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Bodies of 2 U.N. Researchers Are Found in a Shallow Grave in Congo 2017-03-29 05:38:26 Post No.126611
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Bodies of 2 U.N. Researchers Are Found in a Shallow Grave in Congo
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>In a village nestled in clouds in the thickly wooded hills of eastern Congo, Michael Sharp, a slight, bespectacled Mennonite from Kansas, looked perfectly at ease.
>That is how I remember him from a reporting trip to a village called Kigogo on a Monday in June 2014. He had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo for two years, and he was trying to persuade militia members to put down their guns. He accompanied me into a hut to meet the commander of the notorious Rwandan militia known as the F.D.L.R., blamed for the Rwandan genocide. I suspect the only reason the commander tolerated my questions was that he trusted Mr. Sharp.
>Two weeks ago, Mr. Sharp vanished, along with a colleague, Zaida Catalan, a Swede, both members of a Group of Experts, appointed by the United Nations Security Council, as they went to investigate a relatively new rebellion that is still poorly understood in the Kasai-Central Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
>On Tuesday night, the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, confirmed their deaths, promising an inquiry and nudging the Congolese authorities to “conduct a full investigation into this incident.” Mr. Guterres also urged the government “to continue the search for the four Congolese nationals who accompanied our colleagues.”
>They were also reported missing on March 12, alongside the two expatriates, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave on Monday.
>Mr. Sharp and Ms. Catalan were described as professionals with extensive experience in tough places.
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boers dindu nuffin
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German scientists test world's 'largest artificial sun' 2017-03-23 06:08:30 Post No.124580
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>LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientists in Germany are testing what they describe as "the world's largest artificial sun," which they hope could pave the way toward creating hydrogen to use as a green fuel.
>The system called Synlight - being developed at the German Aerospace Center near Cologne - is an array of 149 bright film projector spotlights. They produce light about 10,000 times stronger than typical sunlight.
>The test aims to find new ways to create hydrogen to fuel vehicles such as cars and planes, explained Bernhard Hoffschmidt, the director of the Center's Institute for Solar Research.
>"We're essentially bringing the sun to the Earth, by re-creating its radiation in a lab," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
>"We orientate all lamps to focus on one point, which can generate temperatures of over 3,000 degrees Celsius."
>The operation produces water vapor that can be split into hydrogen and oxygen, Hoffschmidt said.
>"The hydrogen created can then be used to power airplanes and cars (with) carbon-dioxide-free fuel," he said.
>Countries are under increasing pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and hope to use excess power generated by renewable sources such as wind or solar to create hydrogen from water through a process called electrolysis.
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>Synlight itself consumes a large amount of energy, however, Hoffschmidt said.
>"In four hours the system uses about as much electricity as a four-person household in a year. Our goal is to eventually use actual sunlight to make hydrogen, rather than artificial light."
>He also acknowledged there was "a long way to go" before the method could be scaled up for commercial use, which he said would require billions of tonnes of hydrogen.
>"I think commercial use will only really be possible when societies and governments realize that we cannot burn any more fossil fuels," Hoffschmidt said.
>He added, however, that global events like recent U.N. climate talks in Morocco in November provided welcome momentum in the fight against climate change, and were a sign that "things are starting to change".
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its nothing like a sun
fuck science
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E.U. Blocks Merger of London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse 2017-03-29 06:01:06 Post No.126615
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>LONDON — The London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse have tried to merge three times since 2000, hoping to create a European stock market heavyweight. And now, after a ruling from European regulators on Wednesday, all three efforts have failed.
>The $30 billion merger, announced more than a year ago, would have created Europe’s largest stock market operator by far, leaving the combined company better positioned to compete with American rivals.
>But the deal faced a number of questions, particularly after German regulators and politicians balked at the combined exchange having its headquarters in London even as Britain moves forward with plans to leave the European Union.
>On Wednesday, the European Commission officially blocked the deal, with Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s competition commissioner, citing concerns that a merger would create a “de facto monopoly” in the clearing of bonds and fixed-income products.
>“As the parties failed to offer the remedies required to address our competition concerns, the Commission has decided to prohibit the merger,” she said.
>The rejection came on the day that Britain began the two-year negotiating process to withdraw from the 28-nation bloc.
