1. Angela Merkel
2. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
3. Donald Trump
4. Black Lives Matter
5. Hassan Rouhani
6. Travis Kalanick
7. Caitlyn Jenner
http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-angela-merkel-choice/?iid=bottomrecirc
Discuss
>>7602
Why is that murderer Caitlyn Jenner even on the list?
Is this a list for Americans or is it supposed to represent the world? Because I don't see how some "literally who?" Americans are on the same level as globally relevant statesmen.
>>7606
The only one I didn't know is Travis Kalanick, who it turns out is the founder and CEO of Uber.
PARIS–Cronyism is on display here at the United Nations climate conference (COP21), as developing countries aren’t the only ones trying to cash in on carbon regulations.
The conference is full of exhibitors showcasing their carbon cutting technologies–each of which would benefit greatly from taxing carbon or forcing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The general conference arena contains rooms filled with vendors demonstrating how their business is reducing mankind’s carbon footprint. They include:
Reinsurance companies (warning against greater costs from extreme weather events).
Water systems companies.
Companies that make charging stations for electric vehicles.
Organizations dedicated to planting more trees.
Companies dedicated to capturing carbon from power plants and storing it underground.
The list is certainly exhaustive. The problem with all of them, however, is that they’re in Paris pushing for special privileges that will help their businesses at the expense of their competitors and at the expense of a competitive free market.
It doesn’t matter what policies are advocated for – subsidies for carbon free energy technologies, a Green Climate Fund that finances green projects in developing countries, regulations that restrict the use of carbon-emitting natural resources or a carbon tax – those with special connections will benefit and the costs will be dispersed among the rest of us.
These are policies that will cost American households and businesses – at least those businesses not connected to politicians and bureaucrats – leading to lower levels of output, income and employment.
Because more than 80 percent of America and the world’s energy needs are met through carbon-emitting conventional fuels like natural gas and coal, reducing CO2 emissions will increase energy prices and force consumers to use less.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/10/green-cronyism-is-on-full-display-in-paris/
>>8024
>The conference is full of exhibitors showcasing their carbon cutting technologies–each of which would benefit greatly from taxing carbon or forcing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Environmentalist movement has been co-opted by Wall Street which smells the massive profits that will come from manipulating "carbon credits", the hippies just haven't caught on to it yet and won't until it's too late and we're all fucked.
>some people are financially motivated to reduce the use of fossil fuels!
>fossil fuel industry has nothing at stake
Which industry spend more money lobbying the U.S. government?
>reducing CO2 emissions will increase energy prices and force consumers to use less.
I bet everyone in Bejing wishes they'd been paying more and using less for the last 20 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/asia/beijing-smog-pollution.html
>>8024
>Implying that it's possible for a westernised economy to cut down on energy useage in any way other than better engineering.
>He doesn't know that cheap electronic consumables are about the only thing distracting the majority of people under 30 from rioting in the streets. The other thing is the SJW... counter riots? False Flag Riots?
>Implying that renewable energy isn't a win for everyone aside from the oil companies.
>>8062
>Implying op isn't an oil shill
I'm not saying that I believe every single statistic the green lobby spits out, but securing humanities energy needs for the next few centuries in exchange for a few white lies is a burden I'm willing to bear.
Actor Shia LaBeouf has launched his latest performance artwork in Liverpool, asking members of the public to phone him and "touch his soul".
What the fuck?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35059685
Sounds like a prime trolling opportunity.
>>7840
>LaBeouf made his name in films like the Transformers series, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I'd question my right to being famous too.
this is a golden opportunity
http://neurope.eu/article/government-in-finland-will-put-asylum-seekers-to-work-without-a-pay/
A nice way to handle it.
>>7559
Maybe they could make work camps for them, camps in which works makes you free...
>>7559
>refugees will steal both your country and your job
Nice
>>7559
>nice way
this displaces a finn man from a job
I say it again and again mass immigration only benefits corporations because it dilutes the value of the middle class worker and sleazy leftist who gains an instant voter base. they just let the media they also own sugarcoat it under trendy BS like racism and diversity so the morons eat it up
MONTREAL • A late spring caused Canada’s maple syrup production to fall for the second consecutive year in 2015 — and El Nino is threatening to put a dent in next spring’s output as well.
