http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/09/trump-offers-goldman-sachs-president-gary-cohn-directorship-of-national-economic-council-nbc-news.html
>Trump just offered yet another Goldman veteran a spot in his administration
>Donald Trump has offered Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn a key economic post, which would add to the administration another veteran of the powerful firm he bashed during his campaign, sources close to Cohn told NBC News.
Cohn, Goldman's 56-year-old president and chief operating officer, has been offered the directorship of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy, the sources said. It is unclear if Cohn will accept the post, but he reportedly had discussions late last month about leaving Goldman.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/goldmans-gary-cohn-said-to-be-preferred-candidate-to-lead-economic-council-1481323947
>Republican President-elect Donald Trump railed against a global power structure and promised to “drain the swamp” of corporate favor-seekers during his insurgent election bid. He repeatedly singled out Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an icon of that corrupt, multinational elite.
>Now, Mr. Trump is poised to fill the top posts on his economic team with Goldman bankers who have also supported Democratic candidates in the past.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/business/dealbook/goldman-sachs-no-2-seen-as-a-top-economic-adviser-to-trump.html
>Goldman Sachs’s outsized influence in Washington is about to get larger.
>The longtime second-in-command at Goldman Sachs, Gary D. Cohn, is expected to be named director of the National Economic Council, which oversees economic policy in the White House.
>Coming fast on the heels of the nomination of Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman partner, as Treasury secretary, it will mean that economic policy under the president-elect, Donald J. Trump, will be shaped chiefly by veterans of the Wall Street firm.
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>there were people who actually thought a billionaire wouldn't just fill his cabinet with fellow conmen and scammers
weeeeeeeeeeew laaaaaaad
>>90610
I have a hard time trusting mainstream news sites. That being said if he does keep hiring GS vet then I will become worried.
>>90805
You say this while posting on a news board.
He conned everyone. You guys on /pol/ laughed at me and called me a shill for saying that Trump isn't what you're cracking him up to be.
You get what you deserve.
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3147900/security/a-turkish-hacker-is-giving-out-prizes-for-ddos-attacks.html
>A hacker in Turkey has been trying to encourage distributed denial-of-attacks by making it into a game, featuring points and prizes for attempting to shut down political websites.
>The DDoS platform, translated as Surface Defense in English, has been prompting other hackers in Turkey to sign up and score points, according to security firm Forcepoint which uncovered it.
>Users that participate will be given a tool known as Balyoz, the Turkish word for Sledgehammer, that can be used to launch DDoS attacks against a select number of websites.
>For every ten minutes they attack a website, the users will be awarded a point, which can then be used to obtain rewards. These prizes include a more powerful DDoS attacking tool, access to bots designed to generate revenue from click fraud, and a prank program that can infect a computer and scare the victim with sounds and images.
>The DDoS platform has been promoted on Turkish hacking forums, and the attack tool involved is designed to only harass 24 political sites related to the Kurds, the German Christian Democratic Party -- which is led by Angela Merkel -- and the Armenian Genocide, and others.
>“Users can also suggest new websites to add to the list of targets,” Forcepoint said. “There is a live scoreboard for participants to see how they compare to other participants.”
...
>The maker of the DDoS platform also tightly regulates the way users play. For example, the DDoS attack tool given to the participants is designed to run on only one machine, preventing it from being used on multiple computers. This is done to ensure fairness during the competition, according to Forcepoint.
>However, it’s not exactly an efficient way to launch a DDoS attack, which are typically done with armies of infected computers that can number in thousands or more.
>It’s unclear how many participants the DDoS platform managed to recruit or if it managed to take down any websites. But Forcepoint noticed that the DDoS attack tool given to the participants also contains a backdoor that will secretly install a Trojan on the computer.
>The backdoor will only execute on a participant’s machine if they’ve been banned from the competition. Its goal is probably to enslave the computer and form a botnet to launch additional DDoS attacks, Forcepoint said.
>The hacker behind the DDoS platform is believed to go by the handle “Mehmet” and is possibly based in the Turkish city of Eskisehir, according to evidence found in Forcepoint’s investigation.
