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China Sends Aircraft Carrier Into Taiwan Strait 2017-01-11 04:38:46 Post No.98917
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China Sends Aircraft Carrier Into Taiwan Strait
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>HONG KONG — China sent its sole aircraft carrier into the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday morning, Taiwan officials said, a defiant move that signals China’s growing naval strength and may foreshadow an early foreign policy challenge for President-elect Donald J. Trump when he takes office in nine days.
>The transit of the aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which had been conducting exercises in the South China Sea, comes amid rising tensions between Taiwan and China, and after Mr. Trump broke decades of protocol by speaking on the phone with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, after his election victory. Ms. Tsai leads a political party that has traditionally supported Taiwan’s formal independence from China.
>“It’s a show of force, and I think it is intended in part to intimidate, and that’s worrisome from the U.S. and Taiwan’s point of view because we don’t know how much more they are going to ratchet up these pressures and tensions,” said Bonnie S. Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “If the Trump administration does see this as a test of U.S. resolve, I suspect they’ll push back pretty forcefully.”
>Taiwan scrambled F-16 fighter jets and a P-3C anti-submarine plane in response, and its navy dispatched a frigate to monitor the Liaoning’s movement, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported. Ms. Tsai, who is visiting Nicaragua, made two calls to Taiwan seeking updates on the Liaoning’s transit, the Central News Agency reported, citing Alex Huang, the president’s spokesman.
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>It was the third time in three days that air forces in the region had scrambled jets in response to Chinese military activity, after Japan and South Korea deployed fighters on Monday. Those actions occurred when a squadron of six Chinese bombers and two other aircraft flew over the waters that separate Japan and South Korea and over the Sea of Japan.
>China was using the aircraft carrier to send a symbolic warning to both Taiwan and the incoming Trump administration, said Ni Lexiong, a naval affairs researcher at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.
>“It’s all connected,” Mr. Ni said in a telephone interview. “Since Trump won the election, his words and actions have touched China’s bottom line. I think this was directed at America and the Taiwanese authorities. The aircraft carrier was on training exercises after all, but on the other hand, choosing this route to return was a response to their provocations.”
>But Ms. Glaser said the action could have been planned well in advance as part of the vessel’s exercises in the South China Sea.
>Liu Zhenmin, a Chinese vice foreign minister, said on Wednesday that the Taiwan Strait was an international waterway and that it was normal for the Liaoning to pass though it. The passage would not have any effect on cross-strait relations, he said in remarks carried in the Chinese news media.
>Mark C. Toner, a State Department spokesman, told reporters in Washington in response to a question about the Liaoning’s passage through the strait that the United States “wouldn’t have a problem” with countries sailing their vessels in international waters so long as it was done in accordance with international law.
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>It also was not the first time the Liaoning had sailed through the strait: It passed through in November 2013 on its way to the South China Sea after having been commissioned only the year before.
>In that instance, the carrier kept to the western half of the strait, closer to mainland China. In a statement on Wednesday morning, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said that the Liaoning was also staying to the west of the strait’s middle and urged citizens to remain calm. A transit on the eastern side, closer to Taiwan, would be viewed as much more provocative.
>Taiwan, considered by Beijing to be Chinese territory, has been ruled separately since 1949, when the forces of the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island following their defeat on the mainland by the Communists. China views any assertion of Taiwan’s separateness from the mainland, such as Ms. Tsai’s call with Mr. Trump, as an affront to its claim of sovereignty.
>Since 1979, the United States has recognized the government in Beijing and broke off formal diplomatic ties to Taiwan as part of the One China policy. In the wake of the Trump-Tsai phone call, China warned the incoming president against making changes to that policy after he takes office on Jan. 20.
>Euan Graham, the director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, said that for the Chinese, traveling through the strait was a logical way to move from one area of fleet operations to another along its long coastline. In order for warships based in northern ports, like the Liaoning, to return home from southern waters, they must either pass close to Japanese islands or transit the Taiwan Strait. “Geography forces a very binary choice,” he said.
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>Mr. Graham said it was important to see how the Liaoning conducted its passage. If it had aircraft on deck and was conducting flight operations, that would be seen as more provocative than if it passed through the strait with the aircraft in its hangar bay, he said.
>The Liaoning, commissioned in 2012 and built from a Soviet hull, is China’s first aircraft carrier. In past decades, the United States has shown its resolve to defend Taiwan by sailing carriers through the Taiwan Strait. In 1995, the aircraft carrier Nimitz transited the strait amid heightened tensions after Beijing conducted missile exercises in the waters.
