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>>100534
>in Mexico
What else is new.

I wonder how much drugs were involved.

>>100551
dirty beaners love to kill

london is a shithole

>crowdpondent
WTF is this shit?
>Anyone can publish on our website. We only ask you abide by our Terms and Conditions. The rest is up to you.
Stop posting your shitty blog here, Nigel.

>>101135
>Nigel
Implying it isn't our enemies making anti-British propaganda.

>Labor described as "shocking" that the whale slaughter was getting underway as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting at the weekend with Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney.

>Labor and the Greens are demanding the government take more direct action to stop the hunt.

>Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a statement the government is "deeply disappointed" by the resumption of whaling.

>"Australia is opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called 'scientific' whaling. It is not necessary to kill whales in order to study them," Mr Frydenberg said.

>Darren Kindleysides, from the Australian Marine Conservation Society, said Australia should not be "rolling out the red carpet" for Mr Abe but instead taking every legal and diplomatic avenue to stop whaling, including by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

>Japan was pursued in Federal Court over its whaling activities and fined $1 million but has refused to pay.

>Australia also won a landmark 2014 decision against Japan in the International Court of Justice but Tokyo has since withdrawn from the court's jurisdiction on whaling cases.

>Greens senator Nick McKim has called on Australia's Border Force to send its vessels to the Southern Ocean to protect the Australian whale sanctuary and territorial waters.

>Australia has dispatched patrol vessels to the waters to monitor the whaling in the past.

>But only a handful of countries recognise Australia's territorial claims in Antarctica and officials are wary of any action that might disrupt the Antarctic treaty system, which puts all territorial claims on hold.

>>100408
>Japan was caught killing a whale deep inside Antarctic waters
So wait, the entire country moved itself just to kill a whale? I thought it was Japanese people that hated whales and not the country itself. That's some mythological shit. God help us if Japan ever decides to ram the coast of another landmass to try to get to Sea World. No wonder they get so many tsunamis and earthquakes, they're living on a sentient moving landmass.

>>100458
Have you ever seen the show 'Whale Wars'?

>>99389

According to Bergman, the American intelligence officials implied that Israel should “be careful” when transferring intelligence information to the White House and the National Security Council (NSC) following Trump's inauguration – at least until it is clear that Trump does not have inappropriate connections with Russia.

Cooperation between the Israeli and U.S. intelligence communities has intensified over the past two decades, with most of the joint operations directed, according to reports, against Iran. Hezbollah and Hamas were also intelligence targets. An official agreement in 2008 for comprehensive cooperation, including the exposure of sources and methods of action, reportedly led to impressive results, including the disruption of the Iranian nuclear program.

President Barack Obama put an end to offensive activity against Iranin 2013, at the start of secret talks between the U.S, and Iran over a nuclear agreement. However, the exposure of Israeli intelligence to the U.S. continued.

American officials are convinced that whistleblower Edward Snowden handed over intelligence to Moscow – in return for which he received political asylum – and that some of it was handed over to Tehran, in the context of Putin’s policy of increasing Iranian dependence on Moscow.

FIN

>>99389
HAHAHAHA GOOD

>>99395
> blatant open treason
> good

Remove yourself, Shlomo.

>>96781
The annexation of West Bank is just a matter of time now

So the Jews have become a pale imitation of the nazis. We often become the things we say we hate. Just waiting for their concentration cam...........I mean relocation camps for the Palestinians.

>>96781
>it's insulting to me as an American

Except you're not a fucking Israeli Huckabee.

> "I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria," said Huckabee, using the Biblical terms for the West Bank. "There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It's Judea and Samaria.

What an ignorant piece of shit, the Samaritans were hated by the Jews and persecuted by them since they were only partially Jewish and did not follow the Jewish laws. The Palestinians ARE the modern day Samaritans, he also forgets that 100,000 Palestinians are Christians. What a hypocritical charlatan.

>In order to make its dream possible, Moon Express is working with launch provider Rocket Lab USA, and plans to use its Electron rocket to take Moon Express’ MX-1E on its lunar journey. Though Rocket Lab USA is yet to fly its experimental rocket, the first launch is set for later this month.

>Other teams racing Moon Express to Google's Lunar XPRIZE prize include Team Indus, the only Indian team taking part in the competition. Team Indus plans to launch its spacecraft inside the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Rocket in December 2017. In total, there are 13 times striving to win the competition.

