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>Gabbard has also said she is concerned about sparking a nuclear war with Russia, which backs the Assad regime. Tensions between the US and Russia have mounted since the strike, with Russian officials alerting US officials that they were shutting down a line of communication designed to keep Russian and US warplanes from colliding over Syria, although a senior US military official disputed that the communication channel was suspended.

>But Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that he wanted to be clear the missile strike was a decision solely in retaliation for the chemical attack.

>As of now, it looks highly unlikely that Tanden's recommendation that voters kick Gabbard out of office in 2018 would be successful: Gabbard beat her Republican opponent last November 81%-19%, and she dismissed a Democratic primary challenger 85%-15%.

>"This strike was related solely to the most recent horrific use of chemical weapons against women, children, and as the President said, even small babies," Tillerson said on ABC's "This Week."

>"So the strike was a message to Bashar al-Assad that your multiple violations of your agreements at the UN, your agreements under the chemical weapons charter back in 2013, that those would not go without a response in the future. And we are asking Russia to fulfill its commitment, and we're asking and calling on Bashar al-Assad to cease the use of these weapons. Other than that, there is no change to our military posture."
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>Other liberal lawmakers — including the independent Vermont Sen. Sanders and New York Democratic Sen. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — have argued against starting a war with Syria following Thursday's strike, but few have questioned Assad's responsibility for the chemical attack which spurred Trump to action.

>Rep. Thomas Massie, a libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican who frequently sides with the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus, also told CNN last week that he was uncertain Assad was behind the chemical attack.

>Other mavericks in Congress, including Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican who frequently stands alone on issues, have said they want to see more evidence of Assad's involvement — but no one else seems to have gone quite as far as Gabbard.

I think shes right to question it. Wasnt there some news or other about how in northern parts of syria where isis is they coordinated an attack following the airstrikes? Seriously this whole mess stinks.

why are asians thief meme from?

>>129879
Engrish mother fucker, do you speak it?

This seems like some east Asian rivalry to me
Probably Japanese or Koreans

>Hundreds of these videos exist on YouTube, and some generate millions of views. One channel "Toys and Funny Kids Surprise Eggs" is one of the top 100 most watched YouTube accounts in the world - its videos have more than 5 billion views.

>Its landing page features a photo of a cute toddler alongside official-looking pictures of Peppa Pig, Thomas the Tank Engine, the Cookie Monster, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Elsa from Frozen.

>But the videos on the channel have titles like "FROZEN ELSA HUGE SNOT", "NAKED HULK LOSES HIS PANTS" and "BLOODY ELSA: Frozen Elsa's Arm is Broken by Spiderman". They feature animated violence and graphic toilet humour.

>The people behind the account didn't respond to Trending's request for an interview. We attempted to contact several other producers of similar videos - and got the same result.

>Trending also contacted two companies behind the cartoon series being ripped off, Disney and EntOne - the distributor of Peppa Pig. Neither wanted to comment.

>So should parents take more care when it comes to allowing their children to watch cartoons on YouTube?

>Sonia Livingstone is an expert on child online safety and professor of social psychology at the London School of Economics,

>"It's perfectly legitimate for a parent to believe that something called Peppa Pig is going to be Peppa Pig," she says. "And I think many of them have come to trust YouTube... as a way of entertaining your child for ten minutes while the parent makes a phone call. I think if it wants to be a trusted brand then parents should know that protection is in place."

>"I don't think we want to police it for the whole world," Livingstone says. "A lot of this material is satirical, creative - or actually offensive but within freedom of expression. What we need is child protection."
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>YouTube did not offer a spokesperson for interview, but in a statement said: "We take feedback very seriously. We appreciate people drawing problematic content to our attention, and make it easy for anyone to flag a video.

>"Flagged videos are manually reviewed 24/7 and any videos that don't belong in the app are removed within hours. For parents who want a more restricted experience, we recommend that they turn off the Search feature in the app."

>The company also suggested that parents use the YouTube Kids app, which is available for mobile phones and tablets, and turn on "restricted mode" which limits flagged content. It can be found at the bottom of any page on the YouTube site, but cautions that "no filter is 100% accurate".

>And since Trending began investigating, several of the channels that we brought to the attention of YouTube have been removed - including the one containing the video of fake Peppa visiting the dentist.

https://youtu.be/gq0HTo0Nfj4

Real life LCS

>>129343
>loo poo's VS the religion of peace.
I'd pay to see that fight.

>An official from Mr. Khan’s village said that he was transporting cows for use in a dairy.

Ghee shortage incoming. Smart Indians will stockpile this most valuable of ingredients.

>The letters, sent out about 11 p.m. Wednesday, represent a sharp rebuke of Amtrak by the governor’s office. Early evidence suggests that the Amtrak rails were to blame for the derailment of a New Jersey Transit train at Pennsylvania Station in New York on Monday that has caused delays and cancellations across the region.

