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Why did he do dat?

>>102018
He'll replace them with more Jews and bankers- errrrr, experts! Many large nosed experts, don't mind them goy

>>102018
Because we don't need them anymore.

>>102156
>>>Farage is a major backer of Brexit and outspoken supporter of President Trump.
the Purge has begun.

>>102184
Gotta support the narrative no matter what

Being a firefighter is fun.

>The average credit score of an FHA borrower in the third quarter of last year was 679, a credit worthiness considered to be fair.

>FHA-backed loans have seen robust growth in recent years and lenders not chartered as banks now control a majority of the riskier FHA market. The shift toward nonbank lenders also has drawn concerns because banks have strict reserve requirements while the crop of new lenders operates under a variety of business models.

>Last week, during a confirmation hearing for Trump’s nominee for HUD secretary, Ben Carson, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) argued that private mortgage insurance should play a larger role in the market for homes acquired by buyers who can’t afford traditional 20% down payments.

>Carson appeared open to such a possibility and told Toomey it didn’t matter what entity provided insurance, but “we do have to have a mechanism, backstop.”

>Carson also said he was surprised by the recent FHA rate cut and promised that if confirmed he would work with the “FHA administrator and other financial experts to really examine that policy.”

>The suspension of the rate cut, set to take effect Jan. 27, came before his confirmation vote.

>In a letter announcing the suspension Friday morning, HUD, which oversees the FHA, said more analysis is needed on any “future adjustments” to insurance premium rates. For most borrowers, the rate will now remain at 0.85%, rather than 0.60%.

>“FHA is committed to ensuring its mortgage insurance programs remains viable and effective in the long term for all parties involved, especially our taxpayers,” the letter to the real estate industry said.

>In cutting the insurance premium, the Obama administration had argued that the FHA’s finances had vastly improved since it received its first-ever bailout in 2013 to cover potential losses on the huge volume of low-down-payment mortgages it insured from 2007 to 2009 after the housing bust.

>The administration noted that the agency’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund’s capital reserve ratio exceeded requirements for the second year in a row.

>“With sufficient reserves on hand to meet future claims, it’s time for FHA to pass along some modest savings to working families,” former HUD Secretary Julian Castro said in announcing the cut.

>The suspension of that decision will be a disappointment to home buyers currently out shopping, especially on top of the rise in mortgage interest rates following the November election.

>In Los Angeles and Orange counties, the limit on an FHA mortgage is $636,150.

>If the planned reductions went into effect, borrowers who put down less than 5% on a $600,000, 30-year mortgage would have saved $1,500 a year. The Obama administration estimated that new FHA borrowers across the nation would have saved an average of $500 a year.

>“That is real money,” Southern California mortgage broker Jeff Lazerson said.

>Lazerson, president of Mortgage Grader in Laguna Niguel, said he had several clients who were putting off deals so they could get a cheaper insurance rate after Jan. 27.

>“We got lots of calls,” he said.

>In its letter announcing the suspension of the rate cut, HUD did not give a timeline for any coming decision and said the suspension was indefinite.

>The California Assn. of Realtors called for the Trump administration to quickly review the rate reduction, noting it would have saved FHA-backed borrowers in California an average of $860 a year.

>“FHA’s single-family home portfolio is financially sound as it has ever been, and we hope that once the new administration has thoroughly reviewed the merits of the premium reduction the suspension will immediately be lifted,” the association’s president, Geoff McIntosh, said in a statement.

I don't know what to believe on this topic. Castro says that the FHA's revenue is healthy enough for the cut but Toomey says balance of the funds is just 16% higher than the legal minimum and that it's risky to reduce it.

>But the arrangement started going south only two weeks later when Mattis had to learn from the news media that Trump had selected Vincent Viola, a billionaire Army veteran, to be secretary of the Army, one source close to the transition said.

>“Mattis was furious,” said the source. “It made him suspicious of the transition team, and things devolved from there.”

>Service secretaries represent potential alternate power centers inside the Defense Department, and Mattis as defense secretary has an interest in having secretaries who are loyal to him and don’t have independent relationships with the White House.

>Mattis is also pushing for the Trump transition team to allow “Never Trump” Republicans to serve in the Pentagon, but so far the Trump team is refusing.

>One position that is a source of tension is undersecretary of defense for intelligence, a powerful post that oversees all Defense Department intelligence agencies, which include the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

>Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Trump’s national security adviser-designate, was DIA director until he was sacked by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. following a dispute with then-Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael G. Vickers.
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>Mattis has rejected all of the names the Trump team has offered to be the top intelligence official in the department, another transition source said. Mattis is also unlikely to accept Trump’s top Pentagon transition landing team official, Mira Ricardel, as a top official. She was rumored to be in line to be undersecretary of defense for policy, a hugely influential job.