>China’s military decision-making is highly secretive, but it would seem inconceivable for the Liaoning to pass through such contested waters without approval from the president, Xi Jinping, who is also the chairman of the Central Military Commission, which controls the military. And the Chinese military media has described the aircraft carrier as embodying Mr. Xi’s plans for a stronger navy, capable of projecting force far beyond China’s territorial waters.
>Last Thursday, the front page of People’s Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese military, featured a report about the aircraft carrier’s latest journey under the headline, “We’re sailing under the leader’s attentive gaze,” a clear tribute to Mr. Xi.
>Although the passage of the Liaoning sent an emphatic political message, China’s aircraft carrier program is still in its fledgling stage.
>The Liaoning, refashioned from an unfinished hull bought from Ukraine, displaces about 60,000 tons. That is much smaller than the American Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, which have a displacement of 97,000 tons.
>In contrast with China’s one carrier, the American Navy has 10 operational aircraft carriers and one more, the Gerald R. Ford, which will soon be commissioned.
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China launches first commercial space mission with new rocket 2017-01-09 01:44:04 Post No.98244
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China launches first commercial space mission with new rocket
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>JIUQUAN, Gansu, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The rocket Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) has sent three satellites into space in its first commercial mission on Monday.
>The rocket, carrying the satellite JL-1 and two CubeSats XY-S1 and Caton-1, blasted off from northwestern China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at around 12:11 p.m. Monday Beijing Time, according to a statement from the center.
>The KZ-1A was developed from the Kuaizhou-1 rocket with improvements in adaptability. It is a low-cost solid-fuelled carrier rocket with high reliability and short preparation period and was designed to launch low-orbit satellites weighing under 300 kg.
>The JL-1 is a multifunctional remote-sensing satellite providing high-definition video images which is expected to be used for land resource and forestry surveying, environmental protection, transport and disaster prevention and relief purposes.
>The XY-S1 and Caton-1 are experimental satellites to test technologies of low-orbit narrow-band communication and VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) respectively.
>A rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation was responsible for the launch mission. The success of the mission marks the company's capability of providing flexible, convenient, quick and economical launch services for domestic and overseas clients, said the statement.
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Rest assured, that we here in China will graciously and with utmost respect, accept your sattelite package where we will ensure it stays safe prior to launch. Please be kind and deliver it to us 60 days in advance of launch date so our professional teams can thoroughly inspect it for later duplication and potential military intel exploits.
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>>99581
>But it's cheaper so people will still fall for it.
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AT&T says the FCC doesn’t need to review its Time Warner acquisition 2017-01-06 10:24:55 Post No.97632
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AT&T says the FCC doesn’t need to review its Time Warner acquisition
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>AT&T is trying to ease its way out of scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission over the wireless and TV giant's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
>Telecom regulators shouldn't need to analyze the deal because it will be beyond their jurisdiction, AT&T signaled in a filing Thursday to the Securities and Exchange Commission. By potentially eliminating a layer of oversight, the claim could accelerate the merger's approval in Washington, where federal antitrust officials are also expected to review the proposed purchase.
>AT&T, which became the nation's largest pay-TV provider when it acquired DirecTV last year, is gunning for Time Warner's massive library of content and intellectual property, which it hopes to distribute and sell advertising against. Time Warner owns CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., along with rights to lucrative media franchises such as “Harry Potter” and “Batman.”
>To aid in getting shows and movies from their origins to TV screens, Time Warner uses satellite transmissions. The FCC typically has a role in overseeing any merger or acquisition that would transfer control of those airwaves from one company to another. For months, AT&T said it had been looking to see which, if any, of Time Warner's satellite licenses it would acquire as part of the deal. In its SEC filing Thursday, AT&T said it has concluded that no licenses will be transferred. (In addition, Time Warner could seek to spin off its FCC licenses so that they are not a part of the deal, analysts have said.)
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>“While subject to change, it is currently anticipated that Time Warner will not need to transfer any of its FCC licenses to AT&T in order to continue to conduct its business operations after the closing of the transaction,” the filing said.
>If no licenses are changing hands, that could make it unnecessary for the FCC to become involved. That could be bad news for opponents of the deal, because the FCC grants its blessing to deals such as AT&T's on the finding that it will benefit the public. That's considered a higher bar to clear compared to what AT&T faces in persuading antitrust regulators, who simply need to be convinced that the acquisition will not harm competition among other businesses.
