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>Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Man, what a list of shithole countries.

>Iran
lol wew

Disturbing lack of saudi arabia on that list. I wonder why

>>152078
Thats real fucking neato

He's also gonna enjoy paying for her future welfare payments and incarcerations. White submissive cucks are everywhere these days.

>>152099
your neato

Mission Accomplished!

>>152042
Fuck off.

Kansas should be more like Illinois, I think.

not sure if "wtf" or "lmao"

>>152009
"Youths" is MSM newspeak for 20 something minority men I guess?

>Refugee thugs
>Blackburn, West Lothian A town of 5000 people.
>no mention of origin of the aggressors
>picture of African refugees in Manitoba, Canada taken from CBC

According to Politico, prosecutors might also be looking into allegations that Sen. Sanders' office inappropriately urged the bank to approve the loan.

Burlington attorney and Sanders supporter Rich Cassidy has reportedly been hired to represent Sen. Sanders. And high-profile Washington defense attorney Larry Robbins, who counseled Libby "Scooter" Robbins, former Chief of Staff for the Vice President, is protecting Jane Sanders.

Ms. Sanders' push for the liberal arts college's costly land acquisition was cited in a press release by the college when it shut down in 2016.

Brady Toensing of Burlington, the man responsible for the claims filed to the U.S. attorney for Vermont, was a chairman for the Trump campaign in his state.

"I filed a request for an investigation in January 2016 and an investigation appears to have been started right away," he said in an email to CBS News. "It was started under President Obama, his Attorney General, and his U.S. Attorney, all of whom are Democrats."

"My only hope is for a fair, impartial, and thorough investigation," Toensing added.

Weaver told CBS News that Toensing's claim that Sen. Sanders used his influence to lobby for the loan is a "political charge" that is "baseless" and "false."

And as for the claim that Ms. Sanders manipulated the loan application, Weaver said, "The loan was approved by the financial board at the college."

Sen. Sanders, formerly mayor of Burlington, Vermont's largest city and capital, regards the claims as a political game levied against him after his run for president in the 2016 primary election, a platform which has transformed the small-state senator into an influential voice in American liberal politics.

>>151689
I'm posting this to vent, and hopefully prevent someone who enjoys this kind of story from posting first. The right wing is going to eat this shit up, and I dread it. Fuck.

Its as if everything was held together by obama in these peoples mind.

Maybe trump is to alien and they dont understand him?

Goat eyes.

>>151424

That walleyed retard had a girl friend?!

WTF is wrong with me?...

>>150704
...

The president drew criticism in May when he said he would be "honored" to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it," Trump said in the interview. "If it's under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that."

The student's father, Fred Warmbier, said last week that his son had been "brutalized and terrorized by the Pyongyang government and that the family disbelieved North Korea's story that his son had fallen into a coma after contracting botulism and being given a sleeping pill.

Doctors who examined Otto Warmbier after his release said there was no sign of botulism in his system.

Warmbier was freed after the U.S. State Department's special envoy on North Korea, Joseph Yun, traveled to Pyongyang and demanded the student's release on humanitarian grounds, capping a flurry of secret diplomatic contacts, a U.S. official said last week.

Tensions between the United States and North Korea have been heightened by dozens of North Korean missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of last year in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Pyongyang has also vowed to develop a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States holds North Korea accountable for Warmbier's "unjust imprisonment" and demanded the release of three other U.S. citizens still held by Pyongyang - Korean-Americans Tony Kim, Kim Dong Chul and Kim Hak Song.

Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, who spent two years in North Korean captivity before his release in 2014, expressed sadness at Warmbier's death, calling it an "outrage."

"I cannot understand what the Warmbier family is feeling right now. But I mourn with them, and I pray for them," Bae said in a statement, noting three Americans and a Canadian are currently detained in North Korea.

...

>>150705
...
Young Pioneer Tours, the group with which Warmbier traveled to North Korea, will no longer be organizing tours for U.S. citizens to the isolated country, Troy Collings, a company director, said in a statement.
(that ends the reuters article)
Other sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
"What did North Korea do to Otto Warmbier? The Australian (archive due to flaky website): http://archive.is/xVrWY

>>150706
>one retard fucks up
>the tour group decides to disband

>>152115
Wow, hundreds

Will we recover?

