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Portland train stabbings: FBI looking into possible hate crime charges
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>Authorities investigating the deadly stabbings on a Portland commuter train Friday are looking into the suspect's background and trying to determine whether the man will be charged with federal hate crimes.
>As of Saturday, Jeremy Joseph Christian was being held on suspicion of state crimes, including aggravated murder, for which the death penalty is a possible sentence.
>The FBI, which has joined the Portland police-led investigation, said evidence still needs to be gathered.
>"It's too early to say whether last night's violence was an act of domestic terrorism or a federal hate crime," Renn Cannon, the special agent in charge of the Portland office of the FBI, told reporters Saturday.
>The killings -- in which two men were fatally stabbed and another was wounded -- came after Christian allegedly started yelling what "would best be characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions" toward two women in a Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) light-rail train, Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson said.
>Witnesses described the women, one of whom was wearing a hijab, as Muslim.
>As two men tried to calm him down, Christian, 35, stabbed them and one other man, police said. The two men who died were identified Saturday as Ricky John Best , 53, of Happy Valley, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, of Portland.
>Best died at the scene, and Meche died at a hospital, police said.
>The third man, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, is still at a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening wounds, police added.
>Christian was charged with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of attempted murder, all felonies. He also was charged with misdemeanors: two counts of second-degree intimidation and a count of being a felon in possession of a restricted weapon, police said.
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>His felony convictions -- for robbery and kidnapping -- came in 2002, state corrections department records show.
>He was being held Saturday at the Multnomah County jail without opportunity for bail. His arraignment was set for Tuesday in county court, police said.
>"We don't yet know what angle the investigation is going to take," Portland police Chief Mike Marshman said.
Confrontations last month
>Christian appeared to cause a stir at a rally for free speech in Portland last month, shouting at people and at one point blurting a racial epithet, videos from reporter Doug Brown of The Portland Mercury weekly newspaper show.
>Christian, wearing a cap and draped in a Revolutionary War-era flag, identifies himself in one of the videos from the rally at Portland's Montavilla Park on April 29.
>One video shows him arriving with a baseball bat, which he handed over to one of the police officers who approached him.
>The videos show him shouting at people, at one point saying the N-word, as police officers separated him from others.
>"I'm a nihilist," he says at one point. "This is my safe place."
>Saturday, police said detectives are looking at Christian's background, "including the information publicly available about the suspect's extremist ideology."
>The stabbings happened hours before the start of Ramadan, a monthlong Muslim holy period of prayer, fasting and charity. Portland, Oregon's most populous city with 640,000 residents, has about 50,000 Muslims, The Oregonian newspaper reported.
Police locate women
>Police have contacted the women, who left the scene, but Simpson wouldn't discuss whether they have been interviewed.
>He said detectives want to interview others who took off. It is unclear how many people were on the train, but officials said at the time of day it would have been crowded.
>The victims apparently didn't know Christian and were trying to protect the women, police said.
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>Witnesses said one was stabbed in the neck, CNN affiliate KOIN reported.
'Hate is evil'
>Following the attack, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on President Donald Trump to denounce "rising bigotry" and acts of violence against Muslims.
>"President Trump must speak out personally against the rising tide of Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry and racism in our nation that he has provoked through his numerous statements, policies and appointments that have negatively impacted minority communities," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said.
>Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon took to Twitter to decry the stabbings.
>"Terrible tragedy on Portland's Max Train," he posted. "Champions of justice risked and lost their lives. Hate is evil."
>Gov. Kate Brown called for Oregonians to come together.
>"Let's not let hate and fear divide us. Instead let's take the example of the good Samaritans who sacrificed their lives for the safety of others and unite for a kinder, gentler Oregon," she said.
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Gotta love the confirmation that racists are full on CCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLIIING IN MY SSSSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIINNNN.
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WashPost Kushner Story Revealed Fake by Insider 2017-05-31 01:29:11 Post No.145259
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WashPost Kushner Story Revealed Fake by Insider
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/29/jared-kushner-didnt-suggest-russian-communications-channel-in-meeting-source-says.html
A December meeting between Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and one of the senior advisers in the Trump administration, and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower focused on Syria, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Monday.
During the meeting the Russians broached the idea of using a secure line between the Trump administration and Russia, not Kushner, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News. That follows a recent report from The Washington Post alleging that Kushner wanted to develop a secure, private line with Russia.
The idea of a permanent back channel was never discussed, according to the source. Instead, only a one-off for a call about Syria was raised in the conversation.
In addition, the source told Fox News the December meeting focused on Russia’s contention the Obama administration’s policy on Syria was deeply flawed.