>Analysts say the FCC has more power to shape AT&T's future behavior than does the Justice Department. For example, telecom regulators could block AT&T from exempting Time Warner shows and movies from AT&T data caps, a practice critics say is anticompetitive because it puts other content companies, such as Disney or NBCUniversal, at a disadvantage on those same networks. AT&T has defended the tactic, known as “zero-rating,” saying it offers every business the same terms.
>Shielding the AT&T deal from FCC oversight could also help insulate the company from President-elect Donald Trump, who as recently as Thursday reportedly told an associate he is still against the deal. Trump has criticized the acquisition on the grounds that it concentrates too much media power in one company, though some claim his opposition is more narrowly targeted at CNN's sometimes critical coverage.
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>>97634
wtf is this?
not clicking that link, princess.
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What's the best source for the very latest news from China?
More specifically financial decisions by the Chinese government.
I speak English, French, Dutch, German, so whatever source in whatever language is the most reliable and the quickest.
I noticed Bloomberg has some seemingly decent coverage:
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/regions/asia-pacific
But surely there's better, right?
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Sinocism Newsletter
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government sponsored news in esperanto
http://esperanto.cri.cn/
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Got shortwave? Try China Radio International (CRI). They are pretty active and I hear them easily enough. The only nation smart enough to expand it's SW presence with help from Walmart shoppers. hehe
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-radio/
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CT tax collector arrested after alleged coupon scam 2017-01-05 05:25:41 Post No.97178
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CT tax collector arrested after alleged coupon scam
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>NEWINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — Fraud and forgery at the hands of a tax collector. Police say it was an elaborate con to bilk Stop & Shop out of thousands. Now, she is under arrest and police are trying to figure out how long and how far reaching the scam is.
>Police say a forger allegedly used copied coupons and bogus barcodes to rip off Stop & Shop. They have arrested one of the Newington town tax collectors, 52-year-old Rosemarie Taber. She worked for years in the Newington tax office.
>“The barcode label did not match what was on the label, but it didn’t match what she was purchasing and there were too many copies made,” said Lt. Eric Rocheleau of the West Hartford Police Department.
>Right now, she is under arrest in West Hartford, but detectives believe she may have hit other stores in other towns and are broadening their investigation. Police say they tracked down the name on the Stop & Shop card she was using and it turned out to be someone else’s identity.
>“According to Stop & Shop, it has been going on for quite some time, enough so that it rose to the level of a full investigation on their part, and including the police in the matter,” said Rocheleau.
>We did put in a call to Stop & Shop to see what they had to say about this, they had no comment about it. They are working with police trying to figure out how this was pulled off so they can prevent this in the future.
>The Town Manager for the Town of Newington said she can’t comment on an ongoing investigation. We asked if Taber has been suspended with pay or without pay. She wouldn’t comment on that, only to say that it has been addressed.
>Taber is facing larceny, forgery and criminal impersonation charges.
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She's female, ergo innocent. Dismissed! Next case please.
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Jeff Bezos announces Amazon to add 100,000 full-time U.S. jobs in next 18 months 2017-01-12 07:23:21 Post No.99371
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>The additional jobs would swell Amazon’s U.S. workforce, which stood at 180,000 last year
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/12/amazon-says-create-100000-jobs-us-2018/96482672/
>The company says the positions are for workers across the country and across all skill and experience levels. Most of the positions will be at fulfillment centers, including new ones under construction in California, Florida, New Jersey and Texas.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-inc-jobs-idUSKBN14W21G
>The e-commerce giant said in October it would add 26 fulfillment centers in 2016, mostly in North America. More are under construction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/01/12/amazon-says-it-will-create-100000-full-time-jobs-over-the-next-18-months/
>Amazon, whose chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post, says the hiring will include a broad range of positions, including engineers and software developers but also big teams to work in its growing network of fulfillment centers.
http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-add-100000-full-time-u-s-jobs-next-18-months-growing-domestic-workforce-55/
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Watch someone spin this into Trump making jobs bs. And people will eat it up.
