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>Just 39% of Egyptian men approved of women serving as leaders of political parties, though 93% said they should be able to vote.

>60% of Moroccan men said "if a woman is raped, she should marry her rapist."

>62% of Moroccan men said "a woman should tolerate violence to keep the family together", and 38% agreed "there are times when a woman deserves to be beaten". Shockingly, 20% of Moroccan women agreed with this.

>The report collected anecdotes and accounts from men and women across the four countries surveyed, including many accounts of domestic violence.

>One young woman living in Cairo said her husband apologised for beating her and she went back to him, and now "The beating decreased, and now he beats me slightly if we disagree. But before, he used to beat me 'till my face and body became blue. But now things are better."

>The report's authors said, "While a majority of men surveyed in the four countries support a wide array of inequitable, traditional attitudes; a sizable minority of men in the four countries acknowledge and support women's equality in many aspects of public and private life."

Wow this is all so very surprising and not what I expected wow thank you for enlightening me on this very shocking issue that I had no idea was even happening in this year of our lord 2017 wow

>>137607
The worst thing about this is that racists predicted it

Those assholes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We need communism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

everyone knew this was coming. plus your source is shit, OP. You could have posted any other but you had to post the breitbart of the left.

That said, this sucks for anyone streaming anything at any time in America.

>>135555
No one is stopping you from posting another link. Who cares if the truth comes from a particular source anyway? They are trying to destroy neutrality.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5413955060001/?#sp=show-clips

Yay MAGA

>>138123
nice duplicate thread
>>138117

>>137982
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/05/09/521176/France-evacuating-tent-refugee-camp-Paris
(mainly for the video, the text mostly same as reuters)
More French sources:http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/paris-la-gare-du-nord-evacuee-apres-une-operation-policiere-09-05-2017-2125854_23.php#xtor=RSS-221
http://www.france24.com/fr/20170509-campements-migrants-evacues-porte-chapelle-a-paris
http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75018/paris-des-campements-de-migrants-evacues-porte-de-la-chapelle-09-05-2017-6931116.php

>>137982
To what type of housing will they all be taken?

Don't they do this once a year, every year?

happened a week ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/14/humiliating-sting-operation-against-elderly-widow-of-apollo-engineer-draws-court-rebuke/

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-detained-moon-rock-20170413-story.html

>>133553
Not OP but I'll do better than that.

http://fox4kc.com/2017/04/14/widow-can-sue-nasa-over-sting-operation-to-forcibly-seize-moon-rock-speck/

>LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. – A 75-year-old widow in tough financial straits reached out to NASA about selling a speck of moon rock her late husband had given her.

>Joann Davis then became the target of a sting operation at a Denny’s that a federal appeals court suggested Thursday was outrageous overkill.

>The lead agent “organized a sting operation involving six armed officers to forcibly seize a Lucite paperweight containing a moon rock the size of a rice grain from an elderly grandmother,” wrote Judge Sidney Thomas of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in the decision allowing Davis to sue, per the Los Angeles Times.

>One awful detail from the 2011 incident: The agents refused Davis’ request to use the bathroom, and she urinated in her pants during the two-hour ordeal at the restaurant in Lake Elsinore, Calif.

>Agents also forcibly restrained her second husband, who had accompanied her to the supposed sale. Davis’ first husband, Robert, worked as an Apollo 11 engineer, and he saved a paperweight with moon material and another with a bit of the heat shield.

>He died in 1986, and years later Davis found herself raising grandchildren in her 70s following her daughter’s death and her son’s illness. She called NASA about selling the mementos.

>Instead of informing her that selling moon material was illegal, investigators ordered the sting, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. A federal prosecutor later opted not to press charges.

>In this week’s ruling, the judges said Davis made a case that the detention violated her constitutional right regarding unreasonable seizure. She is suing agent Norman Conley, who “had no law enforcement interest in detaining Davis for two hours while she stood wearing urine-soaked pants in a restaurant’s parking lot during the lunch rush,” wrote Thomas.

>>133559
>She is suing agent Norman Conley, who “had no law enforcement interest in detaining Davis for two hours while she stood wearing urine-soaked pants in a restaurant’s parking lot during the lunch rush,”

I think this guy needs to become the face of Grandmother Piss Fetishists.

>“A lot of the Pepe controversy has really troubled him,” Mr. Reynolds said of Mr. Furie, who did not reply to requests for comment on Monday. “I think the strip was less about saying Pepe the Frog is dead — because Pepe is a fictional cartoon character — and more about him just sort of processing everything that’s going on.”

>Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said he appreciated Mr. Furie’s struggle to maintain control of his character. But he had “mixed feelings” about seeing the frog in a coffin.