This is literally just a "Trump tried to help and it still happened" article, why does npr get government funding still

The 7 million they got was a Paltry amount to what they'd save shipping overseas.

Not surprising lets move on

>>152119
>Wow, hundreds
That he very specifically said he would keep at this specific factory.
Will the economy recover? Sure
Is it another case of 'idiots voted for someone who won't keep a single promise'? Absolutely.

>>151941
>The FBI received a copy of the Democrat-funded dossier in August, during the heat of the campaign, and is said to have contracted in October to pay Steele $50,000 to help corroborate the dirt on Trump — a relationship that “raises substantial questions about the independence” of the bureau in investigating Trump, warned Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
>In September 2016, while Fusion GPS was quietly shopping the dirty dossier on Trump around Washington, its co-founder and partner Peter R. Fritsch contributed at least $1,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund and the Hillary For America campaign, Federal Election Commission data show. His wife also donated money to Hillary’s campaign.
>Property records show that in June 2016, as Clinton allies bankrolled Fusion GPS, Fritsch bought a six-bedroom, five-bathroom home in Bethesda, Md., for $2.3 million.
>Fritsch did not respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Fusion GPS said the firm’s work is confidential.

Another domino in the unraveling of this poorly constructed conspiracy begins to fall.

The silence from liberals is alarming.

>>151961
Anything that shed light on leftist hypocrisy and corruption in a massive blow to their ego

We need to take control back while we can. Reeeeeeeeeeeee

and Ulster gets a billion pounds sterling

Silver lining: at least they found that money tree they kept hounding Corbyn for.

Nobody cares

>>151953
None of us could give any fucks about her car.We got our own shit to handle..

Shoes in microwave

>Tate told the station that his client identified himself to the on-duty officers at the scene and complied with their commands. He questioned the white officer's account, according to police, that he shot the off-duty officer because he feared for his safety.

>"In the police report you have so far, there is no description of a threat he received. So we have a real problem with that. But this has been a national discussion for the past two years. There is this perception that a black man is automatically feared," Tate said.

>It was in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson where a white officer shot an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, three years ago, setting off months of protests, some of which were violent. The officer, who later left the force, wasn't charged, which further strained relations between the area's black community and the police.

>But there have been several notable instances over the years in which an officer mistakenly shot a colleague.

>In 2009, 25-year-old New York City police Officer Omar J. Edwards, who was black, was shot and killed by a white officer on a Harlem street while in street clothes. He had just finished his shift, and had his service weapon out, chasing a man who had broken into his car, police said.

>Three plainclothes officers on routine patrol arrived at the scene and yelled for the two to stop, police said. One officer, Andrew Dunton, opened fire and hit Edwards three times as he turned toward them with his service weapon. It wasn't until medical workers were on scene that it was determined he was a police officer. A grand jury voted not to indict Dunton.

>A year earlier in the suburb of White Plains, New York, a black off-duty Mount Vernon police officer was killed by a Westchester County policeman while holding an assault suspect at gunpoint.

And in Providence, Rhode Island, an off-duty black police sergeant, Cornel Young Jr., was accidentally killed by two uniformed white colleagues in 2000 while he was trying to break up a fight on a parking lot. Young — at the time the son of the department's highest-ranking black officer — was dressed in baggy jeans, an overcoat and a baseball cap, and he was carrying a gun.

>A jury later rejected a $20 million federal lawsuit by Young's mother against the city and its police force, who she claimed didn't properly train officers about how to identify their off-duty and plainclothes counterparts.

>Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics show such accidental police-on-police shootings occur at a low rate given the tense, confusing circumstances officers routinely face. In 2013, according to online FBI figures, only two officers were killed when mistakenly shot as a result of crossfire, mistaken for a subject, or involved in other firearm mishaps. The FBI statistics don't specify the race of the officers killed.

>>151865
>Black suspects
>Middle of shootout
>Off duty black guy in civilian clothes runs over to help with his gun

Yeah no shit he got shot

In mice and in people without the mutation, studies have shown that leptin plays an important role in regulating metabolism—just not the one it's most famous for—obesity prevention. Studies from the Flier lab first showed that falling leptin levels signal the body that it may be in danger of starvation. The role for leptin as a starvation signal is now well established.

