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Can anyone tell me decent software for Windows or Linux at least, which gives you live news - like some professional tool for broadacsters, journalists and correspondents etc? So far I've just found this (other than RSS feed applications of course) but it won't install on my Win10 machine . http://www.newsware.com/nw1

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-germany-california-idUSKBN1910E0

Germany is teaming up with California to cooperate on tackling climate change following the U.S. government's decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement.

Europe's largest economy and the biggest U.S. state in economic terms will back the work of the "Under 2 Coalition," which includes cities, regional governments and states, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said on Saturday.

"We cannot achieve our climate goals without the engagement of local and regional communities. That has become even clearer after the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement," Hendricks said after agreeing on the joint approach with California Governor Edmund Brown in San Francisco.

"California and Germany unite the world leaders in the fight against climate change, the existential threat of our time," Brown said in a statement released by the German ministry.

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 Paris agreement drew anger and condemnation from world leaders and industry.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week pledged her country's continued commitment to the agreement, calling the U.S. decision "very regrettable."

Hendricks said the German government would ensure that cities, communities and regions played an important role in the U.N. climate change conference in Bonn in November.

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>be ukrainian president
>ride at full speed throug the land without warnings (during soviet times they warned at least)
>hit the bike
>dont stop and ignore whole shit
>following police doesnt bother to stop and look what happened.

>massive ignore in western medias.

top kek. President Valzman loves to ride bulletproof heav cars.

http://informator.news/kortezh-poroshenko-sbyl-mototsyklysta-na-zakarpate/

https://youtu.be/qudotCp3xgs

https://youtu.be/SxBN8r6s11c

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http://gizmodo.com/newsweek-writer-im-not-horny-im-just-researching-tent-1795930932

What we know to be true: Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald had a 212-page hentai comic called B-Chiku open on his computer.

We know this because Eichenwald accidentally left the tab open while tweeting a photo of his computer screen in an unrelated attempt to bark down an anti-semitic troll. While enjoying such reading material is his right, what followed was an excellent demonstration of how not to react after making such an error online.

Some 14 hours later, Eichenwald issued a rambling, four-part tweetstorm explaining why the tab was open in the first place, reproduced in full below:

Sigh. Ok, I’m a dumbass. Believe it or not, my kids & I were trying to convince my wife that “tentacle porn” existed. I tried to find some to show her it was real. But I couldn’t find any - & ended up w/ this. My family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true. While hentai (until now, I thought it was called manga) was on screen as part of search to prove 2 my wife tentacle porn exists, what diff would it make? Seriously, while I don’t see the appeal of cartoon parn, porn is a multi-billion industry. Pple obviously look at it.

Out of respect for Eichenwald’s stated wishes, we won’t be reaching out to see if he enjoyed jerking it to B-Chiku.

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This bitch made lying sack of shit avoided the death penalty because of one stupid bitch on the jury.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/courts/2014/05/27/david-bell-death-penalty/9623733/

women jurors thinking with their clit LOL

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/betsy-devos-refuses-to-rule-out-giving-funds-to-schools-that-discriminate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

>Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, on Wednesday fiercely defended budget plans to spend $1.4 billion on the Trump administration’s expanded school choice agenda, but refused to say whether her office would withhold funds from private schools that discriminate against students.

>In her first testimony to Congress since a bruising confirmation hearing in January, Ms. DeVos appeared unflappable as she told members of a House Appropriations subcommittee that the budget sought to empower states and parents to make decisions about students’ educations.

>“We cannot allow any parent to feel their child is trapped in a school that isn’t meeting his or her unique needs,” Ms. DeVos told lawmakers.

>But Democrats derided the education spending blueprint for the 2018 fiscal year as tone deaf to low-income and working-class Americans. Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the panel, called it “cruel” and “inhumane.”

>The budget plan would eliminate more than 20 education programs and redirect funding to expanding school choice initiatives. Those include a $250 million program to give students publicly funded scholarships to attend private schools.

>But Ms. DeVos said states, not the Education Department, would decide whether to withhold federal money from private schools that are neither required to serve a diverse pool of students nor held publicly accountable for doing so.

>Earlier this week, in a speech to school choice advocates, Ms. DeVos said that state participation in the voucher program and other federally funded school choice initiatives would be optional. But, she said, states that chose not to participate would be making a “terrible mistake.”

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Russian military intelligence attempted to cyber-attack a U.S. voting software supplier and more than 100 local election officials in the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election, The Intercept reported Monday. While there is no indication that voting machines or the result of the election were tampered with, this is the first report of its type to raise serious questions about whether Russian hackers attempted to breach the voting system.

