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How much it is for the seconds?

>>90046
Dunno why you're surprised, it's happened plenty of times before in recent years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity_auction

This is true inequality. A teen girl can sell her virginity for top dollar. While guys can't even give it away for free.

>secret government report we're not going to show you says x

K. Let me know when we find Saddam's weapons of mass destruction .

>>90743
>Nothing in this article concludes shit
>It sites other FN articles as sources: NYTimes, CNN, and Wolf Blitzer himself which all claim "annonymous sources"
>FBI official statement is exact opposite

Hell i hope russia did help trump win.

Id bet that they dont want to have to nuke us.

career into the gulag in 10...9...8...

Fun Fact what spez did is against reddit rule

>>87571
>Yep. I messed with the “f**ku/spez” comments, replacing "spez" withr/the_donaldmods for about an hour.
HAhahhahahahahahah give the guy a trophy.

>>91163

Kim Hye-in, a demonstrator who was attending her sixth anti-Park demonstration, said impeachment was just a first step. “It was a day when we all realised how strong we can be collectively,” Kim said. “But we aren’t there just yet. We need to keep gathering strength and protest until the court officially removes her from office.”

Kim In-sook, a café owner, handed out free coffee to protesters. “I am giving away coffee to celebrate Park’s impeachment and to call for her arrest,” Yonhap quoted Kim as a saying. “I want to share in the people’s joy.”

>>91164
Park has denied any legal wrongdoing in a corruption and cronyism scandal that has left her fighting for her political life, four years after she became South Korea’s first female president.

She is accused of helping her longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, coerce South Korean companies into handing over tens of millions of dollars in donations to foundations run by Choi.

Choi faces embezzlement charges while Park, who has been named as a formal suspect, has apologised for her “naivety” but denied seeking any personal gain. Park’s lawyer described as groundless prosecutors’ allegations that she was “collusively involved” in Choi’s alleged activities.

Moments after she was impeached, Park apologised for her “lack of virtue” and the turmoil her relationship with Choi has caused, but resisted calls to step down. Her powers have been temporarily transferred to the country’s prime minister, Hwang Kyo-ahn.

>>91167
Analysts believe Park is reluctant to resign because scandal-hit South Korean presidents who leave office before their single, five-year term has ended leave themselves open to criminal charges.

Park’s impeachment has prompted talk of a resurrection of popular resistance in South Korea, three decades after huge demonstrations led to the introduction of free and fair elections.

“We accomplished a peaceful revolution,” said Park Seong-su, a frequent anti-Park protester. “For long, people were told by politicians what to do, but on Friday, it was the will of people that forced politicians what to do.”

The overwhelming vote in favour of impeachment, with opposition MPs joined by scores of lawmakers from Park’s Saenuri party, came after several consecutive weekends of protests with a combined attendance running into the millions.

Park will be removed from office if at least six of the constitutional court’s nine justices support her impeachment, with a presidential election held within 60 days. But if at least six judges are opposed, Park’s presidential powers will be restored and she could limp on until the end of her term in February 2018.

There have been warnings that failure to uphold the impeachment vote would be a betrayal of the South Korean people and could lead to civil unrest. “Then the candles will turn into torches,” said protester Kim Hyeong-seok.

>Mr. Polanski was first arrested in 1977 on charges that included the rape of the 13-year-old girl at the home of the actor Jack Nicholson. In 1978, he left the United States on the eve of sentencing under an agreement by which he was to plead guilty to a count of statutory rape.

>In October 2015, a judge in Krakow, Poland, ruled that turning over Mr. Polanski would be an “obviously unlawful” deprivation of liberty, saying that the state of California, where he was convicted, was unlikely to conduct a fair trial and provide humane conditions of confinement for the director, who was 82 at the time.

>The Krakow prosecutor’s office, which had sought Mr. Polanski’s extradition on behalf of Los Angeles County, said a month later that it would abide by the judge’s ruling.

