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>“We asked for some clarification but have not received any answers yet,” he said in an interview. “I hope on the Turkish side it was a mistake.”

>Iraq’s Foreign Ministry denounced the attacks in the Sinjar area as a violation of the country’s sovereignty.

>The Turkish strikes pointed to continuing and deep tensions between the United States and Turkey over how to carry out the campaign against the Islamic State.

>The United States and Turkey have been sharply at odds over the Y.P.G. militia. American military officials regard the group as an essential partner in the operation to isolate and retake Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital, and they want to arm its fighters for that mission.

>Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, who commands the American-led task force that is fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, told reporters during a February trip to Syria that Turkey had no reason to fear the Y.P.G. or the umbrella group it is a crucial part of, the Syrian Democratic Forces.

>“The Turkish government is not really crazy that we are operating with the Syrian Democratic Forces, mostly because of their Kurdish and Y.P.G. components,” General Townsend said. But the Kurdish fighters “tell us they are not a threat to Turkey, and I believe that,” he added.

>The Turkish government, however, insists that the Y.P.G. is closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a separatist group known as the P.K.K. That group is listed by Turkey, the United States and Europe as a terrorist organization.
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>American officials had hoped that Turkey would soften its stance after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a referendum this month that greatly increased his executive powers, a victory that brought a congratulatory phone call from President Trump. But any hope that Mr. Erdogan’s position might reflect posturing before the vote appeared to vanish with the airstrikes.

>The Turkish military said in a statement that it had struck “terror nests” in northeast Syria and northwest Iraq that Kurdish separatists were using to send weapons and plan attacks inside Turkey. “The designated targets were hit,” said the statement, which asserted that the bombing raids were “based on international law.”

>The division between Turkey and the United States was only highlighted when the Kurdish news media posted photographs of a United States military officer, in the company of Y.P.G. leaders, visiting the site in Syria that was bombed. Mr. Erdogan is scheduled to meet with Mr. Trump in Washington next month.

>A statement issued by Ridor Kahlil, a spokesman for the Y.P.G., said 20 fighters were killed in the Turkish airstrikes. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said the targets included a radio station east of Hasaka owned by the Y.P.G.

>The Turkish airstrikes on Mount Sinjar began around 2 a.m. and lasted about an hour, Capt. Falah Abu Zeid, an officer with the Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga, said in a telephone interview. The bombing, he added, struck four Y.P.G. and P.K.K. headquarters in the area.
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>“If there were any fighters in those headquarters, it would have been impossible for them to survive because of the force of the shelling,” he said.

>But one of the missiles, he added, struck communications towers near a pesh merga headquarters, killing and wounding pesh merga fighters.

>The Kurdish autonomous government in Iraq has long had an acrimonious relationship with the Y.P.G. and P.K.K., which, like Turkey, it regards as one and the same. The pesh merga offensive to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State in 2015 was delayed by tensions between the pesh merga and the P.K.K., who competed to take the lead in the battle. And it was noteworthy that Mr. Barzani, the Kurdish security official, did not call on Turkey to cease its airstrikes in Iraq but instead pointed the finger of blame at the P.K.K.

>“The P.K.K. is the reason for all of these problems,” he said. “They are the reason the Turks are bombing. It is not a matter of whether we like it or not. The P.K.K. is dragging the Turks in.”

>>134702
>>"There is no comparison to the magnitude of that tragedy."
Nobody else shall ever be allowed the gold medal in oppression olympics.

>>134711
Be fair mate. The Nazi camps were a much more efficient concentration mechanism. Modern European camps simply don't kill them fast enough.
We're not even trying to work them to death let alone bringing in the gas.

>>134714
lel okay okay. Seriously though, it was over 70 years ago. How long is the lease on "too soon" for even making an analogy?

>“Ms. Tantaros and her attorney continue to file one lawsuit after another in an obvious attempt to get publicity,” she said in an email. “And any suit arising out of her employment at Fox News belongs in arbitration, as they well know.”

>Tantaros’s complaint follows a sexual-harassment lawsuit she filed last year. In it she said Fox operated like a “sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult.” Former anchor Gretchen Carlson sued earlier with similar claims. Other complaints from Fox News employees followed. That led to the firing of Fox News Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes. Bill O’Reilly, the network’s top-rated host, was fired last week after women complained he sexually harassed them. And Fox’s top-rated female anchor, Megyn Kelly, bolted for NBC.

>Carlson settled her lawsuit for $20 million. Tantaros’s sexual-harassment claim was sent to private arbitration.