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No surprise
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CNN:
>according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.
FOX:
>a source familiar with the matter
One fake story to counter another.
Neither one really reports the news, they just latch onto anything that supports the narrative that they're trying to push.
Playing both sides against the middle.
Does anyone still take anything from MSM seriously?
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>>145266
It's like annonymous source propoganda wars
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Republican lawmaker decides he's had enough of the press's shit, bodyslams reporter. 2017-05-25 07:48:23 Post No.143204
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Republican lawmaker decides he's had enough of the press's shit, bodyslams reporter.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/greg-gianforte-bodyslams-reporter-ben-jacobs-montana
>The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he is alleged to have slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election, breaking his glasses and shouting, “Get the hell out of here.”
>Ben Jacobs, a Guardian political reporter, was asking Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire endorsed by Donald Trump, about the Republican healthcare plan when the candidate allegedly “body-slammed” the reporter.
>“He took me to the ground,” Jacobs said by phone from the back of an ambulance. “I think he wailed on me once or twice ... He got on me and I think he hit me ... This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me in reporting on politics.”
>Fox News reporter Alicia Acuna, field producer Faith Mangan and photographer Keith Railey witnessed the incident at Gianforte’s campaign headquarters in Montana, according to an account published by foxnews.com. After Jacobs asked Gianforte his question, Acuna wrote: “Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him.
>“Faith, Keith and I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the man, as he moved on top the reporter and began yelling something to the effect of ‘I’m sick and tired of this!’ ... To be clear, at no point did any of us who witnessed this assault see Jacobs show any form of physical aggression toward Gianforte, who left the area after giving statements to local sheriff’s deputies.”
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>it's okay when white people chimpout.
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>>143204
>aspiring politician already tired of the idea of being accountable
lol
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>>143206
>aspiring politician already tired of the idea of being accountable
Should have gone with this in the title field instead.
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FUCK YOU. WE ARE FEED UP 2017-05-19 03:39:17 Post No.141235
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The President of Moldova urged the European Union to freeze the aid package in the amount of 100 million euros.
Moldovan President Igor Dodon accused the European Union of providing "geopolitical support" to his country to keep pro-European governments in power in Chisinau.
In an interview with Radio Liberty, Dodon said that he appealed to the EU officials to freeze the aid package to Moldova in the amount of 100 million euros. He said he welcomed the EU decision of 16 May to postpone a minimum of one month's vote on the provision of financial assistance to Chisinau.
"Moldova gets a lot of support from our foreign partners, and I'm grateful to them for that, but very often it was geopolitical support, not intended to improve the lives of Moldovans, but intended to keep a number of corrupt officials and oligarchic governments in power," Dodon said.
As Korrespondent.net reported earlier, Dodon said earlier that the signing of Moldova's association agreement with the EU in 2014 was a mistake. He is also against Moldova's entry into NATO.
At the same time, Igor Dodon strongly emphasizes the importance of partnership with Russia. In March, he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked him to conclude an agreement with Moldova on dual citizenship.
Also, Dodon was the only foreign leader who visited this year's military parade in Moscow on May 9.
http://korrespondent.net/world/3853195-dodon-otkazalsia-ot-fynansovoi-pomoschy-evrosouiza
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Yugoslavia??? Eat shit
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So in the spring of 2012, the sides finally begin to line up. A startling development for the future of European Union power.
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>>142503
>Stand United
>Divide and Conquer
I don't understand why nations want to dissolve, it's like they want to bend over and suck the dick of someone else while taking it in the rear all because they can't handle a little adversity. This Russian globalization is now becoming a big thing and people spout non-sense about the NWO... The NWO being the EU and US allies all maintaining a relationship but staying as individual entities that can succeed at anytime.
The game of thrones is not for the common man. A, loosely defined, ruling class does exist for a reason.
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Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners 2017-05-28 03:28:09 Post No.144605
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Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners
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>Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.
>"The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I've experienced that in the last few days," Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany.
>"We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands," she added.
>While Germany and Europe would strive to remain on good terms with America and Britain, "we have to fight for our own destiny", Merkel went on.
>Special emphasis was needed on warm relations between Berlin and newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron, she said.
>The chancellor had just returned from a G7 summit which wound up Saturday without a deal between the US and the other six major advanced nations on upholding the 2015 Paris climate accords.
>Merkel on Saturday labelled the result of the "six against one" discussion "very difficult, not to say very unsatisfactory".
>Trump offered a more positive assessment on Twitter Sunday, writing: "Just returned from Europe. Trip was a great success for America. Hard work but big results!"
