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http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/vera-rubin-dark-matter-astronomy-obit-trnd/index.html

> Vera Rubin, a pioneering astrophysicist who "proved" the existence of dark matter,

Here we have CNN not quoting anyone that she "proved" dark matter.
This is bs, also called fake news. Nothing and no one has proven anyone's theory. No one has the "answer" necessary to prove they have all other answers.

Even if it were true, it's energy so it gives off energy so to consider it any different than any other matter would be extraneous. They said neutrons were neutral and without charge. Lots of theories and proofs have proved wrong or faked. Merely because someone holds up a page of data doesn't mean it's true. In the end, only the person in front of you gives you their insight, or lack of it.

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A greedy dog ruined her family's Christmas after scoffing the turkey intended for their festive dinner.

According to the pet's owner David Barrett, from Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Bubba, 5, a Chi Apso, (a cross between dog breeds Chihuahua and a Lhasa Apso), snuck into the kitchen on Christmas Eve and stole the food, which had been left on the side.

The family had no idea what their hungry pooch had done until she suddenly collapsed bloated on the floor and unable to move.

She had left only a tiny fragment of the turkey breast, which had been supposed to provide enough meat for three people.

Her owner took to Twitter to share the hilarious snap of his pet twice her normal size, which quickly racked up 24,000 likes and nearly 10,000 re-tweets.

'No chance has my dog scranned the whole turkey for tomorrow,' the exasperated owner said before sharing the image.

To prove what Bubba had done he added: 'There's the culprit, she can't move.'

David's followers found the whole saga amusing with one saying: 'She's the same shape as the turkey!'

However, it seems that Christmas wasn't totally ruined as Bubba's owners managed to save the day - and possibly Bubba's life - by getting relatives to bring round spare turkey.

The family say they are now planning to put their dog on a New Year diet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4068298/A-real-dog-s-dinner-Greedy-pet-ruins-Christmas-eating-family-s-ENTIRE-turkey-collapsing-floor-unable-move.html

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>A sad record in 2016: the Amazon rainforest has suffered the largest reported forest loss since 2008. Environmentalists are very concerned about impacts on biodiversity and climate protection

>The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has increased again in 2016, for the fourth consecutive year - loss of rainforest this year has been the greatest since 2008. This according to new data from the Brazilian state environmental research institute INPE.

>Deforestation causes loss of biodiversity and increased greenhouse gas emissions. Brazil is among the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world and at the same time, the Amazon rainforest is home to 10 percent of the world's known species.

>the rate of Amazon deforestation in 2016 has increased 29 percent compared to 2015 - and this is the greatest reported forest loss since 2008.
>On the bright side: the current deforestation level still represents a reduction of 71 percent compared to 2004.

>Maldonado pointed out that not only governments are responsible - we can all change our consumption behavior, which also has long-term impact.
>The quantity of meat consumed by a single average German citizen, for instance, contributes to the deforestation of around 300 square meters of cerrado plantation in Brazil - since tropical savanna is cleared to grow crops for animal feed.
>"We can all contribute to a zero-deforestation future by changing our consumption patterns," he concluded.

http://www.dw.com/en/amazon-deforestation-ticks-tragically-up/a-36597538

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/16/muslim-woman-dragged-hijab-chingford-east-london-assault

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/muslim-hate-crime-london-attack-woman-hijab-headscarf-ripped-off-pushed-injured-chingford-a7479766.html

>two white males
>and two white men were trying to take off her scarf
>The Metropolitan Police said two white teenagers launched the unprovoked assault

Why was their race reported on?
What does them being white have to do with it?

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>The US has issued a formal request to China to deliver an unmanned underwater drone that was seized in international waters, US officials say.

The Chinese navy seized the US underwater research vessel in the South China Sea on Thursday, the US alleges.

The incident took place just as the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve it.

The device, dubbed an "ocean glider", was used to test water salinity and temperature, officials say.

The data was part of an unclassified programme to map underwater channels, Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis told reporters.
"It was taken" by China, Capt Davis said during a press briefing on Friday.