The warmer El Nino weather is expected to have an impact on a number of commodities, including maple sap, said Sylvain Charlebois, professor of distribution and food policy at the University of Guelph’s Food Institute.
“I see little evidence that would encourage anyone to see a good year in 2016,” he said in an interview.
The impact would hit Quebec, the world’s dominant maple syrup producer, along with Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and syrup-producing U.S. states like Vermont and New York.
Producers on both sides of the border aren’t yet ready, however, to throw in the towel.
The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers says it’s too soon to know what impact warmer conditions could have next spring.
“Nobody can predict the production of each year,” said federation deputy director Paul Rouillard.
He also doubts that weather poses a long-term problem for Quebec, because colder parts of the province could — over several decades — pick up the slack from more affected regions. Quebec’s federation, representing about 7,300 producers, is seeking approval to add 2.5 million taps to the 43 million already active each year.
Quebec’s supply management system keeps syrup prices high by using its strategic reserve — which contains 60 million pounds — to balance production fluctuations.
A shorter season also affected U.S. maple production last year but it’s premature to forecast weather problems several months ahead, said Matthew Gordon, executive director of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association.
“It certainly could have an impact, but I wouldn’t base any business decisions on it right now,” he said.
http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/stock-up-on-your-maple-syrup-el-nino-could-spell-a-bad-year-for-sap
>>8018
This is a sappy news article...
>>8018
Fuck you maple syrup. Its like 50 dollars half a litre.
>two weeks since the board's been up
>hasn't even reached its 8000th post
>/leftypol/ everywhere
>Trump everywhere
>/int/ still occasionally posting their ebin local news threads
What is even the point of this board?
Have another Trump article courtesy of this shithole of a site:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/10/donald-trump-to-postpone-israel-trip-until-after-i-become-president-of-the-us
U seem a lil mad
>>7883
real life is very interesting, you don't need to make shit up.
>>7851
Post more real news then, faggot
The quality of the board is left up to the people that post on it.
An investigative report published in July by Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina documented that, beginning in 2011, the FSB had established “safe routes” for North Caucasian militants to travel to Syria, where it was providing the necessary documents for travel.
The report claimed that FSB officers directly aided potential jihadis who wanted to leave Russia to fight in the Middle East.
While the FSB has not admitted aiding potential extremists, FSB deputy director Eugene Sysoev recently heralded Russia’s success in “[achieving] a sustained reduction in terrorist activity” inside Russia. He cited a reduction in “crimes of a terrorist nature” over the previous year, and claimed a ten-fold reduction in terrorist activity in the North Caucasus over the past five years.
In the same remarks, made in November, Sysoev admitted that at least 20 percent of foreign fighters in the Islamic State are from Russia and other post-Soviet countries, an assessment somewhat similar to estimates from private security consulting groups.
The interview with the purported FSB defector advanced the idea that Russia may be exporting its extremists, detailing how Russian security services have recruited Muslims to infiltrate extremist groups in Europe and materially supported their advancement within these organizations.
When asked if Russian agents could be involved in the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Yevgeniy said there was “complicity in acts of terrorism.” He continued, “And the complicity could be direct or indirect. By analyzing their connections, one, of course, will be able to see the ties leading to Russia. Primarily Russia could benefit from this, and the Russian security services had all the possibilities to organize this.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/moscows-connection-to-the-islamic-state/
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.
On the Russian periphery, it is widely believed that Russia has used the Islamic State as an opportunity to get rid of domestic jihadis.
“In spring 2014, local information networks provided credible information that individuals affiliated with Russian security forces were recruiting potential jihadists in Pankisi and in the Northern Caucasus to travel to Syria,” says Giga Bokeria, a former Georgian national security adviser. “They were promising financing for trips, and assistance acquiring weapons.”
