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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/polish-official-suspended-after-depicting-tusk-as-ss-officer/2017/04/30/98dfee4e-2d75-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html

>WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has suspended one of its honorary consuls in the U.S. after the woman allegedly posted a digitally-altered image showing European Council President Donald Tusk dressed as a Nazi German SS officer.

>The image was posted on the Facebook page of Maria Szonert Binienda, recently named honorary consul in Akron, Ohio. The news agency PAP reported Sunday that she has been suspended from that position and that further decisions will be decided after Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski returns from a visit to Australia.

>Szonert Binienda told The Associated Press in an email that she never posted the altered image of Tusk and believes her account was hacked because she can’t access it anymore.

>“I did not make a photo of Donald Tusk as SS-man. I am against promoting SS symbols and ideologies. I am against using the words like ‘fascism’ in the public political discourse today. I am against comparing our politicians to Hitler,” she wrote to the AP.

>Szonert Binienda was named to her post by Poland’s conservative ruling Law and Justice party, whose leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a long-time political rival of Tusk’s.

>Kaczynski has faulted Tusk for how he handled the aftermath of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed his brother, President Lech Kaczynski, and 95 other people.

>After winning the 2015 election, the party opened a new investigation into the crash, previously found to be an accident, believing that the original probe didn’t answer all questions. Some party leaders believe there could have been foul play by Russia.

>>135948
>recently named honorary consul in Akron, Ohio

Why the heck does Poland have a consulate in Ohio? Or an honourary consul, whatever that is.

>>135967
polaks have always been the trash of europe

American taxpayers must foot a bill of more than $3 million (£2.4 million) each time he travels there, rather than staying at the official presidential residence of the White House — amounting to $600 million over the four years.

>The services are among hundreds of programmes and agencies the budget proposed would be eliminated to pave the way for a $54 billion (£44 billion) increase in defence spending.

>The $1.15 trillion (£1 trillion) budget – titled 'America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again' — which covered only discretionary, not mandatory, spending — also stated plans to slash funding for Meals on Wheels, a program that provides meals for the poor, elderly and veterans, as well as health care and nutrition for low-income women, infants and children.

>Days after the proposals were announced, Mr Trump is to return to his lavish Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach this weekend, marking his fifth visit to the resort during the short period he's been serving the White House.

>Mr Trump’s frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago stand in contrast to his pledges during the campaign. He told a reporter in 2015: “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done. I would not be a president who took vacations.

>“I would not be a president that takes time off… You don’t have time to take time off.”

The President's regular jaunts also appear to contradict his previous criticisms of Mr Obama, who was condemned by Republicans when he flew to Palm Beach during his presidency.

“The habitual vacationer, Barack Obama, is now in Hawaii. This vacation is costing taxpayers $4 milion +++ while there is 20% unemployment,” the now President wrote on Twitter in December 2011 - when the unemployment rate was actually 8.5 per cent.

how much longer are we going to pretend this behavior by our politicians is acceptable

>independent

>If Shine was leaving, "that's the total end of the FNC as we know it. Done," Hannity tweeted last week. He had no immediate reaction on Monday.

>Ailes and O'Reilly have denied the harassment allegations made against them. One of the women who accused Ailes, Julie Roginsky, also blamed Fox's management for trying to cover up for him in a complaint made to New York City's Human Rights Commission.

>She said that in a meeting in December, Shine told her he didn't believe the allegations against Ailes until recently. Her lawsuit alleges that Shine and other Fox executives "kept Ailes's conduct secret and enabled it."

>A lawsuit that accuses Fox's fired former comptroller, Judith Slater, of racial discrimination, is now up to 13 plaintiffs. Slater denies the charges, but the lawyer who represents the people claiming discrimination has called for Fox to clean house of its management.

>Attorney Douglas Wigdor on Monday called Shine's departure "long overdue." He's got his eye on more, specifically naming Fox's top lawyer, Dianne Brandi, as someone who looked the other way while Slater's behavior continued. Fox has denied the allegations against Brandi.

>>136208
Hannity went off about this on his radio show. He said liberals were spreading rumors he was quitting Fox.

Hopefully there will be someone at Fox left for the baby boomers to watch.

>>136070

who is behind? CIA or some local nazi?

>>136071
Probably both

>>136072
what is it about? resources or just letting locals starve so they will not came up with indepence ideas?

She must.not give good head......

... Is there anything to actually discuss here? This isn't news.

>>136171
The way I see it, there's something wrong with tricking a troubled meth head into self incrimination and then publicly humiliating her.