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>"The announcement was made after the president-elect met with heads of several other tech companies and urge them to keep their jobs and production inside the United States," Sean Spicer, the incoming press secretary, said on a call with media outlets Thursday. "The president-elect was pleased to have played a role in that decision by Amazon."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/technology/amazon-us-jobs/
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>>99371
Watch someone spin this into diverse employment making jobs bs. And people will eat it up.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/nutella-causes-cancer-palm-oil-supermarket-ban-italy-cadburys-a7522291.html
>In May, the European Food Standards Authority warned that the contaminants found in the oil’s edible form are carcinogenic
>In response, Ferrero has launched an advertising campaign in an attempt to reassure customers that its products are totally safe.
The CEO does not care if children get cancer. It doesn't worry him a bit: Now not having enough money, whatever it takes, this worries CEOs. They lie, bs and cheat and poison. Don't worry, the titantic can't sink, it's double-hulled. Don't worry, there really are that many people viewing ads on facebook. Don't worry, baby powder is safe. Don't worry DDT is safe.
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>>99376
Ha! I wish American companies like Monsanto cared if kids got cancer.
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>>99377
Monsanto is basically a cyberpunk megacorporation, it occupies a special place in the hierarchy of evil.
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>>99376
Palm oil is awful even if it doesn't cause cancer because of rainforest destruction.
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Soros lost nearly $1billion in weeks after election 2017-01-12 07:33:28 Post No.99372
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Soros lost nearly $1billion in weeks after election
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/billionaire-george-soros-lost-nearly-1-billion-in-weeks-after-trump-election-1484227167
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>George Soros lost nearly $1 billion as a result of the stock-market rally spurred by Donald Trump’s surprise presidential election, the Wall Street Journal reported.
>But Stanley Druckenmiller, Soros’s former deputy who helped him score $1 billion of profits betting against the British pound in 1992, anticipated the market’s recent climb and had sizable gains, the newspaper reported Thursday, citing sources it didn’t identify.
>Soros became more bearish immediately after Trump’s election. But the stock market has rallied on expectations that Trump’s policies will boost corporate earnings and the overall economy. The S&P 500 Index has risen 5.6 percent since Trump’s election through yesterday.
>As a result, some of Soros’s trading positions incurred losses approaching $1 billion, the Journal said. Soros exited many of his bearish bets late last year, avoiding further losses. The broader portfolio held by Soros’s firm performed better. His firm gained about 5 percent on the year, according to the report.
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i'm sure he has back up profit plan from ww3
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You all do realize the stock market did not go up to sufficiently counter the dollars dramatic decline, right? Trump jettisoned tens if not hundreds of billion dollars-equivalent of American buying power with his last press conference. I don't blame Soros for being bearish, he was just bearish in the wrong market. (I lost money by being bullish on the dollar in Forex.)
"Global wages will stop increasing when [real] American wages decline." Today, your real equity decreased by 1.2% or something like that. Today, Trump helped the Japanese more than he will ever help you. Ah... But will an economic stimulus from a Republican be more egalitarian than a Democrat's? No! So you're even more fucked. Will reducing the unemployment rate even further help the population? No! There is such a concept of employee liquidity. Would you /really/ rather have your company care for you from cradle to coffin?
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Another way to put it is that NATO can now have its European members pay an extra NATO-Tax... Because their currency gained so much against the dollar it'd be like we paid them for a PR stunt.
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Trump says public doesn't care 'at all' about his taxes 2017-01-12 12:42:14 Post No.99063
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Trump says public doesn't care 'at all' about his taxes
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>President-elect Donald Trump insisted at a news conference Wednesday that Americans "don't care at all" about his unreleased tax returns.
>"I'm not releasing the tax returns because, as you know, they're under audit," he said at the event, his first since becoming President-elect.
>Trump's comment are directly contradicted by most major public polls on the issue. A CNN poll from October found 86% of registered voters said they see paying taxes as every American's civic duty.
>Trump has refused to release his tax returns since declaring his presidential candidacy, arguing that he can't release the information because he is under audit -- an excuse that tax lawyers have said should not prevent him from releasing those documents, even as
>Trump continues to insist it's the recommendation of his personal counsel.
>"They've been under audit since the 1970's," a reporter began, but Trump interrupted. "Gee, I've never heard that. I've never heard that. You know, the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters, OK? They're the only ones," he said.
>"You don't think the American public is concerned about it?" the reporter followed up.
>"No, I don't think so. I won. And became president," Trump said. "No, I don't think they care at all. I don't think they care at all. I think you care."