Early on, researchers speculated that this protein might also play a key role in helping healthy lean people remain thin, perhaps by serving as a signal that orchestrates resistance to obesity. Paradoxically, obese mice and people who don't have the defective obesity gene almost always have high levels of leptin. Flier first hypothesized that this may be due to some kind of leptin resistance, analogous to the insulin resistance seen in type 2 diabetes, a condition in which the body produces more than normal amounts of the sugar-regulating hormone insulin, but cannot use it to normally metabolize sugar.

While some leptin is clearly necessary to prevent obesity, the authors write, the physiologic role of leptin in most individuals may be limited to signaling the response to hunger or starvation, and then reversing that signal as energy stores are restored, as they first hypothesized more than 20 years ago, they say. If that is true, according to the authors, the biology of leptin has little to do with leanness or obesity, apart from a few rare cases of primary deficiency with severe obesity.

Nevertheless, Flier and Maratos-Flier say, an anti-obesity role for leptin persists as a dogma in the field of metabolism and obesity and remains the most common description of what leptin does in textbooks and literature reviews. Yet, Flier and Maratos-Flier caution, this role for leptin has never been demonstrated experimentally in humans.

"Before we write the next chapter on leptin physiology and obesity," Flier said, "we should commit to seeing that these important questions are finally answered."

Obesity is becoming a catastrophic health problem, both nationally and globally—one that fuels a range of chronic diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease, kidney damage, arthritis and cardiovascular disease, among others. More than $140 billion is spent each year in the United States to treat obesity-related diseases, according to the CDC. Worldwide obesity rates have doubled since 1980, and most people now live in countries where more deaths are caused by overweight and obesity than by malnourishment, according to the World Health Organization.

"What we find most surprising is the extent to which scientists in the field of metabolism and energy balance seem minimally concerned that key experiments to define the actions of leptin have yet to be reported," Maratos-Flier said. "The widely accepted 'anti-obesity limb' of leptin physiology has never been clearly demonstrated to be present in human biology."

The authors note that it's possible, even likely, that as-yet undiscovered molecules, not leptin, mediate the regulation of body weight and its dysregulation in obesity.

Treatment with leptin was approved in the United States in 2014 for use in congenital leptin deficiency as well as in an unusual syndrome of lipodystrophy, but the protein has not been readily available for clinical experiments. There has also been limited interest in funding the types of experiments necessary to rigorously test the still-hypothetical benefits of leptin for preventing or reversing obesity, apart from obesity due to rare genetic mutations in the leptin gene, the authors write.

As one example, the authors propose a clinical study measuring how lean people respond to increased leptin levels. If leptin is an anti-obesity hormone, it might suppress hunger or increase energy expenditure in trial participants compared to those who get a placebo.

"We continue to believe that healthy and lean individuals exist who resist obesity at least in part through their leptin levels, and that some individuals develop obesity because they have insufficiently elevated leptin levels or cellular resistance to leptin," Flier said. "But in science, belief and knowledge are two different things, and as much as we may lean toward this belief, we ought to develop evidence for this hypothesis or abandon it in favor of new potential mechanisms for the regulation of body weight."

Antoinette Laird, head of external relations, Foodstuffs NZ, said Pak'n Save displayed the dog treats in its 'Aisle of Value' area and the bin was clearly labelled as 'pet treats' but some customers mistook them for human food.

"The store relocated the product to the pet food aisle, and has since decided to withdraw the product from sale and return it to the supplier," Ms Laird said.

The product packaging states the product is a 'pet food product only, human-friendly but not recommended'.

"On reflection, we can see how the cartoon characters on the packaging might be confusing," Ms Laird said.

"We apologise for any distress this has caused to anyone who bought the product by mistake and will happily offer a refund to any customer in this position."

One concerned mother said she had contacted Pak'n Save about the mix-up. She said they appeared more amused than concerned people would buy them to eat.

She said people were often in a rush and duped by similar packaging. There was also nothing at the store to indicate it was pet food.

One young woman however, confessed to eating two packets and they tasted "pretty good tbh".

Ate a couple dog treats as a kid. They were just like vanilla cookies. These parents are fucking dumb.

"I care SO little about my children's health or their nutrition that I don't even check to make sure that I give them human food."
-Multiple parents from the same shopping community