>Although the DDoS attacks are geared at political websites, the participants involved the competition might not be ideologically motivated, and instead could just want access to the hacking tools, Forcepoint said.
>Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh's poll rejection condemned
>The African Union has described as "null and avoid" Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's rejection of the results of last week's election.
>Mr Jammeh cited "abnormalities" and called for fresh elections, saying he now rejected the results "totally".
>The results were revised by the country's electoral commission on 5 December, when it emerged that the ballots for one area were added incorrectly, swelling Mr Barrow's vote.
>The error, which also added votes to the other candidates, did not change the outcome but narrowed Mr Barrow's margin of victory from 9% to 4%.
>Mr Barrow's spokesperson said the head of the army, General Ousman Badjie, supported the president-elect, having pledged his allegiance after the initial result.
>The BBC's West Africa correspondent, Thomas Fessy, says the main question now is whether the Gambian leader has managed to split the army, retaining a faction ready to back his announcement.
>AU chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said Mr Jammeh's latest statement was "null and void" because he had already conceded defeat in the election.
>The streets of the capital, Banjul, were reported to be calm on Friday night although soldiers were seen placing sandbags in strategic locations across the city, AFP news agency reports.
>Mr Jammeh said "serious and unacceptable abnormalities" had been found in the electoral process and demanded "fresh and transparent elections which will be officiated by a God-fearing and independent electoral commission".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38275511
Related:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/10/world/africa/ap-af-gambia-election.html
>Gambia's President-Elect Says Jammeh Can't Demand New Vote
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- South Korea is instituting a 24-hour emergency response system to ensure the world's 11th largest economy is not hobbled by the recent impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
A meeting on a joint emergency economic response was held Saturday, local news service Money Today reported.
Officials from Seoul's financial services commission, the Bank of Korea, the trade and transportation ministries were among those who attended the ministry of strategy and finance meeting.
The meeting is taking place as concern is growing among experts of South Korea the country may be hampered by the recent removal of Park from office.
Although a parliamentary decision culminated in the impeachment of Park on Friday with the national assembly voting 234 to 56 to impeach the president, interim president Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn is not mandated to make decisions on sensitive government matters, according to Scott Snyder, a senior fellow in Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Deputy Prime Minister Yoo Il-ho agreed to strengthen cooperation among Seoul's network of ministries in order to mitigate any economic impact of the political situation. Yoo promptly launched a joint emergency response team that can monitor local financial markets on a 24-hour basis.
On Friday the country's main stock index the KOSPI slid 0.3 percent after the impeachment was confirmed.
Seoul is expected to ensure reporters on Sunday that "there is no gap in the national economy," according to the report.
Park's impeachment comes after six weeks of peaceful demonstrations by South Koreans who called for her to step down after allegations surfaced an influential friend intervened illicitly in government affairs.
Experts are concerned, however, that a power vacuum could threaten stability.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/12/09/South-Korea-to-monitor-economy-under-24-hour-emergency-response-system/6681481342850/
>>90706
Aidan Foster-Carter, a senior research fellow at Britain's Leeds University, writes "Months of government paralysis" may be around the corner, owing to possible delays that could take as much as six months in Korea's constitutional court on a final impeachment decision.
"The outcome is far from certain, given the court's conservative bias," Foster-Carter writes, adding if impeachment fails Park could return to finish her five-year term as president.
S. Korea to take preemptive steps against any volatility over impeachment
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/12/10/0200000000AEN20161210001751320.html
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister pledged Saturday to aggressively carry out the government budget to boost the economy as South Korea is scrambling to minimize the economic fallout from the parliament's impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho met with senior officials and asked them to make preparations to ensure that the government can swiftly execute next year's budget in early 2017.
He also said he will ensure that companies and households can keep business as usual in their investments and consumption amid concerns that political uncertainties could hinder economic activity.
He made the comments to reporters after a separate meeting with five leaders of the country's main business organizations.
Yoo also asked business leaders to hire new employees as scheduled and quickly come up with investment plans for next year and implement them.