>Trump was asked if he would release his tax returns to prove that he doesn't have business and financial ties to Russia that could be used as leverage against him -- a concerning prospect raised by a CNN report Tuesday that heads of the US intelligence community had briefed Trump on allegations that Russian agents had compiled compromising information on the new president.
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taxes are a scheme of the elites. dont buy into it.
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>>99087
t. Irwin Schiff
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Multiple People Dead in Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting, Sheriff Says 2017-01-06 10:02:48 Post No.97613
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Multiple People Dead in Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting, Sheriff Says
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>A gunman opened fire Friday in a crowded baggage claim area at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, killing at least five people and wounding at least eight others, officials said.
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>Witnesses told news outlets that the gunman, who appeared to be a man in his 20s wearing a “Star Wars” T-shirt, had been firing into the crowd at baggage claim. The Broward County sheriff, Scott Israel, said that no shots were fired by law enforcement, countering reports that the gunman had been shot by the police.
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>The suspected gunman was identified as Esteban Santiago, law enforcement officials told the Miami Herald. He is thought to have been a passenger on a flight from Canada that landed at FLL at around noon with a checked gun in his baggage.
>After retrieving his bag, Santiago is believed to have gone into the bathroom and loaded the weapon. Then he stepped into the Terminal 2 baggage-claim area and began shooting.
>Santiago was carrying some form of military ID. He is suspected of being a former U.S. Army soldier from the New York area.
>After the initial shooting, which took place just before 1 p.m., the Broward Sheriff’s Office reported it had arrested a man suspected of opening fire inside a baggage claim area. He was thought to be a lone shooter.
>About an hour later, a second gunman was reported — erroneously, as it turned out — at a different airport terminal, causing panic and sending dozens of passengers fleeing across the tarmac as police in armored gear responded with drawn weapons. Police and passengers at the terminal took cover behind parked cars.
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If mass shootings start being a "thing" for latinos like it is for muslims we are in deep shit.
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this post just added 1 meter to the wall's height
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>>97616
Unlikely. He will be "white-hispanic" soon enough.
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The crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent 2017-01-07 11:06:12 Post No.97910
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The crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent
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Hi guys. It's [almost] time to panic. At least it will finally [hopefully] shut up the creationist flatearther climate change deniers.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-antarctic-ice-shelf-crack-20170107-story.html
>The crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent
>An enormous rift in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past several weeks, and a chunk nearly the size of Delaware could break away within months, British scientists reported this week.
>If this happens, it could accelerate a further breakup of the ice shelf, essentially removing a massive cork of ice that keeps some of Antarctica's glaciers from flowing into the ocean. The long term result, scientists project, could be to noticeably raise global sea levels by 10 centimeters, or almost four inches.
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the ice grew so much it's going to break
this is a sign of a heating planet, how?
I bet that chunk will cool the oceans pretty gud.
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Can't delete. Anyway, that thread is very bad.
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German Officials Met Seven Times to Discuss Berlin Attacker Before Assault 2017-01-06 02:41:06 Post No.97494
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>Top federal and regional security officials met seven times to discuss the potential danger posed by Tunisian migrant Anis Amri in the year before he attacked a Berlin Christmas market, the latest revelation in a string of mishaps that failed to prevent the attack.
>The new details showed that Amri tricked German authorities from the moment he entered the country in the summer of 2015, taking advantage of the administrative chaos amid a surge of asylum seekers that year and the lack of central database about the new arrivals to register himself across different states, using 14 different identities, sometimes leaving just a day between registrations.
>Authorities were first alerted to his radical Islamist tendencies in October that year. A roommate of Amri warned authorities that he had spotted photos on Amri’s cellphone showing people dressed in black and carrying weapons. An undercover agent infiltrated in the radical Islamist scene also reported Amri appeared to be serving as a messenger for a local Islamist network, officials said.
>In December 2015, having started to monitor him, authorities became aware that Amri had been expressing the desire to stage an attack in Germany and had searched online for instructions about how to build bombs. They were also tipped off that he was planning a robbery in Berlin to fund the purchase of weapons.
>Shortly thereafter, state and federal security officials gathered for the first time to discuss his case. In February, Amri was placed on a list of dangerous radical Islamists. That month alone, officials from the joint counterterrorism center in Berlin, an umbrella body for 40 federal and regional security agencies, discussed Amri’s case at three separate meetings.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-officials-met-seven-times-to-discuss-berlin-attacker-before-assault-1483640613
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>Four more meetings follow in April, in June and a last one in November, a month before the attack. It isn’t clear whether all the meetings were held to talk exclusively Amri or whether his was one of several cases discussed.