>While the shape of Britain’s eventual trading relationship with the European Union following the so-called Brexit remains unclear, one thing is certain: The European authorities will maintain jurisdiction over many big mergers, even when they involve companies with headquarters outside the European Union.
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>But as Britain leaves the bloc making such deals may become even thornier. British companies like the London Stock Exchange will probably be perceived differently, seen instead as overseas buyers.
>“We deal with any company who has a footprint in the European market because we want competition in the European market no matter your flag, no matter your ownership, and that goes for everyone,” Ms. Vestager told a news conference.
>Though the decision by European regulators ended a monthslong effort to combine the two operators, the announcement itself was widely anticipated.
>Last month, the London exchange said that the deal was unlikely to be approved after European regulators — who had opened an investigation in September — unexpectedly added a condition that it sell a majority stake in MTS, an electronic platform for trading European government bonds and other fixed income products.
>The London Stock Exchange called the remedy “disproportionate,” arguing that any such sale would set off additional regulatory processes in Europe and the United States, and would be detrimental to its businesses in Italy, where it operates the Borsa Italiana.
>On Wednesday, it said it “regrets” the Commission’s decision to block the merger, but was confident in its prospects as a stand-alone business.
>The chairman of Deutsche Börse’s supervisory board, Joachim Faber, meanwhile, said the decision was “a setback for Europe.”
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>“A rare opportunity to create a global market infrastructure provider based in Europe and to strengthen the global competitiveness of Europe’s financial markets has been missed,” he said in a news release.
>German regulators and lawmakers had also become increasingly concerned in recent months about the combined company having its headquarters in London after last year’s referendum in Britain on European Union membership. They have pushed for the headquarters to be in Frankfurt.
>Prosecutors in Germany had also opened an inquiry into the timing of the purchase of Deutsche Börse shares by Carsten Kengeter, the Deutsche Börse chief executive who was set to head the combined company. The shares were purchased months before the exchanges announced their merger, but investigators are looking into whether they were secretly in talks at the time of the share purchase.
>Mr. Faber, has said the accusations have no basis, and Mr. Kengeter has called them “unfounded.”
>Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange had hoped to create a potential European champion by combining stock exchanges in Britain, Germany and Italy, as well as several of Europe’s largest clearinghouses.
>That would have helped the combined company compete with United States rivals like the Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, and CME Group, which operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Mercantile Exchange.
>In seeking approval for the deal, the London Stock Exchange Group agreed in January to sell LCH, the French operating arm of the LCH.Clearnet Group, after saying it was seeking to “address proactively antitrust concerns raised by the European Commission.” The sale was contingent on the approval by European regulators of the Deutsche Börse-London Stock Exchange transaction.
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>But the European Commission did not find that to be convincing, saying it would have created an effective monopoly in the clearing of bonds and other fixed income products in Europe.
>The commission also found that the merger would have removed so-called horizontal competition for the clearing of single-stock equity derivatives. Regulators found that the parties proposed remedy of selling LCH would have addressed only its concerns about single-stock equity derivatives, but not its unease about fixed income clearing.
>The Intercontinental Exchange had been seen as a potential rival in the deal for the London Stock Exchange, but it opted in May not to pursue an acquisition. The rejection of the Deutsche Börse merger, however, now raises questions about whether the Intercontinental Exchange would take another look at the London exchange.
>“A weakened L.S.E. may need to look west for a future partner and strategy,” said John Colley, the associate dean of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.
>Mr. Colley said that while the London Stock Exchange’s business was performing well, “there is very likely to be some fallout from Brexit.”
>The Intercontinental Exchange was one potential bidder, he said, particularly given the weakness of the British pound against the dollar and the reduced cost of borrowing in an environment of historically low interest rates.
>“The L.S.E. is now vulnerable to a bid,” he said.
>Deutsche Börse, however, does not have many potential targets for mergers in Europe, and will probably try to attract stock listings and trading from Britain following Brexit, Mr. Colley said.
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US Senate Votes to Approve Montenegro's Admission Into NATO 2017-03-29 05:48:29 Post No.126612
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>WASHINGTON — Montenegro is set to become NATO's newest member after the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to ratify the tiny Balkan nation's entry into the alliance.
