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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/04/facebook-live-stream-video-man-attacked-chicago-trump

>Chicago police are investigating a video appearing to show a man tied up and assaulted while attackers shout ‘fuck Donald Trump’ and ‘fuck white people’
>Chicago police have arrested four suspects after a Facebook Live broadcast appeared to show a man bound, gagged and brutally attacked amid shouts of “fuck Donald Trump”.
>The footage, which was live-streamed on Facebook, showed several people taunting and assaulting the man while he was sitting in the corner of a room, restrained and with his mouth taped closed.

>Police said all four suspects, two men and two women, all of whom they said were “young adults”, were in custody and being questioned.
>Asked about the shouts of “fuck Trump” and “fuck white people” heard in the video, police commander Kevin Duffin said they would form part of their investigation into whether the attack constituted a hate crime. He added that investigators are attempting to determine “whether or not this is sincere or just stupid ranting and raving”.
>The individuals captured on video tormenting the victim are black. The victim, who at one point appears to be forced to shout the words “fuck Trump”, is white.

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Former President Bill Clinton and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration later this month, aides to both Clintons told CNN on Tuesday.

Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will also attend, the 43rd president's office said in a statement Tuesday.
"President and Mrs. George W. Bush will attend the 58th Presidential Inauguration Ceremony on January 20, 2017, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.," the statement read. "They are pleased to be able to witness the peaceful transfer of power -- a hallmark of American democracy -- and swearing-in of President Trump and Vice President Pence."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/03/politics/george-w-bush-laura-bush-to-attend-trump-inauguration/index.html

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pot-advocates-plan-hand-4200-free-joints-inauguration/story?id=44573136

I'm all for legalization and equality in the "drugs of choice" that are alcohol, cigs, coffee and pot.

However, this seems to be some few people drugging up other people. It's bad enough to display addictions in public (my cigs and coffee) but this is DRUGGING PEOPLE and trying to make out an addiction to be a "good thing" and a solution. This is the same as giving out energy drinks for free on street corner wanting to addict people into consuming (buying) harmful amounts of the stuff. It isn't even their parade: they're crashing the shallow, shiny, pretty party.

Giving out cigarettes (mild pot) would be a no-brainer...

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Deadly attack as truck rams into soldiers in Jerusalem
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/truck-rams-crowd-jerusalem-driver-shot-170108100137960.html

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Could he help make Iraqi Kurdistan great again?

Some people here are so convinced he will that they are showing their love for Donald Trump in unusual ways.
One, Nadyar Zawiti, has jumped on the Trump train particularly enthusiastically, naming his fish restaurant in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk after the US President-elect.
Zawiti heard Trump say during the campaign that he was a big fan of Kurdish forces, and called for the US to arm them in their fight against ISIS.

He's hoping the incoming president will make good on his promise -- so much so that he named his new restaurant Trump Fish.
"What I admire about Trump's personality," Zawite says, "is that he's decisive, he's tough, and hopefully with that toughness he'll finish ISIS off."
The restaurant's logo -- featuring San Diego Chargers-style lightning bolts where Trump's hair and eyebrows should be -- was taken from a 2015 Uproxx story that injected a Trump theme into the logo of every NFL team.

The restaurant sells "maskouf," Iraq's national dish of oily carp cooked over an open fire.
Nadyar shrugs off Trump's controversial pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US as mere campaign rhetoric.
He even hopes to someday open a branch of Trump Fish near the White House -- if Trump will invite him in, that is.

He's not the only dedicated fan of the President-elect to be found in the region.
Hassan Jamil, a Peshmerga fighter on leave, even named his newborn baby Trump Hassan Jamil.
Of the unusual choice of moniker bestowed on the three-week-old, Jamil explained: "I called him Trump because he is charismatic and has clear policies and that's why he won the election."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/02/middleeast/donald-trump-themed-restaurant-iraq/index.html

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/dont-you-say-that-again-conway-and-cuomo-get-into-transfixing-war-of-words-over-russia-hacks/

>In a meaty interview that raged on for the better part of twenty minutes this morning, CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo sparred with Kellyanne Conway of the Trump campaign on a wide variety of controversies, foremost of which has been the President-elect’s willingness to seemingly discredit our own intelligence community.

