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>James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473

>>139086
>he better hope
Or what? Torture and rendition?

>>139088
If the claims that there are tapes are true then he may have Comey on a hot mic saying something Comey really really does not want publicly available. If what Trump claims is true and Comey told him that there wasnt an investigation it would be the lefts Clinton Emails press conference.

>The prequel was among several works donated by authors, including Sebastian Faulks and Doris Lessing, to an auction held in 2008 to raise funds for English PEN, which promotes understanding through literature, and Dyslexia Action.
>The burglary victim, who only wished his first name - Hira - to be published, said it took a while for the "shock" to set in after he learnt it was taken.
>He said the work was "priceless" and if it was sold again legitimately it had the potential to raise more money for good causes.
>"I don't think whoever took it or stole it or who might purchase it will really understand the benefits to people out there, what it can do," he said.
>"If I can get it back, I'm over the moon, because I'm only going to be doing good stuff with it.
>"If it's destroyed, or if it's lost, it's a great loss."
>The burglary victim admitted he had only read one of the Harry Potter books.
>Investigating officer PC Paul Jauncey said: "We are appealing to anyone who sees, or is offered this item for sale, to contact police."

>>138890
Thought crime is death.

>>138633
> “We suggest that in response to emerging neurotechnology possibilities, the right to mental integrity should not exclusively guarantee protection from mental illness or traumatic injury but also from unauthorised intrusions into a person’s mental wellbeing performed through the use of neurotechnology, especially if such intrusions result in physical or mental harm to the neurotechnology user,” the ethicists wrote.

> “The right to mental privacy is a neuro-specific privacy right which protects private or sensitive information in a person’s mind from unauthorised collection, storage, use, or even deletion in digital form or otherwise.”

> And they warned that the techniques were so sophisticated that people’s minds might be being read or interfered with without their knowledge.

> “Illicit intrusions into a person’s mental privacy may not necessarily involve coercion, as they could be performed under the threshold of a persons’ conscious experience,” they wrote in the paper.

> “The same goes for actions involving harm to a person’s mental life or unauthorised modifications of a person’s psychological continuity, which are also facilitated by the ability of emerging neurotechnologies to intervene into a person’s neural processing in absence of the person’s awareness.”

> They proposed four new human rights laws: the right to cognitive liberty, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity and the right to psychological continuity.

> Professor Roberto Andorno, an academic at Zurich University’s law school and a co-author of the paper, said: “Brain imaging technology has already reached a point where there is discussion over its legitimacy in criminal court, for example as a tool for assessing criminal responsibility or even the risk of re-offending.

so does the tinfoil actually work or do you need a lead hat?

>>138633
Another fucking thing that shouldn't have been made that will make man's life much worse in the future. All because monies.The people responsible for this don't deserve any sympathy for what's coming.

>>137825

I've heard experts warn of EMP attacks and other experts say they're blown out of proportion.

I'm not sure who to believe.

>>137825
I'll worry about EMP's when my army is made of robots

>>137875
Yes as your electronics that connect to the electric grid wont be fried and useless

Vive la France!

Maybe the french liberals believe their somehow smarter than their american counterparts? Theyre in for a rude awakening if they believe they can just dismiss Le Pen and hope it all works out, it happened with Brexit, it happened with Trump, it can happen to them too.

Le Pen will win this thing. It's like 100 years ago, during the last time peoples attempted to throw off the globalist order, and this time, the Democracies will lose. Russia, France, America, Hungary, and Greece will all join together and nothing will be able to stop the nuclear fires that will rain down upon the corrupt regimes of this world. It shall be a glorious war!

>For Fascism, the growth of Empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; any renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But Empire demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense of duty and sacrifice.

>Above all, Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism — born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put a man in front of himself in the alternative of life and death.

Nice not news fag but now im giving an actual link to it
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/11/15626278/net-neutrality-spam-bot-fcc-leak-data
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bots-denial-of-service-are-latest-weapons-in-net-neutrality-battle-1494533379
>Those email addresses, when searched for in the data leak database Have I Been Pwned, all come up as matches for the RCM list, suggesting the RCM list, or a variation of the Special K list, may have been the source for many of the identities used in the comments. A spokesperson for RCM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

>>138949
You'll be a fine /news/man yet, Anon. Good work. inb4 Comcast shills.

>Also on Friday, a coalition of 41 organizations led by the Human Rights Campaign called on the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee to reject Green's nomination. The letter to Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Jack Reed of Rhode Island said Green's "shameful rhetoric" is at odds with the Army's core values and will affect recruiting.

>Green's withdrawal underscores the challenges Trump has faced in filling two of the service secretary posts. The president's first pick to be the Army's top civilian, Vincent Viola, dropped out in early February because of financial entanglements, and about three weeks later Philip B. Bilden, the Navy secretary nominee, withdrew for similar reasons.

>The GOP-led Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on the nomination of Heather Wilson to be Air Force secretary.