>But Mr. Ziobro appealed the decision to the Supreme Court at the end of May, calling the trial judge’s ruling “incomprehensible” and a “serious breach” of the extradition agreement between Poland and the United States.

>Mr. Ziobro said in an interview with Polish state radio in May that Mr. Polanski had received preferential treatment because of his fame.

>“If he was just a regular guy, a teacher, doctor, plumber, decorator, then I’m confident that he’d have been deported from any country to the U.S. a long time ago,” he said.

>In his opening statement on Tuesday, Jan Olszewski, a lawyer for Mr. Polanski, recalled how the Swiss authorities had declined in 2010 to extradite the director of “Chinatown” because of doubts over the conduct of the judge in his original trial.

>Jerzy Stachowicz, another lawyer for Mr. Polanski, argued in court that his client had not technically fled the United States because he had never been prohibited from leaving.

>“Mr. Polanski didn’t flee, as it is believed,” Mr. Stachowicz said. “He simply bought a plane ticket, checked in his luggage and boarded a plane. It was not fleeing.”

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>Referring to Mr. Ziobro’s argument, Mr. Stachowicz contended, “If Mr. Polanski were not a celebrity, a famous filmmaker, but he was an average Joe, this case would have been over long ago, and nobody would have ever heard of it.”

>The Supreme Court ruling means that Mr. Polanski, now 83, would be free to work in Poland. He is directing a film about Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew who was wrongly accused of spying and whose case raised a debate in the late 19th century about prosecutorial misconduct.

>The film, “The Dreyfus Affair,” was initially to be shot in Poland, but it was announced in June that Mr. Polanski had decided to make it in France.

>That prompted speculation that his legal problems had led him to move production of the film, but Robert Benmussa, the producer of the movie, attributed the decision to French tax incentives, according to The Los Angeles Times.

>Mr. Polanski, who lives with his wife in France, was not present in court on Tuesday.

>“This is just too emotional for him,” Mr. Stachowicz, said by telephone on Monday, before the ruling. “This has been going on for such a long time. A ruling against overruling the first verdict would be a great relief for him.”

>After the ruling was announced, Mr. Olszewski, the lawyer, said he had spoken with Mr. Polanski on the phone. “ He is currently in France, where he is shooting his new film,” Mr. Olszewski said. “He is beyond happy that this is finally over. At least in Poland.”

>>89920
Why is his name Roman Polanski if he's Polish? Why not Polish Polanski?

>>90202
His mandate is having the supreme court senate house majority of governorships and state house and senates. You have no power here CTR.

>>90205
I hope the White House laughs Donald Trump out of the place the moment he steps in it. Donald Trump is the worst thing to happen to this nation since Carter's Malaise since it shows us how pathetic the people can be nevermind Blondie himself.

>>90209
>White House
Inanimate object

>>91069
>seems limited

no one believes what SouKorea central bank says

I expect similar incidents to increase now that China is making a play for the entire South China Sea

Marco Polo Bridge Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident

Making proxy-incident then something big will happen

China is trying to make excuse for Kicking out the war or conflict or incident.
Neighbour nations of China should ready for something

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-locked-on-japanese-vessel-diaoyu-senkaku-disputed-islands-2013-2

Chinese fire-control radar locks onto Japanese warship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86H7BB2mEt0 [Embed]

A force of 40 Chinese bombers and fighters has overflown Japanese waterways
http://www.news.com.au/world/a-force-of-40-chinese-bombers-and-fighters-has-overflown-japanese-waterways/news-story/f6910fde1e87282c6226ce57c176bf2a

Japan-China tensions after warplanes come close to dogfight
https://www.ft.com/content/bc87a5e0-4274-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1

>"There's no doubt about it in my mind," said Fetzer, a former philosophy professor and the founder of a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. "You see, this is part of the whole idea to smear the alternative media, which are putting out so much more truth than the mainstream."

>Welch — a fitfully employed, 28-year-old father of two from North Carolina — is being held without bail. He told The New York Times in a jailhouse interview that he "just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way."