>The US president had earlier tweeted that he would reveal whether or not the US would stick to the global emissions deal -- which he pledged to jettison on the campaign trail -- only next week.
>On a previous leg of his first trip abroad as president, Trump had repeated past criticism of NATO allies for failing to meet the defensive alliance's military spending commitment of two percent of GDP.
>Observers noted that he neglected to publicly endorse the pact's Article Five, which guarantees that member countries will aid the others they are attacked.
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seems to me like she's primarily advocating a message of self-sufficiency, not simply just "fuck drumpf xD"
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Factoring that Merkel is a die-hard advocate of transatlantic partnership and the US have been the most important ally since 1949 this is rather what >>144898
says. She's merely propagating Trump's wish of European self-sufficiency. In practical terms it will mean a political push for a European military force and a slowly growing defence budget and diplomatically defending the massive export surplus at the same time.
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>>144605
This is a good thing? This should be supported by Trump supporters as well as the other side of the table.
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GOP's Dodd-Frank rewrite would strip consumer bureau of power 2017-05-30 01:57:08 Post No.145063
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A sweeping Republican rewrite of the Dodd-Frank Act would significantly reduce the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) power and subjected it to greater White House and congressional oversight.
>The bill would turn the CFPB into an executive agency with a removable director, drastically limited powers and a budget controlled by Congress.
>House Republicans are preparing major changes to the Dodd-Frank Act, the post-recession banking regulation long reviled by the GOP. House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) will release a comprehensive rewrite of the bill by the end of April, a Republican committee aide said Tuesday.
>President Trump said Tuesday morning that Republicans are working on "a major elimination of the horrendous Dodd-Frank regulations, keeping some obviously, but getting rid of many."
>The new version of Hensarling’s 2016 CHOICE Act would rename the CFPB as the Consumer Financial Opportunity Agency and rein in its powers, according to an outline sent to Financial Services Committee Republicans. These changes in the new version of Hensarling's bill are similar to those proposed in a February memo from the chairman.
>The CFPB would lose its independent agency status, and its director would be fireable at will by the president. The president would also appoint and remove a deputy director, and the new bureau would be limited to enforcing current laws, losing its power to crack down on “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.”
>The original CHOICE Act would have created a bipartisan commission to run the bureau, which Republicans have long called an unaccountable, overreaching burden on the United States economy. Both versions would subject the CFPB to the congressional appropriations process, meaning lawmakers could defund the agency entirely.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/328387-gop-dodd-frank-rewrite-would-strip-consumer-bureau-power-give-trump-control-of
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>House Republicans have dialed up pressure on Trump to fire CFPB Director Richard Cordray, following a federal court ruling the bureau's structure unconstitutional. Financial Services Committee Republicans excoriated Cordray during his appearance at a hearing last week during which Hensarling asked why Cordray hadn't be fired yet.
>Under Hensarling's new bill, the CFPB would also be barred from monitoring financial markets, and an Office of Economics would review all rules the bureau issues. The agency would no longer be allowed to publish its database of consumers’ complaints about companies, and all Dodd-Frank mandated advisory boards would be eliminated.
>The new bill would also make substantial changes to how federal regulators monitor the largest banks and financial firms. Such firms would only have to submit to federal stress tests once every two years instead of annually, and would have to do an internal stress test each year.
>The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would no longer be included in the stress test process, which would be mandated to include certain cost-benefit analysis of trade-offs between credit availability and financial risk. The bill would also create criminal penalties for leaking information about stress tests.
>“Chairman Hensarling looks forward to working with the President and his administration to eliminate Dodd-Frank and replace it with the Financial CHOICE Act," said Hensarling spokeswoman Sarah Rozier. "Our plan, which will be released in the next few weeks, is a bold and visionary plan that protects consumers by holding Wall Street and Washington accountable, ends bailouts, and unleashes America’s economic potential.”
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All part of making America great again.
inb4 Hillary shills are butt hurt over this too.
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>>145090
I thought maga was about reducing government and government regulation. Doesn't the change from an independent org to a govt org the opposite?
Not shilling, not american, just confused.
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Donald Trump set to reverse Obama policies on Cuba 2017-05-30 01:11:12 Post No.145057
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Donald Trump set to reverse Obama policies on Cuba
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Back in January, Obama announced that an end to a policy that gave Cubans who reached the U.S. preferential treatment on immigration, also stating there would be an increase in cooperation with Cuba following an agreement on a number of issues including terrorism and human trafficking.
"Effective immediately, Cuban nationals who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify for humanitarian relief will be subject to removal," Obama said in January. "By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries."
