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Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing 2017-07-18 06:24:35 Post No.158599
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Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing
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IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect
But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade
Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term
Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing
But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itself
ARE BRITISH TEENAGERS BECOMING LESS INTELLIGENT?
Tests carried out in 1980 and in 2008 showed that the average 14-year-old was two IQ points cleverer in 1980, according to a study published in 2009.
Scientists found that performance dropped the most dramatically in teenagers in the upper half of the intelligence scale, The Telegraph reported.
Brighter teens who took part in the study in 2008 were on average six IQ points less intelligent than their counterparts tested 28 years earlier.
Professor Fynn said the results could be the result of less intelligent youth culture.
He used data gathered in IQ tests on UK children and found that children aged between five and 10 saw their IQs increase by half a point per year over three decades.
'Other studies have shown how pervasive teenage youth culture is, and what we see is parents' influence on IQ slowly diminishing with age,' he said.
'...What we know is that youth culture is now more visually orientated around computer games than they are in terms of reading and holding conversations.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
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Surely this has nothing to do with massive third world immigration.
Nope. Can't possible be that IQ is declining because 50% of British children are inbred braindead Pakis.
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I read a theory on "the social evolution of the brain". Basically, the brain takes a lot of energy to run, and our bodies tend to want to use as little energy as possible. Since many modern people do not need to expend nearly as much effort as in the past to obtain food, shelter, etc., they don't need the extra processing/problem solving power anymore.
It sounds brosciency/vaguely reactionary, but I don't know enough about evolution to dispute it.
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A few hundred years of Socialism and the human race will devolve their brain completely.
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Two German tourists stabbed to death on Egyptian beach 2017-07-14 07:01:52 Post No.157535
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-security-tourists-idUKKBN19Z1KU
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian man stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four other foreigners at a popular seaside vacation spot on Friday, officials and witnesses said.
The knifeman killed the two German women, and wounded two other tourists at the Zahabia hotel in Hurghada and then swam to a neighbouring beach to attack at least two more people at the Sunny Days El Palacio resort before he was arrested, officials and security sources said.
"He had a knife with him and stabbed each of them three times in the chest. They died on the beach," the security manager at El Palacio hotel, Saud Abdelaziz, told Reuters.
"He jumped a wall between the hotels and swam to the other beach."
Abdelaziz said two of the injured were Czech and two Armenian. They were being treated a local hospital. The Czech foreign ministry tweeted that one Czech woman sustained a minor leg injury.
The attacker's motive was still under investigation, the interior ministry said.
Egypt is fighting Islamist insurgents in the Sinai Peninsula where they mainly target security forces but militants have also attacked tourism targets as well as Coptic Christians and churches.
Hurghada, some 400 km (250 miles) south of the capital Cairo is one of Egypt's most popular vacation spots on the Red Sea.
Security and medical sources had earlier reported the two women killed were Ukrainians, but Major Gen. Mohamed El-Hamzawi, security manager of Red Sea province, told Reuters they had been identified as Germans.
In January 2016, two assailants armed with a gun, a knife and a suicide belt landed on the beach of a hotel in Hurghada, wounding two foreign tourists.
Friday's attack came on a day that five policemen were killed by gunmen on a motorbike who ambushed their car just south of Cairo.
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>The attacker's motive was still under investigation
Oh boy, I sure wonder what motivation that could be!
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Indeed...
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Hm... I guess Global warming?
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Record 200 environmental activists killed in 2016 2017-07-13 05:42:27 Post No.157151
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Excerpts from the Associated Press:
>At least 200 land and environmental activists were slain in 2016 protecting forests, rivers and land from mining, logging and agricultural companies, the highest annual number on record, a watchdog group said Thursday.
>India had a threefold increase in such killings but Latin America remained the deadliest region with some 60 percent of the world’s deaths of activists protecting local resources, London-based Global Witness said in a report. The deaths, which rose from 185 the previous year, were reported in 24 countries compared to 16 in 2015.