>Undercover agents learned in February that Amri had moved to Berlin and was, again, speaking about wanting to die in the name of Allah and seeking other people to help him plan and conduct an attack.
>On the back of this latest information, federal prosecutors opened an fresh undercover investigation, monitoring his communications for six months through September. But after this failed to yield actionable evidence, investigators suspended their electronic surveillance.
>As recently as July, authorities discussed targeting Amri with a new legal provision that fast-tracks the deportation of someone seen as a particular terror risk. In a discussion involving a representative from the general prosecutor’s office, they decided against using the measure because they didn’t believe they could prove in court that Amri presented an acute danger, state Interior Ministry official Burkhard Schnieder said.
>In any case, officials said, a deportation effort using that legal provision in the summer wouldn’t have worked because Tunisian officials only confirmed Amri’s status as a Tunisian citizen in October.
>In September and October last year, police in North Rhine-Westphalia received tips from Tunisian and Moroccan security agencies that Amri supported Islamic State, had contact with Islamic State sympathizers in Berlin, and “wanted to carry out a project” in Germany, Dieter Schürmann, head of North Rhine-Westphalia’s criminal investigative agency LKA told lawmakers.
>But the warnings were too abstract to justify an arrest, he added. On a scale of one to eight, with one representing the strongest risk, Amri ranked five, Mr. Schürmann said.
Don't worry Europe is fine, they know who the terrorists are, they're just not allowed to do anything about it!
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Should have met eleven times
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not true, they can do meetings about it
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As an angry China watches, Taiwan president takes a risky trip to the Americas 2017-01-06 08:43:12 Post No.97586
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>Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who rattled mainland China by phoning President-elect Donald Trump last month, leaves Saturday for a trip to the United States and Central America that will be closely watched for any further breaches in the delicate diplomatic protocol with Beijing.
>The journey is seen as a chance for Tsai to prop up relations in a region that has historically been friendly to Taiwan but faces pressure from the mainland.
>Because her government is not formally recognized by the United States, Tsai will only make “transit stops” of about a day apiece in Houston on Saturday and in San Francisco at the end of the nine-day trip. Most of her time will be spent in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
>The president’s travels offer prospects for stronger foreign relations that would bulk up Taiwan’s self-rule despite counter-pressure from China, which has claimed sovereignty over the island since the Chinese civil war of the 1940s and has threatened to take it by force if needed.
>“For Tsai, the pro would be getting closer to America, a key foreign policy goal of hers,” said Bill Sharp, an East Asia scholar and author based in Honolulu. “The con has to be straining relations with China.”
>A splashy meeting with Trump or one of his future Cabinet members would probably anger Beijing to the point of retaliation, analysts say.
>China already passed an aircraft carrier through waters near Taiwan in the last two weeks, and the government in Taipei suspects Beijing last month paid the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe to recognize China instead of Taiwan. Both moves came after Tsai telephoned Trump on Dec. 2.
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>China might respond to the trip with more military displays or by offering aid money to win over the Central American countries Tsai hopes to impress on her trip, some argue. China does not allow its diplomatic allies to have separate, formal ties with Taiwan.
>Tsai has played down prospects of high-level meetings on her U.S. stopovers but has not ruled out meeting any specific people. “The outside world has a lot of imagination regarding my transit stops,” she said at a news conference on Saturday. “But the outside world’s ideas are sort of over the top. Transit is just transit.”
>U.S. officials regularly allow transit stops, for refueling and comfort, to Taiwanese presidents bound for Latin America because the United States is located along the shortest flight path. China protests some of the stops – including the two scheduled this month – as signs that the United States is giving Taiwan too much attention.
>The U.S. is Taiwan’s strongest informal ally, though it established formal ties with the mainland in 1979.
>Tsai’s transit is “consistent with the unofficial nature of our relations with Taiwan,” said Sonia Urbom, spokeswoman with the U.S. mission in Taipei.
>The president will meet James Moriarty, the U.S. mission’s chairman, on both stops, which Urbom described as “private and unofficial.” Past presidents have used the layovers to meet Taiwanese business groups in the United States.
>In an apparent bow to China, the United States is not letting Tsai transit in New York or Washington, where she could more easily see U.S. politicians. She may still meet Republican Party leaders, who could later help Tsai deepen military or trade exchanges.