>Senators voted 97-2 on Tuesday to admit Montenegro, with only Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah voting "no." Paul had suggested that adding Montenegro could lead to heightened tension with Moscow, possibly even war. Under NATO's principle of collective defense, an attack against one ally is considered an attack against them all.
>Despite its size, Montenegro bears strategic importance. A former ally of Russia, the country is in the midst of a clash between the West and Moscow over influence in the Balkans. Montenegro's membership gives NATO a contiguous border along the Adriatic coast.
>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson earlier this month pressed the Senate to act quickly on Montenegro's admission. He wrote in a March 7 letter to Senate leaders that the chamber's approval needed to come ahead of a summit scheduled for May that will include NATO heads of state and government. Tillerson said the U.S. was one of the last remaining NATO members not to have given Montenegro's bid full parliamentary approval.
>"Since Montenegro borders on five other Balkans nations, including NATO allies Croatia and Albania, its membership will support greater integration, democratic reform, trade, security, and stability with all of its neighbors," Tillerson wrote in the letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
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>Montenegro will become the 29th member of the alliance. NATO invited Montenegro to start entry talks in December 2015, roughly nine years after the nation of 620,000 people split with Serbia in a 2006 referendum.
>Russia strongly opposes the expansion of the Western military alliance in a region it considers part of its strategic sphere of interest. Wary of Russian influence in the still-volatile region, NATO wanted Montenegro to join the alliance.
>A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report that accompanied the resolution of ratification said that "an attack against Montenegro, or its destabilization arising from external subversion, would threaten the stability of Europe and jeopardize United States national security interests."
>Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the senior U.S. military commander in Europe, said last week that failing to add Montenegro would send the wrong signal to other nations eager to join the alliance.
>"If we were to lose this, it would set back many of the other countries and peoples, particularly in Eastern Europe, who are looking forward to, and have their eyes set on the West," Scaparrotti told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
>Paul's decision to block an earlier attempt to vote on Montenegro's admission despite strong bipartisan support for the move touched off a bout of name-calling between him and Sen. John McCain of Arizona. McCain, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, was a staunch proponent of ratification.
>After the Kentucky senator stopped the move, McCain accused Paul of "working for Vladimir Putin," the Russian president. A day later, Paul said the 80-year-old senator was "a little bit unhinged," and may be "past his prime."
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Nice. We have enough foreigners already.
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Netanyahu and Trump Skip AIPAC Meeting 2017-03-29 03:23:09 Post No.126587
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>WASHINGTON — There was plenty to celebrate at the first meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee since the election of President Trump. But the two most coveted guests — Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel — were not on hand for it.
>Mr. Netanyahu spoke via satellite on Monday morning to the 18,000 faithful gathered by Aipac, the nation’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying group. Mr. Trump dispatched Vice President Mike Pence to speak to the group in his place on Sunday evening.
>Their absence spoke to the fluid moment in relations between the White House and the Israeli government. While Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu have pulled each other close, dispelling years of friction between Mr. Netanyahu and former President Barack Obama, there are still enough loose ends to make it easier for both leaders to skip the high-profile Aipac meeting.
>The United States is pressing Israel for an agreement that would slow down the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank — a delicate process that both sides are eager to prevent from upsetting the chummy rapport between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Trump.
>Mr. Netanyahu, several experts said, wants to talk to Mr. Trump about how best to confront Iran. But the administration’s policy toward Iran is still taking shape, making it less fruitful for the Israeli leader to come to Washington for a face-to-face meeting with the president.
>In his video appearance — after joking that he skipped the conference to avoid standing in long lines at the door — Mr. Netanyahu made much of the “exceptional” warmth that Mr. Trump had shown him. That, he said, had translated into friendlier policies toward Israel.
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>“You see it in the budget request,” the prime minister said. “It leaves military aid to Israel fully funded, even as the fiscal belt gets pulled tighter — and we appreciate that.”
>But Mr. Netanyahu avoided any reference to settlements, which Mr. Trump unexpectedly raised as an issue before their first meeting last month. Arguing that the rapid growth of settlements was an obstacle to a peace accord, Mr. Trump urged Mr. Netanyahu to slow it down.
