incidents" began affecting them beginning in late 2016. A source familiar with these incidents says officials are investigating whether the diplomats were targets of a type of sonic attack directed at their homes, which were provided by the Cuban government. The source says reports of more attacks affecting U.S. embassy workers on the island continue.
The doctor, one of several who reviewed their cases, included a warning in the medical records about the health risks of future exposures. The diplomats underwent comprehensive audiological evaluations and a battery of other tests. (CBS News)
The State Department has called on Cuba to investigate the attacks.
"We hold the Cuban authorities responsible for finding out who is carrying out these health attacks on not just our diplomats but, as you've seen now, there are other cases with other diplomats involved," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in August.
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newer DEW, probably got it from an arms dealer. by newer i mean within the last decade. most testing illustrated that all they can do is severely disorient the target. what this article seems to be describing is a microwave gun on fucking steroids.
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how do you not notice when someone cooks your brain
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Confederate submarine crew killed by their own weapon 2017-08-24 05:24:26 Post No.171172
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A graphic reconstruction of the eight-man submarine H.L. Hunley as appeared just before its encounter with the Union ship Housatonic, which it sunk. The barrel on the end of the 16-foot spar contains 135 pounds of black powder.
The H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship, also instantly killed its own eight-man crew with the powerful explosive torpedo it carried, according to new research from a Duke University Ph.D. in biomedical engineering.
The Hunley's first and last combat mission occurred during the Civil War on Feb. 17, 1864, when it sank a 1,200-ton Union warship, the USS Housatonic, outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The Hunley delivered a blast from 135 pounds of black powder below the waterline at the stern of the Housatonic, sinking the Union ship in less than five minutes. Housatonic lost five seamen, but came to rest upright in 30 feet of water, which allowed the remaining crew to be rescued after climbing the rigging and deploying lifeboats.
The fate of the crew of the 40-foot Hunley, however, remained a mystery until 1995, when the submarine was discovered about 300 meters away from the Housatonic's resting place. Raised in 2000, the submarine is currently undergoing study and conservation in Charleston by a team of Clemson University scientists.
Initially, the discovery of the submarine only seemed to deepen the mystery. The crewmen's skeletons were found still at their stations along a hand-crank that drove the cigar-shaped craft. They suffered no broken bones, the bilge pumps hadn't been used and the air hatches were closed. Except for a hole in one conning tower and a small window that may have been broken, the sub was remarkably intact.
Speculation about their deaths has included suffocation and drowning.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/article/confederate-submarine-crew-killed-by-their-own-weapon
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But after an exhaustive three-year Duke study that involved repeatedly setting blasts near a scale model, shooting authentic weapons at historically accurate iron plate and doing a lot of math on human respiration and the transmission of blast energy, researcher Rachel Lance, a 2016 Ph.D. graduate of Duke Engineering, says it was a powerful shockwave from the Hunley's weapon that killed the crew.
In a paper* appearing Aug. 23 in PLOS ONE, Lance calculates the likelihood of immediately fatal lung trauma to be at least 85 percent for each member of the Hunley crew.
The Hunley's torpedo was not a self-propelled bomb, as we think of them now. Rather, it was a copper keg of gunpowder held ahead and slightly below the Hunley's bow on a 16-foot pole called a spar. The sub rammed this spar into the enemy ship's hull and the bomb exploded. The furthest any of the crew was from the blast was about 42 feet.
Lance says the crew died instantly from the force of the explosion travelling through the soft tissues of their bodies, especially their lungs and brains. She says the crippled sub then drifted out on a falling tide and slowly took on water before sinking.
"This is the characteristic trauma of blast victims, they call it 'blast lung,'" said Lance, who worked as a biomechanist at the U.S. Navy's base in Panama City, Florida for three years before entering graduate school at Duke. "You have an instant fatality that leaves no marks on the skeletal remains. Unfortunately, the soft tissues that would show us what happened have decomposed in the past hundred years."
Blast-lung is a phenomenon of something Lance calls "the hot chocolate effect." The shockwave of the blast would travel about 1500 meters per second in water, and 340 m/sec in air.