But his decision prompted ire from a number of Republicans including Diaz-Balart.
Speaking at the time of Obama’s decision, Diaz-Balart said: “With just eight days left in his administration, President Obama has found one more way to frustrate the democratic aspirations of the Cuban people and provide yet another shameful concession to the Castro regime.”
He is now hoping to see Trump reverse such policies, and appears to be confident the president will do so, telling the Daily Caller he was“1,000 percent sure the president is going to deliver on his commitment.”
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So trump isn't actually set on doing anything, Diaz-Balart just felt the need to open his mouth.
Cool. Fake news.
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Diaz-Balart, according to The Hill, was one of a group of congressmen that agitated for the reversal of Obama era policies, which the Trump administration appears to have agreed with and is expected to announce early June.
http://thehill.com/policy/international/335547-report-trump-to-reverse-obamas-cuba-policy
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>>145057
>Illegal Cubans who do not qualify for humanitarian relief will have to go back
Reasonable and logical
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Knixwear’s teen line aims to make girls the bosses of their periods 2017-05-27 10:33:41 Post No.144281
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Knixwear’s teen line aims to make girls the bosses of their periods
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When Joanna Griffiths launched Toronto-based Knixwear in 2013 her products were considered taboo. Absorbent panties designed for women to wear during their periods instead of pads or tampons were hard for buyers to wrap their heads around.
“I think we were maybe a little bit ahead of the time in terms of messaging . . . Over the past couple years, periods and this whole topic has had a movement and has really made its way into the mainstream,” 33-year-old Griffiths said.
Initially, she marketed her brand as “activewear” because of the lack of openness when discussing periods with buyers and the restrictive, sometimes negative, language associated with menstruation.
But the underwear, which can soak up 15 mL of liquid, or the equivalent of roughly two regular tampons, have proven so popular — the company is on track to do $20 million in sales this year — that Griffiths is launching a line for teens this week.
In the last few years, the period industry has seen growth in innovation, as companies aim to make more sustainable products. Knixwear was followed by U.S. company Thinx in 2014.
And while menstrual cups, such as the DivaCup, were invented decades ago, there has been a recent resurgence with women who want to use organic or reusable products. According to a 2016 report by tech research company Technavio, competition in the menstrual cup market is growing as businesses expand to developing countries and awareness of available options increases.
Companies such as Easy, a tampon mail-order service, have started making hygiene products from organic cotton, which is free from pesticides, bleach and artificial fibres. Natracare, another company, also uses organic cotton in its feminine hygiene products.
https://www.thestar.com/life/2017/05/26/knixwears-teen-line-aims-to-make-girls-the-bosses-of-their-periods.html
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Elissa Stein, the author of Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, said while there has been a movement toward organic products, the underlying message that periods are dirty and should be kept secret remains.
“When I wrote Flow (in 2009), these conversations were impossible. These new products were not on the market. So, definitely there’s a change in the air, which is heartening to see,” she said, adding that she hopes the messaging can expand to make the conversation about periods more comfortable and realistic.
“Five years ago, you wouldn’t see the word period or menstruation mentioned openly and honestly. So those are really positive steps forward. Using real people and talking about their experiences (in advertisements), also a step forward,” Stein said.
But she said there is still a long way to go when it comes to fully accepting that periods are “not something that we have to hide.”
There has been reinvention over the past couple of decades when it comes to pads, tampons and menstrual cups, says Dr. Yolanda Kirkham, who works as an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Women’s College Hospital and at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto.
“If we think about years ago, people had to wear a special underwear with a belt or knee stockings, so over time, things have changed,” Kirkham said.
Early versions of tampons were described as being made from wool or papyrus in ancient Rome and Egypt. An article published in 2008 in Early Modern Women concluded that many British women in the 17th century would menstruate directly onto their clothing.
“It might be the case, though, that in the course of everyday life, using a method for absorbing menstrual flow was not considered necessary by many women because bleeding into layers of clothing was perfectly normal,” wrote Dr. Sara Read in the article.
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In the 1850s, women often wore “sanitary aprons” made out of rubberized cloth under dresses to avoid leaks. In 1896, Johnson & Johnson started distributing Lister’s Towels, the first commercial disposable pad. However, because the subject of periods was “unmentionable,” according to authors Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton and Emily Toth of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation, the towels were unpopular. Women didn’t want to be seen buying them and they were pulled from the shelves.
Women would have to wait until the 1930s for the first menstrual cup and modern tampon.
