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Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades

So trump lost?


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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Interesting article outlining the last two years of Chinese reclamation at Fiery Cross Reef.

http://www.vettedintelligence.com/2016/09/21/china-fiery-cross-reef-a-geoint-storyboard/

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The daughter of King Salman of Saudi Arabia has fled Paris after allegedly instructing one of her bodyguards to murder a painter and decorator, it was claimed today.
Princess Hassa, 42, has pleaded diplomatic immunity against prosecution after telling the armed aide: ‘You have to kill this dog, he doesn't deserve to live.’
But the bodyguard, who has not been named, was arrested in the French capital last week and, following two nights in custody, appeared before an instructing judge on Saturday.

He was put under formal criminal investigation for a range of charges including violence with a firearm, kidnapping, and assisted kidnapping.
The bodyguard is likely to face a criminal trial, which could see him imprisoned if found guilt on what amount to extremely serious allegations.
He is said to have attacked the unnamed 53-year-old workman inside a palatial flat on September 26th, after the Princess told the Frenchman to kiss her feet, and then issued the threat.
But Elie Hatem, the bodyguard’s barrister, disputes this version of events, saying: ‘There were more than twenty people in the apartments.

There was no sign of Hassa in court, and she too insists she was not guilty of any wrongdoing.
In turn, judicial police said it was perfectly normal for painters and decorators to take pictures on their smart phones during jobs.

The Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris has refused to comment on the case

During questioning by the judge on Saturday, the bodyguard said he done the ‘minimum necessary’ to ‘restrain’ the workman after the Princess caught him taking pictures.
He was accused of wanted to sell the images of the inside of the flat in Avenue Foch, the prestigious road close to the Arc de Triomphe, to the media.
In turn, judicial police said it was perfectly normal for painters and decorators to take pictures on their smart phones during jobs.
The bodyguard confirmed the Princess was present during the incident

http://archive.is/1m97m

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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1012/Did-beardogs-come-from-Texas-Extinct-Chihuahua-sized-animal-yields-clues

>An extinct family of carnivorans known as beardogs may have had humble beginnings in what is today southern North America, suggests a discovery in the archives of Chicago's Field Museum

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/10/160518

>Although the animals have been extinct for a few million years, "Beardogs represent a very successful group of carnivores that thrived in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America," Xiaoming Wang, curator and chair of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, who was not part of the research, writes in an email to the Monitor. "In their hey days, they were apex predators at various times."
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/07/as-the-surveillance-expands-best-way-to-resist-is-to-bury-the-nsa-in-garbage/
>By including such commonly used words as flu, package, face, niche, package, credit card, fraud, basement, veggie (!), president, freedom (!), bank and Armani, they assure that there will be endless piles of communications that are completely innocuous that will have to be first read and examined for signs of terrorism.
>It’s also interesting to discover among the incriminating words that the NSA thinks might be used by potential “terrorists,” peculiar words like: freedom, veggie, sardine, Standford (sic), advisors, halibut, fish, Bubba the Love Sponge (really!), Playboy, dictionary and Zen

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Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new process for treating metal surfaces that has the potential to improve efficiency in piston engines and a range of other equipment.

The method improves the ability of metal surfaces to bond with oil, significantly reducing friction without special oil additives.

"About 50 percent of the mechanical energy losses in an internal combustion engine result from piston assembly friction. So if we can reduce the friction, we can save energy and reduce fuel and oil consumption," said Michael Varenberg, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

In the study, which was published Oct. 5 in the journal Tribology Letters, the researchers at Georgia Tech and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology tested treating the surface of cast iron blocks by blasting it with mixture of copper sulfide and aluminum oxide. The shot peening modified the surface chemically that changed how oil molecules bonded with the metal and led to a superior surface lubricity.

"We want oil molecules to be connected strongly to the surface. Traditionally this connection is created by putting additives in the oil," Varenberg said. "In this specific case, we shot peen the surface with a blend of alumina and copper sulfide particles. Making the surface more active chemically by deforming it allows for replacement reaction to form iron sulfide on top of the iron. And iron sulfides are known for very strong bonds with oil molecules."

Oil is the primary tool used to reduce the friction that occurs when two surfaces slide in contact. The new surface treatment results in an ultra-low friction coefficient of about 0.01 in a base oil environment, which is about 10 times less than a friction coefficient obtained on a reference untreated surface, the researchers reported.

https://techxplore.com/news/2016-10-ultra-low-friction-oil-additives.html

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A Georgia man is facing charges after police say he tried selling fake drugs.
Investigators say Akheem Sparrow packaged baking soda and dry wall to look like cocaine.

They also say he tried to pass off shredded cardboard mixed with kitchen herbs as marijuana.
Sparrow, 25, is charged with possession of an imitation controlled substance.

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/crime-law/police-man-tried-passing-shredded-cardboard-mariju/nskcH/

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Ronald McDonald, the iconic clown mascot of McDonald’s, is laying low until the clown craze in the country dies down, the fast-food giant said Tuesday.

McDonald’s said Americans will see less of the recognizable red-haired jester in the yellow suit as the company remains “thoughtful in respect to Ronald McDonald’s participation in community events” as a result of the “current climate around clown sightings in communities,” according to the Associated Press.

Sightings of creepy clowns have been on the rise and have spread to more than two dozen states since late August when reports surfaced that clowns were trying to lure children into the woods in South Carolina.