>The White House, officials said, is trying to negotiate an understanding with Mr. Netanyahu that would do that, but would avoid explicit geographic or numeric targets, at least publicly. Mr. Netanyahu could not accept such terms, officials said, without alienating the right-wing partners in his coalition or even toppling his government.
>Aipac, as it customarily does, invited both the president and the prime minister to address the meeting. Mr. Netanyahu has appeared in person several times, but has also spoken via video. Mr. Obama likewise appeared periodically, but more often sent surrogates like Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
>For the organizers, Mr. Trump’s decision not to attend probably counted as a relief. He spoke last year as a Republican candidate and stirred a tempest by describing Mr. Obama as “maybe the worst thing to happen to Israel.” The next day, Aipac’s president, Lillian Pinkus, tearfully apologized, saying Mr. Trump had violated the group’s bipartisan tradition.
>“We have said, in every way we can think of, ‘Come together,’ ” she said. “But last evening, something occurred which has the potential to drive us apart, to divide us. We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage.”
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>Marshall Wittmann, a spokesman for Aipac, said the group was satisfied with the turnout. “We have been very pleased to have as speakers representing President Trump’s administration both Vice President Pence and Ambassador Haley, as well as the entire bipartisan leadership of Congress,” he said.
>For his part, Mr. Pence generally avoided a partisan tone in his remarks, though at one point he did say that “for the first time in a long time, America has a president who will stand with our allies and stand up to our enemies.”
>The vice president also played to the right wing among American Jews. “After decades of simply talking about it,” Mr. Pence said, “the president of the United States is giving serious consideration to moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”
>Even Mr. Netanyahu is not actively pushing the administration to move the embassy to Jerusalem, which is claimed as a capital by both Israel and the Palestinians, out of fears that it could provoke violence. After promising to move it during the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump’s administration has put that issue on the back burner.
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>For Aipac, the ascension of Mr. Trump is a mixed blessing. His close alliance with Mr. Netanyahu and his hard line on Iran will resonate with the group’s rank and file, after years of tension caused by Mr. Obama’s clashes with Mr. Netanyahu over the Iran nuclear deal and settlements.
>On the other hand, the Trump administration reinforces what some longtime observers of the group say is a structural problem for Aipac: an erosion of support among Democrats and a perception that backing Israel has become predominantly a Republican preoccupation.
>“The real mission of Aipac today is to get back the Democrats,” said Steven J. Rosen, a former senior official of the group, who was forced out in 2005 after being caught up in the leak of classified government documents. The case was eventually dropped.
>“In that context, Trump becomes a bit of a problem,” Mr. Rosen said. “If you believe the Democrats are going to win in 2020, this could be a sugarcoated poison pill.”
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New DNC chief tells all DNC staffers to resign by April 15, shakeup perturbs some liberals 2017-03-29 02:32:51 Post No.126575
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>The new chairman of the embattled Democratic National Committee has reportedly demanded the resignations of all the party’s current staffers in a major shakeup one local progressive activist says fails to fix the real grievances of disaffected Dems.
>DNC Chairman Tom Perez, who was elected in February, has asked for the resignations of all rank-and-file employees by next month, according to NBC News. The party is still reeling from the humiliating loss by Hillary Clinton, the collapse of its blue- collar base and lingering anger over the party’s efforts to push the former secretary of state over Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primary.
>“It sounds good if you’re looking for change, but it’s not what people were clamoring for,” said Arnie Arnesen, a liberal New Hampshire radio host who held an early campaign event for Sanders.
>“They weren’t angry at the people working within the base of the Democratic party. They were furious with the leadership. I’m not sure that gets us to the goal,” Arnesen said. “I think it hurts a lot of little people. Is that what the Democratic Party is supposed to be known for?”
>The massive ousters also extend a period of instability at the DNC, where Perez is the third chairman in less than a year. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned during the Democratic National Convention in July after the revelation of hacked emails showing the party had tried to tilt the scales toward Clinton over Sanders, which threatened to overshadow the nominee’s coronation.
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>Her interim successor, Donna Brazile, only further angered the progressive wing after another round of hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks in October showed she had given the Clinton campaign a list of planned topics from a CNN town hall ahead of time.
>Brazile owned up to the misdeed last week, calling it “a mistake I will forever regret.”