>“Let’s put it this way, he’s being very picky about the options presented to him,” said the source, who was not authorized to talk about internal deliberations.

>Transition sources also said that David McCormick, a hedge fund manager and former Army officer, is still Trump’s likely pick to be deputy defense secretary, the No. 2 job under Mattis.

>The personnel dispute could be the first sign of tension between Mattis and Flynn. As a four-star general and head of Central Command, Mattis outranked Flynn when Flynn was DIA director, a three-star position. If confirmed, Mattis would be a Cabinet member and a member of the president’s National Security Council, but Flynn has a close relationship with Trump and the duty of coordinating between all the national security agencies.

>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.
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>Meanwhile, Flynn is busily filling up the National Security Council staff with military and intelligence officers he knows personally. For example, as the Nelson Report first reported, Flynn intends to make Matthew Pottinger the senior director for Asia on the NSC staff.

>Pottinger, a former Wall Street Journal reporter in China, joined the Marines in 2005. While deployed in Afghanistan as an intelligence officer, he worked closely with Flynn and co-authored a memo on how to fix intelligence operations in Afghanistan that was later released by a Washington think tank in 2010.

>Flynn has also been meeting foreign officials, especially from Europe, with Sebastian Gorka, a professor and vice president of the Institute of World Politics, who was born in Britain to parents who fled Hungary. What position Gorka will have in Flynn’s NSC staff is unclear. Both Pottinger and Gorka are well-respected but their new prominence has raised concerns that Flynn is placing too much emphasis on military officials and military experts, in effect militarizing the NSC staff.

>>97146
makes no fucking sense.

so only .2% of Australia doesn't have a cat on it?

even a shit story like this has a bullshit headline

fuck off

>>97147
They didn't mean the entire continent was literally covered with cats, Anon, you're silly.

>>According the new research, which involved more than 40 scientists combing through 100 different studies, feral cats can be found in 99.8 percent of Australia. Save for a few fenced-in locations where invasive predators like cats and foxes were eradicated in to protect local wildlife, the feral felines can be found just about everywhere. Depending on how much prey is available, feral cat populations can fluctuate between about 2.1 million to 6.3 million, with about one cat for every 1.5 square miles, Calla Wahlquist reports for The Guardian.

>>While that 0.2 percent of territory has been made cat-free, installing fences to keep the cats out is a costly solution and banning pet cats from going outdoors doesn’t address the issue. As the scope of the environmental havoc wreaked by feral cats has become clearer, some conservationists say it might be time to take more serious steps.

>>97151
>>>97147
>Save for a few fenced-in locations where invasive predators like cats and foxes were eradicated in to protect local wildlife, the feral felines can be found just about everywhere.

Pffft. That's a shit methodology. It's like saying I inhabit 99.99% of Australia because of the 50-meter sphere around Natalie Imbruglia from which I'm restricted.

>In mid-December, a 57-year-old female town employee spotted the local politician in the municipal building where she worked. Their conversation became heated, according to the warrant for von Keyserling’s Jan. 11 arrest.

>“This is a new world, politically, and you need to educate your fellow politicians,” the woman said to von Keyserling, as she later told a Greenwich police detective.

>“I love this new world. I no longer have to be politically correct,” von Keyserling allegedly responded.

>“If you’re proud of that,” she said, “I can’t help you.”

>“You’re nothing but a lazy, bloodsucking union employee,” he said.

>At that, the woman terminated the conversation with a “f‑‑‑ you” and walked away. Von Keyserling later entered the woman’s office, where she claimed he touched her inappropriately.

>As described in the warrant, the incident evoked President-elect Trump’s conversation with Billy Bush, recorded in 2005, when Trump claimed he could grab women “by the p‑‑‑y” because he was “a star.” After the conversation surfaced in October, Trump apologized “if anyone was offended” by what he characterized as “locker-room banter.”

>The Greenwich politician said he followed the woman into her office to speak with the woman’s co-worker. When the co-worker declined and left the room, the woman also moved to leave, as she did not want to be left alone with von Keyserling. It was then, according to the warrant obtained by fact-checking website Snopes, that von Keyserling “reached between her legs from behind and pinched her in the groin area.”

>The woman turned to him and said, “You’re lucky I didn’t deck you, but if you ever f‑‑‑ing touch me again I will.”

>She told police that von Keyserling met her glare with what she described as an “evil look in his eyes.”

