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>>68139
The girl is just trying to get out easy. Pleading insanity is just a ploy.

>>68139

What's wrong with these kids

>>68208
memes. memes kill.

>>68251
I may be biased but now I think Chinese kids get stuck in stuff more often.
I should make a database of stuck kids through history and around the world to be sure.

>>68251
Why didn't they just pull her body forward

There have been sooooo many stories of kids in China getting their heads stuck between railings, getting stuck between buildings.
WTF is wrong with these kids?

>In the summer of 1987, Sumner M. Redstone wrested control of Viacom in a hostile corporate takeover that left scorched relationships with the company’s management. Still bitter, executives sent Thomas E. Dooley, Viacom’s 30-year-old treasurer, to greet Mr. Redstone when he visited the Viacom office, the new boss wearing a plaid jacket bought on his way, the Filene’s Basement price tag still visible.

>Nearly three decades later, Mr. Redstone, with his daughter, Shari Redstone, at his side, has won yet another caustic fight for control of Viacom and the future of his $40 billion media empire. The battle has ruined relationships with some of Mr. Redstone’s longest confidants, exposed family feuds and sent Viacom into turmoil. Once again, Mr. Dooley is acting as the go-between for the entrenched Viacom regime and the Redstones.

>On Friday, Viacom elevated Mr. Dooley to interim chief executive from chief operating officer. He was appointed as Viacom announced that the embattled Philippe P. Dauman had stepped down as chief executive, with a severance package valued at about $72 million. (Since being named chief executive of Viacom in 2006, Mr. Dauman’s total reported compensation was $409.7 million even as the company has struggled in recent years.)

>With a truce declared in the battle for control of the 93-year-old Mr. Redstone’s companies, a harsh spotlight now is focused on Viacom’s struggling business. The company, which owns the MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon cable television networks and the Paramount Pictures film and television studio, has had a nearly 50 percent plunge in its share price in the last two years.

>This was the company that ignited the careers of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, brought to life characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer and had generations demanding the music videos of MTV.
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>But in recent years, the company has been overshadowed by popular digital outlets like Netflix, Amazon and Snapchat and plagued by weak ratings and declines in advertising sales across several of its TV networks. At the same time, its film studio has delivered dismal results. “Ben Hur,” Paramount’s production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is expected to be yet another box-office disappointment.

>The resolution to the legal dispute left investors and analysts with a list of questions about the fate of Viacom: Would the company pursue a sale of Paramount? Will the Redstones push to reunite Viacom with CBS after the two companies split a decade ago? Will the genial Mr. Dooley, who is interim chief executive through Sept. 30, take on the chief executive title permanently?

>“You and I are buying a house together, and it is called a fixer-upper, darling,” Mario Gabelli, whose investment firm, Gamco, is the second-largest voting shareholder in Viacom and CBS, said in an interview when discussing the state of the company.

>“The main question is, what is Shari going to do?” added Mr. Gabelli, who said that he had met with Ms. Redstone twice in the last 12 months.

>The settlement, which Viacom’s board approved Thursday night, firmly put the fate of the company under the control of Mr. Redstone, who is in failing health, and his daughter. The board of National Amusements, the private theater chain company through which Mr. Redstone controls about 80 percent of the voting shares in Viacom and CBS, met later and approved the deal.
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>The executive shake-up at the media company was part of a complex settlement agreement to a public battle, in which Mr. Redstone and his daughter faced off against Mr. Dauman, long his most trusted adviser, and the Viacom board. The vicious three-month dispute included lawsuits in Massachusetts, Delaware and California, challenging Mr. Redstone’s mental capacity to make decisions about his businesses and asserting that he had been manipulated by his daughter in an “unlawful corporate takeover.”

>“The agreement serves the best interests of Viacom, its shareholders, and you, our employees, and it paves the way for our future,” Mr. Dooley said in a memo to the Viacom staff on Friday. “I know we all share a desire to guide the company through this transition in the best possible way.”

>The settlement makes way for Viacom’s board to expand to include the five new directors that National Amusements put forward in June. They include Nicole Seligman, a former Sony executive and lawyer who represented President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial; and Kenneth Lerer, a venture capitalist, a co-founder of The Huffington Post and chairman of BuzzFeed.