>Trump's decision to tap Green in early April represented a stark contrast to President Barack Obama's choice of Eric Fanning for the post. Fanning, who'd been a senior Pentagon official, was the first openly gay leader of one of the military branches.

>Green graduated from West Point in 1986 and served as an Army physician. Green is the CEO of Align MD, which provides leadership and staffing to emergency departments and hospitals, according to the White House. He served in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment where he made three combat tours to the Middle East.

>As a Tennessee state senator, Green sponsored legislation last year that his critics have said would make it easier for businesses to discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

>During his remarks before the Chattanooga tea party group, Green said the Obama administration has "bred general officers who are afraid of their shadow." He also said that "if you poll the psychiatrists, they're going to tell you that transgender is a disease."

>>137205
>"Tragically, my life of public service and my Christian beliefs have been mischaracterized and attacked by a few on the other side of the aisle for political gain," Green said, expressing "deep regret" over the decision.

>I'm a martyr, waaaaah

Hilarious

>>137205
The thing is, he is not wrong. Political correctness welcomed by Obama's marxist agenda screwed our nation and shook the confidence of Christian Peoples....liberals will never be appeased. Trump needs to put his foot down and just hire these people. He also needs to clear these big decisions with e SCOTUS thereby making all those liberal activist west coast judges of the 9th & 11th circuit irrelevant

>The spirit of clustered churches

>Hippos was one of the Decapolis (“10 cities”), a region in the eastern section of the Roman empire that encompasses parts of today’s Israel, Jordan and Syria (Damascus was one of these cities). Each was an autonomous city-state. Scholars today do not believe they were formally allied, however.

>Whatever the nature of their relations with others, clusters of churches was the norm in the late Antique period.

>"There are at least 13 churches at Jerash (Gerasa), and a number at both Gadara and Scythopolis," Schuler tells Haaretz. "Multiple churches as a feature was not unusual. In Jerash, three churches right next to each other even share common outside walls."

>Why the early Christians of Palestina built multiple churches may never be known. Some may have been built in different times. Or perhaps, churches may have been erected to accommodate different ethnic groups or theological perspectives. Or it could be a combination the above, says Schuler.

>So far, five churches have been excavated at least in part in Hippos-Sussita. “Four are clustered in the city center and one is in the southwest quadrant, a domestic quarter,” says the professor. “Another location in the domestic quarter is a church, I am convinced, but it hasn’t been excavated yet.”

>A preliminary investigation there found telltale hallmarks of ecclesial architecture, including, for instance, an atrium with a cistern, he says.

>The east side of Hippos seems to have yet another church. The archaeologists also found a burial chapel (a small edifice about 3 by 5 meters – 10 by 16 feet – atop a masonry tomb built below it, Schuler explains). “It was probably a family memorial site,” he surmises.
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>Arguing the case for early Christian tolerance of one another’s beliefs is that they seem to have coexisted temporally. “What’s interesting to me about these churches at Hippos-Sussita is that they all came into existence in the late fifth or early sixth century,” Schuler says.

>Yet not all remained in use for long. Hippos, which had been occupied for thousands of years - shards have been found from the Copper Age, around 5,000 years ago - was destroyed by an earthquake in 749. By that time, most of the churches were no longer in use.

>"Probably only the cathedral and northwest church were in partial use by then. The southwest church had been burned and abandoned," says Schuler, adding, "In the northeast church almost all the doors had been intentionally blocked off."

>Perhaps there had been a massive loss of faith; perhaps a heavy loss of population; or maybe some of the churches served sects that ceased to exist.

>Touched by a saint

>One church Schuler helped excavate at Hippos had a decidedly unusual feature: burials in the chancel – the part of the apse at the front of the church normally reserved for sacred rites by the clergy. (Usually, the chancel is marked off from the nave by a screen or steps.)

>The churches at Hippos, including the northeast church, are three-aisled basilicas. They have two major sections: the chancel including the apse and altar, separated from the aisled portion, Schuler explains. The central aisle is the nave, and there are two smaller aisles to the north and south.

>The congregants probably stood in the smaller aisles. Some suggest they were segregated by sex, with females in the north aisle and males in the south aisle. The nave was likely for processions.

>"It's not unusual to find burials in churches…usually in the nave or the aisles. The unusual thing here is burials in the chancel, and this one had them," says Schuler.
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>In fact, the chancel in this Hippos church had burials in two sites, he says: one off the center axis, beneath the floor, which contained the remains of 12 people.

>“There was a wooden coffin at a lower level, which was gone, but its nails were still there. That had three individuals in it. Later somebody inserted the bottom half of a sarcophagus box on top of that coffin. There were nine individuals interred in there,” says Schuler.

>But the really interesting tomb was at the head of the south aisle in the chancel.

>“It was a single sarcophagus, exposed above the floor, faced with marble and crosses. It had a hole bored on the top of the sarcophagus that could have been used for pouring oil or wine on the remains,” says Schuler.