>The group said the true number of killings is likely to be much higher, since collecting such data is difficult. And while murder is an extreme tactic of oppression, activists also routinely experienced death threats, assaults, arrests and costly legal battles, it said.
>The non-governmental Pastoral Land Commission, which tracks land conflicts in Brazil, blamed the high level of violence on agriculture, mining, energy and other companies moving into lands held by traditional and indigenous communities.
>Across Africa the people most at risk were rangers at national parks whose jobs pitted them against poachers.
https://www.apnews.com/0e65e2fd41e348f7bcee5d33b036afae/Watchdog:-At-least-200-environmental-activists-slain-in-2016
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Excerpts from Reuters:
>"By the time I got here, (security forces) had already broken down the door and taken my things," Conceicao, 36, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, recalling his eviction from his home in the southwestern Amazonas State seven months ago.
>"Then they knocked down my house."
>Having security forces knock down houses without prior warning and not allowing residents to remove their possessions is unlawful, said federal prosecutor Fernando Soave.
>"We would never abuse our authority, I would never put my career at risk," Lieutenant Miqueias Mariano de Oliveira, who led operations in the area, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
>He said conflicts in the area are due to small farmers like Conceicao "invading" land that belongs to large operators.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-landrights-politics-idUSKBN19Y1NL
Excerpts from the BBC:
>Disputes over mining were the cause of the greatest number of killings, followed by logging and agribusiness.
>Global Witness has been publishing annual reports on the threats to activists since 2012, although it has data going back to 2002.
>The organisation compiles its analysis from media sources, information from other non-governmental organisations and from the UN. It also verifies the data with monitoring groups in priority countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and the Philippines.
>"Indigenous people are massively over represented in the figures and that's because many of their lands overlap with lands rich in minerals and timber and also because they have less access to justice or communications."
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40584139
The report itself is available at https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/defenders-earth/.
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killed by the dairy industry most likely
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>all deaths in second and third world countries
Not very surprising when you think about it.
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State rebellion against Trump over climate change is different 2017-07-11 09:46:42 Post No.156318
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>>States have begun to take matters of climate change into their own hands since President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.
>>These states are not just acting for themselves — they are essentially brokering treaties with foreign governments.
>>More than a dozen states have formed an alliance with pledges from Mexico and Canada to collaborate.
>>California Governor Jerry Brown, the co-founder of that alliance, recently met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>Having recently enjoyed the "rockets' red glare" on July 4, our Declaration of Independence came to mind as a way to understand the evolving, and distinctly different, approaches to addressing climate change that are emerging in the United States.
>As several states take climate-change matters into their own hands, firmly believing their environment, public health and economies will be much better off by addressing the problem head-on, it's easy to imagine them sending a letter to a president whose administration has been openly hostile to any attempts to limit greenhouse gases. It begins, "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them ..."
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>Having recently enjoyed the "rockets' red glare" on July 4, our Declaration of Independence came to mind as a way to understand the evolving, and distinctly different, approaches to addressing climate change that are emerging in the United States.
>As several states take climate-change matters into their own hands, firmly believing their environment, public health and economies will be much better off by addressing the problem head-on, it's easy to imagine them sending a letter to a president whose administration has been openly hostile to any attempts to limit greenhouse gases. It begins, "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them ..."
>Of course, states' rights have long been contentious on many issues — slavery and the Civil War being the most obvious break between our levels of government in America. Since then, people have taken to the streets, and it was their state leaders who subsequently took the first action, on issues as diverse as marriage equality and clean air. But the climate debate is different in two fundamental ways.
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>Climate is a new kind of states' rights issue
>First, state governments are not just acting for, and among, themselves, but they are essentially brokering international treaties with foreign governments. Just since early June, when President Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, a dozen states representing a third of our population created the U.S. Climate Alliance, which has pledges from Mexico and Canada to collaborate. Co-founder of the Alliance, California Gov. Jerry Brown, wasted no time raising climate issues with China's President Xi Jinping when he visited Beijing last month, laying the groundwork for state-to-nation agreements and mutual assistance to achieve shared goals.
