https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/politics/rep-jason-chaffetz-ethics-monitor-investigation-threat.html
>In an unusual action against the independent Office of Government Ethics, Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah accused the office’s director, Walter M. Shaub Jr., of “blurring the line between public relations and official ethics guidance.”
>Mr. Chaffetz’s letter made no mention of Mr. Shaub’s airing of doubts a day earlier about Mr. Trump’s ethics plan, which includes retaining his own stake in his business empire and putting it in a trust managed by his two adult sons. Mr. Shaub, during an unusual news conference at the Brookings Institution, a policy research center in Washington, said that Mr. Trump had not gone far enough and would leave himself susceptible to “suspicions of corruption.”
>>99779
Looks like the GOP are at it again, just like they did last week.
>>99779
Considering how Chaffetz is the guy who couldn't get enough of Hillary's emails, this is not a surprise.
Good, the left are a fifth column
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/liberal-watchdog-group-sues-trump-alleging-he-violated-constitutional-ban/2017/01/22/5e8b35c2-e113-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html
>A liberal watchdog group says it plans to file a lawsuit against President Trump in federal court on Monday alleging that he is in violation of a little-known constitutional provision that bars him from taking gifts or payments from foreign governments.
>The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that because Trump-owned buildings take in rent, room rentals and other payments from foreign governments, the president has breached the Emoluments Clause. That clause in the Constitution says that “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” It was written out of fear that the young republic’s leaders or ambassadors could be bought off by a richer European power.
>The meaning of those words has never truly been tested in court. The watchdog group says the text should be interpreted to mean that Trump’s businesses should cease all business dealings with foreign states.
>The clause, the legal complaint says, “is no relic of a bygone era, but rather an expression of insight into the nature of the human condition and the preconditions of self-governance. And applied to Donald J. Trump’s diverse dealings, the text and purpose of the Foreign Emoluments Clause speak as one: this cannot be allowed.” The group provided The Washington Post with a copy of the complaint, which has not yet been filed.
...
>If the lawsuit were to succeed, it could put a major dent in the business of the Trump Organization — whose businesses lease office space to state-owned companies, and whose Pennsylvania Avenue hotel rents its ballrooms for foreign embassy parties. The mere process of the suit could prove embarrassing for the president if it drags out details of those business dealings from the Trump Organization’s private files. Norm Eisen, a lawyer working on the case, told the New York Times he hoped the suit could also produce a copy of Trump’s tax returns, which could detail the business he does with — and the money he owes to — foreign states such as China and Russia.
>The law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, which represents Trump, declined to comment. So did Trump’s son Eric Trump, who is among the leaders of the Trump Organization while his father is president. Attempts to reach the White House press office Sunday evening were unsuccessful.
>Before the president took office, his lawyer, Sheri Dillon, said he would transfer management of his businesses to his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., along with other executives. The president will, however, not give up his ownership stakes. Dillon said it is incorrect to say Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause if his company merely does business with a foreign government — taking its money and giving it something of value in return.
>“This is not what the Constitution says. Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present, and it has nothing to do with an office. It’s not an emolument,” Dillon said then.
>In this particular case, the liberal watchdog group’s suit appears likely to face difficult legal hurdles. One would be Dillon’s argument that paying a hotel bill is not a prohibited gift.
...
>Another problem is the question of the watchdog group’s standing to sue. There is a general legal rule that to file suit against someone for wrongdoing, a plaintiff must have suffered some specific harm from that wrongdoing. That’s an issue that has hung over all the discussions of an Emoluments Clause lawsuit: If Trump does violate the Constitution, whom does he hurt?
>In this case, the watchdog says its own group was hurt by having to spend so much time monitoring this particular issue.
>“CREW has been forced to divert essential and limited resources — including time and money — from other important matters that it ordinarily would have been handling to the Foreign Emoluments Clause issues involving Defendant, which have consumed the attention of the public and the media,” the planned lawsuit complaint says.
>Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, was the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007 and is now the vice chairman of CREW’s board of directors. He argued that the group has standing because it has been distracted from its usual focus issues.