The options have remained relatively the same since then, but the materials have changed. The types of fibres and the absorbency have improved. Tampons, made out of polyester in the mid-1970s, were super-absorbent and attracted bacteria, a trigger for toxic shock syndrome. In severe cases, it resulted in kidney failure, according to the Mayo Clinic. However, since manufacturers have stopped making certain types of tampons, the incidence of toxic shock syndrome in menstruating women has declined.
“(Companies have) also changed the shape, added wings and take into consideration different people. For example, for teens, they have slimmer pads,” Kirkham said. “But it’s always exciting when there’s a completely new product to complement what’s existing or replace it.”
The Knixwear underwear, which sells for $26 to $32 per pair, is made from carbon cotton, often used for cyclists’ apparel such as jerseys, that dries two to three times faster than regular cotton, Griffiths said. The carbon-embedded fabric is bacteriostatic, meaning bacteria cannot reproduce.
A built-in pantiliner acts as an inner second layer with a thin membrane for absorbing liquid.
“The idea is that you wear (our underwear) exactly as you would your regular underwear . . . When you’re done you just throw it into the washing machine,” Griffiths said.
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In September, Knixwear switched from selling the majority of its products wholesale to stores like Hudson’s Bay, to using an e-commerce format. Since, sales have seen a 500-per-cent increase and the company has continued to grow 25 per cent every month, she said.
Griffiths believes the company’s growth was due to their popularity after becoming the most-funded fashion project on Kickstarter for its 8-in-1 bra in 2015 — it raised $1.5 million — as well as shifting the business model in September.
Customer feedback prompted Griffiths to design a line targeting teens.
“We were getting a lot of comments from women saying, ‘I wish that this existed when I was a teenager. It could have saved me so many embarrassing moments’ or ‘My daughter just started getting her period. Can you make (underwear) that are suitable for her?’ ” Griffiths said. “And so I started working on this a little over a year ago, but basically saw that if anyone could use these, it’s young girls when they’re first starting to get their periods. Because your cycle is so irregular, you’re not used to the flow.”
The teen line will be available online for $19 a pair.
“The whole idea is to empower girls to be the bosses of their periods from day one,” Griffiths said.
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Morgue workers in Tanzania jailed for stealing drugs from corpse's stomach 2017-05-27 05:17:02 Post No.144112
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Tanzanian police said Saturday that they had arrested two morgue employees in Dar es Salaam after they admitted to cutting open a dead man's corpse and stealing the drugs hidden in his stomach.
"The two morgue workers admitted to cutting open the body" a week ago to take the drugs, local police official Simon Sirro said in a statement, adding that the dead man had died of an overdose.
Drug traffickers regularly employ drug "mules" to transport merchandise by stuffing the drugs in small airtight bags which are then swallowed or inserted in someone's stomach.
But the technique is hardly foolproof as the bags can be eaten away by stomach acid and cause an overdose -- which is what may have happened to the dead man.
The man, a Ghanaian national, was found dead in a hotel room in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's economic capital, and transported to the morgue at Mwananyamala hospital, where the two employees worked, Sirro said.
According to police, the workers said they then sold the 32 drug capsules to an unidentified businessman, who in turn sold the merchandise to Ally Nyundo, a suspected drug trafficker.
Those two men were also arrested, police said, without identifying the drugs.
Africa's east coast has long been used as a transit point for drugs bound for Asia and Europe.
The so-called Smack Track -- leading from Afghanistan to the Makran Coast of Iran and Pakistan and then across the Indian Ocean to East Africa -- is an alternative to the traditional opium trail via Central Asia and the Balkans.
The path was revealed in 2010 when police busted four Tanzanians and two Iranians with 95 kilogrammes (210 pounds) of heroin in Tanga, northern Tanzania.
In May, Tanzanian drug baron Ali Khatib Haji Hassan, who has been accused by the United States of being at the head of a global cocaine and heroin trafficking network, was extradited to the US.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/morgue-workers-tanzania-jailed-stealing-drugs-corpses-stomach-131128613.html
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>Niggers
Must be "systemic racism".
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It must have taken all of your two braincells to come up with that one eh?
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>>144219
That 2 more than what you had to come up with yours, fuckface.
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Multiple "explosions" heard at Manchester stadium at an Ariana Grande concert, injuries reported
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Why don't you post an actual news source and not that tabloid shit, Anon?
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I live pretty much on the curry mile so if shit does go off chances are the perpetrator is there.