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>If Tsai met Trump or someone on his team, Taiwanese would initially rejoice at the exposure and the chance for Taiwan to improve relations after Trump takes office Jan. 20, analysts say.
>“We will see if we can meet someone from the government and someone from the Trump camp,” said Lo Chih-cheng, a legislator with Tsai’s party. “If there’s any direct contact, that would be very important because it would send a message directly to the [new] president.”
>But since the Tsai-Trump phone call, which broke diplomatic protocol aimed at sustaining Sino-U.S. ties, many Taiwanese have worried Trump will use Taiwan as a bargaining chip to get trade concessions from Beijing. China said last month its claim to Taiwan was nonnegotiable; it wants the two sides eventually to unify.
>Tsai, a 60-year-old law scholar and former professor, has irked Beijing since taking office in May by declining to see Taiwan and China as parts of a single country and hold talks. Her Democratic Progressive Party favors more distance from China.
>“I think Tsai is likely alarmed by the fact that Trump proposed using Taiwan as a bargaining chip to extract trade concessions with China,” said Bonnie Glaser, a senior advisor with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, referring to comments in December. “I doubt [Tsai] sees benefits in poking Beijing by meeting members of Trump’s team.”
>Once in Latin America, Tsai plans to visit officials in the four countries, including heads of state.
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>“We will use our normal approach to talk with those countries about what we can do together to let both sides see substantive benefits in carrying out our diplomacy,” Tsai said at Saturday’s news conference.
>Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry declined this week to give amounts or describe the purpose of recent aid for Central America. Under former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian through 2008, Beijing and Taipei vied to buy off each other’s allies. Tsai takes a more moderate stand toward China than Chen, and her government will not practice “money diplomacy,” her foreign minister said last month.
>But most of Taiwan’s 21 allies in the Americas, Africa and the South Pacific expect aid in return for giving Taiwan a voice in the United Nations, where China blocks Taiwanese participation.
>“You don’t have to put the money straight to the pockets of politicians in those foreign countries,” said Huang Kwei-bo, associate professor of diplomacy at National Chengchi University in Taipei. “If it builds an airport or a harbor or whatnot, then that’s in the range of fairness. But you’ve got to raise the amount.”
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Old Espionage Ruse, With a Modern Twist: Israelis Say Hamas Used Online Seduction 2017-01-12 01:58:05 Post No.99220
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>TEL AVIV — It usually started with a bit of cyberflirting. A direct message was sent through Facebook or another social network from an unknown woman to an Israeli soldier’s smartphone. Then, according to Israeli military officials, it developed into a chat in flawless Hebrew, heavily peppered with millennial slang.
>“Good morning (smiley emoji),” one typical chat began.
>“What’s up? Do we know each other?” the soldier replied.
>Alluring photos soon followed. Only the correspondents were apparently not who they said they were.
>Instead, senior Israeli intelligence officials said on Wednesday, they were Hamas operatives who set up fake profiles and trawled social networks, befriending naïve soldiers and enticing them to download applications that effectively turned their cellphones into tracking devices and tools for spying.
>The assertions of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under Army rules, could not be independently verified. Hazem Kassem,a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamic militant group that holds sway in the Gaza Strip, declined to comment. “We do not want to respond to what some Israelis say about us,” he said.
>Ibrahim Madhoun, a writer for Al-Resalah, a Hamas newspaper, said that Hamas would not stoop to such levels. “Creating women’s profiles to attract soldiers is against our Islamic values and teachings,” he said by telephone.
>Briefing reporters on Wednesday at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, the intelligence officials said the technology was relatively simple.
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>One correspondent, “Albina Goren,” sent a photo of herself in a skimpy dress, blue sea in the background. “Amit Cohen” sent one of herself wearing red lipstick and shades, her brown mane flowing. Some of the fake friends gained the confidence of several administrators of closed social network groups used by soldiers and were invited to join.
>They then sent links to an apps store with instructions to download what they said were video chat apps, like YeeCall and Wowo Messenger. When the soldiers tried to install and use the apps, they would not open, and the new “friends” would cut off contact. But the supposed app was actually a virus that gave Hamas access to the soldiers’ contacts, locations, apps, photos and files, the military said, and allowed Hamas operatives to stream video from the cellphone’s camera and audio from the microphone.