Police in other countries like England and Canada have also had to investigate multiple reports of scary clown sightings.

http://time.com/4526884/ronald-mcdonald-clown-craze/

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The infamous President Duterte has dabbled at the idea of declaring martial law due to the recent Davao City bombing, which he was once mayor of. The martial law dabble is also in direct contrast to Former President Ferdinand Marcos, who first implemented martial law on the Philippines back in 1972.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/04/16/duterte-says-tempted-to-declare-martial-law

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/29/student-arrested-after-wearing-gorilla-mask-black-lives-matter-protest/91259986/

I'd post some excerpts, but the link says it all.

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this is currently snowballing
Obama showing off erection to reporters in 2008
could this be the end of trump is a pig arguments?
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/video-resurfaces-of-obama-showing-off-his-erection-to-giggling-female-reporters-hypocrisy-on-trump-much_102016

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During the severe flooding in North Hamgyong Province in late August, Daily NK has learned that a group of teachers and students in a school near Hoeryong died in the rapid currents while trying to save idolized material and portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

"At Songhak High School located near Hoeryong, 7 teachers - including the vice-principal, and 6 students lost their lives while attempting to recover portraits and oil paintings out of the flood waters," a source in North Hamgyong Province reported to Daily NK on October 5.

"The vice-principal, fearing punishment for not properly protecting the idolization material, declared an emergency during the flood, and the teachers and students mobilized for the recovery task ended up losing their lives."

In North Korea, citizens who prioritize saving portraits of the Kim family are praised as heroes, while those who focus on the rescue of people or household goods are subject to ideological criticism. The state mandates a dogged adherence to the notion of "serving the leader first with eagerness" which essentially orders people to place the safety of portraits of the North Korean leaders before their own family.

Any failure to save portraits is recorded on an individual’s official records, and stays with them for life. There are also political penalties such as being expelled from the Party. In this way, the regime enforces loyalty by directly threatening people’s livelihoods and social standing.

"If it weren't for the vice-principal's forced display of loyalty, they could have avoided tragedy. It was the demand for loyalty that the Party so emphasizes that drove them to their deaths," the source added.

"The authorities are not even conducting proper loyalty evaluations for the group that died," the source continued, adding that "residents are commenting that they died in vain, and concluding that their own lives must now come first."

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=14116

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On October 10, Wikileaks released part two of their emails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

Friday, Wikileaks released their first batch of Podesta’s emails, which included excerpts from Clinton’s Wall Street transcripts that reaffirmed why Clinton refused to release them in full. During the second presidential debate, Clinton confirmed their authenticity by attempting to defend one statement she made in the speech about having a public and private stance on political issues. She cited Abraham Lincoln, a defense comparable to her ridiculous invocation of 9/11 when pressed on her ties to Wall Street during a Democratic primary debate.

The latest release reveals current DNC chair Donna Brazile, when working as a DNC vice chair, forwarded to the Clinton campaign a January 2016 email obtained from the Bernie Sanders campaign, released by Sarah Ford, Sanders’ deputy national press secretary, announcing a Twitter storm from Sanders’ African-American outreach team. “FYI” Brazile wrote to the Clinton staff. “Thank you for the heads up on this Donna,” replied Clinton campaign spokesperson Adrienne Elrod.

The second batch of emails include more evidence of collusion between the mainstream media and Clinton Campaign.

One email, received by prolific Clinton donor Haim Saban, was forwarded to Clinton staff, praising the friendly moderators in the early March 2016 Democratic primary debate co-hosted by Univision in Florida. “Haim, I just wanted to tell you that I thought the moderators for last nights Debate were excellent. They were thoughtful, tough and incisive. I thought it made Hilary appear direct and strong in her resolve. I felt it advanced our candidate. Thanks for Univision,” wrote Rob Friedman, former co-chair of the Motion Picture Group.

http://observer.com/2016/10/breaking-dnc-chief-donna-brazile-leaked-sanders-info-to-clinton-campaign/

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Hacked emails show that Hillary Clinton's campaign was slow to grasp the seriousness of the controversy over her use of a homebrew email server and believed it might blow over after one weekend.

Two days after The Associated Press was first to report in March 2015 that Clinton had been running a private server in her home in New York to send and receive messages when she was secretary of state, her advisers were shaping their strategy to respond to the revelation.

Among the emails made public Tuesday by WikiLeaks was one from Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill, who optimistically suggested that the issue might quickly blow over.

"Goal would be to cauterize this just enough so it plays out over the weekend and dies in the short term," Merrill wrote on March 6, 2015.

It did not, and became the leading example of Clinton's penchant for secrecy, which has persisted as a theme among her campaign critics and rivals throughout her election season. Clinton did not publicly confirm or discuss her use of the email server until March 10 in a speech at the United Nations, nearly one week after AP revealed the server's existence.

WikiLeaks began releasing on Friday what it said were years of messages from accounts used by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. He has acknowledged his emails were hacked. Podesta warned that messages may have been altered or edited to inflict political damage but has not pointed to any specific case of this.

Months after Merrill's message, the campaign was still preoccupied with emails. In May 2015, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon alerted other staffers that the Justice Department was proposing to publish Clinton's work-related emails by January in response to requests by news organizations.

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2016-10-11-US--Campaign%202016-Clinton-Podesta%20Emails/id-5c086b47d0ed4e9c90508a71302d6d9d

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And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging." -Bubba Clinton

Source: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599