>A spokesman for Amtrak could not be reached for comment late Wednesday night. But earlier in the day, Charles W. Moorman, Amtrak’s president, said the agency was undertaking a “thorough review of infrastructure at Penn Station to evaluate current conditions.”

>Steven Santoro, the executive director of New Jersey Transit, said at a news conference on Wednesday that the fault lay with Amtrak because his agency’s safety inspections on the train cars that derailed were up to date. “The bottom-line message is Amtrak needs to step up to the plate,” he said.

>Mr. Christie also cited a derailment from two weeks ago, when an Amtrak Acela train derailed in the same area as Monday’s accident, causing delays for New Jersey riders who were directed in and out of neighboring stations in Hoboken and Newark.

>Mr. Christie had faced criticism for remaining largely silent on the commuting nightmare since it spilled into his state on Monday as he was delivering a speech in Florida. Until late Wednesday, his only public comments were to instruct New Jersey Transit executives to travel personally to stations on Thursday to address commuters’ concerns.
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>But in his letter to Amtrak late Wednesday, he was sure to indicate, multiple times, his frustration.

>He wrote that the recurring derailments at Penn Station “indicate Amtrak does not take its obligations seriously and has not effectively applied N.J. Transit’s considerable payments to the proper maintenance of these assets, which are absolutely essential to its customers. Amtrak’s apparent disregard for N.J. Transit’s customers is entirely unacceptable to me.”

what does this mean for amtrak then? I'm not good at trains... I get they were being greedy cunts but what now? He just pulled 62 million from infrastructure, where will it go instead?

>>127079
Political correctness taken to the extreme. This was LITERALLY the man who jump-started VR again with innovative approach to the field. An approach that 'so called' experts with fancy degrees could achieve. He doesn't need Facebook. Facebook needs him.

>>127207
>Political correctness taken to the extreme
so what.
people didn't like the idea that their candidate might be jailed for opposing trump in an election, and so dissociated with him.

>>127207
>This was LITERALLY the man who jump-started VR again with innovative approach to
Actually that's what the lawsuit mentioned in the article was about. He and facebook wouldn't have had to pay if they had actually invented what they claimed to have invented.

IMMIGRANTS WELCOME

IN HER ANUS

I LOVE MINORITIES

>>124104
>Reminder that this is the future liberals chose
Illegals are less than 5% of the population. Violent criminal illegals are an even smaller percentage. There is no crime wave of illegals raping and killing women, they are playing it up to scare you, piss you off and get you distracted like they have with everything else. Remember the shooting sprees? Statistically irrelevant in the realm of gun crime right? Yet people pushing for regulations with them as justification. Same principle.

You are being brainwashed dumbass, and what's more you're helping them do it.

Grow the fuck up and stop being such a schmuck.

>>130577
A public servant who died performing his duty getting remembered and honored for his sacrifice by the public.
>How can this be real?
The only thing to complain about is that the ceremony looks kinda disrespectful.

>>130577
>>130581

this tbh

public ceremonies are good, especially when they are difficult to turn into a political event.

>>130581
>>130582
OP's post is essentially "I have no idea what these Californians are doing, but it's bad and I hate it"

The group recently released a video vowing to step up attacks against Christians, who it describes as "infidels" empowering the West against Muslims.

A militant group called Liwa al-Thawra claimed responsibility for an April 1 bomb attack targeting a police training center in Tanta, which wounded 16 people. The group, believed to be linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, has mainly targeted security forces and distanced itself from attacks on Christians.

Egypt has struggled to combat a wave of Islamic militancy since the 2013 military overthrow of an elected Islamist president.

The Sinai-based IS affiliate has mainly attacked police and soldiers, but has also claimed bombings that killed civilians, including the downing of a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai in 2015, which killed all 224 people on board and devastated Egypt's tourism industry.

Egypt's Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East, accounting for around 10 percent of Egypt's 92 million people and have long complained of discrimination.

The Copts were largely supportive of the military overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood figure, and incurred the wrath of many Islamists, who attacked churches and other Christian institutions after his ouster.

Second Church bombing Alexandria’s St. Mark’s Church, where Coptic pope was conducting mass, killing 11
An explosion struck Sunday near a church in Alexandria, hours after a bomb gutted a church north of Cairo, in an apparent concerted attack on Egypt’s Coptic community to coincide with Palm Sunday services.

According to the Health Ministry, at least 11 people were killed and 33 wounded when a car bomb detonated outside the St. Mark’s Church in the coastal city of Alexandria. State television reported that it was a suicide attack.

Egypt’s Coptic Church said Pope Tawadros II had attended Palm Sunday mass there. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he was still in the building at the time of the attack. His office confirmed that he was unharmed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which came a week before Easter.

After Tanta, another explosion in #Alexandria #Egypt targeted the Pope of Coptic Christians during #PalmSunday mass
2 killed, 21 injured pic.twitter.com/9A5VTXYlxU

— maytham (@maytham956) April 9, 2017

The earlier blast at a church in Tanta, north of Cairo, killed 30 people and wounded some 71, officials said, in an apparent attack on Coptic worshipers.