"The UUV [unmanned underwater vehicle] was lawfully conducting a military survey in the waters of the South China Sea," he added.

"It's a sovereign immune vessel, clearly marked in English not to be removed from the water - that it was US property."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38347221

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In India, it is expected that the bride’s family organize and especially pay for the wedding, so when a young woman’s father (the main bread earner) dies, she can almost certainly forget about having a wedding, especially if she comes from a poor family. Most often than not, widowed mothers simply don’t have the means to marry their daughters. That’s where Indian real-estate tycoon Mahesh Savani comes in.

Ever since 2008, Mr. Savani has organized weddings for over 700 fatherless brides, not only paying for the event itself, but also giving each one of his new “daughters” a substantial dowry (gold, jewelry, furniture, home appliances, etc.) worth around 400,000 rupees ($5,900). At each wedding, the successful businessman also steps up to play the role of their father and perform their ‘kanyadaan’ – the traditional ritual of giving away the bride. From that moment on, the girls become his daughters.

It all started over 8 years ago, when a close relative died just a week before his daughter’s wedding, and Mahesh Savani stepped in to take his place, organizing the whole event and performing kanyadaan. “That’s when I began to think of all the girls without fathers who needed someone to assume this responsibility and decided I would take this up,” he said ” It is challenging for a woman who has lost her husband to get her daughter married”. All he asks from the brides-to-be is a death certificate of their father, to make sure he is not being taken advantage of. Religion and caste are irrelevant to him.

In the beginning, he used to throw weddings for each individual woman, but as news of his generosity spread around his him state of Gujarat, it got to a point where he couldn’t keep up with requests from young women and widowed mothers begging him to help them.
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/meet-the-kindhearted-businessman-who-throws-grand-weddings-for-fatherless-indian-brides.html

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http://hothardware.com/news/troll-causes-panic-virgin-america-flight-galaxy-note-7-wi-fi-ssid

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http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/12/07/feds-sandy-hook-hoaxer-threatens-parent-of-dead-child/

>TAMPA (CBSMiami) — A Tampa woman has been arrested for threatening the parent of a child killed in the Newton, Connecticut elementary school shooting.

>Lucy Richards, 57, was indicted Monday on four counts of threats in interstate commerce against Len Pozner, according to The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

>“We are comforted to know that the system is working to protect the victims of violent crime from re-victimization by potentially violent Hoaxers,” said Pozner in a statement to the media.

>Pozner’s 6-year-old son Noah was one of 20 first graders and 6 adults killed in the Sandy Hook School shooting on Dec. 4, 2012.

>Richards believed the event didn’t happen, the FBI said, which motivated her to make a series of death threats against the victim.

>She called Pozner on the phone saying, “you gonna die, death is coming to you real soon,” a federal indictment said, as well as “death is coming to you real soon and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/12/07/truther-arrested-after-death-threats-made-parent-sandy-hook-shooting-vicitm/95085868/

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>Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Star Wars‘ Princess Leia Organa, has died after suffering a heart attack. She was 60.

>Family spokesman Simon Halls released a statement to PEOPLE on behalf of Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd:

>It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning, reads the statement.

>She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly, says Lourd. >Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers

>Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 23, when she went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics removed her from the flight and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for a heart attack. She later died in the hospital.

http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

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Israeli settlements: UN Security Council calls for an end
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38421026

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>Q: It is reported that on December 11, US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that he fully understands the one China policy, but knows not why they have to be bound by it unless they make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade. What is your response to that?

>A: We have seen the relevant report, and we are seriously concerned about his words. The Taiwan question bears on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and touches our core interests. Adherence to the one China principle serves as the political foundation for the development of China-US ties. If this foundation is wobbled and weakened, then there is no possibility for the two countries to grow their relations in a sound and steady way and cooperate on key areas. We urge the new US administration and leadership to be fully aware of the high sensitivity of the Taiwan question, stick to the one China policy and the principles of the three joint communiqués, and approach Taiwan-related issues with prudence so as to avoid any serious disruption and harm to the overall interests of the China-US relationship.

http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/t1423512.shtml

You hear that? China is "seriously concerned". Looks like the media was right and we should all be scared shitless over the possibility of a war with China.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/asia/taiwan-nazi-hitler-parade.html

>TAIPEI, Taiwan — A high school parade in Taiwan in which students dressed as Nazi soldiers and carried swastika banners has created a storm of criticism in one of Asia’s most open societies.