Pankisi is a remote, mountainous Georgian region bordering Russia with a local population of Georgian Muslims, known as Kists. Omar al-Shishani, one of the Islamic State’s top commanders, is from Pankisi.
Oleksandr Danylyuk, formerly chief of staff to Ukraine’s Minister of Defense and now chairman of Ukraine’s Center for Defense Reforms, believes there is a strong connection between the Islamic State and the Russian government.
“ISIS is definitely a product of the Russian special services. Only the blind cannot see it. A significant part of the terrorists are citizens of the Russian Federation,” Danylyuk said, using a common acronym for the Islamic State. “The ISIS military command is composed of former Saddam Hussein generals, who studied in the Soviet Union and worked closely with the KGB,” says Danylyuk.
“The connection between the Russian-speaking jihadis and the Russian-trained ex-Baathist Sunni military officers is what formed the core of what we now think of as ISIS,” said Estonian expert Eerik-Niiles Kross.
Kross, now a member of Estonian parliament, is a former director of the Estonian intelligence services, and served under the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003-2004, working to rebuild the Iraqi military intelligence organization.
“Based on Russia’s history of infiltrating and manipulating terrorist organizations and extremist groups, it’s not so far-fetched to believe there is an operational relationship — at some level — between Russian security services and elements of ISIS,” he said.
The conflict in Syria has allowed Russia to rebuild relationships with European countries that were damaged by the Russian intervention in Ukraine.
While the White House remains publicly cautious about collaborating with Russia against the Islamic State because of Russia’s support for Bashar al-Assad, the possibility of a Russian connection to terrorist attacks in Western countries would add a new element to Russia’s relationship to the West.
In Washington, however, Russia’s relationship with Islamic radicals has not been seriously evaluated, according to several congressional sources.
“The issue of Russia’s relationship with ISIS has been raised in closed door briefings on the Hill,” said one senior staffer with knowledge of recent intelligence briefings to lawmakers. “It’s unclear how much the administration has looked into this issue.”
But people in states close to Russia say American and other Western officials have been reluctant to accept information on Russian involvement in recruitment for extremist groups despite the use of explicitly anti-American rhetoric as incitement for enlistment.
“More than 80 percent of ISIS’s weapons are Russian-made,” offers Danylyuk. “In Syria and Iraq we are witnessing the same form of hidden aggression as in Ukraine.”
“The problem is,” he says, “if Russia is recruiting for ISIS, and ISIS is attacking European and American targets — will anyone be willing to say that Russia bears responsibility in these attacks?”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/moscows-connection-to-the-islamic-state/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3349803/Muslim-convert-faces-jail-threatening-bomb-MP-s-house.html
A Muslim convert who protested outside Parliament with a sign saying 'I am Muslim, do you trust me enough for a hug?' is facing jail for threatening to bomb an MP's house.
Craig Wallace used the sign as Stop The War protesters came to Westminster for the vote on military action in Syria last week.
It stated: 'I am Muslim, I am labelled a terrorist, I trust you, do you trust me enough for a hug?'
But the 23-year-old, of Willesden Green, north London, is now facing a possible prison sentence after he threatened Tory MP Charlotte Leslie online following the vote.
Wallace, who calls himself Muhammad Mujahid Islam online, wrote on Facebook: 'I'm going to smash her windows then drop a bomb on her house while she's tucked up in bed. You dirty f****** pig-s******* s***.'
On December 3, the day after MPs voted to authorise the air strikes, he wrote: 'I'm going to find her and show her what it's like to murder innocents. You dirty pig-f****** w****.'
He also described shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn as a 'war criminal' and a 'terrorist' the day after the Commons vote to bomb Syria.
His defence lawyer Abu Sayeed said Wallace had posted the messages after he had been out protesting against the Syrian bombing vote for 'two or three days and had very little sleep and had not taken his medication.'
Wallace has a string of convictions for violent offences including possession of a knife.
He converted to Islam while in prison serving a sentence of almost five years for attempted robbery
Three weeks after he was released he posted the messages on a thread of comments on the UK Truth Movement Facebook page.