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2 important things:
1) The pic of tons of bodies lying on the floor seen through a doorway is FAKE, its from a police training exercise at the arena last year
2) Reports are that an electrical fault blew out a speaker, but the resultant stampede has injured numerous people, but its all very much still confused
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"Domestic Violence Advocate" Dave Navarro gets PIG tattoo glorifying Sharon Tate's murder 2017-05-30 06:26:42 Post No.145093
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Rockstar Dave Navarro who claims to be a Spokes Person for Domestic Violence issues for the Safe Horizon organization & even received an award for it this past year (https://corporate.discovery.com/discovery-newsroom/dave-navarro-to-be-first-male-honoree-at-investigation-discoverys-annual-inspire-a-difference-event-in-october/) posted a photo on his instagram tonight displaying a tattoo of "PIGS" as written by the Manson Family at the murder scene of Sharon Tate. Several fans in the comments noticed, and Dave then went and pulled the post down and reposted it with a cropped image... Clearly to hide this. This tattoo appears to be recent, and was probably got during his supposed domestic violence spokespersonship, as the tattoo is not visible in any of his nude photoshoots for PETA. Original post attached (cropped repost on Dave's IG)
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Navarro also has made tweets to Sharon Tate's sister Debra supporting her crusades to keep Charles Manson in prison, as well as tweets that Sharon Tate is his dream woman. Sick fuck.
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New Zealand company enters the space race with private launching 2017-05-25 03:28:22 Post No.143282
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>Rocket Lab's 'Electron' Marks First Orbital-Class Launch From a Private Pad
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/news/a26638/rocket-lab-launches-electron-rocket-first-flight/
>Rocket Lab, a California-based spaceflight company with its roots in New Zealand, just launched its two-stage Electron rocket for the first time. The small launch vehicle successfully lifted off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand at 12:20 a.m. ET on Thursday May 25—4:20 p.m. New Zealand time. The successful liftoff marks the first time an orbital-class rocket has been launched from a private launch facility.
>"It has been an incredible day and I'm immensely proud of our talented team," said Peter Beck, CEO and founder of Rocket Lab, in a press release. "We're one of a few companies to ever develop a rocket from scratch and we did it in under four years. We've worked tirelessly to get to this point. We've developed everything in house, built the world's first private orbital launch range, and we've done it with a small team."
>However, the test payload itself "didn't quite reach orbit." Rocket Lab is investigating the cause, and the company's engineers in Los Angeles and Auckland will be sifting through data from the launch in the coming weeks.
>Rocket lab has two more test flights planned for the Electron this year. On the second launch, the company will focus on getting its payload to orbit as well as increasing the payload size. The company says it wants to launch about 50 rockets a year at full production, and it has already signed contracts with customers like NASA and Moon Express.
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>The Electron rocket stands about 56 feet tall and puts out around 36,000 lbs. of thrust from its nine oxygen-kerosene "Rutherford" engines. That makes the rocket significantly smaller than a SpaceX Falcon 9, which stands as tall as 260 feet and can put out as much as 1,710,000 lbs. of thrust. But the market for smaller satellites that only weigh a couple hundred kilograms and cubesats the size of shoeboxes is increasing steadily. Rocket Lab hopes to get its prices as low as $5 million per launch, providing an alternative to ride-sharing for hundreds of customers who want to launch smaller payloads.
>The launch is a big step for Rocket Lab, which is the first company to build its own orbital-class rocket as well as its own launch facility. If the next two test launches go off without a hitch, we might see Rocket Lab fly their first Electron carrying a commercial payload before the year is out.
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That's real fucking Neato
Bit of a shame I probably won't live to see Space become the actual next frontier
Hopefully my grandchildren will
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>>143282
Holy Koala Rocket Batman
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Revamped "Anti-Science" Education Bills in U.S. Finally Find Success 2017-05-28 01:47:23 Post No.144332
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Legislation urges educators to ‘teach the controversy’ on evolution and climate change and allows citizens to challenge curricula.
>State and local legislatures in the United States are experimenting with new ways to target the topics taught in science classes, and it seems to be paying dividends. Florida’s legislature approved a bill on 5 May that would enable residents to challenge what educators teach students. And two other states have already approved non-binding legislation this year urging teachers to embrace ‘academic freedom’ and present the full spectrum of views on evolution and climate change. This would give educators license to treat evolution and intelligent design as equally valid theories, or to present climate change as scientifically contentious.
>“The strategies of creationists have gotten more sophisticated,” says Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education(NCSE) in Oakland, California. The first academic freedom bills popped up in the early 2000s, but until this year only three had become law: one in Mississippi in 2006, one in Louisiana in 2008 and another in Tennessee in 2012.