>Perez is likely to reject some resignations and accept others, but Arnesen said the move seems to be more about sending a message using “a blunt instrument” than pinpointing the exact problems within the DNC, which she believes are the establishment bigwigs.
>“We kind of rushed to pick the next chairperson with the same people who picked the old chairperson,” she said.
>Democrats desperately need to win back blue-collar workers, whom President Trump picked up in November — and who were being wooed again yesterday by Trump vowing to bring back coal mining jobs while signing an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama’s climate plan.
>“(The miners) told me about the efforts to shut down their mines, their communities and their very way of life,” Trump said. “I made them this promise — we will put our miners back to work. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal.”
>Trump claimed his exec-utive order would also lift domestic energy production, including oil, natural gas and coal and lead to “a new energy revolution.”
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Trump guys keep fucking up 2017-03-29 04:44:05 Post No.126469
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>The controversy surrounding House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes may just be getting started. Nunes could soon be staring down the barrel of a House Ethics Committee investigation, lawyers familiar with the House’s rules tell The Daily Beast.
>A few Republicans have already joined Democrats in calling for Nunes to either recuse himself from his committee’s probe into Russian influence—or to step down as chairman.
>To add to this pressure, it appears that the chairman may have opened himself up to an ethics investigation by apparently disclosing the existence of a foreign surveillance warrant during a press conference last Tuesday.
>“The Committee on Ethics shall investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or intelligence-related information,” reads the rule. The key to this rule is the phrase, “shall investigate”—a command, rather than a mere suggestion.
>“If another member of Congress were to raise a written complaint about the actions of chairman Nunes, specifically his decision to disclose to the public information that is classified… the ethics committee would be required to conduct an inquiry,” explained Bradley Moss, a lawyer that specializes classification issues. A third attorney who specializes in this area of law but didn’t want to quoted on this topic agreed with this interpretation.
>Last Wednesday, Nunes made to reporters what at first seemed like a bold, definitive claim: “I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition.”
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Trump Calls for Investigation into the Clintons’ Russian Ties 2017-03-28 08:56:59 Post No.126283
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>President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday evening and asked why aren’t congressional lawmakers probing the various deals, transactions, and connections former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have to Russia.
>“Why isn’t the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech,” read Trump’s first tweet, which was followed by, “…money to Bill, the Hillary Russian “reset,” praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!”
>Trump’s assertion that then-Secretary of State Clinton “allowed big Uranium to go to Russia” and Bill Clinton’s high-dollar “Russian speech” were allegations first reported by The New York Times (NYT) and based on research from the NYT bestseller Clinton Cash, authored by Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.
>The facts found in Clinton Cash, reported by the NYT, and deemed accurate by establishment media reveal how Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State coincided with the influx of tens of millions of dollars from foreign sources into the Clinton Foundation which resulted in favorable actions for Russia’s government.
Even after the Left's humiliation last fall, Trump is still going after that bitch. Love it
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problem? BT is the news of the future. we'll control the narrative, we'll decide the truth, not the liberal msm
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Trump, like all of his Trumpkins, can't seem to do anything but yell, "But the Clintons!" Even though she lost the election and is out of the spotlight.
Sad!
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Giraffes facing 'silent extinction' as population plunges 2017-03-24 12:53:24 Post No.124689
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A dramatic drop in giraffe populations over the past 30 years has seen the world's tallest land mammal classified as vulnerable to extinction.
>Numbers have gone from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015 according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
>The iconic animal has declined because of habitat loss, poaching and civil unrest in many parts of Africa.
>Some populations are growing, mainly in southern parts of the continent.
>Until now, the conservation status of giraffes was considered of "least concern" by the IUCN.
>However in their latest global Red List of threatened species, the ungainly animal is now said to be "vulnerable", meaning that over three generations, the population has declined by more that 30%.
>According to Dr Julian Fennessy, who co-chairs the IUCN giraffe specialist group, the creatures are undergoing a "silent extinction".
>"If you go on a safari, giraffes are everywhere," he told BBC News.
>"While there have been great concern about elephants and rhinos, giraffes have gone under the radar but, unfortunately, their numbers have been plummeting, and this is something that we were a little shocked about, that they have declined by so much in so little time."