His appeal came a day after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted to impeach Park over a high-profile corruption scandal that has paralyzed South Korea.
Separately, Vice Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok held an emergency meeting with relevant officials and they said that the government will take preemptive measures against factors that could destabilize markets.
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance said that the government also will take swift and stern steps, if necessary, to contain any volatility in the financial market. No details were given.
Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn called on officials to closely monitor the financial markets at home and abroad and to ensure that internal and external instabilities would not affect consumer and investor sentiment.
>>90708
South Korea's stock and foreign-exchange markets ended without showing any volatile moves on Friday as Park was widely expected to be impeached in the vote and the expectations were already factored in the market.
The Bank of Korea said the impeachment would have a limited impact on the economy, noting South Korea's economy is mainly affected by external factors, not the impeachment decision.
South Korea's credit default swap premium -- which measures a country's credit risks -- stood at 42.5 basis points on Friday, unchanged from the previous day's level.
The Korean won slightly fell to 1,168.8 against the U.S. dollar in the non-deliverable forward markets on Friday from 1,163.3 won a session earlier.
The impeachment has sparked concerns of political uncertainties at home on top of overseas uncertainties that include the policies of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and the pace of a possible U.S. rate hike.
Still, some investment banks believe the impeachment decision has lifted some political uncertainty and won't undermine confidence in the South Korean economy, according to the central bank.
The BOK said a prolonged vacuum of power could increase downside risks in the economy, citing some foreign investment banks.
On Friday, Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn began to serve as acting president until the Constitutional Court determines Park's fate, a process that could take up to 180 days.
The government said a joint task force team will monitor the real-sector economy, such as exports and investments, around the clock to ease any possible impact of the impeachment on Asia's fourth-largest economy.
It also said it will strengthen communication with foreign investors, foreign reporters and credit rating agencies to avoid any misunderstanding in the markets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-hack.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=64628103&pgtype=article
>Washington — President Obama has ordered American intelligence agencies to produce a full report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, his homeland security adviser said on Friday. He also directed them to develop a list of “lessons learned” from the broad campaign the United States has accused Russia of carrying out to steal emails, publish their contents and probe the vote-counting system.
>“We may have crossed a new threshold here,” Lisa Monaco, one of Mr. Obama’s closest aides and the former head of the national security division of the Justice Department, told reporters Friday. “He expects to receive this report before he leaves office.”
>The report, according to senior administration officials, will trace the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and on prominent individuals like John D. Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
>But it is unclear that the contents of the report will be made public. Intelligence agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which still has an active investigation of the hacking underway, have been reluctant to make public any of their findings; they fear it will reveal sources and methods of how the incursions were traced back to Russia. After past investigations involving sensitive intelligence information, declassified versions of reports were sometimes published, with a classified version sent to congressional committees and some agencies.
>President-elect Donald J. Trump has consistently questioned whether hacking happened, and if it did whether Russia was responsible. He has suggested that the effort to blame Russia was, in fact, an effort to discredit him and his call for closer relations with Moscow.
...
>>90546
Quit your whining. Questioning the system undermines Democracy.
>>90547
>Questioning the system undermines Democracy.
Only under a Democratic POTUS.
Questioning the system under Trump? Patriotic, intelligent, brave.
Questioning the system under Obama? Racism and treason.
Oh it's basically the same shit either way? Clearly you're just a conspiritard.
I guess "The system isn't rigged, you're just losing." is now "The system is rigged if you're losing"
Art experts in Australia have found a rare paper banknote from the Ming Dynasty of Imperial China hidden inside an antique wooden sculpture that was being prepared for auction.
The Chinese characters on the crumpled banknote show that it was issued in the third year of the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty — or 1371 in the Western calendar. The inscriptions also warn would-be counterfeiters that they face the penalty of death by beheading.