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"When you mix these speeds together in a frothy combination like the human lungs, or hot chocolate, it combines and it ends up making the energy go slower than it would in either one," thus amplifying the tissue damage. Lance said that when it crossed the lungs of the crewmen, the shockwave was slowed to about 30 m/s.
While a normal blast shockwave travelling in air should last less than 10 milliseconds, Lance calculated that the Hunley crew's lungs were subjected to 60 milliseconds or more of trauma.
"That creates kind of a worst case scenario for the lungs," Lance said. Shear forces would tear apart the delicate structures where the blood supply meets the air supply, filling the lungs with blood and killing the crew instantly. It's likely they also suffered traumatic brain injuries from being so close to such a large blast, Lance added.
Traumatic blast injuries have unfortunately become a familiar part of recent U.S. military history, but "the injuries experienced by soldiers in a Humvee who hit an IED are different because they are injured mostly by shrapnel and the destruction of the vehicle," Lance said. "In that case, there are shrapnel effects and effects from the damage to the vehicle that cause broken bones and other injuries. But the crew of the Hunley were protected by the hull. It was just the blast wave itself that propagated into the vessel, so their injuries would have been purely in the soft tissues, in the lungs and in the brain."
The sub's design was known to be precarious. During development and testing, the Hunley had sunk twice, drowning 13 crewmen including its namesake, Horace L. Hunley, a privateer who had the submarine built from an old ship's boiler in Alabama in 1863.
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Lance says the designers of the powderkeg weapon also may have recognized the dangers of being too close to a blast in water. Her historical research found that they stayed hundreds of yards away from test blasts of devices that were significantly smaller than the bomb that sank the Housatonic.
"Blast travels really far underwater," Lance said. "If you're practicing 200 yards away, and then you triple the size of your bomb and put it 16 feet away, you have to be at least aware that there's a possibility of injury."
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Far-right smear campaign against Antifa exposed by Bellingcat 2017-08-24 10:50:33 Post No.171476
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>Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed.
>The online campaign is using fake Antifa (an umbrella term for anti-fascist protestors) Twitter accounts to claim anti-fascists promote physically abusing women who support US President Donald Trump or white supremacy.
>Researcher Eliot Higgins of website Bellingcat found evidence that the campaign is being orchestrated on internet messageboard 4Chan by far-right sympathisers.
>One image shows the slogan "53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this", above a photograph of a woman with a bruised and cut face and an anti-fascist symbol.
>The woman pictured is actually British actress Anna Friel and the photograph was taken for a Women's Aid anti-domestic violence campaign in 2007.
>The images first started circulating on social media late on 23 August with hashtags #PunchNazis, #MakeRacistsAfraidAgain and #BashTheFash.
>Accounts appearing to belong to anti-fascist groups tweeted the memes, calling on activists to physically attack women who voted for Trump.
>Prominent far-right individuals such as Joseph Paul Watson also retweeted the memes.
>Twitter account @RockMountAntifa, claiming to be an anti-fascist group in Utah, tweeted 29 of these images in four hours.
>"She said she was right-wing, so I gave her a left hook," one read.
>However, the account shows tell-tale signs of being fake: The account was only created this month and its first tweet was on 24 August, while the only tweets posted were the 29 images.
>Eliot Higgins, who traced evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, found evidence the anti-Antifa campaign was organised on 4Chan, which has a reputation for acting as a meeting place for alt-right groups, and runs a "politically incorrect" board with extreme racist and homophobic comments.
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>Mr Higgins posted a screenshot of a call to action on the message board, which encouraged far-right sympathisers to search online for images of domestic violence, add their own slogan such as "She deserves it for being a Nazi," then post them on social media using pre-determined hashtags.
>The campaign appears to aim to discredit Antifa groups at a time of heightened tension in the United States after 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when protesting against a far-right march in Charlottesville last week.
>Following the march, US President Donald Trump accused left-wing groups of being as equally to blame as far-right protestors for the violence, drawing widespread condemnation for equating the two.
>Mr Higgins told the BBC the campaign was "pretty clumsy", with obvious signs of being orchestrated.