>>136046
Not OP but back from Colombia where all the Venezuelans are fleeing to.
I asked them about Venezuela because we originally wanted to go there and they said 10 years minimum wait if you dont want to be robbed at airport customs. Caracass supposebly has a murderrate over 150 a night and child soldiers were patroling the streets.
A day after I left the military was supposed to have initiated a coup.
>blackout
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/01/venezuela-collapsing-socialist-induced-chaos-yet-remains-corbynista/
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/30/news/economy/venezuela-minimum-wage-hike/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/30/venezuelas-maduro-hikes-minimum-wage-amid-rising-protests/101137756/
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-39767633/venezuela-im-fighting-for-my-country
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/news/2017/04/pope-proposes-vatican-mediation-venezuela-crisis-170430075913312.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/news/2017/05/venezuelans-hold-rival-marches-day-170501044113772.html
Its also well known that Venezuela cant export oil at competative prices after large chunks of maintainance money has been pocketed and the refineries, pipelines ect. degraded to a point most would have to be entirely redone.
Everyone in Colombia was shitting themselves because they believe that if Venezuela doesnt get their act together the US will move in to guarantee extraction.

>>136138
Interesting. Why would the colombians be shitting themselves?

>>136021
this is what happens when you let debt economy takeover

More educated populace = less valuable education
It's not rocket science

>>136021
90% of chinese are actually drinking hot water because they cant afford the tea.

>>135966
you will hate me for this but the minimum wage is one of the most detrimental laws to a free market capitalist society

for example, if you are poor uneducated a minimum wage prevents companies from hiring you to preform simple tasks or even on the job training

fix the education system, remove the minimum wage and the free market will elevate people out of poverty for you

>>135985

fpbp

>Humanity couldn't bear war with North Korea

Give me a break. North Korea doesn't import or export, and they're a tiny, piece-of-shit country that could be wiped off the map with ease. Their military isn't strong. America could easily swoop in for a swift kill and surrender.

Let's overtake North Korea, so we can have both Koreas.

Chamnong claims to have turned down thousands of requests for krachap lips over the last five years, and even doubled the price of the surgery to deter women from going through with it. But the requests keep coming, and if they can’t have the procedure at his clinic, they just seek out other doctors.

Dr. Pusit Jittilaongwong admits that krachap lip surgeries make up 90% of his business, even though he has the most expensive prices for the procedure in the country – 30,000 baht per lip, or 55,000 for both. About 70% of his clients are women.

Beauty crazes are usually global or popular in a certain area of the world, but they are rarely reserved to a single country. But the krachap lips procedure is reportedly only popular in Thailand.

“Whenever I attend international conferences, no one mentions lip contouring or the krachap lip, this is a Thai thing,” Dr. Chamnong said.

The popularity of this unusual cosmetic surgery in Thailand may be connected to the generally superstitious nature of its people. Several plastic surgeons have confirmed that many of those who ask for this procedure believe that it will bring them fame and fortune, and apparently the media is to blame for that as well.

“Some newspapers publish articles on how the krachap lip reduction may lead to good fortune, when in fact no one can confirm whether or not that is true,” said Adunchai Thammasangsert, a plastic surgeon who wrote an article on the dangers of lip reduction procedures.

“The fact is that Thais easily follow a trend and are superstitious, while clinics are getting richer. The large amount of internet reviews of the krachap lip is kind of a hypnosis in itself; making people believe that this type of lip shape is beautiful and others aren’t,” he added.

Plastic surgery internet forum Dungdong is full of horror stories about the krachap lip. People often end up with crooked smiles, develop keloid, painful scar tissues caused by surgery, or are left unable to close their mouth properly. Many of them are forced to go under the knife again to correct these defects, but plastic surgeons warn that a lip that has been thinned out too much will never be perfectly reconstructed.

Getting a botched up krachap lip corrected is an expensive affair, because the procedure is a complicated one that involves using tissue from the inside of the mouth. Some defects are impossible to correct, and desperate users left with a permanently open mouth have written about taking their own lives out of desperation.

Dr. Adunchai says that many Asians don’t have big upper lips to begin with but still request reductions. And instead of measuring the lip when assessing a patient, some surgeons bypass this part and just take the person’s money, often leaving them disfigured.

He adds that he tries to discourage women who come to him for krachap lips by telling them that “a beautiful mouth is one that can close”.

>>135646
Sorry to be "that guy", but this isn't exactly news, It's fascinating and all, but still, it probably belongs on >>>/fa/ or some other board. Odditycentral really isn't a valid source of news.

>Le Pen has also left open the option for EU renegotiation but on terms that other member states would find hard to accept. Within six months she would want to turn the bloc into a loose cooperative of countries without the euro, a border-free area, budget rules or the pre-eminence of EU law.

>Given such demands, markets sense Le Pen holds a much deeper ideological hostility to the EU than Melenchon, whose principal objection is to the bloc's insistence on austerity policies - a view shared by many more centrist voters.