The 645-year-old banknote was found hidden inside a wooden sculpture of the head of a "luohan," a religious figure from Chinese Buddhism, that may once have stood in a family or public temple, said Paul Sumner, chief executive of Mossgreen's Auctions in Melbourne, Australia, which discovered the note. [See photos of the paper banknote that dates back to China's Ming Dynasty]
Sumner said the firm's specialist in Asian artworks, Ray Tregaskis, spotted the note wedged inside the hollow head of the sculpture as he inspected the artifact in preparation for an auction in Sydney, Australia, next month.
"It wasn't easy to see — it was hidden right up out of eyesight, folded up into a little, 1-inch [2.5 centimeters] fold," Sumner told Live Science. "The note has been in at least two collections that we know of without the knowledge of the owners."
Currency experts at Mossgreen's Auctions immediately identified the note as a rare paper "bank seal" that was issued in China during the Ming Dynasty.
"It wasn't in very good condition, as you'd imagine with all those folds and after hundreds of years with some degree of exposure to the elements," Sumner said.
Very few of these Ming Dynasty banknotes have survived to present day, he added, "bearing in mind that they were constantly being handled — it's not like people kept them in plastic sleeves, like collectors would today."
http://www.livescience.com/57026-ming-dynasty-banknote-found-inside-sculpture.html
Ming money
The Ming Dynasty banknote is much larger than modern paper money, roughly equivalent to the size of a standard "U.S. letter" page of paper.
Chinese characters and official seals printed in red and black ink declare that the note is a "Great Ming Treasure Note" with a value of "one guan" — depicted as 10 "strings" of Chinese copper coins, which could be grouped with a string through the hole in each coin.
According to the American historian of Chinese currency John E. Sandrock, one guan was equivalent to 1,000 copper coins, or 1 ounce (28 grams) of pure silver.
The newfound banknote also includes a dire warning to counterfeiters that they will be punished with decapitation, and offers a large reward to anyone who informs on such criminals.
At the time this banknote was issued, paper money was almost unheard of outside China. The first European banknotes date from the mid-17th century, around 300 years later. [The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth]
Based on the date on the banknote and the expert dating of the sculpture it was found in, it's thought the money may have been hidden as a religious offering when the sculpture was already 30 to 50 years old, Sumner said.
Small offerings like inscriptions on paper, rice grains and semiprecious stones are often found sealed inside the bases of antique Chinese figurines, he said. However, a high-value banknote is considered an extraordinary find, he said.
"From our point of view, what makes the banknote important is that the dating is very close to the dating we'd assumed from stylistic details about the [louhan] figure, as well as the intrigue factor of finding it," Sumner said.
Long journey
Sumner said the sculpture that held the hidden banknote was purchased by the Australian art collector Raphy Star from a specialist dealer in the United Kingdom, but nothing is known about the artifact's origins in China.
"These figures were created for veneration and for spiritual use, sometimes in temples and sometimes in homes," Sumner said. "It may have been part of a larger figure, and because of its size, [we can conclude that] it probably stood in a temple."
The long journey of the sculpture and its hidden banknote may not be over yet: Both artifacts are up for auction in Sydney on Dec. 11, along with the rest of the Raphy Star collection, and are likely to return to China, Sumner said.
"The Chinese have been major buyers for a long time now, and have been repatriating important pieces back to China — particularly mainland China," he said.
The entire Raphy Star collection of artworks from China, Japan and Southeast Asia could fetch up to 5 million Australian dollars ($3.7 million U.S.) at auction, Sumner said.
The louhan sculpture and banknote will be sold together, as a single lot, with an estimated value of up to 45,000 Australian dollars ($34,000 U.S.).
"It's not that we were worried about being beheaded ourselves, but we just thought it might have been more auspicious to keep the two together," Sumner said. "It's such a great story that we didn't really want to separate them."
>>90666
>"It's not that we were worried about being beheaded ourselves, but we just thought it might have been more auspicious to keep the two together," Sumner said. "It's such a great story that we didn't really want to separate them."
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If you can say one thing about New York public officials in the early 1800s, it’s that they knew how to party. The extent of their raucous boozing and debauchery is being carefully catalogued inside the newly opened Nan A Rothschild Research Center, a repository in midtown Manhattan housing over one million archaeological artifacts from New York City’s past.