The two attacks are the latest in a series of assaults on Egypt’s Christian minority, which has been repeatedly targeted by Islamic extremists. It comes just weeks before Pope Francis is due to visit the Arab world’s most populous country.

Pope Francis decried the first bombing, expressing “deep condolences to my brother, Pope Tawadros II, the Coptic church and all of the dear Egyptian nation.” Word of the bombing came as Francis himself was marking Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-6-said-killed-in-second-egyptian-church-blast/

Grand Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar — the leading center of learning in Sunni Islam — likewise condemned the attack, calling it a “despicable terrorist bombing that targeted the lives of innocents.”

The attack adds to fears that Islamic extremists who have long been battling security forces in the Sinai Peninsula may shift their focus to civilians.

Egypt’s Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East, accounting for around 10 percent of Egypt’s 92 million people, and have long complained of discrimination.

The Copts were largely supportive of the military overthrow of president Mohammed Morsi, a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure, and incurred the wrath of many Islamists, who attacked churches and other Christian institutions after his ouster.

>>128846

"business, nothing personal"

Literally making money on killing people by supplying weapons to a war zone.

Canada is the greatest humanitarian nation on earth. Doing its part in reducing the population.

>>130608
Sorry eh. You're welcome.

>>128846
Good. Always in favor of a people trying to uncuck themselves.

>LOCK HER UP!
>LOCK HER UP!
>LOCK HER U---
oh wait...

>>129299
>false equivalence

>>129323
How so?

oh god it's like the worst of both worlds

>>126059
As far as I can tell, the "religious left" only really exists in your northern strongholds, where everything's just different shades of blue.

>>126168
This

I think it's funny that trucks run over people all the time in my city and people even get charged with murder for it but never once did anyone blame it on terrorism.

>>129830
>I think it's funny that trucks run over people all the time in my city

really

>>129830
Such is life in Germany

>The Philippines has traditionally been a forceful claimant in the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

>Under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino, Manila won a landmark case at an international tribunal in the Hague, which ruled China had no legal basis for the bulk of its claims in the waters.

>Duterte's administration has been cozying up to Beijing since his election last year, and territorial disputes have been pushed to the background.
In a visit to the Chinese capital in October, Duterte said to Chinese President Xi Jinping that "America has lost now. I've realigned myself in your ideological flow."

>Following his visit, Beijing agreed to allow Philippines fishing ships access to China-controlled territory.

>"By cozying up to China and trash-talking America, Duterte has achieved something that Washington couldn't deliver: a peaceful resolution to the Scarborough Shoal standoff," Ashley Townsend, a regional expert at the University of Sydney, wrote for CNN Opinion at the time.
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>Duterte's latest comments seem to mark a departure from his previous policy, and suggests a desire to pursue the type of militarization Beijing has been accused of bringing to the region.

>"Even those, those vacant (islands) that are considered ours, let's live there," Duterte said.

>"It's like we're all competing to take these islands. And what's ours now at least, let's take it and make a strong point there that this is ours."
He said the Philippines should "fortify" its territory: "(We) must build bunkers or houses there and make provisions for habitation."

>Duterte has a history of making wild claims and pronouncements he does not necessarily follow up on. In December, he had to walk back a story he told about throwing someone out of a helicopter.
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>While relations between Manila and Beijing may have improved, tensions in the South China Sea -- which is both resource rich and a crucial shipping route -- have remained high.

>China has continued militarizing and building up the territories it controls, reclaiming land to turn sandbars into islands, and equipping them with airfields, ports and weapons systems.

>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has taken a firm line on Beijing's expansionism, saying in his confirmation that the Trump administration would "send China a clear signal."

>"Building islands and then putting military assets on those islands is akin to Russia's taking of Crimea. Its taking of territory that others lay claim to," Tillerson said.

>During a visit to Beijing however, Tillerson's tone was considerably softer, and he echoed Chinese language on the need to "expand cooperative areas and achieve win-win results."

>Trump meets with Xi Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, though it is unclear whether the South China Sea issue will come up.

>Syria, Trump's first national security test, needs more than tough tweets

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/04/05/syria-trumps-first-national-security-test-needs-more-than-tough-tweets.html

>World View: President Trump Plans Military Action on Syria After Nerve Gas Attack on Civilians

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/06/6-apr-17-world-view-president-trump-plans-military-action-on-syria-after-horrific-nerve-gas-attack-on-civilians/

>Assad accused of chemical attack on civilians as Trump administration softens opposition

https://news.vice.com/story/assad-accused-of-chemical-attack-on-civilians-as-trump-administration-softens-opposition

>Trump says Syria chemical attack 'cannot be tolerated' but offers no specifics

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-syria-chemical-attack-us-response-20170405-story.html

>Turkey says autopsies prove "chemical weapon" attack in Syria

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-chemical-weapon-attack-autopsies-turkey-says-trump-blames-assad-russia/

>Trump blames Assad and Obama for chemical attack in Syria

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/white-house-condemns-heinous-attack-syria-46570444