>States are partnering with cities and other stakeholders, too. Nine states have joined together with thousands of cities, companies, and educational institutions to form "We Are Still In" (referring to members' intentions to fulfill the commitments made in the Paris agreement) and a recent meeting of mayors in Miami was highlighted by more than 300 cities representing 65 million people pledging to be "Climate Mayors" and setting out ways they will help the U.S. comply with the Paris deal in local fact, if not in federal policy.
>The second way in which this declaration of states' independence is different from other breaks with the federal government is that their leaders are acting on solid science and economics, while our federal government is basing its policies on shortsighted politics and benefits for the few. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered two compelling arguments along these lines at a recent climate change policy forum.
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>The second way in which this declaration of states' independence is different from other breaks with the federal government is that their leaders are acting on solid science and economics, while our federal government is basing its policies on shortsighted politics and benefits for the few. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered two compelling arguments along these lines at a recent climate change policy forum.
>"There are around seven million people dying from air pollution every year," said Schwarzenegger. "It is government's responsibility to protect the people. It doesn't make anysense to be all worried about, 'When is ISIS going to come to America?' or all those kind of things, when in fact you are killing in America over 200,000 people every year, when you think about the health care [related to air pollution]. No one talks about that."
>Schwarzenegger went on to talk about the economic reasons that states and cities are bucking the feds on climate policies. "California has the strictest environmental laws, but at the same time we are number one in economic growth in America," he said.
>The numbers bear him out. One recent study showed the economically depressed (and largely conservative, Trump-voting) Central Valley of California has reaped over $13 billion of economic benefits from state climate policies, including renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, the cap-and-trade market on carbon emissions, and climate-friendly agricultural practices.
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Home Depot fires employee for stopping a kidnapping.
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it says that's not why he was fired
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No, no it doesn't. It stats that very reason for his termination. It is a letter from the states unemployment office informing him that he will receive unemployment, because the reason he was fired(stopping a kidnapping) is not justifiably to the state.
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This is pretty standard for big businesses; low-level, non-solary employees don't receive the training to deal with this kind of thing, so they aren't permitted to. Like at walmart, if you see someone stealing and you haven't been certified to pursue them, you'll be fired if you even follow them around. However well-intentioned this guy was, and I commend him, it seems like HD is just being consistent in enforcing policy
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Fake news website created to test Trump supporters' gullibility reveals they will believe anything 2017-05-27 01:00:26 Post No.144000
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Fake news website created to test Trump supporters' gullibility reveals they will believe anything
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>Despite aiming to write stories no-one would believe, James McDaniel found Trump supporters who believed that Barack Obama had been plotting a coup from a secret bunker near the White House, and that the British singer Adele had demanded he be jailed for such treachery.
>He decided to come clean after seeing the furious, unquestioning reaction when he falsely alleged that actress Whoopi Goldberg had said Carryn Owens, the widow of a dead US serviceman, had been “just looking for attention” when she attended Donald Trump’s speech to Congress.
>“When I started this site I had no idea that the stories would garner this much attention.
>“While writing them, I was aiming for stories that no one would believe, but rather would be satirical in an age where disinformation is so prevalent.
>“Just for fun, I decided to post some of the stories in Trump fan groups on Facebook to see the reactions.
>“To my surprise, the Trump masses embraced my stories as fact, almost universally. It seemed that there wasn’t anything I could write that was too wild or outrageous to be believed by this particular audience.
>“If I wrote about CNN being fake news and connected to ISIS, readers would agree wholeheartedly with my fabricated article. If I wrote about a black liberal or Obama supposedly saying something controversial, the response was unbridled racism and hatred. When I wrote about Hillary Clinton’s new emails that proved she was a child sacrificing maniac, people screamed for her head.”
>Writing after Mr Trump has himself accused mainstream media outlets including CNN of being “fake news” and “enemies of the people”, he added: “It’s truly a frightening time when a group of people screaming, “FAKE NEWS!” at the top of their lungs, live, eat and sleep falsehoods.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fake-news-donald-trump-supporters-gullible-believe-anything-barack-obama-paedophile-hillary-clinton-a7623441.html
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You could probably do the same for any political camp
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this is one of the most unsettling aspects of modern life, how many people i see who just believe anything without critical thinking.