>“This meme is almost like Elvis,” he said. “Elvis lives on, and Pepe is going to live on regardless of whether we put him in a casket in a cartoon.”

>Pepe was first drawn more than a decade ago, as part of Mr. Furie’s “Boy’s Club,” a comic featuring four main characters. Mr. Furie described them to CBR.com last year: “Andy the wise guy, Landwolf the party animal, Brett the fashionable dancer, and Pepe the chill frog.”

>But by that point, Pepe had already begun to lose his chill. His image had been shared widely in 2015, and in October of that year, Donald Trump tweeted a cartoon that appeared to be a mash-up of himself and Pepe.

>In June 2016, Mr. Furie said he was “proud that Pepe is a celebrity now.” But it was already becoming clear that the frog had been co-opted as a mascot for alt-right extremist groups, and the Anti-Defamation League added the character to a list of hate symbols in September.
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>“Also referred to as the ‘sad frog meme,’ Pepe the Frog did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations,” the organization said then in a news release.

>“But as the meme proliferated in online venues such as 4chan, 8(gag) and Reddit, a subset of memes came into existence promoting anti-Jewish, bigoted and offensive ideas. And those have spread virally on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere.”

>The statement noted that Pepe was sometimes depicted with a mustache like the one worn by Adolf Hitler, and in a white hood like those worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

>In an essay for Time magazine, Mr. Furie expressed annoyance that Pepe had been reduced to a symbol of intolerance.

>“It’s completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate,” he said.

>“It’s a nightmare, and the only thing I can do is see this as an opportunity to speak out against hate.”

>In October, the Anti-Defamation League announced that it was working with Mr. Furie to rehabilitate the frog’s image with a “social media campaign to #SavePepe.”
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A whole lot of trouble, effort, and a whole lot of text that changes absolutely nothing.

Guess it's time to stop watching Netflix and hulu and pick up local TV stations again.

Well shit, I'm glad I barely watch TV anymore.

>>137919
These are claims without proofs.

>>137919
>wapo

another hit peice on the President Trump

OP IS A RACIST DON'T LET HIM TRICK YOU

>>137919
>Officials say
>Annonymous sources say
>Insiders say

News was never easier to make till people stopped being able to cross analyze sources!

>>137979
Thank

>>138007
My grandfather for the great victory!

>>137965
It is beautiful!

>>137965
Good

>>137965
Хopoший пapaд, мнe пoнpaвилcя. Cкopo в Бeлoм Дoмe пpoвeдeм.

>>137110
You're a retard. France isn't blocking 4chan, 4chan is blocking france.

>>>/qa/1299796

not true. currently in france, 4chan works fine.

>>137116
Ahh maybe they lifted it already.

>>137848
ugh that picture again. her earings look like that buttsex thing.

>>137521
Neat. I bet it could be used for nuclear weapons delivery, though.

>>137526
There are far superior delivery systems, this is mist likley intended for signals intelligence and observing/possibly interfering with other military satellites.

>>137527
Mods or anyone, could you post the rest of the reuters article, 4chan is giving me connection errors

>The students affected by these policies typically don’t qualify for the federal free lunch program, although there may be some whose parents decline to apply. Still, there are often family circumstances behind meal debt, such as a parent losing a job, or working intermittently, or other financial setbacks.

>But some school officials say lunch programs are costly to run, and unpaid meal debt is a problem they have to address. The debt can accumulate into thousands of dollars by the end of the school year.

>The lunchtime incident at Harrah wasn’t handled properly, said Harrah Superintendent Paul Blessington, because students should have been identified before receiving the hot meal. By policy, students with unpaid charges are provided an alternative meal of a sandwich, fruit and drink.

>The situation is difficult for a district like Harrah where about half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches but the other half pays full price, he said. Nationally, lunches cost about $2.50 each on average.

>Blessington said the district can’t absorb thousands in unpaid lunch bills; the 2,200-student district has accumulated over $2,000 in unpaid meals this year.

>At Choctaw-Nicoma Park, students’ hands were stamped only after accumulating a negative balance of more than $5 and the school had taken other steps to let families know of the unpaid charges, a school official said. Parents complained, however, and the practice was discontinued several weeks ago.

>Unpaid meal debt is less of an issue at large urban school districts where most students receive free meals.

>All of Tulsa Public Schools’ elementary students eat free. But middle-school students with more than $8.40 in unpaid charges receive an alternative meal, which is just half a cheese sandwich and water for lunch and a piece of toast or graham crackers for breakfast. High school students who can’t pay receive nothing.

