While every western media outlet keeps their eye on Syria, opposition leader and activist Aleksey Navalny has revealed that General Attorney Yuri Chaika and his family have connections to the Russian mafia.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/12/01/russia-s-mafia-state
>>6052
A good summary of events, but it's hard to imagine anything being done about this corruption anytime soon. No doubt that Chaika and his family are already on western sanction/no-fly lists, for what those are worth. It seems little will change as long as Putin remains in power to appoint people like Chaika to positions of power.
boring as fuck needs more explosions and betrayals
http://dha.com.tr/referee-to-investigate-gollum-over-probe-for-insulting-erdogan-son-dakika-haberi_1085600.html
>sharing a meme
>it's just a funny picture
Triggered
>>5694
A progressive, westernized and democratic country under rule of the law... Turkey, you are our greatest ally.
Triggered
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/02/us-europe-migrants-germany-antisemitism-idUSKBN0TL2IE20151202#L8m3V5DGUs4kkoqc.97
>"This is not about forgetting your own roots but living with your roots within our values and social order, and part of this is the unrelenting fight against any form of anti-Semitism," Merkel said on Wednesday.
Well at least she's admitting that their cultural roots aren't all compatible with German society
>>4754
I don't know what Merkel is expecting to come out of all this. The immigrants that came in the 70s still haven't integrated since the German system fails at promoting/forcing integration. Now they act like these 1.5 million people that came this year will integrate just fine.
Also, why do they talk about integration so much when these are refugees that supposedly should return once the war in Syria is over.
>>4805
>I don't know what Merkel is expecting to come out of all this.
Right now Merkel is just trying to regain her balance. She's going to fall, but there's some fight left in that old hag.
>>4754
>Love my boss too
Ireland's deficit will be eliminated before 2018, according to Irish finmin Michael Noonan. Five years ago, Ireland had the highest deficit in the €-zone.
Ireland collected 7.5% (€3bn) more in tax receipts in November than expected, with large increases in corporate tax receipts and VAT receipts. The result: Ireland's 2015 deficit will be 1.7%, not the previously expected 2.1%.
Selling state-owned bank shares has also helped Ireland lower its deficit.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/12/02/uk-ireland-economy-tax-idUKKBN0TL1XK20151202
Ireland's strategy of low corporation taxes (AFAIK) seems to have worked.
The Keynesians in the EU have already pressured Ireland into spending the increased tax incomes.
>>4650
>Ireland's strategy of low corporation taxes (AFAIK) seems to have worked.
By providing a tax haven to multinationals, Ireland is basically just stealing tax money from the rest of europe, and their economy is entirely reliant on that fact. Fuck em
>>5758
>being this mad
Think of it the world in less national terms and more like a market, the prices are not cost but tax levels. These corporations want to move around to avoid taxes above what they believe is acceptable or whatever. Plenty of tax havens already exist, scores of Caribbean islands for example. This should be less, "Fuck them blah blah blah fair share blah blah blah," and more learning from their example. We live in a globalized world and the West needs to learn to compete again, these are Western ideas/concepts.
>>5796
When everybody lowers taxes you are not getting anywhere. You're just losing money to multinational companies.
by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
December 1, 2015
The enactment of statewide laws permitting the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes is associated with an annual reduction in obesity-related medical costs, according to data published online ahead of print in the journal Health Economics.
Investigators at Cornell University in New York and San Diego State University in California reviewed twelve years of data from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the effects of medical marijuana laws on body weight, physical wellness, and exercise.
Researchers reported, “[T]he enforcement of MMLs (medical marijuana laws) is associated with a 2% to 6% decline in the probability of obesity. … Our estimates suggest that MMLs induce a $58 to $115 per-person annual reduction in obesity-related medical costs.”
For those age 35 or older, authors determined that the passage of medical cannabis laws is “associated with an increase in physical wellness and frequent exercise consistent with the hypothesis of some medicinal use of marijuana.” For younger adults, researchers theorized that obesity declines were the result of less alcohol use.
http://blog.norml.org/2015/12/01/study-medical-marijuana-laws-associated-with-decreased-obesity/
>>4631
They concluded, “These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that MMLs may be more likely to induce marijuana use for health-related reasons among older individuals, and cause substitution toward lower-calorie recreational ‘highs’ among younger individuals.”