>“CREW’s whole purpose is about combating corruption in the federal government,” he said. “So up until this point, the two major causes of corruption in the government were the revolving door in Washington and campaign finance. The vast majority of resources were spent on that. It was a two-front war, and now this opens up a third front.”
...
>Other legal scholars have said that claim may not be enough of an injury to let CREW’s case continue. Another theory is that the best-positioned party to sue Trump may be a rival D.C. hotel, if one of them lost out on embassy business because the embassies used the Trump hotel instead. But that would require finding a large D.C. hotel with a willingness to sue the president of the United States at the outset of his term.
Didn't he give his businesses over to his kids?
He'll wriggle out of this no problem.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/womens-march-donald-trump-inauguration-sizes/
>It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017 as opposed to Barack Obama in 2009.
>It's also going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended Trump's inauguration as opposed to the Women's March Saturday organized as a direct rebuttal to Trump the previous day.
>But there's going to be a lot of conjecture about it. Trump himself talked about his massive crowds during an appearance at the Armed Services Ball Friday night.
>It's clear that both events attracted many people. Below are pictures from 12:15 p.m. ET on each day from the EarthCam website.
>Trump talked about crowd size during an appearance at the CIA Saturday and argued the size of his crowds had been misrepresented.
>"We had a massive field of people," he told the US intelligence agency. "You saw that. Packed. I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. I'm like, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people. They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. And they said, Donald Trump did not draw well," the President said.
>"It looked honestly like a million and a half people, whatever it was, it was, but it went all the way back to the Washington Monument and I turn on, by mistake, I get this network, and it showed an empty field. Said we drew 250,000 people. Now, that's not bad. But it's a lie. We had 250,000 people," he said.
>It wasn't clear which outlet Trump was referring to. CNN has not reported a specific size to the crowd since there has been no official estimate.
Trump took the oath of office just before noon Friday and then gave his inaugural address. A rally associated with the march was slated for between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday.
...
>Some differences to note: Trump's speech was on the West Front of the Capitol, which was at capacity on Friday. It was cordoned off and empty on Saturday as protesters gathered on the Mall.
>On the other hand, the Women's March filled the streets around the mall. Those streets were closed to Trump supporters.
>His inauguration was on Jan. 20, because of the Constitution, which this year occurred on a Friday. The Women's March was on Saturday, when more people are off work.
>Metro, Washington's subway system, tweeted Saturday there were 275,000 trips taken Saturday by 11 a.m.
>Another important point: Both events are occurring in an area opposed to Trump. Washington, D.C. voted overwhelmingly against Trump last November. He got just 4.1% of the vote in the nation's capital. He also lost the surrounding states of Maryland by 25 percentage points and Virginia by nearly 5 percentage points. It would be a longer trip for a critical mass of Trump supporters than for a critical mass of marchers.
>It should also be noted that marchers took to the streets in other cities, nationwide, and in cities around the world.
I don't remember comparisons of crowd sizes being discussed before this election
Do you think that there's people who either just vote democrat or republican without every changing their whole lives?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-not-sending-a-delegation-to-syria-peace-talks/2017/01/21/7e42cc5c-dff8-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html
>The Trump administration will not send a delegation to next week’s Syrian peace talks, sponsored by Russia, Turkey and Iran, because of the “immediate demands of the transition,” the State Department said Saturday.
>Russia’s ambassador to the United States had personally invited President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, to the meeting, scheduled to begin Monday in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. The Obama administration was not invited.
>“The United States is committed to a political resolution to the Syrian crisis through a Syrian-owned process, which can bring about a more representative, peaceful, and united Syria,” acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. It said that the U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan would attend as an observer.
>The invitation comes as the new administration is still formulating its policies toward a variety of issues, including the Syrian war, Russia and Iran, although Trump has promised changes from his predecessor. Secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson has not yet been confirmed by the Senate, and no other senior diplomatic appointments have been finalized.
>“Given our presidential inauguration and the immediate demands of the transition, a delegation from Washington will not be attending,” Toner’s statement said.
>Representatives from the Syrian government and armed opposition groups seeking to overthrow it are scheduled to be there and, according to the sponsors, to hold face-to-face talks for the first time.
...