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>breaking news: gullible idiots believe anything that people tell them
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>Hypocrite nation grants permanent residence to child they know will die.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/charlie-gard-us-citizenship-congress-american-treatment-uk-high-court-appeal-life-support-turn-off-a7848391.html
>No extreme vetting for political footballs.
>After months of trying to secure dying child for drug research US doctor finally examines his would be victim.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/18/charlie-gard-examined-by-us-doctor-offering-miracle-treatment-6787374/
>Doctor who's success rate is 10% in treating unrelated conditions with experimental drug visits child for first time.
>Outrage that lawyer may not be true believer in the necessity of painful death
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/17/concern-baby-charlies-lawyers-position-head-voluntary-euthanasia-charity/
>Despite having raised over £1 million in donations parents complain about state subsidised representation.
>Trent Franks Fights for Terminally Ill British Baby's Access to Medical Care, but Not Yours
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/rtrent-franks-seeks-medical-care-for-terminally-ill-british-baby-charlie-gard-9487010
>Arizona Congressman Trent Franks typically refuses to support anything that would make it easier for people to immigrate to the United States.
>He's also not exactly known for his stellar record on health care, having voted in favor of the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which is predicted to leave upward of 20 million people uninsured and unable to afford health care in an emergency.
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>So it's somewhat ironic that Franks is planning to introduce legislation that would grant permanent residency to a British couple so that their terminally ill child can get medical care in the United States.
>Last week, Franks and Ohio Congressman Brad Wenstrup inserted themselves into the midst of the international controversy surrounding 11-month-old Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic disease that prevents him from being able to see, hear, move, or breathe on his own.
>Gard's parents have been fighting for him to receive an experimental treatment that has yet to be approved by the FDA and is believed to have a 10 percent chance of success. British doctors initially said that any attempts at extending his life would be futile and "would prolong Charlie's suffering." A judge agreed, ruling that he should be taken off life support.
>Then, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center jumped in and offered to perform the treatment. The case is now headed back to court.
>Franks' involvement is, of course, politically motivated.
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>American conservatives seized on the dispute as the opportunity to critique the U.K.'s single-payer health care system, invoking the fear of "death panels," in which sick people are sentenced to death because it would be too expensive to keep them alive. (That, of course, ignores the fact that people in the United States routinely go bankrupt in the process of trying to provide medical care for their kids.)
>In a statement released Friday, Franks and Wenstrup framed the decision to take Gard off life support as a classic case of government overreach.
>"When government is able to overrule a parent or guardian in determining a patient’s best interest, every vulnerable patient is put at risk," they write.
>"Our bill will support Charlie’s parents’ right to choose what is best for their son, by making Charlie a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. in order for him to receive treatments that could save his life."
>So does that mean that, say, a Syrian refugee who needs a medical procedure that can only been performed in the U.S. could apply for legal residency? Nope.
>The legislation that Franks and Wenstrup plan to introduce would be a private bill, meaning that it would only apply to Charlie Gard and his parents. Anyone else with a terminally ill child who wants to move to the United States so that their kid can get medical treatment is out of luck.
>It's not entirely surprising that Franks got involved in this particular controversy: The battle over whether Charlie Gard should come off life support has been co-opted by the pro-life movement, in which Franks is deeply entrenched.
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>But the timing is surreal. As Franks and Wenstrup fight to make sure that one specific child gets access to the American health care system, people with pre-existing conditions are occupying Republican senators' offices and begging them to vote against the BRCA, which is projected to leave 22 million people without insurance and therefore unable to afford necessary medical care.
>Last week, Franks met with Brianna Huey, who lives in his district and has been diagnosed with a number of health conditions, including fibromyalgia and neuropathy. Both her children also have serious illnesses. Combined, the three of them have already made upward of 30 trips to the emergency room this year.