Wallace today pleaded guilty to sending threatening communications at Hendon Magistrates' Court.
Wearing a white traditional Islamic dress and a grey jumper slung over his shoulders, he spoke only to confirm his name and address before entering a guilty plea.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on December 30.
The court heard the messages came to light after Ms Leslie's father saw the comments online and reported them to police.
Wallace claimed he was 'venting his anger' and had not had any sleep because he had been 'protesting for two or three days'.
District Judge Mark Jabbitt said: 'What's absolutely clear is that your language and expressions about this MP Ms Leslie, who you have no knowledge of, went beyond any sort of legitimate comment or protest on an extremely serious issue.
'What you did was personalised it and used really the most vile, insulting and threatening language imaginable on a forum.'
He ordered a full risk assessment report on Wallace and expressed concern that he was not being formally supervised after his release from prison.
Abu Sayeed, defending, said Wallace has mental health issues and had not been taking his anti-psychotic medication.
'He has co-operated fully with the police and expressed remorse and regret,' he added. 'He made the comments to vent his anger.
'Mr Wallace is a Muslim convert, he converted while serving his last sentence. He feels very passionately about the bombing in Syria and the vote recently taken in Parliament.
'He had been out with other protesters and was protesting for two or three days and not had much sleep and hadn't taken his medication.'
Wallace has never met Ms Leslie and thought the page was a 'closed group', Mr Sayeed said.
'In the current climate people would have been fearful of his comments,' he added.
Wallace, whose mother died when he was young and who claims his father abused him as a child, had attended an anti-war rally outside Parliament on the day of the Syria vote and was pictured carrying a giant white poppy.
Shortly before he sent the messages he also posed for a series of pictures with strangers carrying a placard that read: 'I am Muslim, I am labelled a terrorist, I trust you, do you trust me enough for a hug?'.
The day after the vote Wallace sent Mr Benn an email, which he then posted on his Facebook page.
It said: 'I hope to God that you will have nightmares when you hear that kids woman and men have been murdered by your govt.'
The court heard Wallace had been in and out of custody since he was 13 after being expelled from school following the death of his mother when he was eight.
The judge warned Wallace the maximum sentence for the offence was six months.
Wallace, of Teignmouth Road, Willesden Green was remanded into custody, while risk assessments reports were carried out.
He is next appear at Willesden Magistrates court for sentencing on December 30.
A number of other MPs, many of them in the Labour Party, have complained to police that they had received death threats after voting in favour of airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria.
Neil Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, said police had stationed extra officers outside his surgery after he received an apparent death threat on social media, while Labour Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has spoken out about receiving an apparent death threat on Facebook after he voted in favour of the military action.
BREAKING NEWS
Isis surrenders to anonymous!
In a public statement leader of ISIS Abu al Baghdadi "we have been outmemed and my Twitter got hacked. God willing we will lay down our arms."
Peace is restored to the middle east!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/anonymous-declares-dec-11-isis-trolling-day-invites-web-users-to-target-daeshbags/
>>7646
>In a public statement leader of ISIS Abu al Baghdadi "we have been outmemed and my Twitter got hacked. God willing we will lay down our arms."
If real then ISIS are true troll masters.
>>7646
>Daeshbags
That actually elicited a giggle from me
Although tbh anonymous has become more and more reddit over the years.
If Anonymous really wanted to stop ISIS they would hack their Facebook profiles and post gay porn all over them.
It`s too late
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-08/oil-producers-currencies-are-collapsing-brent-breaks-below-40
>>7517
Barely news. ZH isn't a good source, you can't spell decaying, and your pseudoapocaplyptic phrase is meaningless.
Some economies (hello Arabia) do rely way too much on oil, but this isn't going to hurt the west. The take home from oil prices freakyness since the 2005 fake-peak, is that peak oil isn't a worry at all. Supply does increase with price, and alternatives are more and more outcompeting it. The falling price mostly reflects ample supply & alt options, unless you work in oil, you don't need to worry.
>>7545
Most of the "nice" places in South America rely on exporting oil.
