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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/macedonian-president-warns-of-albanian-threat-to-sovereignty/2017/03/07/ec586a62-0352-11e7-9d14-9724d48f5666_story.html

>SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonia’s president appealed Tuesday to international leaders to condemn demands by minority ethnic Albanians for enhanced constitutional rights that he says threaten his country’s existence.

>President Gjorge Ivanov argued that a common platform signed in Albania in January by three of his country’s ethnic Albanian parties endangers Macedonia’s sovereignty and independence.

>The platform “implies changes to the constitution of the Republic of Macedonia that would jeopardize the unitary character of the state,” he said in a letter to the European Council, NATO and the U.S. and Turkish presidents.

>Macedonia is in a deepening political crisis, sparked by a massive wiretap scandal two years ago that put the two main political parties at each other’s throats.

>An internationally brokered attempt to ease tensions through an early election in December left neither former prime minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE conservatives of the main opposition Social Democrats with the support to govern alone.

>The three ethnic Albanian parties want Albanian designated as Macedonia’s second official language as a condition for joining any coalition government. It is already recognized as an official language in northwestern minority-dominated areas.

>Gruevski’s party rejected the demands, while the Social Democrats tried to form a coalition with the Albanians but were refused a mandate to govern by Ivanov, the president, who accused them of trying to destroy Macedonian independence.

>VMRO-DPMNE on Tuesday advocated fresh elections as a way out of the impasse.

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Police have arrested a day care worker who they say was caught on camera shoving a young girl down stairs at the suburban Philadelphia facility last week.
Sarah Gable, 52, of Folcroft, Pennsylvania, was arrested Friday and charged with simple assault, harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. She will also likely be charged with reckless endangerment, police said.

Gable worked at the Child Care of the Future on the 700 block of Secane Avenue in Primos, Pennsylvania. She was later fired.
Gable was caught on surveillance video pushing a 4-year-old girl down the stairs on Friday around 5:15 p.m., according to investigators.

"Apparently for no reason she takes this child and just throws her down a set of steps," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.

Police say workers at the day care had just installed a surveillance camera about a half-hour before the incident took place. In the video, a woman whom police identified as Gable looks up at the camera after shoving the girl and apparently realizes she is being recorded. She then takes the girl by the hand and leads her down the stairs the rest of the way.
Shawayne Tavares, a manager at Child Care of the Future, told NBC10 Philadelphia she witnessed the entire incident unfold on the surveillance camera in real time.

"I was so upset. I had tears in my eyes," Tavares said. "She picked up the shoe and tried to come to the end of the stairs like, 'Oh, it was her shoe'" that caused her to fall.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Day-Care-Press-Conference-Upper-Darby-Child-Stairs--415507113.html

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Women are stupid. Oh well no school for the kids.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/06/women-teachers-strike--alexandria-trumps-backyard/98816126/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomnation-topstories

>WASHINGTON — A major Washington suburb is canceling all public school classes this Wednesday on International Women’s Day — a statement about women's rights in President Trump’s backyard.

>More than 300 staff members in the city of Alexandria, Va., have requested leave on the day that the leaders of the Women’s March on Washington are planning a series of protests and strikes to highlight their continuing concerns about Trump’s policies on civil, human and reproductive rights. It is dubbed it “A Day Without a Woman.”

>“This is not a decision that was made lightly,” Alvin Crawley, Alexandria superintendent of schools said in a statement notifying parents.

>“We have been closely monitoring requests for leave on March 8, including communicating with school leaders and our education association. The decision is based solely on our ability to provide sufficient staff to cover all our classrooms, and the impact of high staff absenteeism on student safety and delivery of instruction. It is not based on a political stance or position,” said Crawley.

>The female civil rights leaders who organized the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington a day after Trump’s inauguration are encouraging women across the country to hold walkouts, rallies and marches on Wednesday to highlight the economic power of women.

>The goal is to call attention to economic injustices including lower wages and gender discrimination. Women who can’t participate are being encouraged to wear red. "Many women in our most vulnerable communities will not have the ability to join the strike, due to economic insecurity. We strike for them," organizers note on their website.