>"Melenchon's 'plan B' would be getting out of the EU and maybe out of the euro zone. That's more or less 'plan A' for Le Pen," said Florian Hense, European economist at Berenberg Bank in London. "Le Pen would still be the more nuclear option."

>While Le Pen has led the polls or been a close second for months, most still put Melenchon in fourth place.

>However, they also show Le Pen losing in the run-off whoever she faces, as many voters would rally behind her opponent simply to keep the far-right out of the presidency. Melenchon, by contrast, could beat Fillon as well as Le Pen, according to the few surveys that have mapped such a scenario.

>Still, Hense puts only a 10 percent chance of either Le Pen or Melenchon becoming president. Many obstacles lie in their path, and even if elected they would have difficulty in securing a parliamentary majority to push through their programmes. Macron, a centrist independent, or the conservative Fillon would be clear favorites if they faced Le Pen in the second round.

>Analysts at Morgan Stanley are even less convinced that Melenchon will make it all the way to the Elysee Palace. They attach around a 5 percent probability of his winning, compared with around 15 percent for Le Pen.

>Strategists at Citi, however, believe the first round is so close to call that the French election now represents a "volcano" risk for markets, with the nightmare scenario being Le Pen facing Melenchon in the second round.
...

>They argue that a victory for Le Pen or Melenchon in the run-off would be likely to trigger a slump of up to 10 percent in French and European equities by the end of June. By contrast, a win for either Macron or Fillon could propel markets up by as much as 20 percent by the end of the year.

>"The politics of separation is the greatest risk for the euro," said Lena Komileva, managing director at G+ Economics. "That it is no longer just a Le Pen risk is a grave concern."

>Societe Generale currency strategists said the risk of a run-off between the two anti-establishment candidates "is getting slightly less likely", noting Melenchon's poll ranking had failed to break above 20 percent despite the surge.

>Analysts at Nomura noted his stance on the EU "looks less aggressive than Le Pen's".

>Still, caveats must apply following Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election and Britons' vote to leave the EU, events which both caught markets off guard last year.

>The Nomura analysts noted the combined chance of either Le Pen or Melenchon winning the first round is around 40 percent. That's higher than the probability assigned to both Trump and Brexit at a similar stage before those votes, they pointed out.

>"A euro zone break-up would become increasingly likely if a core member were to leave. This would have significant ramifications for global financial markets. A 'risk rally' of the kind we saw after the Brexit vote is highly unlikely if Le Pen were to be elected," they said.

>>133795
france is no longer france

>The shipworm’s small digestive system and gills were speckled with yellow, presumably from sulfur, suggesting that it lived off hydrogen sulfide, a toxic chemical, rather than the wood pulp diet of other shipworms.

>By analyzing the genomes of the shipworm along with its bacteria, as well as the enzymes it contained, Dr. Distel concluded that shipworms first ate wood, but acquired bacteria over millions of years of evolution that allowed it to mix an energy cocktail from chemicals in the seawater, mainly hydrogen sulfide from decaying wood, instead of eating the wood directly. A similar symbiotic relationship exists in a giant deep-sea mussel that is thought to have grown so big off energy from chemicals instead of organic matter.

>It’s kind of like how plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide in photosynthesis.

>This special relationship also has implications for medicine: “If you or I have bacteria living inside our cells, we’re sick,” Dr. Distel said. But either the bacteria evades the shipworm’s immune system, or the shipworm recognizes the bacteria as safe.

>“Understanding how an animal can live with bacteria inside their cells and not get sick and die could help inform our understanding of infection,” he added.

>Dr. Distel’s team believes many more mysteries may be unlocked by further study of this shipworm and its bacterial partner.

>“Whenever you find something so weird and so unusual, there’s often going to be unexpected discoveries that come from it,” he said.

https://static01.nyt.com/science/gifs/shipworm_600.gif

The author of this article is retarded. Bacteria is in everyone's stomach to allow us to eat food at all. There are over 600 types of bacteria in any persons gut at any time.

The article is hogwash

>>133572
Think before you post, please.

I hate that the word terrorism is thrown around for any old attack now. If he had shouted ALLAH AKBAR then it'd be breaking news nationwide.

>>135710
>A former student at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, struck two female victims with a machete in the campus coffee shop on Friday morning after asking them about their political affiliations, campus officials confirmed.

>One female victim was transported to the University of Kentucky Healthcare Hospital and is currently in stable condition and recovering. The other was treated and released at the scene. Both victims suffered non-life threatening injuries.

>The alleged assailant, 19-year-old Mitchell W. Adkins, was charged with first degree assault, three counts of first degree wanton endangerment and fourth degree assault, Sgt. Jervis Middleton, the public information officer for Lexington Police told NBC News in a statement.