>>7517
Your heart is in the right place, but your execution is poor.
Here's a better article.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/768a1622-9dba-11e5-8ce1-f6219b685d74.html#axzz3tpxGdLj2
>long-term forecast price cut from $55 to $50
>concern over global oil storage capacity soon reaching its limit
>Russian oil production at a record high and trending up
>OPEC not getting along
Abandon hope, new wells are being tapped as I type.
But when will he make his move?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-could-stop-donald-trump-seriously_56689e49e4b080eddf56dc2d
Didn't Trump already get disqualified?
>>7747
"Disqualified," yes, actually disqualified no.. If that actually happened, it would be major news instead of Trump's anti-Muslim ideas that are getting him more interest votes.
>>7751
> interest votes
The American system you've got there sure is crazy.
![benjamin-netanyahu-large-20-addressing-US-Congress-Mar-2015[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/J2wary7.jpg "benjamin-netanyahu-large-20-addressing-US-Congress-Mar-2015[1]")
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/resources/commentary-and-analysis/22722-israel-wants-to-treat-sweden-as-a-banana-republic
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/22698-netanyahu-calls-swedish-pm-to-protest-fms-executions-comments
https://www.rt.com/news/325159-sweden-israel-palestine-terrorism/
Israel got away with what they're doing for far too long.
>>7673
Leave it up to Sweden to be the one to tell them.
>>7673
Israel has done nothing wrong.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/russia-loses-super-satellite-launch-151207115022934.html
Apparently, they said it could have seen submarines traveling underwater.
Apparently, what it broadcast instead, is the sorry state of Russian rockets.
>>7309
>In May, a Proton-M rocket carrying a Mexican satellite burned up over Siberia minutes after the launch from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, which Russia leases and operates.
Wow, I didn't know the Mexicans had satellites.
>>7323
When you think about it, it makes sense. Russia's economy is about the size of Italy's. Mexico's is aproaching the same size.
Pretty much every halfway industrialized country has at least one satellite in orbit. It's really not that much of an achievement anymore.
>ISLAMIC State (ISIS) extremists have smuggled chemical and biological weapons into Europe
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/624620/Warning-ISIS-Daesh-chemical-weapons-attack-West
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2015/572806/EPRS_BRI(2015)572806_EN.pdf
>ISIS jihadis posing as migrants 'smuggle deadly undetectable NERVE GAS into Europe'
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/610357/Islamic-State-ISIS-jihadis-Europe-terror-attack-migrant-crisis-nerve-gas-Syria
>French Emergency Services Stockpile Sarin Gas Antidote In Preparation For Chemical Warfare With ISIS
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/19/french-emergency-services-stockpile-sarin-gas-antidote-preparation-chemical-warfare-isis/
>Paris on alert for chemical attack on city's water supply
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/paris-alert-chemical-attack-citys-6877745
>A middle man working for the colonel was recorded arranging the sale of bomb-grade uranium, U-235
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.679118
>what’s coming next will be far worse and more bitter
http://nypost.com/2015/11/18/isis-threatens-nyc-in-new-propaganda-video/
>ISIS supporters have posted photos of notes showing the group’s logo with messages warning of the countdown “till the zero hour”
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2015/05/18/-Countdown-to-zero-hour-ISIS-supporters-on-Twitter-post-Italy-threats.html
Is this true? Holy shit.
>>7197
>Is this true?
Every single one of OPs sources is either highly biased or outright clickbait. Probably not.
>>7199
>CBRN substances have been carried undetected into the European Union
>http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2015/572806/EPRS_BRI(2015)572806_EN.pdf
direct from the European parliament
this is real
Jolly bad show: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/politics/uk-donald-trump-ban-petition/
>Jolly bad show
So the UK thinks that they got it rough too?
>>7731
They're probably upset that they DO have no-go regions in their city: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/09/exclusive-london-cop-confirms-donald-trump-uk-radicalisation-claims-bbc-cameron-boris-johnson-sneer/
>>7733
except we don't have no-go regions