We will only truly have reached the Age of Lunar Travel when there is a craft that goes to the Moon whose name is some pun of "butt".

ugh dont let them mine away the fucking moon

>>95785
>women are physically inferior to men

Gee, never would have guessed. Good thing they'll be getting combat positions now because muh equality.

women are inferior in every aspect to men in the military

>>95785
>and increasing the maximum weight limit for women
when i read that i thought wait you mean reduce the maximum weight limit for women to carry in their packs, then it hit me, it was talking about the actual women themselves

>“He called me and my children n—–; he said I can go back to where I came from,” Ford told The Washington Post.

>“He took out his flip phone and he said he would take a picture and put it on Facebook because he wants to show the world what kind of n—— he has to deal with. Then he shut the window and walked away.”

>But the worst came a few moments later, from the back seat, where her two children were sitting, Ford said.

>“My daughter is 3. She’s a little sponge; she repeats everything,” said Ford, 21, who is biracial. “She asked me: ‘Mommy, we n——?’ ”
...

>Crying and shaking, Ford dialed 911.

>An officer found her sitting in the parking lot in tears. She told him what happened, and he went to talk to Crichton, the DQ owner.

>The officer later detailed what Crichton told him in a police report.

>He said Crichton was angry.

>He was shaking and pacing the floor.

>But he did not deny what Ford had said:

>“Crichton boastfully told me he would be happy to go to jail over the issue and proudly admitted to calling Ford a n——. He added that he is ‘fed up with black people,’ ” and described an incident in which two “of them” were in his restaurant squirting ketchup all over the floor, according to the officer’s report.

>“During the course of my conversation with Crichton, he used the word ‘n—–‘ freely to describe black people,” the officer continued.
...

>Still, there was little police could do.

>In a statement, Zion Police Chief Steve Dumyahn told The Post that “while this alleged activity is deplorable, it is not criminal.”

>So Ford took to Facebook.

>She wrote a post describing what had happened. She described how she had asked for the owner’s name after recovering from her shock so she could report him to Dairy Queen’s corporate office. He replied “Bill Clinton then said better yet I’m Donald Trump,” Ford posted.

>She included the phone number and address of the Dairy Queen. She also called Dairy Queen’s corporate headquarters.

>A few hours after she wrote the post, it had been shared by several thousand people. Some called the restaurant. One man went by Crichton’s store, sparking another call to police. At some point, the post was seen by the people at Dairy Queen’s corporate office.

>On Thursday, the company released a statement saying Crichton’s actions “are inexcusable, reprehensible and unacceptable. We do not in any way condone his behavior or language.”

>Dairy Queen also released a statement from Crichton, which said he and his employees would undergo sensitivity training.

>“I would like to sincerely and humbly apologize for my recent words and actions,” his statement said. “I have let my family, friends, employees, our system and this community down with what I have done.”
...

Many archaeologists consider metal detectorists looters who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near their labs or dig sites, but Dr. McBride has a different view.

“It’s a real ongoing debate in the profession,” he said. “To what extent do we embrace hobbyists or amateurs? You’re not going to stop them so … join them.”

At first Dr. McBride and Mr. Naumec tried to do some metal-detecting themselves on the battlefield in 2008. “We figured it wasn’t rocket science,” he said. But they learned that while it’s not hard to find a dime lying on the floor, it takes years of practice to recognize the sound of a musket ball eight inches underground and then determine its provenance.

The scientists then reached out to local metal detecting clubs and formed an unconventional alliance with several detectorists, deputizing a few citizen-scientists who already spend free time looking for what archaeologists want. With so many significant Pequot war-era sites still undiscovered, the relationship has begun to produce results.

The metal-finding enthusiasts tend to be wary of archaeologists and authorities in general, who might restrict their access to a place or take away their finds. Yet when one detectorist, George Pecia, started working with the archaeologists, he realized they could benefit each other. The detectorists get to search areas otherwise off-limits and “piece together a mystery, which is what detecting is about,” Mr. Pecia said, and the scientists get an efficient way to find anything metal.

He and others scanned the dig sites, and Dr. McBride paid them through a grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program that funds his fieldwork. “We call them Jedi masters,” Dr. McBride said, pointing out that detectorists had found about 80 percent of the artifacts cataloged in the project. “Even with the most intense digging, we would have found about 5 percent or less of the objects recovered through metal detecting,” he said.

At the lab, Mr. Wille told the archaeologists about scraps of brass and lead he found close to the kettle point. Nearby, he also struck a layer of shells and two stone arrow heads. “Man, we got to check this spot out!” Mr. Naumec said. “Brass scrap gets us excited. We look for a weird lead — the shells!”