>"Transylvania campus police quickly arrived on the scene and were able to take Adkins into custody after a brief struggle," Middleton said. "He was transported to the hospital with self-inflicted injuries."

>Middleton said an investigation is still underway to determine what led to the attack.

>Adkins, who withdrew from the college in 2015, ran into the coffee shop inside the Glenn Building with a bag filled with various weapons, including a machete and knives, on Friday around 8 a.m. He demanded students answer him about whether they called themselves Republicans or Democrats.

>"[He] came in, banged something, a hatchet or an ax, on the table and said 'the day of reckoning has come,'" witness Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald. "He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said 'Republican' and the guy said 'you are safe.' And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out."
...

>Reynolds added that people "scattered" about, running to evacuate as public safety officers reached the scene and blocked Adkins from escaping.The coffee shop is a popular gathering place for students.

>Transylvania University's public safety officers responded quickly to the incident, apprehending Adkins while the university announced an official campus lock-down and barred students from entering or walking outside campus buildings for approximately two hours, Michele Sparks, the vice president for marketing and communications at the college told NBC News.

> "We cancelled classes and have counselors at hand to help shaken community members after this," Sparks said. "It was turmoil and we are really shaken but the Transylvania spirit is strong. Our community is a small, tight-knit community and I'm surprised and shocked that this would occur."

>in close proximity to the campus such as Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School and Sayre School were also temporarily placed on lock down.

>The officers handed Adkins over into the custody of the Lexington police when they arrived minutes later, according to reports. Officials also searched the entire campus for additional weapons before declaring it safe.

>Sparks said that a campus emergency response meeting will be held next week to address the motivations behind this attack and the steps the campus should take towards politically influenced attacks. She also praised students at the coffee shop for remembering the flight or hide procedures they had been taught in case of emergencies.

>"I'm glad they packed and ran off. We also had an active shooter training for our officers two weeks ago and they just completed it," said Sparks. "That was really vital today. We have always had active shooter training with the police and today showed us how important this is."

>The university announced on Friday afternoon that classes had resumed and that the Transylvania University alumni weekend will begin as scheduled.

Wiki's closed

But it's fine, they just intalled an islamic dictstorship at the edge of europe, embrace the diversity until it swallows your precious western values. Never speak out against them since they are a bit more tanned than you and if you do, you are a racist islamophobic nazi, Inshallah!

>>135842
This will be met with the usual rioting and tear gas for a couple weeks at most. As long as they don't go full Libya, no casus belli.

Last coup failed. Assassination won't work. Next in line is Ismail Kahraman, who has the same Islamic views. It then follows with Binali Yildirim, who is corrupt, sexist, pro-Islam and hates technology. Get rid of the top three and you're with Hulusi Akar, military rule with no concrete political views. Get rid of the top four and you'll have the opposition parties fighting for leadership, which would lead to civil war.

EU/RU sanctions are always available. RU/CIS have no love after the RU diplomat was assassinated by an 8 year old. However, RU sanctions are might not happen after their 2014 economic collapse and wanting trade partners. EU would just need to close their 6 or so border crossings to Greece and Bulgaria. EU closures would see an increase of boat traffic in an island-heavy region, making naval control more difficult. EU sanctions would see strong opposition by Germany due to trade. UK and US sanctions expected. All sanctions would mean stronger ties with Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. China would by happy with all outcomes, since they want Turkey's petroleum and coal to help supply their growing energy needs.

If you want to cull the Islamic population, heavily subsidize and advertise transportation for one year to Hajj. There's nothing like saving on military by using a manmade disaster instead.

>>135670
There's rumours Trump will probably test a U.S. missile into North Korea in response

http://www.trunews.com/article/n.-korea-test-fires-a-ballistic-missile

>>135673
Trump "test" fired an ICBM into Kwajalein Atoll a couple of days ago...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/26/air-force-launches-unarmed-missile-for-test-in-california.html

>>135677
Yeah, regardless, this ain't looking good because of how frequent these are taking place

Thank goodness this and the last one was a failure but at this rate something will happen

Even though I live in a small town in the middle of US, I still sit at my desk expecting a nuclear explosion right out my window...

>Sources in the Conspiracy-Pseudoscience category “may” publish unverifiable information that is “not always” supported by evidence. These sources “may” be untrustworthy for credible/verifiable information, therefore fact checking and further investigation is recommended on a per article basis when obtaining information from these sources. See all Conspiracy-Pseudoscience sources.

>Factual Reporting: LOW

>Notes: The Trunews radio program is hosted by Rick Wiles a far right Christian Fundamentalist. His show has a strong right wing bias that supports conspiracy theories. The most common theme is End of Times.

>>135540
Could I get a sauce on where you got that, not OP just genuinely curious.

>>135543
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/