>Franks listened to their story and took a picture with them, telling 2-year old Melianna Huey, who suffers from dysphagia and has to be fed primarily through a feeding tube, "God hasn't forgotten about you."
>He admitted that the GOP's proposed alternative to the Affordable Care Act had flaws, telling activists, "I don’t believe it’s perfect at all. All you have to do is look at my quotes in the media and I find a lot wrong with it.”
>But, he acknowledged, he'd voted for it nonetheless.
>"It’s better than what we have right now," he claimed.
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Largest medical fraud takedown in American history 2017-07-16 05:08:18 Post No.157893
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that federal prosecutors have charged more than 400 people in taking part in medical fraud and opioid scams that totaled $1.3 billion in fraudulent billing.
Sessions said that 412 individuals will be prosecuted by his office in what he called the 'largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history' during a press conference in Washington.
Sessions noted that the case involves doctors, nurses and pharmacists that 'have chosen to violate their oaths and put greed ahead of their patients.'
Among those charged are six Michigan doctors accused of a scheme to prescribe unnecessary opioids. A Florida rehab facility is alleged to have recruited addicts with gift cards and visits to strip clubs, leading to $58 million in false treatments and tests.
Officials said those charged in the schemes include more than 120 people involved in illegally prescribing and distributing narcotic painkillers.
Such prescription opioids are behind the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in US history.
More than 52,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2015 - a record - and experts believe the numbers have continued to rise. (cont)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4694236/US-attorneys-412-health-fraud-case.html
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Please please please someone find another source for this article. It seems really really important, but people are going to discount it because it's from dailymail.
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Good Lord man, rub two brain cells together and figure out that if it's "announced" that there might just be an announcement:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/national-health-care-fraud-takedown-results-charges-against-over-412-individuals-responsible
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Thanks man. I was being lazy. Greatly appreciate this.
This is a step in the right direction. Make doctors stick to their oaths and stop chasing profits. +1 to Sessions.
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Investors Find Major Oil Deposit in Gulf of Mexico 2017-07-12 11:56:52 Post No.156929
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One of Mexico’s earliest private-sector energy investors says that it has struck it big with a significant oil discovery in Mexican waters.
Britain’s Premier Oil PLC, along with partners Talos Energy of Houston and Sierra Oil & Gas of Mexico City, said Wednesday that exploratory drilling in the Zama-1 field, located in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, had uncovered a “world-class” formation with between 1.4 billion and two billion barrels of light crude oil, or roughly double earlier predictions.
Earlier this year, the group had estimated that there were between 700 million and 800 million barrels in the deposit.
Also Wednesday, the government awarded exploration and production licenses for seven of 10 blocks containing mostly natural gas, nine of them in the Burgos basin of northeastern Mexico. Expectations were modest for the gas auction, given the low price of the fuel and readily available imports from the U.S.
The discovery, along with strong interest from foreign investors in recent oil and gas auctions, is a boon for the Mexican government, which in 2014 opened up the country’s energy industry to private investment after 76 years of state ownership.
The Zama-1 discovery “proves that the energy reform was a step in the right direction,” said Mexican Energy Minister Pedro Joaquín Coldwell. “The Mexican state is going to increase its hydrocarbon reserves, which had been declining, and…benefit from the corresponding tax revenue.”
The energy overhaul has become a political football in Mexico in the run-up to next July’s presidential election. Thousands of Mexicans have staged protests against a sharp increase in gasoline prices that began this year as part of the energy reform.
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Meanwhile, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s leading opposition leader, has pledged to roll back or reverse the reforms and build new refineries across Mexico to create more energy-sector jobs.
“To people who know the industry, it’s very good news that there is more oil than we expected,” said Jorge Piñon, a former oil executive who is now a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. “But from the point of view of the guy on the street, as far as he’s concerned, the reform hasn’t given him any benefits so far.”
Premier, Talos and Sierra won a tender to develop Zama-1 in a 2015 auction, the first such contracts awarded to private investors.