>Or that hole might have had another purpose: for rods to be inserted by the early Christians, to touch the remains inside. Why would they want to do that? The early Christians believed that a rod touching a saint’s relics could serve as a conduit of sorts to transfer the holiness to themselves.

>“When we opened the tomb, it contained a single skeleton. The bones had been rearranged at the west end of tomb,” Schuler says. “She was an elderly woman, at least 55 years old, with osteoporosis. Possibly, an unknown saint.”

>Possibly, what happened is that tomb was opened for extraction of relics, and was pried open from the west end, he explains. The relics removed, the remaining bones were intentionally gathered at the west end, where the skull would have lain. The revered woman had initially been buried on her back, as usual, with her feet to the east: the archaeologists found 17 metatarsals and phalanges of the foot at the east end of the sarcophagus.
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Literal-who's twitter opinions are not /news/worthy

>>138828
Shit's about to get real.

>>138828
Meh it honestly could be anything. Here's to hoping it takes down Karl Rove, but I'm not expecting much. Still a good news story, thanks for posting, OP.

>>138836
Could just be a garden variety FEC case, or could be something bigger. Probably won't find out for weeks in any case.

> Asked whether Secretary Wilbur Ross or Trump himself had asked Thompson to step down, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said by email: "He's simply retiring from public service. He spent 30 years in public service and 10 in the private sector."

>The Census, conducted every 10 years since 1790, is critical to determining how to run the country as it grows and diversifies. Beyond government spending, the private sector also uses demographic information collected in the enumeration.

>The U.S. recently surpassed 325 million people. By 2044, whites are expected to become a minority. In 2020, the questionnaire is expected to include a new classification for Americans who are of Middle Eastern descent.

>The director is nominated by the president for a five-year term and confirmed by the Senate.

>>138795
it means he already has a job lined up that pays better and he wont have to put up with the census workload that is just about to start. but hey, must have been trump.....maybe trumphad him hired on to his company

>>138410
I don't like Trump either but this story is tabloid as fuck.

>>138410
>unidentified staff members
Fake news made up people.

>>138412
That isn't fake news you numbskull.

>Anglin launched the campaign against Gersh after Sherry Spencer, the Whitefish, Montana-based mother of another white supremacist, Richard Spencer, posted an article on Medium accusing Gersh of threatening her with harassment if she did not sell the commercial building she owns in the town. Richard Spencer spends time in Whitefish, and there was talk at the time of staging protests outside the building.

>Gersh, a realtor, contends that Sherry Spencer initiated contact, seeking to sell her building to head off the protests and to calm the town roiled by the rising profile of her son, who garnered media attention for his support of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

>Nothing in the email exchanges Sherry Spencer attached to her Medium post suggests Gersh was trying to coerce Spencer; instead, Gersh’s tone is deferential and sympathetic, and she says she is cutting her commission to the lowest percentage possible in order to facilitate the sale.

>Anglin, on Dec. 16, a day after Sherry Spencer’s claims appeared on Medium, posted a screed titled “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and Extortion – TAKE ACTION!”

>He included Gersh’s home address and phone, her husband’s business contact information, and the Twitter handle of her 12-year old son, whom he referred to in abusive terms.

>“Please call her and tell her what you think,” Anglin said. “And hey – if you’re in the area, maybe you should stop by and tell her in person what you think of her actions.”

>Referring to Gersh’s son, Anglin advised his readers to “hit up” the boy’s Twitter account. “Tell them (sic) what you think of his whore mother’s vicious attack on the community of Whitefish,” Anglin wrote.

>Anglin, in a subsequent post three days later, accused the “lying Jew media” of distorting his original post, citing liberal news websites that reported that he had called on his followers to harass Gersh and had posted her home address.

>He said he “purposefully” left out home addresses, although the address he included is listed as the Gersh residence, and insisted, “I called for people to express their feelings about these threats and this harassment and extortion to the people responsible – and somehow I’m the threatener and harasser!”

>JTA asked Daily Stormer over Twitter if it had any comment. There was no reply.

Oh weev, what a fine mess you've gotten yourself into this time.

>Many asked about Blum's vote last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Blum, the Post reported, said the change affects about 12,000 people in his district and for most people nothing will change. The statement was followed by boos and shouts.

>Blum later tweeted thanks to the group for a "great discussion."

>>138706
Honestly those people should feel lucky their Congressman is even having a town hall. Not everyone's Congressman has that much courage. Mine doesn't.

>>138711

There's no legal obligation to hold a town hall. The benefit of doing so is you become more attractive to your prospective voters by appearing more open and accountable to feedback directly from them, while residents of the state get responses to their policy questions directly from representatives.

So they shouldn't expect to deceive people with a nice photo op while only feinting concern the for citizens they represent, like by restricting access to townhalls by district. That would be dishonest.