>"Many of the accounts tweeting the images were clearly made in the last ten hours and had very few followers," Mr Higgins explained.
>"This was a transparent and quite pathetic attempt, but I wouldn't be surprised if white nationalist groups try to mount more sophisticated attacks in the future."
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ANTIFA filmed lighting women's hair on fire, pepper spraying women in the eyes, hitting with sticks, and you think this is going to ruin your reputation? My god you are funny
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No need for a smear campaign, reality speaks for itself. Just because some people are neo-nazis doesn't give you immunity to act like human garbage. Fuck antifa.
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Our left-right media divide told through Charlottesville 2017-08-24 02:29:52 Post No.171254
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>After violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, media coverage differed on what aspect of the event to cover.
>Using analyses from Cortico and the Laboratory for Social Machines at the MIT Media Lab, we looked at what partisan Twitter users shared during and after the events of Charlottesville. We found a clear split in the story as told through partisan sources.
>Take, for example, the shared headlines following President Donald Trump’s news conference on Aug. 15 in Trump Tower.
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>On each side, one publication dominated the conversation. The New York Times and Breitbart, represented 32 percent and 26 percent, respectively, of the top links shared by each camp.
>Other stories broke through both sides, such as Vice’s viral documentary on the events in Charlottesville.
>The data targets Twitter users with clear political allegiances — specifically, politically active users that exclusively followed either a Republican or Democratic 2016 presidential candidate. The top stories shared by both camps each day from Saturday, Aug. 12, through Wednesday, Aug. 16, show the political lines drawn between core supporters of Trump and the administration’s staunchest detractors.
>Outside major media headlines, core Republicans were more likely to share videos, while Democrats were more likely to share petitions.
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>the blatant whataboutism on the bottom right
>the knee-jerk extremism on the top left
shameful on both sides t b h
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>>171254
This is what I do every day, I compare MSNBC and Fox news. They cover up the news and hide the truth with misdirection. They tell people what to think.
The real news is buried. Fox is smarter about it and better at painting narratives for months, years by highlighting stories (local or national) that support their long term goals.
You would think the daily headlines would be about republicans purposely sabotaging our only healthcare system in an effort to convince us to support a healthcare bill we don't like.
Everything else is background noise right now. This is the big con that matters. But the left is stupid and chasing russia like that matters, Pence is an even bigger puppet for McConnell.
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German magazine depicts Trump doing Nazi salute 2017-08-24 05:52:37 Post No.171183
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>German magazine shows President Trump doing a Nazi salute while draped in American flag after his repsonse to Charlottesville
>German magazine Stern shows Trump doing Nazi salute
>The President is also draped in an American flag while doing the gesture
>The cover was issued shortly after comments Trump made following the deadly events in Charlottesville, VA
>Heather Heyer, 32, was killed while demonstrating against neo-Nazis
>Trump said 'many sides' were to blame for the violence, later saying there were 'very fine people' demonstrating with the neo-Nazis
>Der Spiegel last week published an image of Trump wearing a KKK hood
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4818260/German-magazine-depicts-Trump-doing-Nazi-salute.html
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Can't a guy defend the Nazi' right to run people over while not getting called a Nazi?
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>>171183
>inb4 magazine is shut down for displaying the nazi salute on their front cover
I can see it happening in Germany.
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Exact quote in context?
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Female burglar gets no jail time. Judge tell her 'If you were a man, you'd be going to jail' 2017-08-24 12:45:32 Post No.171101
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>A mother who burgled an occupied house was told she would have been sent straight to jail if she "were a man" by a judge.
>Terry Remmer sneaked into the house of a "frightened" older man, in Washington in the early hours of August 14 last year and made off with an abundance of goods.
>However Recorder Mark Lowe, QC, handed the 23-year-old a suspended sentence - warning her that she would have been jailed if she was a man.
>Prosecutor Paul Newcombe said: "This case was an occupied dwelling house burglary and the occupant was disturbed.
>"He awoke at 5am to hear someone was creeping around the house. He heard items being moved and he was frightened.
>"The entry was gained through an insecure patio door."