>“This lawsuit is a flimsy pretext to keep Ms. Tantaros and her sexual-harassment claims in the public eye,” Dechert said.

>Tantaros’s new lawsuit builds on her previous allegations, claiming that the company engaged in “bizarre and shocking” behavior designed to “emotionally torture” her into surrendering her legal claims.

>News International which, like Fox News, is headed by Rupert Murdoch, was battered by allegations of phone hacking and bribery from 2011 that saw criminal and judicial probes into the press, the closing of News of the World and resignations of several high-profile executives.

>U.S. prosecutors began an investigation into secret settlement payments the company made to female on-air hosts who complained of sexual harassment. The probe, disclosed in February, centers on whether the payments should’ve been disclosed to investors, a person familiar with the investigation said at the time. U.S. prosecutors didn’t respond to a request for comment on whether the probe has been expanded to include Tantaros’s claims.
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>Tantaros’s complaint also refers to a so-called “Black Room,” set up by Ailes to illegally secure journalists’ phone records and credit reports. The use of fake social-media accounts has been a part of Fox News’ repertoire of dirty tricks since at least 2008, according to the complaint, which cited a David Folkenflik book, “Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires,” to make the assertion.

>Fox violated criminal laws by planting the surveillance software on Tantaros’s personal computer, according to the complaint.

>Fox “sockpuppet” accounts -- hundreds of thousands of them -- on the Internet then posted and retweeted information to make it look like an organic social-media activity, Tantaros claimed. Sockpuppets refer to fake online identities created by individuals or companies to promote opinions or causes, while appearing to act independently.

>In June, one of her close friends was hospitalized for a scorpion bite, which she discussed with friends by telephone, according to the lawsuit. One of the claimed sockpuppet accounts tweeted an ad for the 1957 movie "The Black Scorpion." The same month, Tantaros and her mother had a phone conversation discussing the anniversary of her brother’s 2013 death. Another sockpuppet account tweeted "PURPLE MEMORIAL ... FOR DANIEL TANTAROS, R.I.P. DANIEL.”

>Tantaros claims the social-media postings were intended "to emotionally devastate her and make her concerned about her physical safety." The technique was similar to the type of "professional digital character-assassination" portrayed in a Homeland episode titled "Sock-Puppet," Tantaros said in the complaint.

>Tantaros seeks unspecified damages from the company, Ailes, and other executives, including Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti, in the lawsuit.

>The case is Tantaros v. Fox News Network, 17-cv-02958, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

This seems way too ridiculous to be true to me

>>132443
The 19th century ended in 1900. The source does not confirm that it was the oldest surviving person from the 19th century, but from the 1800s.

>>132446
What? She was born on Novermber 29 1899, which is the 19th century.

>>132446
>The source does not confirm that it was the oldest surviving person from the 19th century, but from the 1800s.
anon...

>>134933
>BART
Urban youth boys will be urban youth boys.

>>134933
>Bring 60 idiot kids with you
>Only rob 7 people
Fucking kids can't do anything right these days.

>>134933
>Youths
Codeword for blacks.

lol. Did you expect him to say "I'm okay with this" ?

>>134950
How was France involved in the Holocaust?

>>134950
>Le Pen drew condemnation from other presidential candidates and Israel's Foreign Ministry when she suggested earlier this month that France wasn't responsible for its role in rounding up French Jews for deportation to Nazi Germany's death camps.

All of France is not responsible, only those Frenchmen who actually took part in it are (and most are dead by now).

This is just another shake-down by Israel, shilling their perpetual "sins of the fathers" claims on anybody and everybody.

>His biggest accomplishment may have been the publication in November of a landmark report on drug and alcohol addiction, which placed that condition alongside smoking, AIDS and other public health crises of the past 50 years that previous surgeons general have tried to address. The report called the addiction epidemic “a moral test for America.” Murthy's office sent millions of letters to doctors asking for their help to combat the opioid crisis.

>In 2015, amid a serious measles outbreak, Murthy urged parents to have their children vaccinated, adding his voice to the chorus trying to counter the small but burgeoning anti-vaccination movement. “The most important message I have is to please, please, please get your child vaccinated,” he said at the time. Later that year, he called for a walking campaign to combat chronic disease and obesity.

>Sometimes known as the “nation's doctor,” the surgeon general has little power beyond the ability to call attention to serious public health problems and offer data and solutions. He or she oversees the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, more than 6,600 uniformed public health-care personnel who work in various parts of the federal government. Some worked on the recent Zika and Ebola crises.