The find is “the most important achievement so far of Mexico’s energy reform,” said Pablo Medina, an analyst with Wood Mackenzie who focuses on Latin America.
The firm estimates that Zama-1 is one of the 20 largest shallow-water fields discovered globally over the past two decades.
Others cautioned that Premier’s estimate of the size of the discovery refers only to oil-in-place, not the amount of hydrocarbons that could be recovered from the field. Energy-focused investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. estimated that Zama-1 could yield about 425 million barrels.
Alfredo Marti, managing director of Riverstone Holdings, the U.S. private-equity firm that backs both Sierra and Talos, said that drillers typically recover 25% to 30% of the oil found in formations like Zama-1, but said he expects the group could recover between 30% and 40% because the area where the oil is located is deeper than expected and the rock more permeable than initially thought.
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“Not only is there more oil there, but it’s easier to recover,” Mr. Martí said. “It shows how there’s low-hanging fruit to be had in Mexico. In the U.S., companies work extraordinarily hard chasing a deposit of even 20 million barrels…With the prices of oil and gas being so low, we don’t have as many opportunities to break out the champagne these days, but this is one of them.”
The discovery comes on the heels of another significant oil find in the Gulf of Mexico. Italy’s Eni SpA on Wednesday estimated reserves in a field it won in 2015 at around one billion barrels of oil equivalent. Initial estimates had put reserves in that field at about 800 million barrels.
Wednesday’s auctions also showed that Mexico has a large and growing market for natural gas. It imported around 4.6 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas in the first four months of this year, accounting for nearly 60% of its needs.
Canada’s Sun God Resources and Mexico’s Jaguar Exploración y Producción de Hidrocarburos won six of the blocks. There were only six bidders for the gas auction, while 17 bidders were participating in a later auction Wednesday of 14 onshore oil and gas blocks.
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"Oh Boy Here I go Again"
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A security computer patrolling the grounds of a Washington, D.C., office building tragically "drowned" Monday in the building's decorative wading pool.
At least it looked drowned to CrystalMD founder Bilai Farooqui, who shared a photo of the hapless bot of lying face down — or maybe it was face up — in less than two feet of water. It's possible that the robot, a Knightscope K5 security robot, could be fine if someone blasts it with a hair blower or maybe drops it in a vat of rice.
The mobile, nosecone-shaped K5 security robots are designed to patrol areas such as office buildings, malls and parking lots to "gather data with smart eyes and ears." They guide themselves through "complex environments" by using video cameras, LIDAR, thermal imaging, license plate recognition, GPS and proximity sensors.
Unfortunately, all those feature did not prevent the machine from rolling down a few stairs and into an indoor pool that lacked 360-degree fencing.
Stacy Dean Stephens, Knightscope's vice president of marketing and sales, said in an email that incident was an isolated event and is under investigation. She noted that no people were harmed and said that the robot would be replaced per a service agreement.
This is not the first time a K5 robot has ended up on its back. In April, a K5 was assaulted by an allegedly intoxicated man and knocked to the ground in Mountain View.
And last July, a K5 unit made headlines when it ran over a 16-month toddler, hurting his leg and foot, at the Stanford Shopping Mall.
Knightscope, which has 24 locations in five states including one in Mountain View, deploys "commanding–but friendly" security robots in malls , corporate campuses and data centers.
According to the company, the fully automated, autonomous data machines operate around the clock and are outfitted with cutting-edge technology designed to protect people and property.
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Why do you care? Do you want to be a cuck to a robot faggot? So what's next ? you go to jail if an electronic device tries to blackmail you?
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Sooooo daleks.
I smell heresy here.
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Why wouldn't that robot be waterproof if it was meant to stay outside?
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Republicans are starting to admit they may have to work with Democrats on healthcare 2017-07-07 12:25:29 Post No.154800
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>With the Senate Republican healthcare bill stalled due to disagreements within the party, some Republicans are admitting they may have to move to a plan B: working with Democrats.
>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday said during an event in Kentucky that if GOP senators fail to reach an agreement on a bill that can get 50 votes in the chamber, they would have to work with the other party on a way to stabilize the Obamacare insurance markets.
