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>>81213
The real tragedy here is giving climate change research a bad name.

>>81213
repost
see
>>80563
>>80564
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>>80581
>>80582

>>81213
>repost
>inflammatory
>response here
>>80581

with that nice misleading title you could almost be accused of shit flinging

ITS ALRIGHT

I'M SURE HER RESPECT FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND RULE OF LAW IS AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE MATTER

But she's right though

>>81191
Good point.

These Eyetalian sandniggers are getting ground to dirt

>>80681
Another prime example of why the ATF is a waste of taxpayers money. Disband the ATF.

>>80683
thank you.

>two dealers leagally trade a heavily regulated item that would get them sent to prison for a long time if ever misused

>just like everything else they trade in

I don't see what the big issue is, especially since destructive devices are generally historical items rather than expensive publicity stunts like this.

The veto Monday of the EU’s free trade deal with Canada by the Belgian region of Wallonia—whose leader said the deadline to secure backing for the deal was “not compatible with the exercise of democratic rights”—is a sharp illustration of this trilemma.
Barth paints a sweeping picture of the global investment landscape in this new era.

Barclays isn’t the first bank to paint this picture—Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned earlier this month that recent “events show nations are becoming less willing to cooperate, more willing to contest.” Looser fiscal policy, trade protectionism, and wealth redistribution could unleash a wave of inflation, BofA argued, recommending that investors snap up real-economy assets to hedge against a “war on inequality.”


David McWilliams, a former economist for Ireland’s central bank, wrote in an Oct. 14 article that the backlash against globalization represents an especially major shift for the U.S. Federal Reserve and its policies.
“Because we are so used to disinflation being the objective, it is difficult to get our heads around the following: if American politics shifts to address middle class insecurity and inequality by introducing tighter immigration, protectionism, and moves to higher wages, then inflation will become not just the unintended consequence of policy, it will become policy itself,” McWilliams wrote.

Rising inflation means the discount rate investors use to value assets will naturally rise—threatening asset valuations—while short-term market rates will become less stable, leading to an increase in market volatility, he argued. The Barclays analyst also reckons a fall in trade volumes and protectionism will create higher inflation—and, thereby, tighter monetary policies—in advanced economies, while fiscal policy will be increasingly used as a tool to pacify the discontented.


While the view that import restrictions will fuel inflation is largely straightforward, the outlook for currencies is mixed. Import substitution reduces demand for imports and thereby reduces demand for foreign currencies, while tighter trade balances (all else being equal) also tend to place upward pressure on currencies, the economists argued. What’s more, the currency dynamics of a sharp rise in protectionism in the U.S. are unique. “The fiscal cliff and debt downgrade revealed that bad policy choices in the U.S. still result in safe haven inflows,” the analysts wrote Oct. 14. “Higher tariffs might have a similar impact: U.S. assets are likely to benefit from a flight to safety or flight to quality bid in the face of a global stagflationary shock.”
And there’s the rub: If major advanced economies erect trade restrictions at the same time, the net impact on relative exchange rates and the outlook for carry trades—if interest-rate differentials stay constant—might be limited even as global output stages a downturn.

Can someone dumb this down for me?

There's already a thread >>81073

>Magnette's rejection of the EU's most recent offer adds more drama to a week of deadline extensions and existential debate, as Europe fights for the consensus it needs both inside Belgium and across its 28 member states in order to proceed with a deal it desperately needs to make.

>An EU source in Ottawa said Friday that it does not consider this the end of the process.

>On Thursday, the president of the European Union, Donald Tusk, offered the blunt assessment that if this hard-fought deal with a progressive partner like Canada couldn't move ahead, the EU's credibility as a negotiator of any free trade deal in the future was in doubt.

>"We have tried to work over the last few hours and during the night," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said as he arrived at the European Council talks in Brussels Friday morning. "I spoke on the phone with Justin Trudeau to see what avenues we could be pursuing to come out of this difficult situation on top."

>"I want to continue these dynamic discussions," Michel said at a news conference later in the day. "I want to give them all the chance to succeed and overcome these difficulties."

>"If the EU doesn't succeed in finalizing this economic treaty with Canada, this could mean that the [Brexit] discussions with the U.K. will also be very complex," he said.

>Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking from the perspective of Germany — home to large protests and intense internal political debates before confirming it would sign — said she hoped "for the remaining inconsistencies to be cleared up here in Belgium," but would not comment in further detail on the EU's next steps.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-eu-ceta-brussels-friday-1.3815332

>>80194
first Brexit now #BeldoneWithEU

>>80194
Thank you based Wallonia. Ceta sucked anyway. If it included full freedom of workers, like if it had granted me free access to the Canadian job market, that would have been free trade... But it was just a Ttip disguise. I want to work in Vancouver and i don't want Canadian U.S. companies sue my city council and my landlord.

>>80186
Oh daddy is wonderful.

I love the guy, I want his fat cock inside of me.

Nice channel dude.

Subscribed

>Holmström’s work has influenced how corporations determine CEO salaries, a process that is under renewed scrutiny as CEO pay continues to rise faster than the earnings of regular workers. Many companies compensate their CEOs according to how the stock performs, or directly in terms of stock options but Holmström and his colleagues have argued that this practice sometimes rewards executives for getting lucky, not for doing a good job.

>Hart has shown that government privatization has both upsides and downsides. On one hand, competition between private contractors can lead to both lower costs and higher quality. But if the government cannot adequately monitor them, then companies will focus on cost-cutting.

enjoy your wages being cut or whatever these people who help obamacare are experimenting on you people now

>>77780
Man the Noble Peace Prize have really been shit in everything except the hard sciences

>>77781
>enjoy your wages being cut or whatever these people who help obamacare are experimenting on you people now
Did you even read the article?

Not getting any more pull from the acquisition of oculus rift? That's got to have some impact for fb, right?

>>79733
From this:
http://www.recode.net/2016/3/24/11587234/two-years-later-facebooks-oculus-acquisition-has-changed-virtual

>Luckey disagrees that Facebook missed out on a first-mover advantage. “It’s never a winning strategy to try and compromise on the quality of your device or the quality of your launch just to hit a date,” he said.

>The gap, though, allowed others to catch up. HTC’s headset, the Vive, will start shipping soon. Best positioned may be Sony, which just started selling its Playstation VR headset earlier this week. Unlike the HTC and Oculus products, Sony benefits from the fact that more than 35 million people already own a PlayStation 4, the computer necessary to run the headset. (PlayStation’s headset sold out quickly!)

>But while 2016 may be dominated by pricing headlines and shipping dates, some believe hardware matters little to Facebook, at least long term. The key is owning the software.

>Part of that is the layer that will become VR’s version of Apple’s App Store, where users come to download games or movies. Playstation has its own store, and HTC will use a store called Steam, created by Valve.

>>79728
well what us the problem? facebook owns instagram and snapchat so if someone gets off fb but joins insta doea anything really change?

>>79445
Because we aren't at DEFCON 3 and you shouldn't believe conspiracy sites.

At least you posted one legitimate news link, albeit a shitty one.

>>79446
Check them twitters anon

Also statements about US-RU being worst since Cuban Missile Crisis are not an exaggeration

https://twitter.com/starsandstripes/status/787379014277136384

>>79446
Some say it happened recently, some say it happened this past june

http://www.inquisitr.com/3605612/defcon-3-warning-system-level-race-wars-and-more/

“People want real changes and they understand that we have to change the systems, we have to modernize how we make laws,” said Jónsdóttir, whose jet-black hair and matching nail polish cut a distinctive profile in a country where politics has long been dominated by paunchy blond men.

The sticker affixed to the back of her chrome-finish laptop stands out, too: an imitation seal of the U.S. government, the familiar arrow-bearing eagle encircled by the words “National Security Agency Monitored Device.” At the Pirates’ tech-start-up-esque office in an industrial area of Reykjavik’s seafront, a Guy Fawkes mask hangs from the wall and a skull-and-crossbones flag peeks out from a ceramic vase.

Iceland is, in some ways, a strange place for such a rogue movement to flourish. The country is one of earth’s most equitable, most peaceful and most prosperous. Home to the world’s oldest parliament — it traces its origins back to a gathering of Norse settlers in A.D. 930 — this remote island nation that can feel more like a small, genteel town is not known for political turbulence.

