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It has been an arduous battle for Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Thousands of his supporters have also been protesting against the charges blasphemy against Islam which are the basis for the harsh sentence imposed on him. Purnama has stated from the beginning he was just quoting from the Koran.

Reuters reports that Jakarta's Christian governor has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy, a harsher-than-expected ruling critics fear will embolden hardline Islamist forces to challenge secularism in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation. Tuesday's guilty verdict for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama comes amid concern about the growing influence of Islamist groups, who organized mass rallies during a tumultuous election campaign that ended with Purnama losing his bid for another term as governor.

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http://www.newportplaintalk.com/news/article_a2f87e76-21f6-50a2-b332-be1964e3fa7c.html

NEWPORT— A Newport couple was arrested for child neglect/abuse and animal cruelty after Newport Officers found a residence occupied by 22 neglected animals along with a neglected 2-month-old child on Tuesday, Dec. 27.

Capt. Amy Gentry and Patrolman Mike Robey were dispatched to 596 Freeman Ave., to assist Animal Control Officer Lisa Laymen on a welfare check of a pit bull.

Upon their arrival, officers noticed the pit bull was severely malnourished and its ribs were visible as a result from starvation. Officers then made contact with the owner, Katherine Ann Cogdill, 27, who said there were more animals inside the residence.

As Officers searched through the home to conduct a welfare check on the other animals, they found a total of 11 snakes, two spiders, three dogs, two cats, and four lizards, with one deceased, but still in the cage.

According to the report, all animals did not have water and the cages had not been cleaned in weeks. Capt. Gentry said the floors of every room in the residence were covered in animal feces and urine.

Officers also found a two-month-old child, who was dirty, all of his bottles were moldy, and his blanket was crawling with fleas. In addition, his play pin was in three feet of a cage that contained 12’ Burmes python with no secured lock, along with three other tanks of snakes.

4chan, Gods of the Internet. I need your help. The woman arrested in this article happens to be the ex-wife of a man my friend in Tennessee is dating. The charges against her were dropped (lol "justice" system) and because she's free to walk, she's still able to visit her ex-husband's son, who is being looked after by my friend.

I'm fearing for her safety as this woman is dangerous and shouldn't be around kids. Actions should have consequences and I want to let this woman know you can't starve a child and just sweep it under the rug. Let's get this story out there!

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/all-male-committee-ensure-rapists-rights-victims-children-maryland-general-assembly-rape-survivor-a7690861.html

>A group of all male politicians have rejected a law that would prevent rapists from having parental rights to their victims' children.

>Campaigners were left "angry and disappointed" after Maryland’s General Assembly voted against enacting the Rape Survivor Family Protection Act.

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http://ibt.uk/A6nft - The drug war in Mexico was rated as 2016's second deadliest conflict in the world, beaten only by the war in Syria, a new annual survey reveals. This means Mexico is experiencing levels of violence surpassing that of Iraq, Yemen or Afghanistan - http://ibt.uk/A6nft

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/26/24-national-monuments-threatened-trumps-executive-order/100925418/

WASHINGTON — At least two dozen national monuments are at risk of losing their federally protected status as a result of President Trump's executive order asking for an unprecedented review of their designations.

Under the 1906 Antiquities Act, either Congress or the President can protect federal lands by designating them as a national monument. And while Congress has occasionally revoked that status for existing monuments, no president ever has. Trump's order opens the door to that possibility.
Trump is targeting all or part of monuments that make up 100,000 acres or more, and were created by presidential proclamation since 1996. The White House released a list of 24 of them on Wednesday.

Unlike the other monuments, which are managed by the Interior Department, San Gabriel is managed by the Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Zinke spokeswoman Heather Swift said she could not rule out action on San Gabriel. The Department of Agriculture did not respond to an inquiry about the status of the monument.

The executive order also allows for a review of sites smaller than 100,000 acres “where the Secretary determines that the designation or expansion was made without adequate public outreach and coordination with relevant stakeholders.”

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Borrower fraud in U.S. auto loans is surging, and may approach levels seen in mortgages during last decade’s housing bubble, according to a startup firm that helps lenders sniff out bogus borrowers.

As many as 1 percent of U.S. car loan applications include some type of material misrepresentation, executives at data analytics firm Point Predictive estimated based on reports from banks, finance companies and others. Lenders’ losses from deception may double this year to $6 billion from 2015, the firm forecast.