>“It would be your word against mine,” he said, according to the warrant, “and nobody will believe you.”
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>A security camera at the unnamed facility recorded footage of the encounter between von Keyserling and the woman. The videotape corroborated that von Keyserling had upset the woman, but police could not determine where his hand was located as she moved past him, Greenwich Time reported.

>The woman notified her boss, but said she did not want to file a criminal complaint. Her boss told von Keyserling to stay away from the building. Greenwich Detective Jeremiah Bussell also told him to steer clear of the facility, according to the warrant. In the telephone conversation with the detective, von Keyserling reportedly apologized for the pinch, also expressing regret “it has gotten this out of hand.”

>But by Dec. 16, the woman decided to press forward with a complaint, a decision she said she arrived at after learning that von Keyserling had touched other employees. In a discussion with a human resources director, von Keyserling asked if the complaint was about “the little pinch” he gave. He also described himself as “the kind of guy that likes to embarrass his teenage daughter” with what he called a “gig,” saying, “that’s what this was, ‘a gig.’ ” Russell, von Keyserling’s lawyer, told News 12 that it was a playful pinch between two people who had known each other for three decades.

>Greenwich’s selectman’s office released a statement to Connecticut’s News 12, saying, “The town has zero tolerance for this alleged behavior. For years we’ve had training programs in place for all employees and beyond but cannot comment because this is an allegation that will be adjudicated in the court of law.”

>Von Keyserling posted $2,500 in bail and is due to appear in court on Jan. 25, when his attorney said he will enter a not guilty plea, reported the Greenwich Time.

local source:
https://greenwichfreepress.com/police-fire/district-8-rtm-chair-von-keyserling-charged-with-sexual-assault-4-79844/

Duterte isn't psychotic. White people are just now being exposed to a politician who actually has beliefs beyond "I want more money" and are seeing how such a politician reacts to the meddling in his nation by an entire foreign empire who has no beliefs beyond "We want YOUR money."

Naturally it terrifies them to see a man with an actual spine because their countries raise them to be pussies.

>>101871
>Naturally it terrifies them to see a man with an actual spine because their countries raise them to be pussies.

>Claims he has a spine
>Sucks Chinese and Russian dick

>>101871
So in your country being a frothing retard is what it means to have actual beliefs?
You poor soul.

>apprehension
Did you mean belief? Comparison?

>>101360
Pretty sure he meant "comprehension".

>>101356
>NASA is sending a spacecraft to a giant metal asteroid that may hold the secret to how our solar system was formed.

>The fact-finding mission led by Arizona State University researchers is focused on the ancient, giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche. NASA wants to know whether the asteroid, thought to be made of iron and nickel, could be part of what was an earlier planet perhaps as large as Mars.

>This is an opportunity to explore a new type of world — not one of rock or ice, but of metal," Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche's principal investigator said in a statement. "16 Psyche is the only known object of its kind in the solar system, and this is the only way humans will ever visit a core. We learn about inner space by visiting outer space."

>While NASA has no plans to bring the massive asteroid home and lacks the technology to mine it, Elkins-Tanton calculates that the iron in 16 Psyche would be worth $10,000 quadrillion, Global News reported. That's right, $10,000 quadrillion, as in 15 more zeros.

>Scientists say the asteroid, named 16 Psyche, may have lost its outer core through a series of collisions. The Psyche mission, scientists believe, could shed light on how planets and other masses broke up into cores, mantles and crusts years ago.

>Psyche launches in October 2023 and will arrive at the asteroid in 2030.

>Psyche is part of the Discovery Program, formed in 1992 to explore the mysteries of our solar system.

>>101356
Only if when can actually do anything with a metal asteroid the size of Massachusetts that is 7 years flight away from here for the probe they plan to send. Also, that amount is just for the value of the iron. No telling what other metals could be present.

>“There were several days of rehearsal of the water scenes to ensure Hercules was comfortable with all of the stunts,” the statement continued. “On the day of the shoot, Hercules did not want to perform the stunt portrayed on the tape, so the Amblin production team did not proceed with filming that shot.”

>For a movie aimed squarely at an audience of dog lovers, the footage threatens to repel the precise audience filmmakers hope to draw.

>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has urged moviegoers to boycott the film.

>Several people involved in the film condemned the actions seen in the video. Lasse Hallstrom, the director, said on Twitter he had not witnessed the events but was “very disturbed” by the footage. He said he had been promised “a thorough investigation.”

>“We were all committed to providing a loving and safe environment for all the animals in the film,” he said. “I have been a lifelong animal lover, and ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ is my third film about dogs. The animals’ safety was of utmost priority.”