>Mr Newcombe told the court how the victim was so terrified, that instead of going down to confront the burglar himself, he text his daughter to ask for her help.
>When his daughter and her boyfriend arrived, Remmer had already fled the scene.
>Mr Newcombe explained how just six hours later, the mother-of-one was spotted selling one of the stolen items, a camera, at an electrical store in Sunderland.
>Newcastle Crown Court heard how she has a number of previous convictions, including for shoplifting and theft.
>She pleaded guilty to a charge of dwelling house burglary.
>Stuart Graham, defending, said that Remmer turned to drugs after developing post traumatic stress disorder.
>But Newcastle Crown Court heard that she is now completely clean from heroin and has cut down from 125g of methadone a day to just 10g.
>Mr Graham said: "It is a tragic story. Her ex partner introduced her to heroin.
>"He persuaded her that she would feel better if she took it, but now she has conquered it.
>"She is deeply remorseful. She said that going into that house was a crazy thing to do."
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>Sentencing her to 18 months suspended for 18 months, Recorder Lowe said: "The gravity is that if you were a man you would be going to prison today.
>"But I have to take into account not only your welfare but the welfare of your child."
>Remmer, of Waterloo Walk, Washington, was also ordered to complete a 30 day rehabilitation requirement and was ordered to pay a statutory surcharge.
Another victory for feminism! Smash the Patriarchy!
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It was the homeowner's fault for not just shooting her.
Taking degenerates out when they commit violent crimes is still legal
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Remember, this took place in Britain and not the land of the free.
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"Kristen Stewart and her girlfriend Stella Maxwell have lawyered up to stop the spread of nude photos hacked from iCloud.
Selfies of Stella in a bathroom with a naked Kristen behind her have already hit several websites after the celebrity lovers became the latest stars caught up in a hacking scandal.
Stolen images featuring Tiger Woods, Miley Cyrus and singer/actress Katharine McPhee have also been leaked."
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/08/22/kristen-stewart-and-miley-cyrus-nude-pix-leaked-online
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My first post. Hope I'm following the rules correctly.
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Formatting is correct and the article you linked falls within the 48 hour time frame. Looks good, thanks for contributing!
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Thank you. Now I can breathe
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Synagogue on edge after vandalism in Alameda 2017-08-22 02:35:14 Post No.170511
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ALAMEDA — A synagogue in Alameda was vandalized this week in what some worry could be a reaction to the violence in Charlottesville and its aftermath.
>Two classroom windows at Temple Israel of Alameda on Bay Farm Island were broken sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, according to synagogue leaders.
>The attack prompted a small vigil outside the synagogue on Thursday night. Another was planned for 7 p.m. Friday, before Shabbat services.
>The vandalism came just hours after the board of directors of Temple Israel met on Wednesday and discussed the possibility that the synagogue could be targeted following the violence in Charlottesville, according to board President Genevieve Pastor-Cohen.
>“It breaks my heart and soul to be exposed to this type of mindless and senseless action especially aimed at the community I (we) love,” Pastor-Cohen said in a Thursday message to the congregation.
>Both Alameda police and Harbor Bay Security, which patrols the neighborhood, were contacted following the vandalism, she said.
>It was not immediately known if police were treating the vandalism as a possible hate crime.
>The incident also came the same week that the city of Alameda posted a statement on its website, affirming its support for tolerance.
>“Our city policies foster an atmosphere of inclusion and respect for all,” the statement said. “Alamedans cherish and respect freedom of speech and the wide range of viewpoints and opinions that make this community so unique. But we reject hate, violence, and bigotry. Instead, our community supports and empowers one another.”
>On Friday, Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) and Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Marin and Sonoma counties) issued a statement, describing the vandalism as “alarming.”
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/08/18/synagogue-vandalized-in-alameda-in-wake-of-charlottesville/
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>“We were deeply troubled to learn Temple Israel in Alameda was the target of vandalism yesterday,” the lawmakers said. “This is even more alarming with the recent rise of anti-Semitic attacks throughout ur country. We stand with the congregation and the people of Alameda. We hope that police find the vandals responsible for this destruction and bring them to justice.”