Those fraud rates are coming closer to the over-1-percent level for mortgages in 2009, when the financial crisis was boiling and more lenders started reporting incidents to one another, Frank McKenna, chief fraud strategist at the firm, said in an interview. While those losses will sting lenders, the impact on the overall economy will likely be much more muted than with the housing crisis, just because there’s less car debt outstanding.

Even so, “We see an extraordinary amount of parallels between the auto and mortgage industries, in terms of the rising levels of hidden fraud,” McKenna said. For home loans, it’s hard to know how widespread the deception was before 2009, because lenders often didn’t report information to one another and may not have even investigated incidents of probable lying much on their own, McKenna said.

Dealer Fraud

Point Predictive has put together a consortium of lenders to share data about dealers and loans. The group, now 13 strong, met at the headquarters of Santander Consumer USA in Dallas last month. Common types of fraud include borrowers lying about their income and their jobs, including falsifying paystubs. Loan applications can also include bogus information about the type of car being financed, or its value. The deception can be perpetrated by consumers, or car dealers, or both.


https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-10/comey-ouster-threatens-to-backfire-on-troubled-trump-white-house

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>Mystery illness claims 12 lives in Liberia

>An unexplained illness has claimed the lives of 12 people in Liberia since April 23, the World Health Organization reported Monday. Twenty-one people have fallen ill, including an unknown number of children, and three remain hospitalized at Francis Grant Hospital in Sinoe County.

>Health officials immediately tested the victims for Ebola, yellow fever and Lassa fever, but they were all ruled out.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/health/liberia-mystery-illness-who/index.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-liberia-idUSKBN17U1QC


imo, we need a good plague.

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http://mashable.com/2017/04/27/anita-sakeesian-end-of-tropes-vs-women-video-games/

>It’s a bittersweet moment, bidding farewell to this series. It’s definitely time for it to be over, time for Feminist Frequency as an organization and for me personally to move on. But I keep thinking about all the ways that the world of video games has changed since that day, almost five years ago, when I first took my modest little Kickstarter live. It hasn’t all been for the better, but some of it definitely has. There are conversations happening now, among players and among creators, that weren’t happening before, about who games are for (everyone!), about what impact they can have, what they can tell us about humanity, empathy, race, gender, sexuality, the world we live in, and the world we want to create for ourselves.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ew1hz/new_intel_processors_will_have_a_built_in_drm/ Look at this topic from 6 years ago.

Now this https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/intels-management-engine-security-hazard-and-users-need-way-disable-it

Care to comment, anyone?

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- in West Ukraine one of politicians is beaten and stabbed for trying to join the WW2 demonstration. he is now in the hospital.
- in the turf of ukrainian Presidente police and nazis have beaten whole retirement home literally hunting down the people aged over 70. the scene is very brutal as the neonazi beats old woman with a stick, who is begging to quick death because she cant run away. the police is staying laughing in the same room and films it all.
- in Kiev over 50 masked nazis and members of local police blocked the people who wanted the make a marsh with pictures of the people and relatives, who died in WW2. the whole situation is escalating right now.
- in South West Maidaneks have forbiden the symbols of WW2 victory.
https://mnyug.com/915-nikolaevskie-vlasti-oficialno-zapretili-na-9-maya-simvoly-pobedy.html
people are getting ready to celebrate but Poroshenko and inert minister Avakov already ordered massive beatings and attacks on those people.
in Odessa the night started with massive arrests and frisking actions, when police storms each house of people who are not registered as "patriot" and arrest all memories and symbols of WW2. around 6 thousand people are now arrested and put into schools, which are guarded by neonazis and police.
- in turf of Kolomoski local neonazis made own "march" when they marched with pictures of nazis and ukrainian criminals from West Ukraine.

All medias in Ukraine are now under lock down. the reporting about WW2 veteran demonstrations are forbidden unless they are showing the people in bad light.
so far they only report about how many "secuity power" ukrainian maidaneks put into the streets.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3848762-den-pobedy-v-ukrayne-onlain-khronyka

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http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/woman_who_laughed_during_jeff.html

>Three women - including one who said her only crime was laughing - were convicted Wednesday on charges of disrupting the confirmation hearing of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

>The women were part of activist group Code Pink and were protesting Sessions' Jan. 10 Senate confirmation hearing. Two of the women, Tighe Barry and Lenny Bianchi, appeared at the Washington, D.C. hearing dressed as Ku Klux Klan members. They were acquitted on a count of disorderly conduct but convicted on two separate charges of parading or demonstrating, the New York Times reported.