>The senior Trump advisor took issue with the fact that talk of the “alleged” Russian hacking (as she puts it) is being conflated with why Hillary Clinton lost, a claim that Conway put at the feet of CNN itself. “Your network is doing it constantly,” she told Cuomo. At times, two continued to spar even over the basic premise of questions asked due to Conway’s effective filibustering.

>“I’ll ask you a third time!” Cuomo said at one point about the October joint report from the Homeland Security Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: did the intelligence community announce its findings of Russian involvement, yes or no?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/world/europe/romania-chooses-left-leaning-government.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=world/europe&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Europe&pgtype=article

>BUCHAREST, Romania — The Romanian Parliament approved a new left-leaning coalition government on Wednesday, ending weeks of uncertainty about who would lead a country that has been a staunch member of the European Union and NATO.

>Sorin Grindeanu, 43, a former minister of communications and a compromise candidate, was named prime minister. He beat his Social Democratic Party’s first choice, Sevil Shhaideh, a member of the country’s Tatar minority who would have become the country’s first female and first Muslim prime minister.

>The Social Democrats came to power in a national election on Dec. 11 on the promise of increasing government spending for health care, salaries and pensions. On Wednesday, Mr. Grindeanu said his government would raise the minimum wage and improve access to free prescription drugs. He also promised to create better-paying jobs so that Romanians would not seek work abroad.

>The president, Klaus Iohannis, swore in the new cabinet and urged its members to strengthen the country’s judiciary and shore up its foreign relations.

>“You have to deliver what you promised in the electoral campaign,” he told the cabinet members. “I expect that you keep clear, visible and declared the Euro-Atlantic orientation of Romania. You swore that you would do everything you can for a mature democracy in Romania. We cannot imagine in Europe a democracy without an independent justice and the rule of law.”

>The selection of a prime minister was thrown into confusion last week when Ms. Shhaideh was rejected for the post by Mr. Iohannis, apparently because of her Syrian-born husband’s support for the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Ms. Shhaideh was instead named deputy prime minister and minister of regional development.
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http://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/5/14184140/microsoft-cortana-nissan-bmw-car-integration

>Just days after teasing a Nissan and Cortana partnership, the car maker is unveiling its plans to integrate Microsoft's digital assistant into some vehicles. Nissan is working directly with Microsoft on its Connected Vehicle Platform, which utilizes Azure, Cortana, and Office 365. Cortana will be available in cars and will adapt its preferences and features based on drivers and others in the vehicle.

>Nissan demonstrated Cortana integration in a concept video of what will be possible with the digital assistant. Asking "what is my schedule" surfaces the usual functionality of Cortana's calendar integration, but Nissan also demonstrated the ability for Cortana to understand and suggest shortcuts to destinations, and even options to download new maps overnight. At one point in the demo, Cortana even asks "shall I engage auto park?"

>Nissan's CES announcement follows a similar plan from BMW to also integrate Cortana into some cars as part of Microsoft's Connected Vehicle vision. BMW plans to let drivers access Cortana through a dashboard screen, with the ability to access events, to-do lists, reminders, news, or any of the many other Cortana options.
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http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/05/nissan-is-placing-cortana-in-the-passenger-seat/

>At the CES consumer electronics conference in Las Vegas today, Nissan announced that, as part of Microsoft’s existing partnership with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, it’s working with Microsoft around the use of the Cortana virtual assistant and other services that are part of a new Connected Vehicle Platform.

>This builds on Microsoft’s commercial relationships with BMW, which involves Azure, and Volvo, which pertains to Skype. But with the new offering, Microsoft is going after carmakers in a unified way.
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http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/carmakers-hitch-ride-with-tech-down-futuristic-road/

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Man captured and tortured in racially motivated hate crime.
http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/watch-trump-supporter-kidnapped-tortured-chicago-livestreamed-facebook.html/

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https://youtu.be/QANGXO8ZaTg

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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/iceberg-size-delaware-poised-break-antarctica-n703821

>An iceberg the size of Delaware is poised to break away from Antarctica, an event which may lead to the collapse of a massive ice shelf on the continent, according to researchers.