>"If my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action with regard to the private health insurance market must occur," McConnell said.
>McConnell pointed to increasing premiums in the individual insurance marketplaces as the reason Republicans would have to reach across the aisle.
>"No action is not an alternative," McConnell said, according to The Associated Press. "We've got the insurance markets imploding all over the country, including in this state."
>McConnell reportedly used the prospect of working with Democrats as a threat earlier in the negotiations over the Senate healthcare bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA).
>Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas on Thursday also suggested Republicans may have to work with their Democratic counterparts to solve healthcare. Moran said he would have preferred to deliberate the bill in a more open fashion in the Senate, instead of using the more secretive process for which McConnell was criticized, and "figure out where there are 60 votes to pass something."
>The Kansas Republican also said there was no consensus within the 52-member GOP conference on the healthcare bill.
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>The BCRA hit a roadblock after its introduction. Conservative members rejected the bill because it did not go far enough in its repeal of Obamacare. On the other hand, more moderate members said the bill goes too far in stripping away funding from programs like Medicaid.
>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer welcomed the remarks from McConnell is a statement. The Senate's top Democrat expressed willingness to work with Republicans if they chose to do so.
>"It’s encouraging that Sen. McConnell today acknowledged that the issues with the exchanges are fixable, and opened the door to bipartisan solutions to improve our health care system," Schumer said. "As we’ve said time and time again, Democrats are eager to work with Republicans to stabilize the markets and improve the law."
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that actually may not be a bad idea provided they repeal it first.
Getting both parties on board, provided they get it right, would assure we don't have to go through the same BS again once the Democrats are in charge again.
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Why are Republicans such pussies
The Demoshits didn't work with the Republicans for the ACA.
90% of them ran on the platform of repeal and replace, but they even repeal, let alone replace.
I vote straight Republican, but this shit got old 8 years ago.
They're doing the same thing with gun rights too. Notice all those laws to deregulate suppressors got dropped too.
If the Demoshits weren't a party of virtue signaling, ultra cuck, anti white male, nigger worshippers, then I'd just vote for them and cut out the middle man of the Republicans
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Trump, Putin had second, undisclosed talk at G-20 2017-07-19 12:03:56 Post No.158676
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President Trump held a second, informal talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month, the White House confirmed Tuesday.
Press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed Trump and Putin spoke at the G-20 heads of state dinner, hours after their formal bilateral sit-down.
According to Tuesday reports, in their second conversation, Trump spoke with the Russian leader for roughly an hour, joined only by Putin's translator. The meeting had previously gone without mention by the administration.
The White House confirmed that Trump and Putin spoke at a dinner for G20 leaders and their spouses. But a White House official appeared to dispute that the discussion lasted an hour, saying the two only spoke "briefly" near the end of the dinner.
"There was no 'second meeting' between President Trump and President Putin, just a brief conversation at the end of a dinner," the official said. "The insinuation that the White House has tried to 'hide' a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd."
The White House said the two men used the Russian translator to converse because the American translator accompanying President Trump spoke Japanese.
Trump arrived at the dinner just after 7 p.m. local time, according to a pool report. He did not depart the dinner venue until a few minutes before midnight.
The dinner was scheduled to last from 8:30 to 10 p.m., according to an official G20 schedule.
The president's interactions with Putin are the subject of particularly intense scrutiny in the U.S., because of the ongoing special counsel and congressional investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
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The official said talking with world leaders is part of the president's job.
"It is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a President's duties, to interact with world leaders. Throughout the G20 and in all his other foreign engagements, President Trump has demonstrated American leadership by representing our interests and values on the world stage," the official said.
That Trump was not joined in the conversation by his own translator is a breach of national security protocol, according to Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, though one that the president likely would not know about.
Trump and Putin met for a formal discussion during the G-20 summit — a meeting that was scheduled to last 30 minutes but exceeded two hours.