On a recent Thursday morning, Amanda Sutphin, the director of archaeology for the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, sorted through some of her favorite City Hall party relics. She picked up a smooth, cylindrical object the size of stubby Cuban cigar. “Take a look at this douche,” said Sutphin, who is tall, with glasses and a short brown bob. “It’s made of cow bone though, so it might have felt a bit rough.”
The park behind City Hall, which was built in 1812, is by far the repository’s largest haul – the city has collected over 400 boxes of artifacts from the site. A lot of them seem to be liquor bottles. “Whenever someone important would come to the city – like, say, Marquis de Lafayette – they would always throw a giant party.” Sutphin paused, still holding the douche. “But I’m not saying this douche was found at Lafayette’s party!”
The douche was uncovered in 2011, and caused enough of a stir that it was featured on a Saturday Night Live skit some years ago. “It was just like, ‘They found a douche behind City Hall, ooooo…” A pause. “I never said it was funny.”
Originally, no one could work out what it was – the archaeologist who found it thought it was a pepper grinder. “But you can see here,” – Sutphin unscrewed the top – “it’s got a little plunger. And on the ends you can see the small holes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/dec/08/new-york-city-weird-artifacts-archeology-manhattan
It probably belonged to a young woman from the middle class – a more well-to-do society lady would have had a glass douche. “For a smoother experience,” Sutphin said. Some women even used theirs as contraception, although, as Sutphin noted, “Probably wasn’t very effective.”
The repository is a small, climate-controlled room in the basement of a Durst Organization building on West 47th Street. There are about 1,5000 cardboard boxes – “archival boxes” is the technical term – filled with artifacts from 14 sites across the five boroughs, stacked neatly on white shelves. There are a lot of ceramics from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, remnants of the Revolutionary war (bayonets and buttons made by soldiers when it was too cold to go outside), and a lot of evidence of what people used to eat: bones – both cow and dog – and oysters as large as saucepans. This is because New York harbor in the 18th century was home to one of the largest oyster beds in the world; the street carts that now sell hotdogs used to sell oysters in all varieties: raw, pickled, fried. “Having an oyster back then would have been like having a nice steak,” Sutphin said.
Sutphin studied at Barnard College and has been with the Commission for 20 years. Her job is to review development projects happening throughout the city and figure out if there are any potential archaeological treasures to be found. “You need to have a good grasp on the city’s history, particularly things like knowing where the early settlements were, what was farmland and what wasn’t – and most importantly, where people dumped their trash.” The most common archaeological sites in the city are 19th century privies – toilets, in other words. Before New York City had public water, people used outhouses, with a separate cistern to store water. When public water was introduced, people began filling their outhouses with household trash. For Sutphin, colonial lavatories are about as exciting as it gets.
“It’s a time capsule of what that period is like. Sometimes you find incredible things: people’s old dishes, their secret liquor stash.”
Sutphin’s job is rare: only a handful of other major US cities have archaeology programs, Boston and DC among them. “A lot of people think it’s like Indiana Jones,” Sutphin said, somewhat annoyed. “It’s not about finding some cool thing from the past that has magic powers – it’s trying to recreate a puzzle of what the past was like.”
Next to the City Hall party items, Sutphin had assembled a selection of the collection’s quirkier items: burned coffee beans – “Coffee was as important in the 19th century as it is now. Everyone drank it because the water was kind of shit back then” – a femur from a passenger pigeon, which once ruled the skies above New York before being hunted into extinction some 100 years ago – “They had bright, pretty feathers so everyone wanted some” – and a tea cup set belonging to the Van Cortlands, a wealthy family from the Bronx. Coincidentally, some of the items in the repository were until very recently stored inside the women’s restroom in Van Cortland park. “I do not know why or how the decision was made to store the collections there – but it was made many years ago and I think clearly shows the need for the repository both as a climate controlled facility and as a place that is managed by people who understand the importance of the collections,” Sutphin said.