“That’s a huge signature,” he explained. “A shell heap or shell midden — it’s basically their trash.”

In late November, Mr. Wille led Dr. McBride to where he had found the kettle point, a high, level spot now entirely covered with brambles and small oak trees. Dr. McBride logged the situational details of the find in his iPad.

The site got him thinking about the months and years after the English defeated the Pequots. The survivors were handed over to the Mohegans and Narragansetts, the Pequots’ traditional enemies who fought with the English. It was “basically cultural genocide,” Dr. McBride said. Men were beheaded, women sold to other English colonies. The postwar treaty specified: “You shall no longer be called Pequot.”

Those given to the Mohegans were resettled, away from their traditional homeland, in five villages. A 1638 letter from Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island, to John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, said that four of the five villages were by the Thames River near present-day New London. The precise locations of the villages, which were occupied from 1638 to 1651, were unknown.

Crouching over his iPad, the archaeologist looked up at Mr. Wille and said, “I think you’ve got one.”

“The adze, the point, brass scrap — to me, it’s highly suggestive of one of those villages,” said Dr. McBride, listing other artifacts Mr. Wille had found in the area, especially an iron adze. A burial from the early 1600s had also been discovered nearby. “It all kind of fits,” he said. “We always had a sense they’re along the river, but I never, never, thought I’d be standing on one.”

Mr. Wille may have discovered “the first forced resettlement” of a native people, Dr. McBride said. The site predates Mashantucket, the first Native American reservation that was established in 1666, where the Pequot museum now sits.

If this spot had not been found until now, and it took a metal detectorist to find it, Mr. Wille asked: Would it sway the negative opinion that other archaeologists have of metal detectorists?

“No,” Dr. McBride said, but added: “We’ve done modeling. You can dig forever and not find the stuff you found in, what, a couple of hours?”

“I found the kettle point the first time I was here,” Mr. Wille said. “I probably spent two hours.”

The two men walked downhill to where the adze, a cutting tool with an arched blade, was found. Mr. Wille fetched his detector from the car, wanting to use the remaining daylight to search the area more thoroughly.

Dr. McBride knelt to log the location.

The difference between archaeology and looting, explained Brian Jones, Connecticut’s state archaeologist, is the recording of context. Detectorists tend to be “focused on the things,” Dr. Jones said, adding, “Artifacts are important to archaeologists, but really only in the story they tell, and you can’t tell the story unless you know where things are found.” Many detectorists mean well, but if an object is removed from its surroundings without a detailed survey of the area, the story is lost, Dr. Jones said, “and it’s really just looting.”

This is why some archaeologists “start tearing their hair out and turning red” when approached by detectorists, he said. “A lot of important archaeological sites have been damaged beyond any future scientific use by metal detectorists,” Dr. Jones said. But he complimented Dr. McBride’s work, noting that it was in the vanguard of archaeologically responsible metal detecting.

>Though the network is owned and operated by the Russian government, its executives say their journalists are independent. One anchor, however, quit her job during a live broacast in 2014, after saying she could no longer work for a network that “whitewashes the actions of Putin.”

>In the United States, RT America is broadcast by cable companies in some cities, is carried by Dish, the satellite television provider, and can be found free online. Larry King, the former CNN host, and Ed Schultz, a former MSNBC host, both have programs on the network.

>The role of RT in the Kremlin’s effort to influence the election is covered in more detail than any other part of Russia’s campaign in the report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday.

>According to the report, the network aggressively uses the internet and social media to conduct “strategic messaging for the Russian government.” RT videos receive more than one million views a day on YouTube, according to the report, and the network’s programming was “aimed at undermining viewers’ trust of US democratic procedures.”

>The report’s assessment of RT is an awkward development for Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s nominee for national security adviser. General Flynn has appeared repeatedly on RT’s news programs, and in December 2015 the network paid him to give a speech in Russia and attend a lavish anniversary party, where he sat next to Mr. Putin. General Flynn has since defended that speech, insisting that RT is no different from CNN or MSNBC.

>Mr. Trump also appeared on Mr. King’s program, “Politicking,” during the campaign.

>On Friday, Margarita Simonyan, the editor in chief of RT, posted a message to Twitter that mocked the American report.

>“Aaa, the C.I.A. report is out!” she wrote. “Laughter of the year! Intro to my show from 6 years ago is the main evidence of Russia’s influence at US elections. This is not a joke!”
...

>Analysts say Russia lacks the economic and military power to combat NATO, the European Union or the United States directly. The country has instead invested in “weaponized” information, using hacking, propaganda and other means to sow doubt and division in other countries. The goal is to weaken cohesion among Western allies, stir discord in their domestic politics and blunt opposition to Russia.