>Mr. Dooley, who started at Viacom in 1980, is expected to work closely with the new board during the next month and a half to develop a new plan for the struggling company. He is said to want the top job but also is committed to working with the new board through a transition period on whatever outcome is best for the company.

>Mr. Dooley, a longstanding partner to Mr. Dauman who helped create much of the company’s strategy in the last several years, has much to prove. In his memo to staff, Mr. Dooley wrote more than 200 words about his close friendship with Mr. Dauman, recognizing and thanking the ousted chief executive.
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>Last week’s The incident earlier this month, the facts of which are hotly disputed, appeared to be a possible flash point. Russia claims that Ukrainian intelligence staged a high-level raid led by a former soldier, and now truck driver Yevgeny Panov. Ukrainian troops also fired across the border, Russia said, and two Russian servicemen were killed.

>Ukraine said the incident was invented. Later, a senior military intelligence officer told Poroshenko that Russian soldiers had shelled themselves.

The truth likely lies somewhere in between.

>“Whether Crimea happened or did not happen does not matter anymore,” said Michael Kofman, a fellow at the Kennan Institute of the Wilson Center who focuses on post-Soviet security issues. “Russia can make it real by simply reacting to it as though it was real.”

>Alex Ryabchyn, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, said Putin is looking to send a “signal to the West” to return to the negotiating table over Ukraine, believing that Kiev’s western partners are losing patience with Kiev amid the U.S. elections, the migration crisis and other urgent issues.

>“What will you do if I attack or take some anti-terrorist measures?” Ryabchyn said. “Will you invade? Will you express concern? Let’s start negotiating, because I can choose to do this or not to do this at any time.”
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>Russia quickly posed the attacks as cause to refocus attention on the Minsk accords. Putin, in remarks from Crimea on Friday, said that the reason for the attack in Crimea was clear: “Because Ukraine is either unwilling or unable for some reason to implement the Minsk agreements.”

>The accords include the approval of a “special status” for the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine and local elections whose terms remain disputed and largely favorable to Moscow. Kiev, in turn, has demanded return of control of the country’s eastern borders with Russia, a conduit for weapons, men, and other contraband, from rebel to Ukrainian control.

>“Ukraine doesn’t have much interest in implementing Minsk,” Kofman said, noting growing appetite in Kiev to freeze the conflict in Donbass. “And my sense of this Crimea incident is that the Russians are trying to find some kind of leverage with the Europeans,” who are part of the negotiations.

>With new deadlines for the European Union to renew sanctions against Russia approaching and little progress made on the accords, Russia may have decided to “scare the hell” out of the West, he said.

>Violence in east Ukraine has also risen during the summer months. An International Crisis Group report released last week said that the 310-mile line of separation between the Ukrainian and separatist sides is “not fit for purpose,” and that the Minsk agreements are “being violated daily and heavily.”

>“All officers interviewed described the Minsk process as dead and strongly supported the idea, floated by some leading politicians, to seal off the separatist enclaves for the foreseeable future,” the report read.
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>Alexander Hug, the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, said in an interview that OSCE monitors are increasingly denied access to the conflict zone, and said that the tempo of fighting is worse where front lines come within meters of one another. Some heavy weaponry, which was supposed to be removed from the front and inventoried, has also returned, he said.

>As violence in the east heats up, Ukrainian officials have suggested that Russia may use upcoming military drills as cover for a military action against Ukraine. The Kavkaz, or Caucasus, 2016 drills are the first to integrate the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, into the country’s military planning, and will see thousands of troops brought in for air, land, and sea exercises.

>Ukrainian government analysts have recalled that exercises served as staging grounds for troop incursions in 2014, as well as the military exercises held shortly before the Georgian war of 2008. Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador suggested that Russia may have “bad intentions,” while the West has also said it would have liked observers to be present.

>At the same time, Pentagon spokesman Gordon Trowbridge said that the United States American officials “don’t necessarily see any evidence of troop movements that are so large that we’re concerned about those on their own,” despite being “extremely concerned” about escalating rhetoric between Russia and Ukraine.

does internet amplify hate or does it silence it?