>Eleven bills designed to alter science-education standards have been proposed this year across the United States. A handful of those measures have either abandoned the traditional academic freedom model for more roundabout methods, or are using watered-down versions of it.
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>The Florida legislation, for example, does not try to change state or district education standards. Instead, it enables any tax-paying resident of a given county to file complaints about the curriculum of the schools in their district. A complaint would trigger a public hearing to determine if the material in question is “accurate, balanced, noninflammatory, current, free of pornography … and suited to students’ needs”, according to the legislation.
>“But who decides what ‘balanced’ and ‘noninflammatory’ mean?” asks Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, based in New York City. Currently, instructional materials come from an approved list provided by the state, she says.
>State Representative Byron Donalds (Republican, Florida District 80), who sponsored the bill, does not think that it is anti-science. Instead, he says, it gives parents the power to hold school districts accountable for what their children are learning. “One of the key things about this bill, and why I think it passed, is that we didn’t target any one subject matter.”
>But to Branch, it seems clear what sorts of issues might come up. “The people pushing the bill have been complaining about evolution and climate change,” he says. “It’s obvious that a strong motivation is getting that out of the textbooks.”
>Many groups, including the NCSE, Florida teachers’ organizations and local school boards, have called for Governor Rick Scott to veto the bill; without his approval, it will not become law. But science advocates say that a veto doesn’t seem likely given Scott’s known beliefs — such as his scepticism about climate change.
>Branch worries that the success of the Florida bill could open the door to measures in other states that adopt the same back-door approach to altering science education by means of broader academic censorship.
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>Already this year, Indiana and Alabama have both passed non-binding legislation urging teachers to embrace academic freedom. Although they don’t require educators to ‘teach the controversy’ and treat topics including evolution and climate change as scientifically contentious, Branch says that the legislation encourages teachers to “mis-educate” students.
>Other states, including Oklahoma and South Dakota, also introduced academic-freedom bills this year. Oklahoma’s passed in the Senate, but was never voted on in the House, and could be revived next year. South Dakota’s passed in the Senate, but was defeated in the House. Both bills were closer to becoming law than similar state legislation has been in years past.
>Idaho’s House and Senate education committees temporarily altered the state’s science standards in February to remove mentions of human impacts on the environment — including climate change. Those standards could be made permanent in 2018 if the full legislature passes a final review bill.
>Branch says it’s unlikely that more legislation altering state science education standards will be introduced in 2017. Most state-level bills are introduced by late spring. And he’s not sure why these bills now seem more likely to pass. It could be due to renewed anti-evolution and anti-climate change sentiment; confidence that a country led by US president Donald Trump — who has expressed doubts about climate change — is more hospitable to such views; or an increase in climate-change denial. Alternatively, the phenomenon could be a statistical anomaly that will vanish by next year.
>Regardless of the reason, all is not lost, says Branch. “It cuts both ways, I think. The opponents of science education may feel newly invigorated — but so do its defenders.”
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I still have images saved from the early 00's about "teach the controversy" jokes for phrenology and astrology and so on.
Seems like a subject that will be tethering us for a while, huh?
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Putin visits France for talks; Macron does not give an inch 2017-05-29 06:39:55 Post No.144975
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>VERSAILLES, France (AP) — Flexing his diplomatic muscles, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had “extremely frank, direct” talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, pushing for cooperation on Syria and against the Islamic State group but also launching an extraordinary attack on two Russian media outlets he accused of spreading “lying propaganda.”
>The two leaders emerged from their first meeting — discussions at the sumptuous Palace of Versailles that lasted more than an hour longer than planned — clearly still at odds on multiple issues, but also seemingly keen not to let their differences define their fledgling relationship.
>Macron said he spoke to Putin about LGBT rights in Chechnya and about the rights of embattled NGOs in Russia, vowing he would be “constantly vigilant” on these issues. Putin emphasized the need for closer cooperation between Russia and France, two nuclear-armed permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
>Speaking with remarkable frankness, Macron tore into the state-funded Russian media outlets Sputnik and Russia Today, for spreading what he said were “serious untruths” during the French election.
>“When press outlets spread defamatory untruths, they are no longer journalists, they are organs of influence. Russia Today and Sputnik were organs of influence during this campaign, which, on several occasions produced untruths about me and my campaign,” Macron said.
>“I will not give an inch on this,” he said. “Russia Today and Sputnik ... behaved as organs of influence, of propaganda, of lying propaganda.”
>Macron was the first Western leader to speak to Putin after the Group of Seven summit over the weekend, where relations with Russia were a key topic.