>The rapid growth of human populations has seen the expansion of farming and other forms of development that has resulted in the fragmentation of the giraffe's range in many parts of Africa. But civil unrest in parts of the continent has also taken its toll.
>"In these war torn areas, in northern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia in the border area with South Sudan, essentially the giraffes are war fodder, a large animal, extremely curious that can feed a lot of people," said Dr Fennessy.
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>A study in recent months suggested that the giraffe was actually four different species but for this update of the Redlist, the IUCN have stuck with the traditional definition of one species with nine subspecies.
>Of these, five have had falling populations, one has remained stable while three have grown. Different outcomes seem to be highly dependent on location.
>"The species in southern Africa, those numbers are increasing by two to three times over the last three decades," said Dr Fennessy.
>"But when you come up through East Africa, those numbers have plummeted some by up to 95% of the population in the case of the Nubian giraffe, in the last three decades alone."
Solutions exist
>While researchers believe that some local populations may not survive, there is optimism that that the long term future of these tall creatures can be secured.
>The success in keeping giraffe numbers high in Southern Africa has much to do with the management of game parks for tourists say experts, who believe that the extra attention that the IUCN listing will now attract will benefit the species.
>"South Africa is a good example of how you can manage wildlife, there is a lot of moving of animals between different conservation areas, it is a very different scenario than in most of the rest of Africa." said Chris Ransom from the Zoological Society of London.
>"I think giraffes can survive, with the right conservation efforts, and we can ensure that the animals do live in the wild. There are a lot of cases of success in conservation. The giraffes could be one."
>The latest edition of the IUCN Red List now contains over 85,000 species in total with more than 24,000 threatened with extinction. Over 700 newly recognised bird species have been added, with 11% of them on the edge of survival.
>One bird, the Antioquia wren has been listed as "endangered" as more than half of its habitat in Colombia could be wiped out by proposed dam.
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>Invasive species on islands are also seen as a threat for many birds including the Pagan reed-warbler and the Laysan honeycreeper.
>The publication also includes the first assessment of crops including wild oats, barley, mango and other wild relative plants.
>"Many species are slipping away before we can even describe them," says IUCN Director General Inger Andersen. "This IUCN Red List update shows that the scale of the global extinction crisis may be even greater than we thought."
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tl;dr
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Getaway driver arrested after 3 suspects are shot to death in Wagoner Co. home invasion 2017-03-28 02:23:27 Post No.126064
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Some good news for a change.
One person is in custody after three suspects in a Wagoner County home invasion were shot to death Monday afternoon by one of the residents.
According to the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office, the suspects' getaway driver has been arrested. The 21-year-old woman turned herself in at the Broken Arrow Police Department hours after the shooting, saying she had information. Wagoner County investigators interviewed her at the police department and subsequently arrested her.
Investigators haven't released the names of anyone involved but say the deceased suspects are between 16 and 18 years old. Two of the suspects were armed, according to investigators. One with a knife and the other with brass knuckles.
Deputies responded to the home near 9100 S. Clearview Drive around 12:30 p.m. after a report of a possible home invasion with shots fired. Upon arrival, deputies found three suspects dead and the two residents uninjured.
Deputy Nick Mahoney says the preliminary investigation shows that the three suspects went to the residence with the intent to burglarize the home.
"They were dressed in black, all had masks on, and all had gloves on," said Mahoney.
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (KTUL) -- One person is in custody after three suspects in a Wagoner County home invasion were shot to death Monday afternoon by one of the residents.
According to the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office, the suspects' getaway driver has been arrested. The 21-year-old woman turned herself in at the Broken Arrow Police Department hours after the shooting, saying she had information. Wagoner County investigators interviewed her at the police department and subsequently arrested her.
Investigators haven't released the names of anyone involved but say the deceased suspects are between 16 and 18 years old. Two of the suspects were armed, according to investigators.
http://okcfox.com/news/local/wagoner-co-sheriffs-office-investigating-triple-homicide-in-broken-arrow-area
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One with a knife and the other with brass knuckles.
Deputies responded to the home near 9100 S. Clearview Drive around 12:30 p.m. after a report of a possible home invasion with shots fired. Upon arrival, deputies found three suspects dead and the two residents uninjured.