>Last year, Swedish authorities said they traced to Russia a disinformation campaign when Sweden was considering cooperating militarily with NATO.

Russian intelligence agents used a variety of means to spread misinformation. “We mean everything from internet trolls to propaganda and misinformation spread by media companies like RT and Sputnik,” Wilhelm Unge, a spokesman for the Swedish Security Service, said during a speech to that agency last year.

>In 2014, Russian news media produced multiple theories about the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, blaming the C.I.A. and Ukrainian fighter pilots who had mistaken the airliner for the Russian presidential aircraft. Separate Dutch and Ukranian inquiries concluded that Russian-backed insurgents had accidentally shot down the plane with a missile they got from Russia.

>That same year, an RT America anchor quit during a live broadcast to protest the network’s coverage of Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea. “Personally, I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin,” said Liz Wahl. Another anchor, Abby Martin quit some months after denouncing Russia’s incursion on air. “What Russia did was wrong,” Martin said.

>It is not clear how many people RT and Sputnik reach. The numbers released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board in Britain for the week of the “Brexit” vote in late June, a week of particularly heavy TV watching nationwide, for example, showed it had 926k viewers, or 1.57 percent of the audience.

Flynn is right though. RT is state-run media of the Russian government, but then so is CNN in effect, the former is just open about its Putin fandom while the latter tries (and fails) to hide its constant Obama worship.

This is all they can muster? "The Russians did the same thing we were doing, but they succeeded, it's not fair!" How many reports do we get on the meddling of Qatari-run Al Jazeera by chance?

>projectveritas
>James O'Keefe
Oh christ not this shit again.
>>>/pol/

>>100810
>man films left wing groups literally plotting terrorist attacks at Trump inauguration
>Aww wtf project veritas? snopes told me dey are bad guys! literal footage of incident discarded!

Go back to /r/politics you literal nigger

>>100811
This isn't news. It's partisan hackery. /r/politics is as much politically partisan hackery as /pol/ is. Post a news source or GTFO.

Holy shit finally

>Salman said that Mateen had been violent toward her during their marriage
She says this like a muslim beating his wife is anything new.

What good does arresting his wife do? Legitimately curious why the feds would even bother. So what if she knew anything? You can't expect a spouse to bring forth evidence or accuse their husband. It's not like she shot anyone

Sad! Wahhhnimals rights group ruin more fun!

I'm honestly impressed that it survived so long. I went once when I was like twelve and I felt like they were on life support even then with all of the added in crap they did to try and grab the little kids attention. RIP in peace.

I saw it once when I was a kid. I remember this the most: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0B61oazFms

where else are kids going to see that now?

>>98314
Check the catalog next time, Benl
>>98279

>>98314
besides over reacting and not checking the catalog, Volkswagen at one point worked for Hitler with there gas van. They've been in the "gasing" business 75+ years

Hitler also used & was given cars by Ford Motor Company.. if you lift the hood of the cars they drove the engine had Ford plastered right on it.

>She did not address the allegations of plagiarism.

>Ms. Crowley is the second official announced by the transition team to decide not to go to the White House, following Jason Miller, who was to be the communications director.

>One person close to the transition said that Ms. Crowley’s role would have involved overseeing certain speeches, something that would have been difficult after the plagiarism claims.

>HarperCollins has withdrawn the digital edition of Ms. Crowley’s book “What the (Bleep) Just Happened?”

>Published by Broadside Books, a conservative imprint at HarperCollins, it is a critical look at Barack Obama’s presidency. It sold out 20,000 copies in hardcover, Publishers Marketplace said.

>Mr. Trump’s transition team had labeled the plagiarism reports “a politically motivated attack” and defended Ms. Crowley’s ability to serve.

>“Monica’s exceptional insight and thoughtful work on how to turn this country around is exactly why she will be serving in the administration,” transition officials said in a statement to CNN.

>“HarperCollins — one of the largest and most respected publishers in the world — published her book, which has become a national best seller,” the statement said. “Any attempt to discredit Monica is nothing more than a politically motivated attack that seeks to distract from the real issues facing this country.”

>Most publishers do not check for plagiarism, fabrication or factual inaccuracies.

related:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/01/17/daily-202-monica-crowley-losing-white-house-job-shows-that-the-rules-of-politics-still-apply-for-donald-trump/587d9620e9b69b36fcfeafc9/

"allegations"

I am pretty sure that was plagiarism.