>According to an NSA document acquired by The Intercept, Russian military intelligence cyber-attacked a U.S. voting software supplier, using information gained in that attack to “launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.”

>“Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions,” the document states. The operation gave the hackers “persistent access” to the targeted computers, allowing them to “survey the victims for items of interest.”

>The NSA document did not reach a conclusion about whether the interference had any impact on the outcome of the election. “It is unknown,” the NSA notes, “whether the aforementioned spear-phishing deployment successfully compromised the intended victims, and what potential data could have been accessed by the cyber actor.”

http://www.newsweek.com/who-won-election-nsa-report-suggests-russia-might-have-hacked-voting-system-621213

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https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/

>The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood. It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document:

>Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.

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http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read1

>Anyone can amass an exorbitant number of Twitter followers. You don't even have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. The comedian Joe Mande currently has a healthy 1.01 million followers, but his bio contains a caveat: "twitter is trash, facebook's the devil, i bought a million followers for like $400 none of this shit matters antarctica is melting."

>Mande even explained the stunt last November in The New Yorker. "The simplest way to tell who’s winning the Twitter game is by counting followers," he wrote. "The biggest celebrity accounts—Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga—seem to have millions of followers. But in 2012 I learned that only a portion of those are real humans; some are 'bots,' artificially created to boost an account’s popularity. Immediately, I knew that I had found my calling."

>Because Donald Trump is the president of the United States and the most famous person on the planet, one wouldn't think he would need to employ a bot to boost his Twitter following. It appears, however, he might have done just that. As screenwriter John Niven pointed out Tuesday morning, Trump's Twitter account saw an unusual spike in followers over the weekend, many of which appear to have been created artificially.

>Trump currently has 31 million followers and, sure enough, if you browse through them you will find an unusual number of tweet-less, picture-less accounts that joined the service in May 2017. If you're still curious, you can enter Trump's handle, @realDonaldTrump, into Twitter Audit, a service that assesses the authenticity of one's followers, and find that only 51 percent of Trump's are real.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-sanctions-idUSKBN18Z2ZU

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused Qatar of being a "high level" sponsor of terrorism, potentially hindering the U.S. Department of State's efforts to ease heightening tensions and a blockade of the Gulf nation by Arab states and others.

"The nation of Qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level," Trump told reporters at the White House.

"So we had a decision to make, do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action. We have to stop the funding of terrorism. I decided ... the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding," Trump said, adding that he helped plan the Qatar action with Arab leaders after a recent summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A senior administration official told Reuters earlier this week that the United States had no indication from the Saudis or Emiratis in Riyadh during Trump's visit last month that they would sever ties with Qatar.

The crisis is a major diplomatic test for the United States, which is a close ally of countries on both sides. Trump has called key players in the region since they severed ties with Qatar on Monday.

The Trump administration has given mixed signals on whether to isolate Qatar or bring it into talks with other Gulf nations.

The confrontation in the region intensified on Friday as Arab states tightened their squeeze on Qatar by putting dozens of figures with links to the country on terrorism blacklists, while Qatar's ally Turkey rushed to its side with plans to send troops.

The Pentagon said the blockade was hindering U.S. ability to plan for long-term operations in the region. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is home to more than 11,000 U.S. and coalition forces and an important base for the fight against Islamic State. It is the U.S. Air Force's largest base in the region.

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https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/levin-backfire-did-comey-incriminate-himself

>Democrats on the Hill and in the media anxiously anticipated former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before Congress Thursday, in hopes that his statements would further damage President Trump. It appears, however, that the whole episode has backfired. Instead of damaging Trump, Comey's testimony raised serious questions about his own handling of classified information.

>"Comey's a leaker," Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin said on his radio show Thursday night.

>Levin went on to explain: "Comey said he provided a copy of this key memo — which is in fact government information and property — to a private citizen ... for the purpose of leaking its contents to the media, which was done. But the special counsel ... has also sought and/or received the memos.

>"Comey's provision of his notes to a third party who leaked parts of it to the media could well be obstruction [of justice]," Levin continued.

>By Comey's own admission, his motives for leaking the notes were to provoke a special counsel investigation. "The media like to talk about obstruction of justice, so talk about that," Levin said.

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The Justice Department said US President Donald Trump is not in violation of the emoluments clause, a constitutional law that prohibits federal officials from accepting payments or gifts from foreign governments without approval from Congress.

The emoluments clause has been a subject of contention since before Trump took office, due in part to his labyrinthine business empire that watchdogs and critics said would entangle Trump in a web of conflicts of interest as president.