>Once a conspiracy theory gains traction, confronting true believers with facts is pointless, said Michael Barkun, a professor emeritus at Syracuse University's Maxwell School and the author of "A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America."

>"When you get to conspiracy theories like this, they're closed systems of ideas," Barkun said. "They're constructed in such a way that there isn't any evidence you can present to someone who believes them that will lead a believer to change his or her mind."

>"Pizzagate" believers point out references to pizza in Podesta's hacked emails, which were published by WikiLeaks, and Comet owner James Alefantis' ties to Democratic donors. They scour Alefantis' social-media posts and even his restaurant's menu for "code words" and "symbols" that supposedly reference child sexual abuse. They jump to incredible conclusions based on Podesta's and Alefantis' tastes in art.

>Fetzer and other conspiracy theorists seized on the fact that Welch had dabbled in movie acting as a giveaway that his visit to the restaurant was staged. Welch wrote a short film and appeared as a victim in a slasher movie alongside a friend, Kathy Sue Holtorf, who told the AP that Welch "never wanted to become an actor."

>Blogger Joachim Hagopian, a false-flag proponent, told the AP that conspirators look for "a patsy or stooge" to pose as a lone gunman with an assault rifle. Welch "fits the pattern" with his acting background.
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>"He's got an IMDB (Internet Movie Database) profile," Hagopian said.

>Conspiracy theorists have made similar claims about parents of the 20 children who were killed at Sandy Hook in Newtown Connecticut, in 2012, calling them "crisis actors" pretending to grieve for nonexistent children. Sandy Hook was a false flag meant to promote gun control, the conspiracy theorists said. Just this week, a Florida woman was charged with threatening the parent of a child who died in the shooting because she thought the attack was a hoax, according to federal authorities.

>The ultimate false flag in modern times, according to conspiracy theorists, was Sept. 11, 2001. Some believe the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by the government, using bombs or other means, as part of a plot to justify the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

>Hagopian said he believes attacks since then — including the mass shootings last year in San Bernardino, California, and this year at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida — also were false flags.

>Hillary Clinton has been linked by conspiracy theorists to child sex abuse since the mid-1990s, Barkun said. Andrew Breitbart, the late founder of right-wing site Breitbart News — later led by President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist, Stephen Bannon — tweeted in 2011 that Podesta was a "world class underage sex slave op cover-upper."

>Radio host and Trump supporter Alex Jones, a well-known conspiracy theorist, said in a YouTube video Sunday that he believes the claims about powerful Democrats abusing children, but he wasn't convinced Comet Ping Pong had anything to do with it.
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>"The big bug zapper to distract all the investigators is the D.C. pizza place," Jones said.

>The video was deluged by comments criticizing Jones for backing away from the "pizzagate" story.

>Conspiracy theories can help believers process genuinely horrific news, such as child sex abuse scandals involving the Catholic Church or Penn State University, said James Broderick, an English professor at New Jersey City University and the co-author of "Web of Conspiracy: A Guide to Conspiracy Theory Sites on the Internet."

>"Having a targeted source of villainy creates, in some people's minds, a feeling of control," Broderick said. "Evil isn't random. It's a result of these nameable forces that we can target."

The researchers identified proteins specific to human blood and organs, which was a surprise, and showed that the vessels once held organ remains. Just as shocking was the presence of two unique protein fragments, known as peptides, that help CCHFV bind to a host cell just prior to infection, the team will report in the February 2017 issue of The Journal of Archaeological Science.

The find highlights how ancient viruses can more easily be identified by their proteins than their more commonly studied nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA. Although researchers have used DNA to trace the prehistory of pathogens such as smallpox, proteins are more stable than nucleic acids and potentially could be preserved for millions of years.

"Recovering nucleic acids from ancient viruses is extremely difficult and plagued by contamination,” notes Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York in New York City, who was not involved in the study. "Virus proteins are more readily accessible and less prone to degradation."

"The discovery of proteins for CCHFV in the pottery sherds is very exciting,” Corthals says. "It would be nice to see confirmation by another independent laboratory. But as it is, the results seem pretty convincing."