>Dozens of phones were targeted in the past few months, most of them belonging to low-ranking combat soldiers carrying out their obligatory service, the military officials said.
>Though the Hamas operation had the potential to cause serious damage to state security, the officials said, the military intelligence directorate’s information security branch, in cooperation with other Israeli security agencies, caught on and acted to shut the operation while the damage was minimal.
>Suspicions arose when a female Israeli soldier reported that her profile photo and identity had been stolen and were being used to befriend other soldiers. Some male soldiers became suspicious when their new “friends” asked about their military activities.
>After working secretly for several months to find the cyberspies, the military said it had decided to publicize the operation to raise public awareness and encourage soldiers to report suspicious behavior on social networks.
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>The military is asking soldiers to turn off the GPS on their phones when not in use, to make themselves harder to track. It is also recommending that soldiers avoid downloading apps from unfamiliar sources.
>“This time, their weapon isn’t a bomb, gun or vehicle,” the military officials said of the Hamas cyberoperatives. “It’s a simple friend request.”
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Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army 2017-01-11 04:30:45 Post No.98768
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The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad), downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist. This is pertinent information that the Obama administration apparently wants to keep quiet, bringing up memories of the Benghazi cover up, in which the president and his cohorts knowingly lied to conceal that Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission in Libya.
Information is slowly trickling out that links the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter to radical Islam while the official story from authorities is that the gunman is a mentally ill, Hispanic Army veteran named Esteban Santiago that became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Only one mainstream media outlet mentions the possibility of Santiago’s “jihadist identity,” burying it in a piece about New York possibly being his initial target. A paragraph deep in the story mentions that investigators recovered Santiago’s computer from a pawn shop and the FBI is examining it to determine whether he created a “jihadist identity for himself using the name Aashiq Hammad…” The reset of the traditional mainstream media coverage promotes the government rhetoric that omits any ties to terrorism even though early on a photo surfaced of Santiago making an ISIS salute while wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian Arab scarf.
The public records uncovered in the days after the massacre suggest Santiago (Hammad) is a radical Islamic terrorist that’s seriously committed to Islam. Besides taking on a Muslim name, he recorded three Islamic religious songs, including the Muslim declaration faith (“there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger”) known as the Shahada.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/01/airport-shooter-converted-islam-identified-aashiq-hammad-years-joining-army/
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He also posted a thread about downloading propaganda videos from Islamic terrorists on a weapons and explosives forum. The investigative news site that unearthed this disturbing information connected the dots between Santiago, who is of Puerto Rican descent, and Hammad, an identity he created in 2007.
This week a prominent Ft. Lauderdale businessman and longtime resident addressed a letter to the city’s mayor and commissioners blasting county and federal officials for covering up that “Aashiq Hammad, not Esteban Santiago, attacked our city and county.” The businessman, respected Ft. Lauderdale real estate entrepreneur Jim Morlock, specifically names Broward County’s elected sheriff Scott Israel, Florida senator Bill Nelson, the first to identify Santiago as the shooter on national television, and congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, ousted last summer as Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair over a scandalous plot to damage Bernie Sanders during the primary.
“Since when does a US Senator (Bill Nelson), not law enforcement, be the one to so quickly release this terrorist’s Hispanic name but nothing about his more relevant Islamic background?” the letter asks. Obama must have told Sen. Nelson to keep this from looking like a Muslim Terrorist attack during the last 12 days of his watch. Bad for his legacy.” Morlock goes on to state that it’s “better to portray this atrocity as white Hispanic Alaskan mental Iraq war vet gun violence.” The real estate entrepreneur proceeds to reveal that Santiago lives in walking distance to the only mosque in Alaska, was radicalized before he entered the military and was knowingly allowed to serve despite his Islamic sympathies thanks to “Obama’s PC military.”
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The letter poses interesting questions, including why this Muslim terrorist chose Ft. Lauderdale out of all the nation’s airports and who Santiago knows in Broward county, which has a large and growing Islamic community. In 2015 Judicial Watch obtained records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that show and Al Qaeda terrorist who helped plan several U.S. attacks lived in Broward County and graduated from the local community college with a degree in computer engineering. His name is Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, but he also had a Hispanic identity, Javier Robles, and for years he appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list. Back in 2012 Judicial Watch reported on a terrorist front group’s demands that Broward County public schools close twice a year to celebrate Islamic holy days, illustrating the influence that Muslims have in the region.
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