>>67517
What kind of question is that?

>>67517
It only enables it.
As for internet harassment, generally the "stay anonymous and there's no threat" works, but this is targeting someone over events happening in real life.

Social networking amplifies it. For example, Twitter allows you to listen to only people you agree with. All information on your feed is handpicked from people you agree with, and it takes two seconds to block any information that you dislike.

This amplifies hate mobs because it causes people to see things in black & white perspectives. There are entire 'block lists' so that you can ignore every single person who disagrees with you or is sympathetic to people who disagree with you.

On the internet, moderate opinions disappear. This is how capitalist journalism works as well.

>>68269
Why not just build a concrete wall inside your property?

>>68279
This. If the drivers can't maintain control of their vehicles then they deserve to get fucked up by a concrete barrier.

>>68279
It's America. Someone would ram into it, die, and their relatives would sue the home owner for it.

>>68352
https://discord.gg/d4SNJ

GET UP GET UP

Not so bad, I'm quite intrigued. Perhaps you could join back into the discord channel and inform me how you were notified on such a thing.

>>68352
Discord app? Wtf!! Plus the UK isn't going anywhere, the new puppet is already installed, so is back to the agenda as planned

>went to an Orange City hospital Sunday night with a small cut to her right thumb and index finger.

Why? I would have patched myself at home, save the embarrassment, and maybe not be on the news.

>>68272
>Florida
Keep up the good work guys

>>68232
^^^

Official thread song:

http://youtu.be/LH8gUhDd6WE

That's a b-boy in the cross hairs you fucking dope.

>>67605
Goddamn, what the fuck

Just another day in Florida?

Mods I'm to this board.
Is it against the rules to start a thread asking for the best of? Like best Florida man articles?

>>67618
My favorite Florida man was the Florida man who broke into a house naked in order to defecate inside. I think he was then found sleeping on the roof or something like that.

>>67493
>>He advises people to not release pet fish into waterways, but to return them to pet stores if they're unwanted.

That should work.

>>67493
https://twitter.com/abcnewsPerth/status/765399337606144000/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Umm, those aren't "giant" or "mutated." That's the size normal goldfish grow to if you don't keep them in a shitty little bowl that stunts their growth and kills them within six months.

>It's only bad when Trump does it!
>Citing Gawker, a failed "news website"

It's like people will at one point meet, greet, and possibly hang out with other people that you don't approve of! Crazy right?

>>67142
Obama or Hillary relatives couldn't do it without the other side having a cow - but Trump, ohhh, he can get away with it and it's all Gawker's fault, or something.

>>67144

>Trump getting away with anything

Are you fucking serious? The guy can't fart without CNN swooping in to smell it and say it smells worse then Shilldog's so go vote for her instead.

>>68085
>>68092
>>68095
you have to go back

I think the woman is lying. She's obviously a whore, sitting in the curbside at one in the morning. Like duh.

The guy has to go down for hiring a prostitute and for assault, but the kidnapping charge should be easy to drop. Shouldn't have been charged with that in the first place, really. The guy sounds like a regular whores man who knows his shit.

>>68095
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-man-decapitates-auto-shop-owner-machete-article-1.2759108

damn white ppl smh

>>66218
Hmm. Remember what happened the day after something like this happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

>>66218
The entire freaking government needs to be audited, but how do you trust the people who can't balance their own books to do the job? I guess they'll just print off a few trillion more backed my a trickle of piss in the wind.

>>66222
how timely to announce it during the game and the rising tensions with Russia

>>68104
It's the breitbart of the left.

>>68106
Not really, Breitbart is at least entertaining

>>68104
>breitbart of the left

Not entirely accurate. Even though I lean right on most issues (not all by any means), I try to "observe" as much media from both sides as I can, mainly to see which stories are getting what amount of coverage and by who. While Breitbart is obviously just as right slanted as Huffpost is left slanted, Baitbart MOSTLY uses data and factual information in it's reporting, whereas Huggpost is almost always about "muh feelz".

So I guess they both are kinda representative of their respective sides in that aspect anyway.