The only item in the collection associated with a particular individual is a wine jug seal belonging to Benjamin Fletcher, who was governor of New York from 1692 to 1697. (It was normal for wealthy people to send their own fancy glass jugs to taverns to be filled with wine.) Fletcher was a notorious lover of pirates, to the point where he allowed them safe passage in New York and as a result, was swiftly fired from his post and sent back to London, where he faced charges of conspiracy and bribery. “He was a naughty boy,” Sutphin conceded.
Although the repository is only open to researches and scholars, the Commission recently launched an online digital archive, where anyone can view images of the collection and read up on each artifact’s backstory. Admittedly, these descriptions aren’t very imaginative. “Nuremberg single wire spectacles, small pieces of copper alloy wire tying the circular loops closed, probably Klemmer’s clip, glass lenses missing.” In real life, the spectacles look like they’ve seen better days. Sutphin pulled them out of their box to show me. “I don’t know how effective these would have been – maybe more effective than the douche?”
She started to laugh, but stopped abruptly. “But seriously,” she said, leaning in closer. “The more stories we understand about our city the more people are represented, the richer we all are. It’s very much an anti-Donald Trump view.”
>Protests in Seoul as lawmakers vote on Park impeachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjc3JzYyQg
>A car plunged into the South Korean Executive Office
a police officer was injured
>>90600
Video is blocked in the USA. Fix it m8
South Korean coast guard scorns humanitarianism
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1015506.shtml
>It recklessly violates the bottom line of humanitarianism as well as international law regarding civil disputes.
>South Korea would be a repulsive, hysterical nation which is filled with extreme nationalism.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on November 2, 2016
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/t1412330.shtml
Q: Chinese fishing boats were caught fishing illegally in the ROK waters yesterday, and they resisted the ROK coast guard's law enforcement operation. In response, the ROK coast guard fired an M60 machine gun. This is the first time for the ROK coast guard to use crew-served weapon against Chinese fishing boats engaged in illegal fishing. What is your comment on that?
A: We have seen the report. According to the information we have at the moment, no one has been hurt or killed. We are trying to get more details on that.
You just said that the ROK fired a machine gun at Chinese fishermen for the first time. The Chinese side is strongly dissatisfied with the use of force by the ROK side in its law enforcement operation. We have, more than once, made solemn representations with the ROK about its coast guard's use of force in law enforcement operations. The use of destructive weapons against fishing boats in the rough sea will highly likely cause casualties or property losses. The Chinese side once again requires the ROK side to exercise restraint, regulate their law enforcement activities, refrain from applying any extreme measures that may endanger the Chinese people and ensure their safety and lawful rights and interests. As we have already said, the competent Chinese authorities attach great importance to and are working hard to regulate and discipline operations by the Chinese fishermen. We hope that the ROK side can enhance communication and cooperation with us to properly deal with problems emerging in fishery cooperation between our two countries.
S.Korea coast guard fires at Chinese boats
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1015572.shtml
China's foreign ministry said Wednesday that China was "strongly dissatisfied" since South Korea used deadly weapons against unarmed fishing boats in the action and urged Seoul to "discipline" its coastguard.
"Using destructive weapons can easily injure fishermen and we urge the ROK [South Korea] side to ... avoid using any excessive or extreme tools in their law enforcement activities," spokesperson Hua Chunying said.
"The Chinese side has said many times that responsible government agencies attach great importance to and vigorously strengthening the management and control of Chinese fishermen's activities.
"At the same time, [China] hopes the South Korean side will enhance its communication and coordination with the Chinese side in handling issues occurring in the fishery industry."
Were the fishing boats owned by the Chinese gov? No?
Then sincerely shut the fuck up China. You are defending criminals solely because they were Chinese.
More than 82,000 pieces of history were recovered from the site of the soon-to-open Museum of the American Revolution. This one came from a “disorderly house” that served up alcoholic milk — and prostitutes.