>At the top of the agenda is an effort to solidify and continue a sputtering cease-fire the three sponsor nations negotiated last month. They hope to then begin preliminary talks on a negotiated political settlement to Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth year. A larger political meeting, to be held under United Nations auspices, is scheduled for Feb. 8 in Geneva.
>The new effort follows a failed, year-long attempt by the United States and Russia — backing opposite sides of the conflict — to sustain a cease-fire and jump-start talks in Geneva. Since then, forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with aid from Russia and Iran, have retaken the city of Aleppo from the rebels and extended their control of the country.
>Turkey and the United States have both backed the rebels, although Trump has questioned the CIA program to arm and train them. But in recent months, Washington and Astana have feuded over U.S. military support for Syrian Kurdish forces participating in the separate war against the Islamic State. When the Obama administration declined to provide air support for a Turkish military operation against the Islamic State inside Syria, Turkey turned to Russia.
>The U.S.-Turkey breach has led to growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia, whose warplanes this week flew joint bombing operations with Turkish counterparts in Syria.
>In an interview Thursday in Washington, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu rejected U.S. and European concerns that his government, a member of NATO and the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, was “tilting” toward Russia.
...
>“I think many NATO countries have better relations with Russia than Turkey has. ... Despite the sanctions, many European countries are doing business with Russia,” Cavusoglu said. The United States and the European Union — of which Turkey is not a member — imposed sanctions against Russia for its military incursions in Ukraine on behalf of separatist fighters there, and for its annexation of Crimea.
>Turkey has always “balanced” its relations with Russia, he said. “Have we changed our principled positions [opposing Russian activities] in Ukraine? No. On Crimea? No. How about the territorial integrity of Georgia?” which Russia invaded in 2008. “No. Many of our European friends are forgetting all of those issues, but Turkey never forgets.”
>But in the absence of U.S. aid for its Syria operations, he said, Turkey had every right to appeal to Russia.
>While Turkey also has “brotherly” relations with Iran, Cavusoglu said, he accused both Russia and Iran of failing to restrain their Syrian ally, Assad, from violating human rights as well as the cease-fire they helped negotiate.
Why should we? Not our war. Sooner we get out of all Middle Eastern affairs the better, Israel can take care of itself.
I know this is a long shot but hey, worth a shot to spread the news.
http://www.kwch.com/content/news/KC-police-search-for-missing-Wichita-woman-411018955.html
>>101342
Is this a friend of yours?
No. Just came across it in a news feed and figured I would try and at least do what little I could. It's a lot better than just "sending my thoughts and prayers" like most idiots were doing. As if that ever helped anyone.
https://www.yahoo.com/digest/20170117/gop-makes-plans-invalidate-endangered-species-act-00837573
>>101118
GOP/Trump: Planet Rapists
The way things are going we need new endangered species policies that help them move.
The habits they need are creeping north.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5d22zy/predicted_shift_of_diversity_of_tree_species_in/
You'd have to be a special kind of autistic to think logging, drilling and other forms of "economic growth stimulation" is more important than preserving the endangered species.
Or you're just a GOP member.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/health/college-course-white-controversy-irpt-trnd/index.html
By Amanda Jackson, CNN
Fri December 23, 2016
University stands by 'Problem of Whiteness' course
(CNN)The University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering a course next semester called "The Problem of Whiteness," and it's not sitting well with a Republican legislator.
Wisconsin Rep. Dave Murphy, who is also the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, has asked the university to cancel the course, saying it prompts racial division.
"I am extremely concerned that UW-Madison finds it appropriate to teach a course called, 'The Problem of Whiteness,' with the premise that white people are racist," Murphy said in a statement this week. He even threatened to pull funding for the state university.
The course, taught by Professor Damon Sajnani, is part of the African Cultural Studies program at the university's College of Letters and Science.
http://african.wisc.edu/faculty/sajnani
"Have you ever wondered what it really means to be white? If you're like most people, the answer is probably 'no.' But here is your chance!," reads the course description.
"In this class, we will ask what an ethical white identity entails, what it means to be #woke, and consider the journal Race Traitor's motto, 'treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.'"
The course description says it includes readings from W.E.B. Du Bois, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the professor's own article analyzing Rachel Dolezal.
cont.