>Josh Gad, an actor who voices one of the dogs in the film and said he was never on the set, released a statement on Twitter that said he had “signed on to a film that truly stands out as one of the most beautiful love letters to animals I have ever seen.”

>He added he was “shaken and sad to see any animal put in a situation against its will,” and had contacted the production team and studio to ask for an explanation.

>Mark Stubis, a spokesman for the American Humane Association, which monitors animals on movie sets, said in a statement that a representative had been present during filming. The employee was later placed on administrative leave, and the organization was “bringing in an independent third party to conduct an investigation,” according to the statement.
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>“When the dog showed signs of resistance to jumping in the water, the scene should have been stopped,” Mr. Stubis said.

>The movie, whose cast also includes Peggy Lipton, is based on a book of the same name by W. Bruce Cameron. He wrote on Facebook on Wednesday that he was “as disturbed as you were by the video I saw earlier today.”

>Dog lovers on social media appeared to be unforgiving.

>>I was super excited to see the movie "A Dog's Purpose" and now I'm just disgusted. No dog should ever be treated that way.

>>A "dog's purpose" is not to be FORCED into dangerous water......

>“This was abuse, and that human shoving the dog into the water should be charged,” one woman wrote in response to Mr. Cameron’s post. “It is inexcusable, and I won’t be spending money to see this movie.”

>film that celebrates the relationship between animals and humans
>forces scared animal to do shit stunt for moneys

why are humans so fake

>It's not only effective (at least on a small scales) but it's also appealing on both sides of the aisle. Liberals like it because it involves caring for the poor and downtrodden. Conservatives like it because it shrinks the role of the government and puts money in people's hands, which they can use how they see fit.

>...a number of organizations have designed experiments of their own.

>The largest is GiveDirectly's experiment in Kenya and Uganda, where 6,000 people will receive a basic income for 12 years. In the US, the most hopeful is Y Combinator's experiment in Oakland, California. Starting next year, roughly 100 families of all different income levels will receive $2,000 a month. Following the successful pilot, a larger experiment will last the next several years.

>For Sam Altman, Y Combinator's president, the window for experimenting with basic income is closing at an unknown rate. As robotic automation displaces more American workers, the need grows for an alternative to labor-based wages.

>"Intuitively, this idea of a floor and no ceiling really appeals to me," he tells Business Insider. With basic income, people could make as much as they want without worrying they'll slip into poverty — a key trait that distinguishes it from socialism.

http://www.businessinsider.com/economic-security-project-researches-basic-income-2016-12

actual URL which keeps getting my OP marked as spam

It had better work. We're in for permanent great depression-like conditions, and all the strife that will come with them, if it doesn't. Seems like we're out of options. I mean, what other options are there?

> Russian hax0r

Puh leez

>Chuck Schumer
>calling anything "swamp"

Jesus Christ

>they illegally influenced the outcome of the election by showing how we illegally influenced the outcome of the election!

>The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.

>Counterintelligence investigations examine the connections between American citizens and foreign governments. Those connections can involve efforts to steal state or corporate secrets, curry favor with American government leaders or influence policy. It is unclear which Russian officials are under investigation, or what particular conversations caught the attention of American eavesdroppers. The legal standard for opening these investigations is low, and prosecutions are rare.

>“We have absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even a basis for such an investigation,” said Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition.

>In an emailed statement Thursday evening, Mr. Manafort called allegations that he had interactions with the Russian government a “Democrat Party dirty trick and completely false.”

>“I have never had any relationship with the Russian government or any Russian officials. I was never in contact with anyone, or directed anyone to be in contact with anyone,” he said.

>“On the ‘Russian hacking of the D.N.C.,’” he said, “my only knowledge of it is what I have read in the papers.”
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>The decision to open the investigations was not based on a dossier of salacious, uncorroborated allegations that were compiled by a former British spy working for a Washington research firm. The F.B.I. is also examining the allegations in that dossier, and a summary of its contents was provided to Mr. Trump earlier this month.

>Representatives of the agencies involved declined to comment. Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new administration would obstruct their efforts. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cases.

>Numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, have reported on the F.B.I. investigations into Mr. Trump’s advisers. BBC and then McClatchy revealed the existence of a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government.

>The continuing investigation again puts the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, in the middle of a politically fraught investigation. Democrats have sharply criticized Mr. Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Mrs. Clinton has said his decision to reveal the existence of new emails late in the campaign cost her the election.