>Pastor-Cohen noted that a security plan has been in the works at the synagogue since February.
>“With this current incident, we will re-examine it to ensure our community is protected and safe from harm especially with our High Holy Days coming upon us,” she said.
>About 100 families attend Temple Israel, which is located at 3183 Mecartney Road. It will celebrate its centennial in 2020.
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Have the majority of these been linked to black lives matter and other alt left groups?
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>The vandalism came just hours after the board of directors of Temple Israel met on Wednesday and discussed the possibility that the synagogue could be targeted following the violence in Charlottesville, according to board President Genevieve Pastor-Cohen
"Hey rabbi, whatcha doin?"
But seriously, this smells like insurance fraud. A temple on an island in Southern California being targetted by racists because of a protest literally on the opposite end of the country? Right after a meeting discussing how the temple could be targetted by these racists?
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Trump celebrates solar eclipse by looking up without special viewing glasses 2017-08-22 12:39:18 Post No.170349
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>Like many Americans, President Trump on Monday gazed at the first solar eclipse in a century to cross the continental United States, coast to coast. But at one point he appeared to ignore precautions that scientists and doctors warned were necessary to protect people's eyes during the celestial event.
>Trump emerged on the Truman Balcony of the White House with first lady Melania and son Barron shortly before the eclipse reached its apex in Washington. He waved at the crowd and responded to a reporter's question — “How's the view?” — with a thumbs up, according to the White House press pool.
>Then he tilted his head upward and pointed toward the sky, prompting a White House aide standing beneath the balcony to shout, “Don't look,” according to the press pool. It is unclear if Trump looked directly at the sun, but photos of the moment have already become an object of derision.
>As Blaine Friedlander wrote in The Washington Post, the first rule of enjoying a solar eclipse is to never look directly at the sun without eclipse glasses, because it could damage the eyes, advice that Trump's daughter Ivanka also gave her Twitter followers.
>According to NASA, "Looking directly at the sun is unsafe except during the brief total phase of a solar eclipse ('totality'), when the moon entirely blocks the sun’s bright face, which will happen only within the narrow path of totality.
>"The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as 'eclipse glasses' ... or hand-held solar viewers."
>As The Post's Amy Wang reported, staring at the sun can cause a condition called solar retinopathy, which leads to a decrease or a distortion of a person's central vision, according to Sveta Kavali, an ophthalmologist and retina specialist at Saint Louis University.
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>“That damage is typically irreversible, and there's no treatment for this,” Kavali said in a Saint Louis University video about viewing the eclipse safely.
>Trump eventually put on special viewing glasses and watched the solar eclipse for about 90 seconds.
>Also spotted on the Truman Balcony on Monday afternoon were Ivanka Trump, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and counselor Kellyanne Conway.
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So I guess the Russia story is going to get swept under the rug in favor of
>"Trump does the exact same thing that millions of other Americans are doing!"
For fuck sake, there are people with real lives and real jobs to do, not everyone can take a day off work at the volunteer vegetable garden and go drop acid to watch the solar eclipse with $100 eclipse glasses they bought through an advertisement masquerading as a Reddit thread.
Is it too much to comprehend that a construction worker or firefighter might be too busy serving the community to put on glasses to view a celestial event? Maybe they wanted to feel like a part of it so they glanced up a few times and squinted at the sun.
President Trump is too focused of a man for eclipse glasses, he was probably practicing his ability to watch a golf ball cross in front of the sun.
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>$100
they're literally 2 fucking dollars. If he can't afford that then I guess Trump really isn't a billionaire is he?
(actually he did have glasses and took them off at some point)
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Wal-Mart Applies for Patent for Blimp-Style Floating Warehouse 2017-08-19 09:54:09 Post No.169895
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has opened a new front in its battle with Amazon.com Inc.
The world’s largest retailer has applied for a U.S. patent for a floating warehouse that could make deliveries via drones, which would bring products from the aircraft down to shoppers’ homes.