>>94258
Murphy said the university must discontinue the class.
"If UW-Madison stands with this professor, I don't know how the university can expect the taxpayers to stand with UW-Madison," he wrote.
The university defended its curriculum and said it takes pride in offering a variety of courses.
"We believe this course, which is one of thousands offered at our university, will benefit students who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of race issues. The course is a challenge and response to racism of all kinds," read the university statement
Murphy also questioned the university's decision to have Sajnani teach the course.
"Even more troubling, the course is taught by a self-described 'international radical' professor whose views are a slap in the face to the taxpayers who are expected to pay for this garbage," said Murphy.
In his statement, he referred to Sajnani's controversial tweets on topics such as police brutality and the Ku Klux Klan.
Murphy was joined in his criticism by Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who wrote on Twitter, "This is racism against white people. ALL racism is wrong."
The professor is standing by his class and continues to share messages of support on his Twitter page.
"Good day haters! Keep fueling me with your Tomfoolery. The angrier whites are about interrogating their identity the greater is the need for it," he stated on Twitter.
"My only complaint about this course is that I already graduated from the UW and can't take it," one person posted.
FIN
Every time I see things like this I wonder whether it is actually real. How do people get so lost in their own delusions that they manage to create something like this? And even more horrifying, how the heck does a normal person live near stuff like this?
I live in a country where most people aren't very smart or aware about the world, but jesus this is on a different level. I seriously cannot imagine what would be my reaction if a similar thing were to appear in my surroundings.
Surely all the anti-racism legislation these people have pushed for can be leveraged against them? It's appalling that they get funding from the state.
>http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2017/01/massive-antarctic-larsen-c-crack-extends-by-nearly-10km.html
>>102269
Place your bets.
Have the reptilians revealed themselves yet?
With all the recent theories and activities I really do not know what to think about it all. I'm ready for something to happen or to just forget about it.
Tell me everything you know–I know one of the arrested, and my cousin now lives in Iceland.
This is what I've know so far:
>20 year old Birna from Iceland is missing
>Red car rental seen in the location near where Birna was last seen
>Greenlanders rented a that car, and is seen near the location where Birna was last seen
>Trawler_Polar_Nanoq_fucked_up.png
>Icelands Police went after Polar Nanoq, searching for her
>Found 14 mio. DKK worth of hash instead
>Where_the_fuck_is_Birna.jpg
>And_what_the_shit_is_this.mkv
>Greenlanders in Iceland do not feel safe, and have been thrown out of shops in some cases
>This is now a murder case that happens to have drugs involved, that apparently aren’t directly involved in the missing case of Birna
I know the guy arrested isn't a murderer/rapist, but I do know he likes to make money–hence why perhaps drugs involved–but the two other guys from Maniitsoq and Nuuk, I do not know.
http://archive.is/Jwk1x (Sermitsiaq.ag article)
Very short greentext from archived link:
>Guðni Jóhannesson encourages Icelanders to not jump to conclusions.
>Investigator Grímur Grímsson has the same thoughts and says Greenlanders aren't suspects (??? this is the part that confused me, why’d he say that then keep one guy)
Icelandbro's, anyone knows what the hell happened? Is this a case of disappearance and a bust of drugs by accident, or did our guys from Polar Nanoq really did it? Are there any other suspects other than Polar Nanoq guys?
Thanks for posting, OP. I'm not an Icelander, but I found several English language news articles about this in case anyone wants to know more:
https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2017/01/20/iceland-police-arrest-crew-of-polar-seafood-vessel-in-connection-with-drugs-missing-girl/
>Iceland police arrest crew of Polar Seafood vessel in connection with drugs, missing girl
http://icelandreview.com/news/2017/01/20/foreign-minister-greenland-cancels-trip-norway
>Foreign Minister of Greenland Cancels Trip to Norway
http://www.thejournal.ie/missing-woman-iceland-3196684-Jan2017/
>Homicides are extremely rare in the tiny North Atlantic nation – and so the disappearance of 20-year-old Birna Brjansdottir has captivated the country.
>The media has reported on little else in recent days, and a solemn march in her honour, tracing her last known steps, was held in Reykjavik on Wednesday.