Deputy Nick Mahoney says the preliminary investigation shows that the three suspects went to the residence with the intent to burglarize the home.
"They were dressed in black, all had masks on, and all had gloves on," said Mahoney.
Mahoney says the suspects broke in through a glass door in the back of the house. After entering the residence, the suspects encountered the homeowner's 23-year-old son who also lives there.
"There was a short exchange of words and then gunfire happened," he said.
A neighbor down the road said the gunshots sounded like a storm.
"Well, I thought it was thunder, I just heard something, I had the doors closed," said Leon Simmons.
Two suspects died in the kitchen and a third ran from the home but collapsed and died in the driveway.
Both residents are cooperating with investigators. The homeowner's son volunteered to go to the sheriff's office to give a statement.
"Preliminary investigation, it looks like it was self-defense," said Mahoney.
Residents in the neighborhood say they've seen an increase in break-ins recently.
"Within the past six months we've had two or three burglaries out here," said Simmons.
Investigators say it's too early to know if the suspects are connected to any other burglaries in the Tulsa-Wagoner area.
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>good news for a change
What a pleasant surprise! thanks OP
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Remember, make sure you kill them on a home invasion, not wound.
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Trump paid $38 million in income tax in 2005 2017-03-15 04:55:35 Post No.121957
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The White House said Tuesday President Donald Trump earned more than $150 million in income and paid $38 million in taxes even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction in response to questions about the coming publication of his 2005 return.
The $38 million was in addition to "paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes," a White House official said.
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the white house says a lot of things
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So does fake news.
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>>121959
>no u
This White House tells more lies than truths.
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>A bank in Cyprus investigated accounts associated with President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, for possible money-laundering, two banking sources with direct knowledge of his businesses here told NBC News.
>Manafort — whose ties to a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin are under scrutiny — was associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies on Cyprus, dating back to 2007, the sources said. At least one of those companies was used to receive millions of dollars from a billionaire Putin ally, according to court documents.
>One of the companies linked to Manafort, PEM Advisors Limited, was involved in a multimillion-dollar deal with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to court documents filed in the Cayman Islands.
>Banking sources said that in October 2009, one of the 15 Manafort-associated bank accounts in Cyprus received a payment of a million dollars and left the account on the same day. Experts said the way the multiple accounts and companies were used suggests they were set up to deliberately make it difficult for auditors to track the movement of funds.
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>one of the 15 Manafort-associated bank accounts in Cyprus received a payment of a million dollars and left the account on the same day.
The account left the account?
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH.. Check they niggers 2017-03-29 01:07:05 Post No.126395
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In Georgia US-paid group of georgian nationalists started a flashmob as support for civil war torn and totally devastated Ukraine. the flesh mob is about giving the visa free travel to ukrainian into EU.
http://korrespondent.net/world/worldabus/3833065-bezvyz-dlia-ukrayny-v-hruzyy-zapustyly-fleshmob
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How does vlad's cock taste?
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>>126417
fruity with a hint of rosemary
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>>126395
Two beets have been deposited to your account.
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Devin Nunes Says He’ll Continue to Lead Russia Inquiry 2017-03-28 09:14:24 Post No.126299
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>The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday rebuffed calls to recuse himself from the panel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, as Speaker Paul D. Ryan expressed support for his continued leadership.
>Representative Devin Nunes of California said he would continue to lead the House investigation despite accusations from Democrats — including his committee’s ranking member, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California — that he is too close to President Trump to conduct an impartial inquiry.
>“Why would I not?” Mr. Nunes told reporters Tuesday morning. Pressed about concerns from Democrats, he added, “That sounds like their problem.”
>Mr. Ryan — who, as House speaker, has the power to remove Mr. Nunes as chairman — said he saw no reason for Mr. Nunes to step away from the investigation.
>Last week Mr. Nunes said he briefed Mr. Ryan on information indicating Mr. Trump or members of his transition team may have been “incidentally” caught up in legal surveillance of foreign operatives by American spy agencies. Mr. Ryan said Tuesday that he did not know who the source of that information was.
>In a new flare-up on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the White House had attempted to block Sally Q. Yates, who was fired by President Trump as acting attorney general in January, from appearing before the committee, apparently arguing that much of her testimony could be barred from discussion by presidential privilege that shields certain sensitive information from the public.