The blimp-style machine would fly at heights between 500 feet and 1,000 feet (as much as 305 meters), contain multiple launching bays, and be operated autonomously or by a remote human pilot. Amazon was granted a patent for a similar vessel in April 2016.
The migration to the skies represents the latest volley in a clash between Wal-Mart and Amazon to grab shoppers’ attention, loyalty and dollars. In the process, the companies are increasingly treading on the other’s turf: Amazon is opening physical stores and agreed to pay $13.7 billion for upscale grocer Whole Foods Market Inc. Wal-Mart, meanwhile, has beefed up its e-commerce business through acquisitions and offers like free two-day shipping.
An unmanned airborne warehouse -- laden with drones -- could help retailers lower the costs of fulfilling online orders, particularly the so-called “last mile” to a customer’s house, which is usually handled by a local or national logistics company. To avoid that expense, Wal-Mart and other retailers often encourage shoppers to pick up those orders at the store, where they might grab a few additional items. Earlier this week, Target Corp. agreed to acquire a software company that coordinates local deliveries.
“The core challenge of traffic and driving distance in any major city or in a very rural location can be helped by a floating warehouse,” said Brandon Fletcher, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. “Movable warehouses are a really nice idea because any flexible part of a logistics system allows it to be more efficient when demand varies wildly.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-18/wal-mart-s-amazon-war-takes-to-skies-with-floating-warehouses
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The e-commerce world suffers from highly variable demand and more creative solutions are needed.”
Town to Town
A movable warehouse could serve a wider distribution area, Fletcher said, compared with a traditional warehouse that can only fill orders within a fixed driving distance. The airship could fly to one town and release a flock of drones to deliver packages, after which the drones would return to the vessel and restock while it flew to the next town. Such a system would be more efficient than having the drones fly back to a central distribution hub, according to research firm CB Insights.
“There are numerous ways to distribute and deliver products,” according to Wal-Mart’s patent application. “Getting the product to a delivery location, however, can cause undesirable delays, can add cost and reduce revenue.”
Wal-Mart’s application stands a good chance of getting approved as it goes into more detail about the implementation of a gas-filled aircraft than Amazon’s patent, which is a more general description of the concept of airborne-delivery systems, according to Khaled Fekih-Romdhane, managing partner at patent-licensing firm Longhorn IP.
This isn’t the first time Wal-Mart has shadowed Amazon’s intellectual property. In October, it filed a patent application for a web-based system similar to Amazon’s Dash buttons, which can quickly reorder household goods like paper towels or razor blades. The technology could also gather shopper data, such as how often a product is used and at what times of day.
In recent years, Wal-Mart has significantly stepped up its patent filings, many of which focus on web development and easing shoppers’ journey through the store. The company has also filed a patent for in-store drones that would ferry products from the backroom to the sales floor.
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This is straight out of the super villain handbook
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Amazon and Walmart are going to war in the sky with swarm armies on Zeppelins what a time to be alive.
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BREAKING: Explosion hits central Kiev on Ukrainian Independence Day 2017-08-24 12:36:43 Post No.171235
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BREAKING: Explosion hits central Kiev on Ukrainian Independence Day, reports of two wounded - @HromadskeUA
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kiev-attack-ukraine-explosion-victims-injured-capital-parliament-independence-day-a7910366.html
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Lost Wallet Stolen in Naperville Used to Buy Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards 2017-08-24 12:42:43 Post No.171099
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A person who picked up a lost wallet last month in the western suburbs didn’t exactly do the right thing, choosing to use the credit cards inside to buy Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/lost-wallet-stolen-in-naperville-used-to-buy-yu-gi-oh-cards-439848773.html
The male, whose age was unknown, found the wallet about 11 a.m. July 7 in the 2500 block of West 75th Street in Naperville, according to Naperville police.
He took credit cards from the wallet and used them to buy Yu-Gi-Oh! cards at businesses in Naperville and Oswego, police said.
Anyone recognizing him should call police at (630) 420-6006.
Naperville Crime Stoppers are offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to an arrest.
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since when is it a crime to find money on the ground? it's the fault of the retard that dropped their wallet.
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Also the fact he did not cancel his cards
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>you must be 18 years old to use this website