>That’s the official policy, but it is likely not enforced in schools out of compassion for the students, said Emma Garrett-Nelson, a TPS spokeswoman.

>“Our guidance that we give to our cafeteria workers is the dignity of our students comes first,” Garrett-Nelson said.

>Schools are expected to examine their lunch policies now because the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers school meal programs, has asked states to define their policies by July 1. Oklahoma doesn’t have a statewide policy, but local school districts will still have to submit a plan to the state Department of Education.

>One recommendation by the Agriculture Department is to have schools move the cashier to the front of the lunch line to prevent situations where a child’s meal is taken away because they can’t pay, allowing staff to address the issue discreetly.

>That practice — trashing lunches served to students who can’t pay — is now banned under New Mexico’s Hunger-Free Students’ Bill of Rights Act. The legislation, which was signed into law in April and is the first of its kind in the country, requires schools to give all students access to the same lunch regardless of ability to pay and prohibits schools from having students to do chores to work off debt.

>The lawmaker who introduced it, New Mexico Sen. Michael Padilla, had to mop the floors of his school cafeteria when he couldn’t afford lunch, according to an NPR story.

TANSTAAFL. There ought to be shame with accepting public assistance. Kids need to learn these things early.

>But the move came as a surprise to members of the board, who had been informed both in January, before Barack Obama left office, and then more recently by EPA career staff members, that they would be kept on for another term.

>“I was kind of shocked to receive this news,” Robert Richardson, an ecological economist and an associate professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Community Sustainability, said in an interview Sunday.

>Richardson, who tweeted on Saturday, “Today, I was Trumped,” said that he was at the end of an initial three-year term on the board, but that board members traditionally have served two such stints. “I’ve never heard of any circumstance where someone didn’t serve two consecutive terms,” he said, adding that the dismissals gave him “great concern that objective science is being marginalized in this administration.”

>Courtney Flint, a professor of natural resource sociology at Utah State University who had served one term on the board, said in an email that she was also surprised to learn that her term would not be renewed, “particularly since I was told that such a renewal was expected.”

>“In the broader view, I suppose it is the prerogative of this administration to set the goals of federal agencies and to appoint members to advisory boards,” she added.

>Ryan Jackson, Pruitt’s chief of staff, noted in an email that all the board members whose terms are not being renewed could reapply for their positions.

>“I’m not quite sure why some EPA career staff simply get angry by us opening up the process,” he said. “It seems unprofessional to me.”
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>Pruitt is planning a much broader overhaul of how the agency conducts its scientific analysis, said a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The administration has been meeting with academics to talk about the matter and putting thought into which areas of investigation warrant attention from the agency’s scientific advisers.

>The agency may consider industry scientific experts for some of the board positions, Freire said, as long as these appointments do not pose a conflict of interest.

>Conservatives have complained about EPA’s approach to science, including the input it receives from outside scientific bodies, for years. Both the Board of Scientific Counselors and a larger, 47-person Scientific Advisory Board have come under criticism for bolstering the cause for greater federal regulation.

>Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), who questions the link between human activity and climate change and has several former aides now working for Pruitt, said in an interview earlier this year that under the new administration, “They’re going to have to start dealing with science and not rigged science” at EPA.

>House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) held a hearing on the issue in February, arguing that the composition of the Scientific Advisory Board, which was established in 1978, should be expanded to include more non-academics. It is primarily made up of academic scientists and other experts who review EPA’s research to ensure that the regulations the agency undertakes have a sound scientific basis.

>“The EPA routinely stacks this board with friendly scientists who receive millions of dollars in grants from the federal government,” Smith said at the time. “The conflict of interest here is clear.”
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>In a budget proposal obtained by The Washington Post last month, the panel is slated for an 84 percent cut — or $542,000 — from its operating budget. That money typically covers travel and other expenses for outside experts who attend the board’s public meetings.

>The reasoning behind the budget cut, said the document, reflects “an anticipated lower number of peer reviews.”

>Joe Arvai, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board who directs University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, said in an email that Pruitt and his colleagues should keep in mind that the board’s membership and its standing and ad hoc panels “already includes credible scientists from industry” and its “work on agency rulemaking is open to public viewing and comment. So, if diversity of thought and transparency are the administrator’s concerns, his worries are misplaced because the SAB is already has these bases covered.”

>“So, if you ask me, his moves over the weekend — as well as the House bill to reform the SAB — are attempts to use the SAB as a political toy,” Arvai added. “By making these moves, the administrator and members of the House can pander to the president’s base by looking like they’re getting tough on all those pesky ‘liberal scientists.’ But, all else being equal, nothing fundamentally changes about how the SAB operates.”