>In letters later obtained by The New York Times, her lawyer pushed back, asserting that much of what Ms. Yates would address had already been described publicly by senior administration officials. The letters were dated late last week, around the time Mr. Nunes abruptly announced his decision to scrap a public hearing.
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>Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, rejected the report as “100 percent false,” saying the White House would not bar Ms. Yates from testifying. He also rejected the idea that the White House had pressured Mr. Nunes to cancel the hearing.
>“I hope she testifies,” he said. “I look forward to it.”
>Mr. Schiff said he was “deeply concerned” by the cancellation of the hearing with Ms. Yates and other former officials, which he said would have focused at least in part on Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned after it was revealed that he lied to White House officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, about his contacts with Russia.
>Mr. Nunes insisted he would stay on amid the news that the committee would not hold a closed-door meeting Tuesday with James B. Comey of the F.B.I. and Adm. Michael S. Rogers of the National Security Agency. Democrats said the cancellations went further, including a regular meeting later in the week.
>Mr. Nunes said the hearing with Mr. Comey and Mr. Rogers would be rescheduled. “Nothing has been canceled,” he said, adding, “Everything is moving forward as is.”
>It was the latest development in a week that has seen bipartisan cooperation quickly collapse. Last week, without consulting Mr. Schiff, Mr. Nunes bumped a planned public hearing with James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence; John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director; and Ms. Yates, who was fired after she instructed Justice Department officials to not carry out Mr. Trump’s first proposed travel ban.
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>Tensions had escalated Monday after the confirmation that Mr. Nunes had traveled to the White House grounds to view what he described as classified intelligence documents. The next day he announced to the news media, and then Mr. Trump, that he had seen information indicating that members of the Trump transition team may have been caught up in legal surveillance.
>Mr. Schiff and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the top House Democrat, led calls for Mr. Nunes to recuse himself, arguing that he had proved himself incapable of leading an impartial investigation. Mr. Nunes was a member of the transition team, as well as a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump’s campaign.
>Of particular concern to Mr. Schiff was that Mr. Nunes obtained his information on the White House grounds and did not inform his committee of a matter of critical relevance to its inquiry. Mr. Schiff said it would help if Mr. Nunes revealed his source.
>“I certainly think it would clarify matters if he would,” he said in an interview. “But to date it’s just been inexplicable.”
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WE INVESTIGATED OURSELVES AND CLEARLY FOUND NO WRONGDOING.
WHY CAN'T YOU ALL JUST MOVE ON? I MEAN COME ONNNNN
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Trump spends 8th consecutive weekend golfing, FoxNews pretends he's at White House 2017-03-27 01:59:03 Post No.125862
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>President Donald Trump headed to one of his golf courses again Sunday, marking his 13th visit to one since taking office and the eighth consecutive weekend he has spent at properties bearing his name.
>While the President hasn't played golf on every visit, sometimes attending to presidential business, the trips underscore a break with his insistence on the campaign trail that he wouldn't spend his time golfing because of how hard he would be working.
>White House officials would not provide details about what Trump did at the clubhouse of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, over the weekend.
>Both Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, have knocked former President Barack Obama for his time playing golf on the job.
Trump's first visit to a golf course since becoming President was on February 4 at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida. His visits to that golf course as well as the Trump National Golf Course in Jupiter, Florida, have come during his trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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>Late Sunday afternoon, Fox News’s Twitter issued a “news alert” informing the public that President Donald Trump was “spending the weekend working at the White House.” It was a weird tweet for a couple of reasons: First, the idea that the president of the United States, typically a very busy person, had to keep doing his job over the weekend doesn’t exactly seem newsworthy. Second, Trump spent a significant portion of the weekend at his Virginia golf course.
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I have taken four days off in the past two years. Why does the president feel entitled to work less hard than almost everyone else?
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>>125862
I always find it funny how when Obama would go golfing, Republicans would pitch a fit. Now Trump? Nah they don't care, not even a word.
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>>125892
I remember when W Bush would go golfing and Michael Moore made fun of him for doing it 'during wartime'. Then when Obama became president and did the same thing he shut up.