But Iceland has been afflicted by the same anti-establishment fervor that has swept the rest of the Western world in recent years.

In many ways, the alienation from politics has been even more acute here. The 2008 global financial crisis brought the once highflying economy to ruin, saved only by a $4.6 billion international bailout. Bankers went to jail, and a street protest movement was born.

The populist spirit was revved up once again this past spring when the leak of the Panama Papers revealed an offshore company owned by the prime minister’s wife that staked a claim to Iceland’s collapsed banks. The perceived conflict of interest brought thousands of protesters to the streets, a crowd that, as a share of the overall population, was equal to as many as 21 million people in the United States.

With protests building, the prime minister quit and new elections were called.

But the public’s cynicism about a political system long steered by an insider clique only deepened.

“The distrust that had long been germinating has now exploded. The Pirates are riding on that wave,” said Ragnheithur Kristjánsdóttir, a political history professor at the University of Iceland. “We’ve had new parties before, and then they’ve faded. What’s surprising is that they’re maintaining their momentum.”

The Pirates, part of an international movement of the same name, are not the only ones seizing on the country’s discontented political spirit. Several new parties have surged and could well set Iceland’s direction for the next four years. Meanwhile, parties that have traded power in Iceland for decades are bumping along in polls at historic lows.

Outsiders may regard the idea of a government run by Pirates as a joke. But “the voters think a joke is better than what we have now,” said Benedikt Jóhannesson, leader of another insurgent party that is even younger than the Pirates and has also earned substantial support.

Jóhannesson hastens to add that he doesn’t see the Pirates as a joke. His buttoned-down party is made up of technocrats, academics and business executives, a far cry from the punk-rock, hacker spirit of the Pirates.

But the two may be in coalition talks after the election if, as expected, no party comes anywhere near the majority needed to govern. He may not agree with the Pirates on many issues, he said, but at least they share a belief in the need for fundamental change.

“Some of our parties have been around for 100 years,” said Jóhannesson, fresh off a 10-hour drive back from a campaign swing through the remote Icelandic countryside. “But the systems that worked in, say, the 1960s don’t necessarily work for the 2010s.”

Not everyone is so gung-ho about calls for radical change.

The latest opinion polls show the Pirates jostling for first place with the Independence Party.

The center-right party is synonymous with Iceland’s political establishment, having governed the country for much of its modern history. But it was badly tarnished by its stewardship of the bubble economy in the lead-up to the 2008 crash.

“People are still angry at us for that,” acknowledged Birgir Ármannsson, an Independence member of Parliament. “There’s still a lot of distrust in traditional politics and traditional politicians.”

That’s understandable given the scale of Iceland’s economic meltdown, Ármannsson said. But he also said voters should give the current government, of which Independence is a junior partner, credit for Iceland’s economic revival. Now out of the doldrums, the country is back to low unemployment, low inflation and a balanced budget — all of which could be at risk if the Pirates come to power.

“You can try experiments,” said the suit-and-tie clad Ármannsson in an interview at the country’s 19th-century stone Parliament building. “But if you want economic stability and growth, then you have to vote for us.”

Ármannsson questioned what the Pirates actually represent: “They know what they’re against. But it’s difficult to find out what they’re really for.”

Indeed, the Pirates have spelled out their positions on issues from fishing quotas to online pornography to Snowden. (Party leaders offered him Icelandic citizenship if he can find a way to get here.) But on some of the biggest questions facing the country, the official party position is to punt to the voters.

Whether Iceland should join the European Union, for instance, is a debate that has raged in the country for years. But the Pirates have not taken a stand, insisting instead that the matter should be decided in a national referendum.

>Jones reassured him multiple times that the FBI officer’s involvement would “never come out” and that he could trust Jones “one million percent.”

>“This will never come back that anybody knows I’ve even got this stuff,” Jones told the officer. “I will be so cool about it … I will handle it in such a way … this will never come out. I promise.”

>After the FBI officer raised the issue of payment, Jones told him to name a fair number.

>The initially agreed-upon price? “A couple of cases of beer.”

>“FYI,” the FBI officer texted back the following day. “Just to keep things simple I’m a bud light guy.”