>The F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Manafort began last spring, and was an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. In August, The Times reported that Mr. Manafort’s name had surfaced in a secret ledger that showed he had been paid millions in undisclosed cash payments. The Associated Press has reported that his work for Ukraine included a secret lobbying effort in Washington aimed at influencing American news organizations and government officials.
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>Mr. Stone, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s, said in a speech in Florida last summer that he had communicated with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that published the hacked Democratic emails. During the speech, Mr. Stone predicted further leaks of documents, a prediction that came true within weeks.

>In a brief interview on Thursday, Mr. Stone said he had never visited Russia and had no Russian clients. He said that he had worked in Ukraine for a pro-Western party, but that any assertion that he had ties to Russian intelligence was “nonsense” and “totally false.”

>“The whole thing is a canard,” he said. “I have no Russian influences.”

>The Senate intelligence committee has started its own investigation into Russia’s purported attempts to disrupt the election. The committee’s inquiry is broad, and will include an examination of Russian hacking and possible ties between people associated with Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia.

>Investigators are also scrutinizing people on the periphery of Mr. Trump’s campaign, such as Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded Global Energy Capital, an investment firm in New York that has done business with Russia.

>In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Page expressed bewilderment about why he might be under investigation. He blamed a smear campaign — that he said was orchestrated by Mrs. Clinton — for media speculation about the nature of his ties to Russia.

>“I did nothing wrong, for the 5,000th time,” he said. His adversaries, he added, are “pulling a page out of the Watergate playbook.”
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>Krebs goes on to write that successful Minecraft servers can rake in $50,000 per month from players renting space and purchasing items. This financial investment made them an obvious target for DDoS attacks, but it's surprising how seedy and convoluted this story gets in no time. The botnet runners weren't simply taking down servers and ransoming the owners. According to Krebs, many of the attacks on Minecraft servers were designed to woo those server owners from one security firm to another.

>One company that specializes in protecting Minecraft servers from attacks, called ProxyPipe, came under attack from lelddos in June 2014. Krebs spoke with ProxyPipe vice president Robert Coelho, who claimed further DDoS attacks in 2015 came directly from competing Minecraft security firm ProTraf Solutions. Krebs' report keeps digging, and he alleges that the president of ProTraf (a company of only two employees) is actually the author of the Mirai botnet worm, who goes by the usernames 'dreadiscool' and ‘Anna-Senpai.'

>We can't corroborate the identity connection Krebs makes in his reporting, but you can see the strong evidence linking Mirai to Minecraft, including interviews, chat logs, and forum post archives, in his 8,000 word write-up here.

>"A Google search for this rather unique username 'dreadiscool' turns up accounts by the same name at dozens of forums dedicated to computer programming and Minecraft," Krebs writes. "In many of those accounts, the owner is clearly frustrated by incessant DDoS attacks targeting his Minecraft servers, and appears eager for advice on how best to counter the assaults.

>From Dreadiscool’s various online postings, it seems clear that at some point [he] decided it might be more profitable and less frustrating to defend Minecraft servers from DDoS attacks, as opposed to trying to maintain the servers themselves."
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>From there, Krebs digs up evidence that the massive Mirai attacks last September on French web host OVH were actually targeting Minecraft servers hosted by OVH (this came at the same time Krebs' own site was DDoSed). In a conversation between ProxyPipe VP Coelho and Mirai's author, Krebs reports that "[Mirai's author] brags that as he and Coelho are speaking, the owners of a large Minecraft server were paying him to launch a crippling DDoS against Hypixel, currently the world’s most popular Minecraft server. KrebsOnSecurity confirmed with Hypixel that they were indeed under a massive attack from Mirai between Sept. 27 and 30.

>"Coelho told KrebsOnSecurity that the on-again, off-again attack DDoS method that Anna described using against Hypixel was designed not just to cost Hypixel money. The purpose of that attack method, he said, was to aggravate and annoy Hypixel’s customers so much that they might take their business to a competing Minecraft server."

>At this point Krebs departs the Minecraft drama to dig deeper into the origins of the Mirai botnet, but if his reporting is correct, it means some of the largest DDoS attacks in history started as squabbles over Minecraft servers. Minecraft servers attacking competitors, Minecraft security providers attacking their competitors. Pretty sordid tale for a game about building stuff out of voxels.

>>101019
>Dear Donald Trump
Trump already gave his first born to the jews. Good luck with that.

>>101038
Jews will destroy any white leader that criticzes their global rule of the planet. 5th columnist jews living in America and Europe hold dominant positions in the intelligence agencies of their native states and are uniquely positioned to discredit or destroy any prominent person that dare criticize jewish interests.

>al Jazeera
GEE I WONDER IF THIS MIGHT BE BIASED AGAINST ISRAEL