>Scientists say that a 1,900 square-mile section of the "Larsen C" ice shelf is now only connected to the main body by a 12-mile section of ice. Researchers monitoring a huge crack in the ice discovered that it had grown rapidly during the second half of 2016 — increasing in size by 11 miles in December alone.

>If the iceberg does break away, it would be one of the ten largest ever recorded.

>When the iceberg breaks off, or calves, the shelf will lose around 10 percent of its surface area, leaving it at its most-retreated ever recorded position, according to researchers at Project MIDAS, a British-backed Antarctic research project.

>"If it doesn't go in the next few months, I'll be amazed," project leader Professor Adrian Luckman, from the U.K.'s Swansea University told the BBC. Researchers had previously suggested that a calving event could take place at some stage in the next decade.

>Scientists say that calving events like this one could lead the Larsen C ice shelf to disintegrate entirely, as its neighbor Larsen B did in 2002.

>"We think that once this iceberg has gone, the Larsen C ice shelf will be in a less stable position than before, precisely how much less stable depends on what path the crack takes as it propagates," Martin O'Leary, a researcher on the project, told NBC News. "I think we're probably more worried that the next iceberg could cause the ice shelf to collapse rather than this time around," he added.
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rift-in-antarcticas-larsen-c-ice-shelf

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http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/04/global-warming-hiatus-disproved-again/

>A controversial paper published two years ago that concluded there was no detectable slowdown in ocean warming over the previous 15 years — widely known as the “global warming hiatus” — has now been confirmed using independent data in research led by researchers from UC Berkeley and Berkeley Earth, a non-profit research institute focused on climate change.

>The 2015 analysis showed that the modern buoys now used to measure ocean temperatures tend to report slightly cooler temperatures than older ship-based systems, even when measuring the same part of the ocean at the same time. As buoy measurements have replaced ship measurements, this had hidden some of the real-world warming.

>After correcting for this “cold bias,” researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded in the journal Science that the oceans have actually warmed 0.12 degrees Celsius (0.22 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade since 2000, nearly twice as fast as earlier estimates of 0.07 degrees Celsius per decade. This brought the rate of ocean temperature rise in line with estimates for the previous 30 years, between 1970 and 1999.

>This eliminated much of the global warming hiatus, an apparent slowdown in rising surface temperatures between 1998 and 2012. Many scientists, including the International Panel on Climate Change, acknowledged the puzzling hiatus, while those dubious about global warming pointed to it as evidence that climate change is a hoax.

>Climate change skeptics attacked the NOAA researchers and a House of Representatives committee subpoenaed the scientists’ emails. NOAA agreed to provide data and respond to any scientific questions but refused to comply with the subpoena, a decision supported by scientists who feared the “chilling effect” of political inquisitions.
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http://www.interestingnewsnow.com/teenagers-volunteer-as-pallbearers-at-funeral-of-vietnam-vet/

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>>Mr Corley hit his wife "about the head and face with a closed fist" before pointing a handgun at her, the Aiken Standard reports, citing the arrest warrant. The violence was allegedly committed in front of an 8-year-old child.

>>The 36-year-old attorney is known for his efforts to keep the Confederate flag flying outside the South Carolina state house.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38480296

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The United States Navy currently has the world's largest fleet of nuclear powered aircraft carriers, composed of the Nimitz class and the upcoming Gerald R. Ford class supercarriers. As you may know these ships are crucial for the protection of our great nation. It may come to you as a surprise when I tell you that all 10 commissioned aircraft carriers are sitting in their home port. For the next week, not only will there be no U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East, but there will be no American aircraft carriers deployed at sea anywhere else in the world, despite a host of worldwide threats facing the United States.

Is this a smart move?


See the current list of US Navy Carrier locations

http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp

>https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/30/no-us-carrier-at-sea-leaves-gap-in-middle-east.amp.html&ved=0ahUKEwjUgJ7ZvKrRAhXHTSYKHQtNCzMQFgiiATAZ&usg=AFQjCNGb2LPf0SNLjmDozh1qUPJEXX5boQ&sig2=evitcqHyi4Fi3XbiLkgToQ