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>His invitation to the Russia leader was a surprise after the tough stance on Russia Macron took during the French election. Macron’s aides also claimed that Russian groups launched hacking attacks on his campaign.
>Moscow strongly denied all allegations of meddling in the French election that Macron won on May 7. Putin on Monday again poo-pooed the idea as unfounded press speculation.
>But he also defended his March meeting with Macron’s rival in the presidential race, far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
>Putin described Le Pen as a politician who wants to develop friendly ties with Russia and said it would have been strange to rebuff her overtures.
>He said the meeting with Le Pen didn’t represent an attempt to sway the race. Putin added that Russia had been well-aware of opinion polls predicting Macron’s victory.
>Macron said he was firm on other issues, too.
>He said any use of chemical weapons in Syria — where Russia is propping up the government of President Bashar Assad — is a “red line” for France and would be met by “reprisals” and an “immediate riposte” from France.
>He did not specify what form such reprisals could take, but France flies warplanes over Syria and Iraq, striking Islamic State targets as part of an international coalition.
>Macron portrayed the meeting as just a first step in resetting the country’s relations with Russia.
>“Big things are built over time,” he said. “It was an exchange that was extremely frank, direct, with a lot of things that were said.”
>“We have disagreements, but at least we talked about them,” he added.
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>The leaders’ first handshakes — relatively brief and cordial — after Putin climbed out of his limousine at Versailles were far less macho than Macron’s now famous who-will-blink-first handshake showdown with President Donald Trump when the two leaders met for the first time last week.
>Putin said he and Macron agreed to discuss pursuing closer cooperation on anti-terror efforts, with a proposed exchange of experts to work toward that goal.
>On Syria, Putin underlined the importance of securing the Syrian state, adding that it’s essential for combatting terrorism. Macron took the same stance, saying: “I want us to organize a democratic transition but also preserve a Syrian state.”
>“Failed states in that region are a threat for our democracies,” and fuel terrorism, he said.
>Later Monday, Putin was visiting a newly built Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center near the Seine River that includes the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The site was sold to Russia under former President Nicolas Sarkozy amid criticism from human rights groups.
>Ostensibly, the reason for Putin’s visit was for him to tour an exhibition in Versailles about the 300th anniversary of Russian Czar Peter the Great’s trip to Paris. But it became an opportunity for him and Macron to go over all the thorny issues that divide them, and see where they have common ground.
>Human rights activists protested Monday in Paris over the situation of gays in the Russian republic of Chechnya, holding a banner “Stop homophobia in Chechnya” near the Eiffel Tower.
>The Macron-Putin relationship got off to a less-than-ideal footing during Macron’s presidential campaign.
>Macron had strong words for Russia in his race for the presidency, saying France and Russia don’t share the same values. Putin bet — wrongly — on Macron’s far-right opponent Marine Le Pen, hosting her at the Kremlin in March, before Macron then handily beat her.
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Macron would probably prefer to take an inch kek
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Donna Brazile warned off private eye on Seth Rich murder 2017-05-29 03:21:34 Post No.144819
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WASHINGTON – Former Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile is the high-ranking DNC representative who allegedly called police and the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and demanded to know why a private investigator was “snooping” into Rich’s death, the private eye revealed to WND Monday.
“The high-ranking DNC official that called the police after I inquired about Rich’s case was Donna Brazile,” veteran homicide detective Rod Wheeler told WND. “Why shouldn’t I reveal who it was?”
Brazile, who was also a CNN contributor and a Hillary for America donor at the time, was caught providing Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton with questions that would later be asked of Clinton at a televised CNN town hall. In an interview with Fox News before the election, Brazile denied leaking the questions to Clinton. But in a March 17, 2017, column for Time magazine, she finally admitted doing so, saying it was a “mistake I will forever regret.”
A spokesman for the Rich family has repeatedly criticized detective Wheeler, who was hired by Rich’s family in March to find the DNC staffer’s murderer, for not ruling out the possibility that Rich may have leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks. The Rich family recently sent Wheeler a “cease and desist” order to stop his investigation into the murder.
As WND reported, Rich was murdered July 10, 2016, near his affluent neighborhood in Washington, D.C. He was shot in the back with a handgun at 4:18 a.m. while he walked home, and nothing was taken from him. He was transported to a local hospital and was pronounced dead at 5:57 a.m. On July 22, just 12 days after Rich’s death and days before the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia, WikiLeaks released 20,000 emails from DNC officials. (Cont.)
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Needs to be investigated
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This story is going nuclear
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>>144819
If the DNC knew what was good for them Donna would be the next person they take a hit out on. Everything she's involved with ends up being a PR disaster.