>“I can handle that!!!” Jones responded.

>On Nov. 3, the two once again met in person on the steps of the Wayne County Courthouse. The FBI officer handed a disk to Jones, who was wearing his black judicial robes.

>Instead of the promised Bud Light, Jones gave the officer $100 in cash.

>“There you go. We’re good. Are we good?” Jones asked the officer, then added. “Do you want this [disk] back so you can destroy it?”

>What Jones didn’t know was that the FBI officer had long ago reported the illegal request to his supervisors, initiating an FBI investigation. Their in-person conversation had been recorded, and the disk that Jones paid for did not contain what he thought it did.

>Jones was arrested on Nov. 4, the day after he received the disk.

>The numerous text messages between Jones and the FBI officer would soon be turned over as evidence in a damning bribery case against the judge.
...

>On Friday, following a five-day trial, a jury deliberated for a half-hour to find Jones guilty on three corruption charges: superseding indictment with paying bribes, paying gratuities and attempted corrupt influence of an official proceeding.

>Jones will be sentenced in January. He faces a maximum of 37 years in prison and up to $750,000 in fines for all three charges, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the eastern district of North Carolina.

>“The jury’s verdict affirms a bedrock principle of the rule of law,” U.S. Attorney John Stuart Bruce said in a statement. “No person holding a [position] of public trust in our legal system is permitted to subvert that system for his own personal objectives.”

>“Corruption will not be tolerated, no matter the level of government, the complexity of the scheme, or the names of those committing the fraud,” FBI special agent John Strong said in a statement. “Rooting out public corruption is the FBI’s top criminal investigative priority and we rely on our law enforcement partners and citizens to help us identify those offenders who put our democracy at risk.”

>Jones’s defense attorneys maintained that the FBI officer, who was also a Wayne County sheriff’s deputy, could have easily halted the request before it blew out of proportion and ended in a “SWAT-team-like raid” and arrest at the judge’s home, the News and Observer reported.

>Jones was elected to an eight-year term in 2008 and is running for reelection in November. He is the senior resident superior court judge for District 8-B, which covers Wayne, Lenoir and Greene counties. He received his law degree from Wake Forest University and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to his bio for the North Carolina courts system.

...

>Jones could not be reached Saturday at several numbers listed for him and did not respond to an interview request sent to his campaign’s Facebook account.

>Last Thursday, in the middle of the trial, Jones posted that it had been “a difficult and busy week.”

>“I’m facing a personal trial and engaged in a re-election campaign,” he said in the Facebook post. “But on our journey we all face difficulties. We should never forget we don’t walk alone.”

>Jones continued by citing Scripture and asking God to grant him help and wisdom.

>Early Friday morning, before jurors delivered their verdict, Jones once again posted a devotion on Facebook, this time citing Jeremiah, “the weeping prophet.”

>“I appreciate everyone’s support and prayers,” he wrote. “I really need them today.”

Meanwhile in 1984 EU

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brexit-uncertainty-slows-uk-economy-9135588
> The UK economy has grown more slowly in the quarter since the EU referendum , official figures revealed today.

>But Chancellor Philip Hammond said the figures showed the economy was strong and resilient.

>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported the economy grew by 0.5% in the three months since June.

>It's stronger than the 0.3% predicted by some analysts, but less than the 0.7% rate of growth seen in the previous quarter.

>It's the first estimate of UK growth published since the Brexit vote in June."There is little evidence of a pronounced effect in the immediate aftermath of the vote," the ONS said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-gdp-brexit-growth-drop-fall-economy-eu-referendum-a7382556.html

>The pace of the UK economy has slowed in the first official verdict on how the economy has performed after the UK voted to leave the EU in June.Growth in the three months to September dropped to 0.5 per cent, down from 0.7 per cent in the April to June quarter, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

expect more Elite infighting in closed doors as USA who is trying to save MI5 and MI6 and The gutless EUcrats trying to punish Britain for leaving

They're all even with each other, too. No wonder everyone is on edge. There's a lot of shit to be afraid of/nervous about. No clowns on the list tho, that's good.

>>78918
>They're all even with each other, too.
except the first one

>>78919
Thanks for contributing, you are good at conversation.