The findings are similar to those of other recent observational studies, such as those here and here, concluding that cannabis use is associated with reduced body mass index and obesity.
The abstract of the study, “The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Body Weight,” appears online here.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.3267/abstract
Makes sense. My anecdotal evidence isn't worth shit, but I know a lot of people who smoke every day (no medical reason, just stoners) and every one of them (including myself) is skinny.
>>4635
This is bullshit. You get the muchies. Wait til it catches up fool.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/02/when-china-gives-aid-to-african-governments-they-become-more-violent/
>Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping began a five-day trip to Africa in Zimbabwe, where the EU only recently resumed providing aid to the government following years of sanctions. After two days in Zimbabwe, President Xi will travel to South Africa, which will host the first-ever Forum on China-Africa Cooperation to be held in Africa.
>Chinese influence in Africa is on the rise. As it becomes the continent’s largest trade partner, China has recently established its first mission to the African Union and is increasing the level of aid it gives to Africa. The big beneficiaries include Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, and Mozambique, which have seen the largest increases from what they received only seven years ago.
>Chinese aid is different from Western aid: It is unconditional, meaning it comes with no strings attached. Western aid typically requires progress on the donor’s agenda, such as support for democracy, good governance, respect for human rights, and poverty reduction. President Xi’s visit to Zimbabwe is particularly striking as a counterpoint to Western countries’ relations with the country as the EU’s sanctions against Zimbabwe began in 2002 over electoral fraud and human rights abuses.
>China doesn’t impose its political views, ideals, or principles onto countries to which it gives aid. In what’s known as its “non-interference policy,” the Chinese government pointedly says that it is not trying to influence the political decisions of African regimes. As evidence, China often gives aid directly to state leaders and regimes, who are allowed to use it as they wish.
>This policy has had dire consequences. A recent study found that African leaders are almost three times more likely to spend Chinese development aid in areas where they have ethnic ties, not necessarily where aid is most needed.
...
>>4617
>
>China doesn’t impose its political views, ideals, or principles onto countries to which it gives aid. In what’s known as its “non-interference policy,”
Wish we were the same in the West.
>>5107
Why? So we can allow governments to become more violent as well?
Imposing our political ideas and principles, although corrupt, is the only way to make sure that the atrocity that is African governments make any progress whatsoever.
>>5111
You have a weird belief that our morality should be the world's morality.
There are several reports of an active shooter(s) in an Inland regional center in San Bernardino, California, that serves the disabled and needy. Eyewitnesses who finally found a way to escape their offices said about 2 gunmen with masks and bullet proof vests walked into their office and started shooting.
Someone called the police and luckily policemen who were training around that vicinity responded.
San Bernardino is 60 miles East of Los Angeles.
20 people have reportedly been shot.
The ambulance, fire department, SWAT, FBI are all at the location trying to contain it.
The 3 suspect all escaped. They escaped in a black SUV.
http://www.newseveryhour.com/2015/12/multiple-victims-shot-in-san-bernardino.html#more
>>4790
K.. KEEP ME POSTED
>>5837
I'm from /pol/ and you are a false flag
I wonder of the incidence of terror attacks is going to rise in the USA.
ITT: The worst, most unreadable articles you've ever read.
http://rapidnewsnetwork.com/four-men-charged-in-shooting-of-minnesota-protesters/326093/
>All four men are in custody, and apparently, they’ve admitted in jailhouse phone conversations that they were at the shooting.
>He said Allen “Lance” Scarsella, 23, was charged with one count of second-degree riot and five counts of second-degree assault with a risky weapon for shooting at the demonstrators.
>Freeman says Scarsella, who’s white, and his friends were motivated by racial hatred.
>The other defendants are Nathan Gustavsson, 21, of Hermantown, Minn.; Daniel Macey, 26, of Pine City, Minn.; and Joseph M. Backman, 27, of Minneapolis. The police union chief has said Clark was not cuffed and grabbed an officer’s gun. The men have not been charged with hate crimes.