Lawyers for the DOJ argued that the emoluments clause does not apply to fair-market commercial transactions, such as fees incurred from hotels and golf club memberships, licensing payments, and office rent, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

Before he took office, Trump promised his businesses would annually donate its profits received from foreign customers at his hotels to the US Treasury Department. The Trump Organization said earlier this year that the first such donation would come in March 2018, according to Politico.

The Justice Department is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by several plaintiffs, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group that alleges Trump's business dealings run afoul of the Constitution.

"Plaintiffs read these Emolument Clauses expansively to cover any benefit derived from any business dealings with a foreign, federal, or state instrumentality by an entity in which the President has a financial interest," the Justice Department said in a memorandum. The DOJ also argued that the Republican-controlled Congress, not the courts, should decide whether Trump is violating the emoluments clause.

CREW filed its suit against Trump in January, alleging that foreign diplomats and officials could seek to curry favor with Trump by patronizing Trump-connected businesses.

http://www.businessinsider.com/did-trump-violate-emoluments-clause-2017-6

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/jeff-sessions-kislyak-meeting/index.html

>Former FBI Director James Comey told senators in a closed hearing Thursday afternoon that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have had a third interaction with Russia's ambassador to the US, according to people familiar with the briefing.

>Comey explained that the possibility there could have been another encounter was not something he wanted to discuss in the earlier public hearing, according to a source familiar with the briefing.

>The information is based in part on Russian-to-Russian intercepts where the meeting was discussed, three sources familiar with the information tell CNN.

>But the sources said it is possible the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, was exaggerating the extent of the encounter.

>CNN previously reported exclusively that congressional investigators are examining whether Sessions had an additional private meeting with Russia's ambassador during the presidential campaign, according to Republican and Democratic Hill sources and intelligence officials briefed on the investigation.

>The investigators were focusing on whether such a meeting took place April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, where then-candidate Donald Trump was delivering his first major foreign policy address.

>In response to that report, the Justice Department said there was no meeting at the Mayflower.

>"The facts haven't changed; the then-Senator did not have any private or side conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel," Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said.

>The Justice Department reiterated on Thursday no such meeting took place.

An embattled attorney general

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/9/tim-kaine-loretta-lynch-comment-comey-irrelevant/

Sen. Tim Kaine argued Friday that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging former FBI Director James Comey to call the Hillary Clinton email case a “matter” is no longer an issue of concern.

“I thought that was irrelevant [at] the hearing yesterday — 2016 is over, this is about 2017,” The Virginia Democrat said on CNN. “2016 is in the rearview mirror, so now what we’re talking about is the sitting president of the United States and whether the admin took an action to fire the FBI director in a historic way, for a desire to take the pressure off the Russia investigation.”

During his testimony Thursday to the Senate Intelligence committee, Mr. Comey said then-Attorney General Lynch directed him to refer to the FBI probe of Democratic presidential candidate Mrs. Clinton’s email scandal as a “matter” instead of as an investigation, which he said confused and concerned him.

But Mr. Kaine said what he found to be more pressing was President Trump’s reason for firing Mr. Comey.

“What is his intent in taking that action? And yesterday’s testimony laid out very disturbing pieces of evidence about what that intent was,” he said. “I think this hearing is going to provide ample fodder for the ongoing Senate investigation but also for the special prosecutor.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/07/kansas-republicans-raise-taxes-rebuking-their-gop-governors-real-live-experiment-in-conservative-policy/?utm_term=.938decb453f7&wpisrc=nl_wonk&wpmm=1

>In a decisive repudiation of conservative tax-cutting philosophy, Kansas Republicans voted this week to reverse deep tax cuts enacted by Gov. Sam Brownback (R), a move that lays bare the challenges of one-party control and the risks for Republicans in Washington pursuing a similar policy at the national level.

>The vote by lawmakers in Kansas, which came late Tuesday, followed years of frustration about the damaging impacts of tax cuts on Kansas’s state government. With huge Republican majorities, Brownback had pursued deep reductions in tax rates early in his administration, calling them a “real live experiment” in conservative governance, and tried to veto the legislation rolling them back.

>Yet the Kansas legislature’s decision to override his veto could reverberate in many statehouses, where Republicans dominate, and in Washington, where President Trump and congressional allies have made passing similarly deep tax cuts a central pillar of their agenda for this year. The tax reductions in Kansas had not delivered the economic growth Brownback had promised but caused massive holes in the state’s budget and led to unpopular spending cuts in areas such as education spending.

>“Kansas has had a turn to the far right, and we seem to be centering ourselves,” said Rep. Melissa Rooker, a Republican who represents a suburb of Kansas City and voted for the tax increase.