Bremmer said in an interview with Bloomberg's Charlie Rose that the rapport that Trump established with Putin during the summit is "clearly his best personal relationship" with a G-20 leader.
"Never in my life as a political scientist have I seen two countries — major countries — with a constellation of national interests that are as dissonant, while the two leaders seem to be doing everything possible to make nice and be close to each other," he said.
During the formal meeting, Trump reportedly pressed Putin about Moscow's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election, which the Russian president denied.
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>What's that? Many of my campaign staff and my son are under investigation for collusion with Russia? Has nothing to do with me, let's have a secret off-the-books meeting with the Russian head-of-state.
The Cuckwork Orange sets the gold standard for retarded politicians everywhere.
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>>158683
No one is currently under investigation, despite what your cuck media is telling you.
There is zero evidence of collusion with Russia
There is zero evidence that Russia tampered or even interfered with the election
It's not illegal for world leaders to talk to each other
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Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer 2017-07-14 12:32:04 Post No.157388
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>The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter intelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.
>NBC News is not naming the lobbyist, who denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies. He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort.
>The Russian-born American lobbyist served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship.
>Veselnitskaya acknowledged to NBC News that she was accompanied by at least one other man, though she declined to identify him.
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There's no such thing as a former FSB agent. "Retired" agents are still active at some level.
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I love how someone just being from Russia makes them some sort of foreign agent now
It's like the cold war all over again
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Oh, it gets better:
>http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/341997-ex-soviet-officer-was-also-in-trump-jr-meeting-report
>Alan Futerfas, Trump Jr.'s lawyer, told The Hill that the lobbyist mentioned in the NBC report was introduced as a friend of Veselnitskaya and Emin Agalarov, the Russian pop star whose agent, Goldstone, arranged the meeting.
>Futerfas would not give the name of the lobbyist, but said he was one of three people in addition to Veselnitskaya who came to the meeting as part of her group. He did not identify the other two people.
I'm going to go pop some popcorn while I wait to find out who the other two people accompanying Veselnitskaya were.
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Lorretta Lynch Allowed "Russian Lawyer" into US after Visa Rejection 2017-07-14 04:10:21 Post No.157328
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The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump’s inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” before she embarked on a lobbying campaign last year that ensnared the president’s eldest son, members of Congress, journalists and State Department officials, according to court and Justice Department documents and interviews.
This revelation means it was the Obama Justice Department that enabled the newest and most intriguing figure in the Russia-Trump investigation to enter the country without a visa.
Later, a series of events between an intermediary for the attorney and the Trump campaign ultimately led to the controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.
Just five days after meeting in June 2016 at Trump Tower with Trump Jr., Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Moscow attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya showed up in Washington in the front row of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia policy, video footage of the hearing shows.
She also engaged in a pro-Russia lobbying campaign and attended an event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., where Russian supporters showed a movie that challenged the underpinnings of the U.S. human rights law known as the Magnitsky Act, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has reviled and tried to reverse. (More below)
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The Moscow lawyer had been turned down for a visa to enter the U.S. lawfully but then was granted special immigration parole by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch for the limited purpose of helping a company owned by Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, her client, defend itself against a Justice Department asset forfeiture case in federal court in New York City.
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Globalists are working over time on this bullshit
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Liberals will defend this
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Google to release pay data in gender discrimination probe 2017-07-18 12:58:25 Post No.158312
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July 17 (UPI) -- Google must partially comply with a Labor Department's request for 19 years' worth of employee pay data as part of a gender discrimination investigation, a San Francisco-area judge ruled.
Earlier this year, the Labor Department sued Google for information concerning how much it paid more than 25,000 employees over the course of 19 years. Federal investigators said they found "systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce."
Administrative Law Judge Steven Berlin, though, said the request for data was too broad and raised privacy concerns. Instead, he ruled, Google must give the Labor Department pay data for up to 8,000 employees from 2014-17.
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There is nothing mire hilarious than liberal groups fighting
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Women are only there to serve as eye candy, just a pretty thing to look at, of course they get pay less
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Irony, is that you?