>A third woman, Desiree Fairooz of Virginia, was found guilty of disorderly conduct and parading or demonstrating on Capitol grounds.

>Each faces up to 12 months in prison.

>Fairooz, who wore a pink Lady Liberty costume to the Sessions' hearings, maintained all she did during the testimony was laugh. The 61-year-old woman previously declined to accept a plea bargain from prosecutors, opting to move ahead with the case.

>The three women had pleaded not guilty of all charges.

>Fairooz explained her laughter was in response to a comment by Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, who said Sessions had a record of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented."

>"I just couldn't hold it," Fairooz reportedly said during the trial. "It was spontaneous. It was an immediate rejection of what I considered an outright lie or pure ignorance."

>Prosecutors contended the women planned to "impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct" of the hearing.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pentagon-draws-up-plan-to-boost-us-troops-in-afghanistan/news-story/d013cb566aefb416382ca94bdf27630b

Donald Trump will consider boosting US troops in Afghanistan to combat a resurgent Taliban in what would be a reversal of the drawdown of forces under Barack Obama.

The potentially pivotal moment in the US commitment to Afghanistan has come after the Pentagon drew up plans for at least 3000 extra US troops to bolster the 8400 in the war-torn country.

The President has yet to consider the proposal but, if he accepts the Pentagon’s recommendation, he will be increasing America’s commitment to the conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 2300 US soldiers since 2001.

The plan is aimed at forcing the Taliban — which has thrived since the US withdrew the bulk of its troops from the country — back to the negotiating table.

It follows the massacre in a northern army base last month in which Taliban fighters killed more than 140 Afghan soldiers.

The strategy drawn up by the Pentagon seeks to curb the rising frequency of Taliban attacks. It would authorise the Pentagon, rather than the White House, to set troop numbers in that country.

Mr Trump is expected to announce his decision on the Pentagon’s proposal by the NATO summit on May 25. The President would ask NATO countries to match any increase in US troop numbers in Afghanistan

The recommendation is being pushed by National Security Adviser HR McMaster, who was one of the forces behind the surge in Iraq under George W. Bush.

It would reverse the trend of steady US withdrawal from Afghanistan under Mr Obama, who was wary of the dwindling public support for the 15-year war and the mounting casualties.

The new strategy would allow for greater US air support of Afghan operations and allow US military advisers to accompany local forces near to conflict zones.

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http://www.techtimes.com/articles/155767/20160503/ancient-dna-europeans-descended-belgians.htm

>Ancient DNA left over from the last ice age shows that all Europeans, at one time, were descended from early humans living in Belgium. Analysis of genomes also suggested our distant ancestors underwent significant evolutionary changes during the Ice Age and a few thousand years following that frigid era.

>A total of 51 genetic samples were examined in the latest study, a vast improvement in understanding compared with the four examples available previous to now.

>Temperatures began to warm in Europe roughly 19,000 years ago, freeing the continent of widespread ice sheets. As the frozen cover receded, human populations from modern-day Spain migrated toward the north. Approximately 5,000 years after that time, a second group of people began to travel from southeastern Europe into northern and western regions of the continent. These migrants from Greece and Turkey displaced the earlier population.

>The last major ice age peaked between 35,000 and 19,000 years before the modern day, coming to an end around 12,000 years ago. At the height of this period, ice cover reached as far south as northern France.

>Modern humans first entered Europe roughly 45,000 years before the modern age. This migration spelled the end of Neanderthals, which had previously inhabited the continent. All of the ancient Europeans examined in this study exhibited lineages that traced back to a population that lived 37,000 years ago in a region that would later be known as Belgium. This group was later displaced, and a new population arrived in Europe 14,000 years ago, traveling from the east.

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http://nypost.com/2017/04/27/alt-right-group-tries-to-build-small-street-army/amp/

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39816044

>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told a conference in Italy on the EU that "English is losing importance in Europe".
>Amid tensions with the UK over looming Brexit negotiations, he said he was delivering his speech in French.
>"Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe and also because France has an election," he said, explaining his choice of language.
>He called the UK decision to leave the EU "a tragedy".
>Laughter and applause greeted his comment about the English language, and he could be seen smiling wryly.

Okay guys, time to start learn some fucking french now