>Murthy had nearly two years left on his four-year term as surgeon general. The news release said he was asked to resign, then relieved of his duties. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) criticized the dismissal in a news release, saying that Murthy “U.S. surgeons general are not supposed to be fired midterm. They have served administrations of both political parties because keeping Americans safe and healthy isn't a partisan issue. Dr. Murthy helped steer our country through the frightening Ebola and Zika outbreaks, and rightfully focused on the devastation of addiction.”
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>James T. Currie, executive director of the Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service, a non profit that represents officers in the USPHS, said his group plans to campaign to persuade Trump to nominate a permanent surgeon general from within the ranks of the Public Health Service, which, he said, is required by federal law.

>According to her biography on the Surgeon General's website, Trent-Adams was the chief nurse officer for the USPHS from 2013 to 2016, advising on the “recruitment, assignment, deployment, retention, and career development” of nurses in the corps. She also held a senior position in the HIV/AIDS Bureau at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). She is not the first nurse to serve as surgeon general; Richard Carmona, who held the post from 2002 to 2006 under President George W. Bush was both a nurse and doctor.

>Murthy wrote in his Facebook post that “the world is locked in a struggle between love and fear. Choose love. Always. It is the world's oldest medicine. It is what we need to build a nation that is safe and strong for us and our children.

>“Healing happens when we are able to truly talk to and connect with each other,” he added. “That means listening and understanding. It means assuming good, not the worst. It means pausing before we judge. Building a more connected America will require us to find new ways to talk to each other.”

I see Murthy was clearly a proponent of marijuana legalization.

>"While most of the nation has much cleaner air quality than even a decade ago, many cities reported their highest number of unhealthy days since the report began" 18 years ago, it found.

>Some 125 million Americans nationwide live with unhealthful levels of air pollution, the report said, placing them at risk for premature death and other serious health effects such as lung cancer, asthma attacks, cardiovascular damage and developmental and reproductive harm.

>"Even with continued improvement, too many people in the United States live where the air is unhealthy for them to breathe," the report said.

>Only six metro areas recorded no days when pollution reached unhealthy levels, according to the report: Burlington, Vt.; Honolulu; Wilmington, N.C.; Fort Myers / Naples, Fla.; Melbourne, Fla., and Elmira, N.Y.

>Billings said he's concerned about Trump's plans to slash the Environmental Protection Agency's budget. "We have to keep the environmental cop on the beat," he said.

>Trump's budget proposal contains a 31% cut to the agency, including weakening or eliminating the Clean Air Act, which the report says has been the most important tool in the fight for healthy air by driving emission reductions for more than 47 years.

>“Everyone has a fundamental right to breathe healthy air," said Harold P. Wimmer, the president and CEO of the American Lung Association said.

Pollution is a meme. "Climate change" isn't real. The Ozone is just a theory.

It benefits our economic growth, I say tear down all the fucking trees and nature bullshit. Liberal hippies be damned. It's nothing but a waste of valuable land otherwise.

>>133494
To be fair, most of those are because big city smog collects in the valley and never leaves. We're a big ol' bowl for it.

>>135025
Fuck off Oleg, not news.

>us
>general
>witness

>>134905
>speaking on condition of anonymity,
mmmmmm.... the chance uts hight but this sound like propaganda. rememebr that,
>russia help on chemical atacks, anonymous source say.
yea.... smell fishy.

Hmm, last time they had US weapons

tl;dr over-the-air broadcast TV in America is over soon, this is the proverbial 'writing on the wall'. The frequencies that were assigned in the mid 20th century are more valuable to other companies for other purposes now.

I know a method of organization is required to minimize interference, but the concept of selling vibration ranges is still hilarious

HEY YOU KIDS STOP VIBRATING AT MY FREQUENCY

>>134677
>singing is a crime
Wouldn't be the first time someone has said that about a Eurovision song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNIUc5ndAsY

Good

Hands off Ukraine, Russian imperialists

>>134677
Where is proofs, my comrade?

>>134909
Any French willing to share their thoughts on this? What are the social Dynamics like in the red vs blue areas

The only reason people are voting for pen is her immigration policy, that's her sole driving force. The general left paradigm in Europe would be untouchable if they moderated themselves on immigration.

>>134912
I feel like if they did moderate themselves on immigration they would fracture their monolith because the single issue diehard anti racist people would instead vote for the first person to say "No Borders".

Looks like Macron will win it then.

>>134773
I hope not. Marine is /our girl/.

>>134863
>>>/pol/

>>134214
Hahahaha he won get over it

>news
what a garbage story fuck this shit

>>134214
We won. Liberal lose and should kill themselves.