>The auburn-haired young woman was last seen around 5am on Saturday after a night out in Reykjavik’s bars.
...
http://grapevine.is/news/2017/01/18/greenland-trawler-returning-to-iceland-in-connection-with-missing-person-case/
...
>As reported, surveillance footage taken on Laugarvegur on the night of the disappearance shows a red Kia Rio traveling went on Laugavegur at about the same time and place that Birna disappeared.
>Her phone continued to produce a signal until at about 5:50 in Hafnarfjörður, near the area of the fire station. Given the distance covered in this short amount of time, it is possible she went to Hafnarfjörður by car. Rescue workers and police extended their search to Hafnarfjörður, and RÚV reports that two black Dr. Martens boots – the same kind Birna was wearing on the night she disappeared – were found near the harbour. However, there is as yet no definitive proof that these are Birna’s boots, and police say they are working “full power” to get to the bottom of this.
...
>>102267
Thanks for the links, I only had Sermitsiaq.ag's and there where many articles I had no idea where to start with the translated greentexts.
I can't stop thinking about it, it doesn't happen that much–murderers are usually from south Greenland or the stereotypical drunks living in East Greenland. I fear this might ruin our relations, perhaps not politically, rather the Icelandic people hating us.
>Icelanders, get the fuck in here
what, all three of them?
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts
>Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending.
>Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.
>The changes they propose are dramatic.
>The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with programs under their jurisdiction either being eliminated or transferred to other agencies. The departments of Transportation, Justice and State would see significant cuts and program eliminations. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.
>Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years. The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has helped staff the Trump transition. Similar proposals have in the past won support from Republicans in the House and Senate, who believe they have an opportunity to truly tackle spending after years of warnings about the rising debt. Many of the specific cuts were included in the 2017 budget adopted by the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), a caucus that represents a majority of House Republicans. The RSC budget plan would reduce federal spending by $8.6 trillion over the next decade.
>Two members of Trump’s transition team are discussing the cuts at the White House budget office: Russ Vought, a former aide to Vice President-elect Mike Pence and the former executive director of the RSC, and John Gray, who previously worked for Pence, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) when Ryan headed the House Budget Committee. Vought and Gray, who both worked for the Heritage Foundation, are laying the groundwork for the so-called skinny budget — a 175- to 200-page document that will spell out the main priorities of the incoming Trump administration, along with summary tables. That document is expected to come out within 45 days of Trump taking office. The administration’s full budget, including appropriations language, supplementary materials and long-term analysis, is expected to be released toward the end of Trump’s first 100 days in office, or by mid- to late April.
>Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Trump’s choice to head the Office of Management and Budget, has not yet weighed in on the proposed spending reforms because he is still awaiting confirmation by the Senate. Mulvaney voted for the RSC budget offered as a more conservative alternative to the main House Republican budget in 2015. The House did not vote on the RSC budget for fiscal year 2017. The preliminary proposals from the White House budget office will be shared with federal departments and agencies soon after Trump takes the oath of office Friday, and could provoke an angry backlash. Trump’s Cabinet picks have yet to be apprised of the reforms, which would reduce resources within their agencies.
>The budget offices of the various departments will have the chance to review the proposals, offer feedback and appeal for changes before the president’s budget goes to Congress. It’s not clear whether Trump’s first budget will include reforms to Social Security or Medicare, two major drivers of the federal deficit. Trump vowed during the campaign not to cut Medicare and Social Security, a pledge that Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), his pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, told lawmakers in testimony Wednesday has not changed. Yet it could be very difficult to reduce U.S. debt without tackling the entitlement programs. Conservative House budgets have repeatedly included reforms to Medicare and Social Security, arguing they are necessary to save the programs. The presidential budget is important in setting policy and laying out the administration’s agenda, though Congress would be responsible for approving a federal budget and appropriating funds.
>Moving Trump’s budget through Congress could be difficult. In 2015, with the GOP in control of the House, the RSC budget failed by a vote of 132 to 294. Moderate Republicans and Democrats on the Appropriations Committee are likely to push back at some of the cuts being considered by Trump.