The question remains as to whether the presence of CCHFV in Iron Age Germany represents evidence of an ancient epidemic, shows that the pathogen was endemic to the region, or traces the path of an individual who traveled from an infected area, Corthals says.

The findings could make archaeologists pay more attention to featureless pottery sherds, or those found moved from where they had been placed or discarded in antiquity, Wiktorowicz says. "What have archaeologists been missing regarding social practices and the use of pottery vessels in the past?" he says. “I can’t imagine all of the exciting new findings other researchers will make."

>>90657
Good story, thanks for posting non-/pol/bait, OP

They put him in pots because they probably thought that if they burned or buried him, the illness might spread.

>>90632
What's his endgame?

>>90991
Power and loyalty Anon.

>>90632

At least China Accepts the "Yellow Dragon Emperor" , The United States is Loyal to No One.

>>>/int/68528441

Trump Elect President

>>90845
That's pretty shitty. Will there be retaliations by extremists?

>Germany puppet
>Condemn USA
kek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17qDNQ2xYdU

>>90697
The United States controls all of Western Europe (Merkel, Hollande...), no one will judge USA.

>>90697
>errant strike by U.S. forces in Mosul
IIt is normal for US...

>Even with the presidential contest over and Google and Facebook's plans to crack down on fake news makers, money continues to pour in.

>Posts about Hillary Clinton are also a hit — but only negative ones.

>"I have mostly written about her emails, what is contained in her emails, the Benghazi tragedy, maybe her illness that she had," Dimitri adds, but now he's moved on to headlines like: "Trey Gowdy Revealed His EPIC Plan To Imprison Hillary Now That Election's Over, SHE IS DONE!"

>Dimitri's sole aim is to make his stories go viral.

>His most popular headlines during the election included: "JUST IN: Obama Illegally Transferred DOJ Money To Clinton Campaign!" and "BREAKING: Obama Confirms Refusal To Leave White House, He Will Stay In Power!"

>The teenager is unrepentant about any influence his stories may have had on swaying public opinion.

>"I didn't force anyone to give me money," he says. "People sell cigarettes, they sell alcohol. That's not illegal, why is my business illegal? If you sell cigarettes, cigarettes kill people. I didn't kill anyone."

>The same weekend that NBC spent with Dimitri, a gunman opened fire in a Washington, D.C., pizzeria. The shooter told police he was motivated by a fake news story. The pizzeria, Comet Ping Pong, was accused online of hosting a pedophile ring run by Democratic leaders.

>Asked about the incident this week, Dimitri claimed he wasn't familiar with the story nor the people who had spread it online.
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>The small, rust-belt town of Veles has found itself in the international spotlight after investigations by BuzzFeed and the Guardian traced more than 100 fake news domain names here.

>The fake news bonanza couldn't have come against a more jarring backdrop.

>Once part of communist Yugoslavia, the Republic of Macedonia has a population of 2.1 million in a landlocked area about the size Vermont. Blanketed by rugged mountains, parts of the country have enjoyed a tourism surge in recent years.

>But vacationers won't find Veles in many travel guides. The town of 50,000 is almost an hour's drive down a lonely, crumbling highway from the capital, Skopje.

>Visitors are greeted by a distressed mosaic of red-roofed buildings, densely stacked onto a steep mountainside. Industrial smokestacks add to a wintry fog settling over the valley — though even their output has diminished after several recent factory closures.

>Almost a quarter of Macedonians are currently unemployed — a rate around five times higher than in the U.S.

>But the burdens that weigh on Veles might also explain why it's become a global hotbed for fake news.

>High unemployment and a close-knit community meant that when Dimitri and others started making money, word quickly spread and everyone wanted a piece of the action.

>Most teens here speak fluent English, allowing them to quickly navigate through reams of Western news sites and pinpoint potentially viral content.

>Dimitri estimates there are now 300 locals dabbling in fake news, with at least 50 making "decent money," and around a dozen making "a lot." He says he's not quite at the top of the pecking order, but not far off.
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>But he is no scrappy teenager. Dimitri is bright, with an obvious aptitude for business.