Rebecca Yamin, the lead archeologist on the excavation of the Museum of the American Revolution site, displays a reconstructed bowl from the 1760s that was found in a privy pit. | Photo: Dan McQuade
Rebecca Yamin first stepped onto the future site of the Museum of the American Revolution, at the corner of 3rd and Chestnut streets, in July 2014. She was both excited and scared.
“When you start at an urban site, it’s an amazing thing,” says Yamin, a well-respected urban archeologist with Commonwealth Heritage Group. “We told the museum it’s going to cost a lot of money. And then when I get on the site, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I’m not going to find anything. It’s such an embarrassment.’”
When it was all over, Yamin did not end up embarrassed. Yesterday the museum, slated to open in April 2017, took possession of 72 boxes of artifacts, inside of which were 82,000 pieces recovered from the site.
“I’m always surprised,” Yamin continues. “Certainly we were surprised to find something that was so relevant to the mission of the museum.”
A bowl found at the site of the Museum of the American Revolution, and a replica created by Michelle Erickson after its discovery. | Photos: Dan McQuade
Yamin is referring to a punch bowl excavators found in a privy pit, and later reconstructed, from an unlicensed tavern on Carter’s Alley, which once ran parallel to Chestnut between 2nd and 3rd streets. It features the ship Tryphena, which in 1765 sailed from Philadelphia to Liverpool with a message from the city’s merchants asking Great Britain to reconsider the Stamp Act.
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/12/07/museum-american-revolution-artifact-unveiling/
That 1765 act led to some of the first major resistance against the British government in the colonies, and the phrase “no taxation without representation.” The act was repealed a year later, but the divisions remained.
Tavern-goers in the 18th century didn’t drink the way we did. Museum curator Mark Turdo explains the drink served out of the punch bowl was likely curdled milk mixed with brandy. This particular tavern was run from the front room of the house of Mary Humphreys, who was charged in 1783 with keeping a “disorderly house” — an unlicensed drinking establishment where men could pick up prostitutes.
Though she was found not guilty, she was somehow still sentenced to “be committed to the [jail] of this City till Saturday week next, and that on the said day She be carted through this City and that She be afterwards confined in the Workhouse at hard labour for three months, that She pay the Costs of this Prosecution, and stand committed, till this Sentence is complied with.” There’s no record of how she could be sentenced when she was found not guilty, but women were routinely targeted for this crime: While women ran only a quarter of the illegal taverns in colonial Philadelphia, half of the prosecutions for the crime were brought against women.
The story of Humphreys, and the story of that punch bowl, is the one the Museum of the American Revolution wants to tell. Yes, the museum will have extensive collections related to the Founding Fathers (including the pièce de résistance, the actual tent George Washington used as his headquarters in Valley Forge). But the museum also wants to focus on the everyday people who aided the war effort.
“This was an eight-year-old war, and it had impacts in every single community across North America,” museum president/CEO Michael Quinn says. “We really need to understand the revolution as something that was supported and sustained by everyday people. If it didn’t have that political will, it wouldn’t have been able to continue. Washington’s army did suffer many defeats. Many people suffered from occupation by the British, by marauding forces, by some of the vigilante groups, especially in the south — but the will to keep fighting was still there. These objects make that story apparent. And what’s wonderful is what these objects tell you: This is where that history happened. This is the old city of Philadelphia.”
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/the-entire-internet-will-be-backed-up-in-canada-to-save-it-from-donald-trump/ar-AAkW2yt?li=AA54rU
>implying Trump won't have the resources to totally wreck someone's servers if he willed it
>>88791
They're just building a mirror for the Wayback Machine. It isn't like they are moving their whole operation to Canada. They're just making a backup, which is smart because they don't have one right now and the data they keep is very valuable to a great many people.
What happens when Canada's half-wit child emperor trades the internet for some more refugees
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/09/world/europe/ap-eu-netherlands-wilders.html
>AMSTERDAM — Populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders was found guilty Friday of insulting and inciting discrimination against Moroccans, a conviction he immediately slammed as a "shameful" attack on free speech and an attempt to "neutralize" him.
>Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the court would not impose a sentence because the conviction was punishment enough for a democratically elected lawmaker.