>But they seem likely to have the support of Mulvaney, a conservative budget hawk who backed the RSC budget. “Mick Mulvaney and his colleagues at the Republican Study Committee when they crafted budgets over the years, they were serious,” said a former congressional aide. “Mulvaney didn’t take this OMB position to just mind the store.” “He wants to make significant, fundamental changes to the structure of the president’s budget, and I expect him to do that with Vought and Gray putting the meat on the bones,” the source added.
https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-to-name-ajit-pia-fcc-chairman-net-neutrality-foe/
Where not going to let this happen right?
>>102095
What are you talking about
>>102095
Didn't large companies freak out last time they tried to stop net neutrality? Like a Wikipedia blackout or something.
>>102095
>Where
4chan is for people aged 18 and up. Come back in 6 years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/deputies-1-hurt-1-in-custody-after-reported-west-liberty-ohio-school-shooting/
>be in the "Liberals are buying guns" story thread
>write up two huge-ass posts refuting the "tanks/drones/militarized police" thing
>ready to post
>"Thread has been pruned or deleted"
Feels bad, man.
>>102373
>Putting thought into 4chan posts.
I remember when I was new.
https://www.crowdpondent.com/2017/01/16/air-pollution-is-becoming-deadly-in-europe/
>>101120
Two of these Europe air pollution stories.
Where's the US equivalent?
Really makes me think.
>According to the European Environment Agency’s 2016 report, air pollution in Europe’s major cities has so far caused nearly 550,000 premature deaths. A number which continues to rise.
maps:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/annual-mean-no2-concentrations-in-2014
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/93-2-percentile-of-o3
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/annual-mean-bap-concentrations-in-2014
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/90-4-percentile-of-pm10
pdf:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2016/at_download/file
>In the EU’s major cities, almost every man women and child are essentially being forced to smoke 1.6 cigarettes a day – according to a study by Berkeley health.
http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equivalence/
Which does make the 1.6 claim but also says this:
>Here is the rule of thumb: one cigarette per day is the rough equivalent of a PM2.5 level of 22 μg/m3. Double that level, and it is equivalent to 2 cigarettes per day. Of course, unlike cigarette smoking, the pollution reaches every age group.
Which would make the EU average figure they're using 35.2 μg/m3, 8.8 for the US average μg/m3
This map shows that that concentration of pollution is only found in the worse cities in Eastern Europe:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/annual-mean-pm2-5-concentrations
In London the levels would less than 0.9 cigarettes per day equivalent (20 μg/m3 of PM2.5).
In some town less than 0.45 cigarettes.
This is fucking hilarious.
>Over 1000 people in Norway have gotten a letter in the mail from the lawyers at Njord Law Firm after downloading "London has Fallen"
>They obtained their IP-adresses and went to the Norwegian government and got their real names.
>They want 2.700kr (about 320 USD) as compensation.
Have you had any of this in your country?
Salsa: http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/med-dette-brevet-jakter-hollywood-norske-nedlastere-myndighetene-lar-advokater-fa-ip-adresser/66744216
Forgot to mention that everyone is refusing to pay.
>Have you had any of this in your country?
It's been a standard shakedown tactic here in America since the days when Napster was new. They typically only prosecute the people that respond to them, or short of that, make a few examples out of the hundreds of people on their list. Ironically the people that totally ignore them usually get off scot-free.
>>101485
It's just that here it's always been so pro-privacy. It's weird to see this happen.
Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump Is Right About Big Pharma
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-trump-big-pharma_us_58768db1e4b092a6cae4daba
>>100535
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/11/trump-on-drug-prices-pharma-companies-are-getting-away-with-murder/
He is right, but pharmaceutical companies actually offer a product. To take on pharmaceuticals without mention of private insurance companies suggests distorted priorities.
Other than providing financial security against unanticipated emergencies, private insurance just acts as middle-men between pharmaceuticals and hospitals/pharmacies. They have some collective bargaining power in negotiating prices between pharma/biomed industries and pharmacies/hospitals. But without regulation and subsidy, they still have no incentive to support individuals too poor and risky, any more than pharmacies or pharmaceutical companies.
Of course he won't talk about this dimension of the problem; because the most feasible immediate solution to that is a single-payer system, public option, or regulation + subsidy.