>He won't show NBC News his profile on Google AdSense, an online advertising service that allows websites to make money, to protect five other teenagers who asked him not to reveal aspects of their shared interests. He's also wary of revealing his full income, worried it will make him a target for thieves, or worse.

>However, he does show NBC News a digital receipt from Google showing he earned more than $8,000 from the web giant in September. He says this was just one of several advertising accounts, and claims his most successful streak — in the run-up to the election — saw him rake in $27,000 in just one month.

>When asked for comment about the persistence of fake news even after the election, Facebook directed NBC News to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month in which he laid out the company's plan to tackle the phenomenon.

>Google outlined steps last month that it said would restrict advertising on websites that "misrepresent, misstate, or conceal information." The company did not respond to NBC News' requests for comment on this apparently still-flourishing industry.

>Dimitri says even after the election, while business is less brisk, his fake news is still highly profitable. Like any business, he's aware of the need to adapt.

>"This business updates every hour, every ten minutes, every minute," he says. "There are always news ideas, new types of generating new visitors and that's the thing we all want."

>So while newspapers across the globe are losing advertising revenue, Dimitri's empire of lies is thriving.

>He says he now employs three 15-year-olds, paying them the equivalent of $10 per day. As well as buying new laptops and paying cash to boost his posts on social media, he has also invested some of his earnings into real estate — a joint venture with his parents, who are more than happy with his success.
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>>90714
He strongly denied that he and Ms Choi became a couple - they were just friends, he said.

But he did not deny that she trusted him enough to give him appointments in two Germany-based companies which she owned.

As Ms Park's unofficial clothier Mr Ko also began to enjoy fame and success, especially after Ms Park was spotted toting a Villomillo bag in 2013, according to local media reports.

The brand drew celebrity customers and Mr Ko became a member of the local entertainment scene, even joining a celebrity baseball team called Play Boys.

'Puppygate'

In perhaps some of the most extraordinary testimony heard in South Korea's parliamentary chamber, Mr Ko described how trouble was brewing between him and Ms Choi.

In 2014, the businesswoman asked him to take care of her daughter's puppy. Mr Ko brought the dog to his house, then left it there as he went out to play a round of golf.

When he returned, he found Ms Choi in his home, furious with him for abandoning the puppy. The two had a "huge fight", he said.

From then on their relationship went downhill. "She treated me like a slave, swearing at me many times," he said in his candid account.

Angry and hurt, Mr Ko decided to exact revenge by going to the press about Ms Choi and Ms Park's relationship.
Over the months he collected evidence of Ms Choi's power over Ms Park's administration, including CCTV footage of Ms Choi treating presidential aides as her personal servants. He eventually turned them over to a local broadcaster.

Then, in October, he did a TV interview where he alleged Ms Choi's "favourite thing" was to edit Ms Park's presidential speeches.

Reporters went digging for evidence to back it up, and obtained a tablet containing selfies of Ms Choi and files of presidential speeches.

>>90715
Reporters went digging for evidence to back it up, and obtained a tablet containing selfies of Ms Choi and files of presidential speeches.

The discovery, along with other revelations of Ms Choi's allegedly suspicious business dealings, sparked public outrage and launched a wide-reaching corruption inquiry that has ensnared even corporate bigwigs and celebrities.

Ms Park later admitted she gave Ms Choi inappropriate government access - including to her speeches - and apologised. But she has denied the allegations of corruption that prosecutors have laid down.
The president has now been impeached, while in another twist Mr Ko is seen as a public hero, hailed by netizens for his "whistleblowing".

One lawmaker during the public hearing even praised him for "opening Pandora's box".

Asked in parliament if he feared opposing Ms Choi, the woman who had the president's ear, Mr Ko said "No".

"I was hot-tempered and never thought about that part," he declared. "I have no regrets."

>>90716
Wow!!
What do you think the future holds for Mr. Ko?