>Wilders was not in court for the verdict that came just over three months before national elections. His Party for Freedom is narrowly leading a nationwide poll of polls and has risen in popularity during the trial.
>Wilders quickly released a video message, in English and Dutch, slamming the judgment and vowing to appeal.
>"Today, I was convicted in a political trial which, shortly before the elections, attempts to neutralize the leader of the largest and most popular opposition party," Wilders said. "They will not succeed."
>The politically charged prosecution centered on comments Wilders made before and after the Dutch municipal elections in 2014. At one meeting in a Hague cafe, he asked supporters whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands. That sparked a chant of "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!" — to which he replied, "we'll take care of it."
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From The Netherlands:
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/12/98817-2/
>Strong reactions to Wilders guilty verdict on hate speech
>>90526
So as far as I can tell, they won't actually impose a sentence because they know they're full of shit and it would be overturned, since nothing he did qualifies as hate speech. Or do the dutch have some constitutional document or something that waffles on the definition of important judicial words that changes meaning when someone gets their feelings hurt?
>>90541
Also because they know he might come into power.
Kind of like several retards who were mouthing off about Trump are now hastily saying "oh yeah we didn't actually mean that heh what a great goy he is." Like NBC deciding to start paying him and keeping him credited for the Apprentice now that he's won.
>>90541
We don't.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/07/f-18-crashes-near-japan-search-and-rescue-underway.html
Crazy that another plane crashed. I was at the funeral of Maj. Norton mentioned in the article. That was one of the saddest periods of my life. He was buried next to one of his squadron members who died about 8 months earlier when his plane crashed.
dont cry baby whoever becomes a soldier knows about the risks or he is a retard
>>90168
Its good that these filthy white devils die in accidents instead of killing millions of innocent civilians for their jew masters...like they did in vietnam, iraq etc
An Italian tourist was shot dead this Thursday (Dec. 8) when he mistakenly entered the Morro dos Prazeres community, in Santa Teresa, central region of the city. He was on a motorcycle, and his Italian friend was driving another motorcycle.
Concern of the traffickers with international repercussions of the case and a possible occupation with federal troops caused them to destroy and bury evidence that could identificate them, like cellular and cameras that were with the tourists. Their bikes were also washed by criminals who, according to Polato, wore gloves to leave no fingerprints.
An economic crisis, rising unemployment and drained public security budgets have allowed drug traffickers and other criminal gangs to reclaim territory in many Rio neighbourhoods where police previously had the upper hand, according to Reuters.
http://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2016/12/08/politica/1481221166_612242.html
http://odia.ig.com.br/rio-de-janeiro/2016-12-08/turista-italiano-morre-e-outro-fica-ferido-no-morro-dos-prazeres.html
So many cool places here and you choose the one with favelas.
Shit like this is why I never understand why people will blow thousands of dollars just to "experience a new culture" or some shit. You have your globalization, if you want to experience a culture go to your local immigrant eatery. Or in this case, drug dealer.
>>90520
>Gringos
I thought Brazil was Portuguese...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thyssenkrupp-cyber-idUSKBN13X0VW
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-12-08/germanys-thyssenkrupp-hit-by-sustained-hacking-attack
>BERLIN (AP) — German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp says it suffered a "massive" and sustained cyberattack aimed at stealing industrial secrets.
>The company said Thursday it was "a professional attack which according to our information can be attributed to a group in Southeast Asia."
>ThyssenKrupp says the attackers targeted its Industrial Solutions unit and some data appeared to have been stolen.
>The Essen-based company says that particularly sensitive departments, such as its naval and power plant units, are specially protected and weren't affected by the attack.
>German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported that the attack lasted six months before it was successfully fought off.
>Last month Deutsche Telekom suffered a large-scale outage after its network was attacked by a so-called botnet comprised of millions of hijacked internet-connected devices, including fridges, televisions and heating systems.
>when refrigerators attack no one is safe
This a major disadvantage of IOT devices. Why does a fucking fridge need internet?
>>90359
because Skynet is coming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)