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So when they're not busy bitching at Japan for *le gasp* drawings...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article136872508.html

>Facebook reported journalists at the BBC to police for sending them images related to suspected child pornography on the site, even though Facebook had requested examples

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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Trump-takes-credit-for-Exxon-jobs-projects-10981685.php

>Majority of projects were launched while Obama was in office

>Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Darren Woods on Monday highlighted the company's ongoing plans to spend $20 billion and create thousands of jobs along the Gulf Coast, for which President Donald Trump quickly took credit, claiming via Twitter, "We are already winning again, America!"

>Nearly all the projects, however, were underway or announced before the election, including one that was completed more than a year ago. Still, in a video posted on the White House website Monday evening, Trump said, "This is something that was done to a large extent because of our policies and the policies of this new administration having to do with regulation and so many other things."

>Woods detailed the Gulf Coast investments at the annual energy conference CERAWeek. Analysts said Exxon's promotion of its Gulf Coast projects appeared aimed at gaining the president's favor.

>"At the risk of stating the obvious, plenty of companies, across various industries, have been touting their U.S. job creation efforts in order to get on the Trump administration's good side - even when the underlying job creation has little or nothing to do with Washington policy," said Raymond James energy analyst Pavel Molchanov. "This is simply the latest example of that."

>...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/838862312685637640

>45,000 construction & manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. $20 billion investment. We are already winning again, America!

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>Robots are wealth creators and taxing them is illogical
>Governments can offset lost jobs by investing in education and retraining
>Lawrence Summers - The writer is Charles W Eliot university professor at Harvard and a former US Treasury secretary

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https://www.ft.com/content/42ab292a-000d-11e7-8d8e-a5e3738f9ae4

High quality global journalism my arse.

>Would life be better if robots did all the work?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gxndc

>Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel asks if life would be better if robots did all the work. Professor Sandel skilfully and entertainingly uses live audiences to help address important ethical and philosophical questions. He has travelled across the world and brought together global audiences for his method of Socratic dialogue.

>Michael gathers an audience in a secondary school in Dagenham, East London, to address one of the most pressing issues of our times - the future of work in a world where automation threatens to replace more and more workers with robots. A much-cited Oxford University report predicts that 35% of jobs in the UK are at risk.

>There is nowhere better to examine this issue than Dagenham, where once 40,000 people built cars at the famous Ford factory. The plant stopped making cars in 2002 and now makes vast numbers of car engines, but with fewer than 3,000 employees. Barking and Dagenham is judged by the Legatum Institute as the least prosperous borough in London and among the 10 least prosperous in the UK. The unemployment rate is one of the highest in London. As automation moves from the factory floor to the office, Michael Sandel and his audience will try to understand how we regard the ethics surrounding this profound shift.

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Another Holistic Doctor Found Murdered

64 Doctor Deaths in Just a Year and a Half

http://youtu.be/mn0RWLVmNbU

http://www.healthnutnews.com/holistic-dr-found-dead-natural-health-clinic-police-calling-victims-death-suspicious/

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This morning, Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientific labs, also weighed in on the issue. In a blog post, the organization says it has “considerable concerns about the wealth of information that has been removed from the USDA website in the last week.” The post continues, “When information is hidden … the public wonders what is being hidden and why, and researchers must devote even more resources to combatting the public perception that they are not transparent.” The group has uploaded some of USDA’s past reports on its website.

>The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) today put USDA on notice that it intends to use legal tools to force the agency to restore tens of thousands of documents on animal welfare that it removed from its website on Friday.

>In this letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, the animal welfare organization reminded the government that under the terms of a 2009 legal settlement with HSUS, USDA had agreed to make public some of the records it has now scrubbed from its public database. HSUS, its lawyers write, “is exercising its rights under [the 2009 settlement] and intends to take further action unless USDA agrees to reconsider this bizarre reversal of the agency’s longstanding policy” of making inspection records and others publicly available.

>The animal organization’s letter notes that under the terms of the 2009 settlement, the two parties, HSUS and USDA, now have 30 days to settle their differences. After that, HSUS can ask the court to reopen the lawsuit.

>A spokesperson for USDA did not in the course of 3 hours return an email and a call requesting comment.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/updated-usda-responds-outcry-over-removal-animal-welfare-documents-lawsuit-threats

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http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/rcmp-commissioner-bob-paulson-to-retire-june-30-1.3312491

>RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson to retire June 30

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http://www.opposingviews.com/i/social/man-cited-bumper-sticker-stick-figures-having-sex

stick men should stick together

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Beneath some positive stats, shopping malls are facing serious problems that threaten their health, including a shift to non-retail tenants and forecasted rent declines, according to Wells Fargo analysts.