>Hsinchu Kuang-Fu High School in Hsinchu City held the parade, which focused on Adolf Hitler, as part of the school’s anniversary celebrations on Friday. The parade also featured cardboard tanks. The students chose the theme, according to local news reports.

>Photographs of the event spread quickly online, creating a backlash, with the unofficial diplomatic missions of Israel and Germany issuing letters of protest.

>The episode resulted in the resignation of the school’s principal, Cheng Hsiao-ming, this week.

>Mr. Cheng said that he took responsibility, adding that the primary issue was “our education’s problem,” according to local news reports. “It wasn’t necessarily a problem created by the children.”

>Taiwanese textbooks, like those in other Asian countries, focus on fighting in Asia during World War II, resulting in lower awareness of events in Europe.

>In addition to the Israeli and German missions’ responses, the Chabad Taipei Jewish Center also issued a statement expressing regret about “the use of Nazi imagery and logos by students in Taiwan, as it reopens historical wounds suffered by the Jewish people.”
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Dostojewski, Chajkovski and Ilja Repin are now ukrainians.


http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3793257-yuschenko-o-dostoevskom-vydauischyisia-ukraynets

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/18/teenage-girls-wish-for-preservation-after-death-agreed-to-by-court

>A 14-year-old girl who said before dying of cancer that she wanted a chance to live longer has been allowed by the high court to have her body cryogenically frozen in the hope that she can be brought back to life at a later time.

>The court ruled that the teenager’s mother, who supported the girl’s wish to be cryogenically preserved, should be the only person allowed to make decisions about the disposal of her body. Her estranged father had initially opposed her wishes.

>During the last months of her life, the teenager, who had a rare form of cancer, used the internet to investigate cryonics. Known only as JS, she sent a letter to the court: “I have been asked to explain why I want this unusual thing done. I’m only 14 years old and I don’t want to die, but I know I am going to. I think being cryo‐preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up, even in hundreds of years’ time.

>“I don’t want to be buried underground. I want to live and live longer and I think that in the future they might find a cure for my cancer and wake me up. I want to have this chance. This is my wish.”

>Following the ruling, in a case described by the judge as exceptional, the body of JS has now been preserved and transported from where she lived in London to the US, where it has been frozen “in perpetuity” by a commercial company at a cost of £37,000.
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other coverage:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/18/cancer-girl-14-is-cryogenically-frozen-after-telling-judge-she-w/

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President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee will not be required to fork over his tax returns to the Senate prior to nomination hearings.

>ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson will not have to submit three years’ worth of tax returns, Republican Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said in a press statement Thursday. Corker’s decision comes over Democratic senators’ demands for just such a disclosure.

>“He already has submitted a completed nominee questionnaire and will soon submit an extensive financial disclosure,” the Tennessee Republican said. “

>Furthermore, prior to his confirmation hearing, he will go through the same ethics and FBI checks as previous Secretary of State nominees.”

>Corker, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also said that it was a “long-standing precedent” to not ask secretary of state nominees for their tax returns.

>Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and John McCain of Arizona are a little more skeptical and have called for thorough confirmation hearing process to assure there are no conflicts of interests.

>Democrats meanwhile believe that Tillerson’s past business dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with his financial connections with various international businesses, require the Senate to treat the Exxon head’s nomination differently.

>“Mr. Tillerson was actively engaged with many foreign governments that could become relevant if confirmed as Secretary of State,” Democratic Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, the ranking member of on the committee wrote in a letter requesting the submission. “The Senate has a responsibility to review all relevant documents during the confirmation process.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/23/republicans-wont-ask-tillerson-to-submit-tax-returns/#ixzz4U6WSskmK