Wells Fargo stresses a need to look deeper at high mall occupancy rates. Occupancy for the fourth quarter of 2016 was 93.6%, near the 93.3% for all of 2015, according to data from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries, cited by the International Council of Shopping Centers. However, the type of tenants many malls have is shifting to a lower-quality occupant for the overall health of the retail-focused mall, the analysts said.

“[F]or example, there are far more ‘mom-and-pop’ stores, and some malls have repurposed space for non-retail uses such as doctors offices, town libraries and even a high school,” Wells Fargo said in the report published Sunday. “Mom-and-pop” retail in a mall setting may generally be seen as a more-vulnerable long-term tenant and less of a traffic pusher without big-name brand backing.

The annual base rent for malls at the national level was $27.30 per square foot in 2016, up 1.4% from 2015, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. But that doesn’t take into account the impact of long-term leases.

See also: From a risk-of-bankruptcy standpoint, the retail business is the new oil and gas

“For example, a 10-year lease that is renewed in 2017 might be at a lower rent than a similar renewal from 2016, but it usually still represents an increase over the original lease from 10 years earlier,” the note said. “Thus, it will take a few years before the rent ‘waterfall’ begins to show declines in mall rents overall.”

Malls have been feeling the pain of the shift from in-store shopping to e-commerce.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/malls-fill-empty-space-with-mom-and-pop-shops-medical-offices-even-a-high-school-2017-03-06

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White liberals at unpopular CNN Fake News, the clickbait corporation, have decided to imitate the popular Simpsons cartoon in an effort to boost in the toilet ratings.

CNN Fake News cartoon (300k views) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ija-VZwcznE

Simpsons cartoon (500k views) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vuVjiF8Jk

Like demons, white liberals mercilessly ride the backs of blacks and other minority groups to race to the moral high ground.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/shashi-tharoor-britain-india-suffer-historical-amnesia-over-atrocities-of-their-former-empire-says-a7612086.html

>Britons suffer “historical amnesia” over the atrocities and plunder committed by their empire, Indian MP and author Shashi Tharoor has said.

>Dr Tharoor said the British educational system failed to tell the real story of empire, and claimed Britain would have to accept Indian workers and students freely moving across its borders if it wanted to sell its goods in Indian markets following Brexit.

>The former UN under-secretary general was speaking to Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow, and was introduced as “one of the world’s foremost diplomats”. He is the author of 15 best-selling works of fiction and non-fiction, all of which address Indian history, culture and society.

>Asked whether colonialism was a British or an Indian problem, he said: “It is a British problem, first of all because there is so much historical amnesia about what the empire really entailed.

>“The fact you don’t really teach colonial history in your schools... children doing A-Levels in history don’t learn a line of colonial history.

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http://www.wionews.com/world/trump-ally-says-he-worked-with-assange-pre-election-to-spread-clinton-emails-in-abusive-twitter-tirade-13089

>Trump loyalist and former top adviser Roger Stone claimed on Twitter that he had a back channel to work with Julian Assange at Wikileaks to spread damaging leaked Clinton emails.

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A caller reported a man "outside her window having sex with a fence" Wednesday at a duplex in North Austin, according to an arrest affidavit.

Eleodoro Estala, 32, was arrested for indecent exposure after he was seen exposing himself and making lewd gestures around 11:25 a.m. Wednesday at a residence off North Lamar Boulevard, according to the affidavit.

The caller told police she was looking out of her duplex window and saw Estala, her neighbor, urinating on the side of the fence that separates their property, according to the affidavit.


The woman started filming Estala with her cell phone, and the man saw her and took off his clothes, the affidavit reads.

According to the affidavit, Estala put his mouth on the chain link fence and stuck his tongue out.

The woman then saw Estala begin to "have sex with the fence," according to the affidavit.

The woman showed police several photos and videos of the incident on her phone, the affidavit said.

When police arrived to the scene, Estala appeared to be intoxicated, officers wrote in the affidavit.

Estala was uncooperative and told police he was inside his apartment, the affidavit reads.

Estala's bail was set at $2,500, according to the affidavit. Travis County Jail records do not show that Estala is currently in custody.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/austin-man-who-was-having-sex-with-a-fence-charged-with-exposure/499685085