I have no idea what just happened
There was a terrible one written on salon, or gawker, or something. One of the meme leftwing websites.
It was about a University of Notre Dame teacher pressurising blacks into having sex with her white daughter.
The storyline was like a cuckold fantasy that you often see spammed on /pol/ by people who must be extraordinarily pathetic to spend their time in such a way.
/pol/ experiences lots of fake articles, people editing real articles to include cuckold stories; for example made-up stories of girls going to refugee camps to have sex with the non-whites. They are normally quite poorly written and so you can easily tell them apart.
So I assumed this one about the Notre Dame thing was also another fake posted by some spammer, both because of the subject content and the writing style, which was terrible. Well, it actually turned out to be real. It was Gawker or Salon or something, like I said.
>>4656
That was almost as bad as OP's article.
https://www.rt.com/news/324263-russia-briefing-isis-funding/
>Russian defense briefing presented three smuggling routes for oil to Turkey
>Claims Turkish leadership including Erdogen is involved in oil trade with ISIS
>Since airstrikes against ISIS their oil income has reduced from $3 million to $1.5 million per day
Don't forget Erdogen recently said he would resign if Russia provided proof his country has been illegally buying ISIS oil.
>>4586
>proof
No real solid evidence. Is in the same league as NATO keeps saying it has proof of Russian troops/hardware in Ukraine.
The Turkish PM isn't that much of an idiot that he would actually say he would resign if he knew there was solid evidence to tie him to it
>>4596
I find it hard to believe turks would shoot down that bomber if it didn't start bombing something they really didn't want to get bombed.
>rt
I'm not denying anything, but do you have a less biased source?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/1201/Why-some-Americans-remain-skeptical-about-climate-change
>Two new analyses examine 'how a culture of misinformation' can be spread within the American public, according to their author.
>A network of conservative donors and interest groups in the US form an intricate ecosystem effective at converting dollars to public doubts about global warming.
>That is the broad conclusion from an exhaustive analysis of 20 years' worth of IRS documents, as well as speeches, blog posts, books, and position papers from politicians, conservative think tanks, and trade groups.
>The analysis spans two research papers, the latest of which was published Monday in Nature Climate Change. It follows a study published Nov. 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that in effect set the table for the latest study.
the study: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/18/1509433112.abstract
>Taken together, the analyses by Yale University sociologist Justin Farrell, does the best job yet of connecting the dots along the paths from donation to representation of contrarian viewpoints by politicians and in the media, from whom people take many of their cues on policy, says Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
>Monday's study fills what Dr. Brulle calls a key gap in the sequence of steps that leads from donations to the appearance of climate-contrarian language in the media, where most people get their climate information. It suggests that the message donors are paying for increasingly has worked its way into the media, where the public gets most of its information on climate change.
>This follows work Dr. Farrell published Nov. 23 that identifies the links within the network, highlights several themes contrarians have included in their material, and explores the impact funding has on the emphasis those themes receive.
>Over the past decade, other peer-reviewed studies, as well as books, have been written about efforts by key players in the fossil-fuel industry and among conservative groups to sow doubt among politicians and the public about the need to curtail the greenhouse-gas emissions that are driving global warming.
>It's not a question of winning over a majority of Americans, notes Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and a collaborator on a project with researchers at George Mason University in Virginia that tracks public opinion on climate-change issues.
>Contrarians “just need to be strong enough to say no” to major policy decisions aimed at curbing global warming, he says.
>The broader issue remains, however – “how a culture of misinformation can be spread so effectively within the American public,” writes Farrell in an e-mail.
>In trying to help answer that question, the new work “adds a level of detail and integration that we did not previously have,” adds Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and co-author of the book, “Merchants of Doubt,” in an e-mail.
>Farrell opted to treat climate contrarians as a social movement and searched for the links between all of the key players to gauge their relative influence with politicians and the media.
>Initial outlines of the network have appeared in previous studies. Two years ago, for example, Dr. Brulle's research identified 140 foundations that between 2003 and 2010 collectively contributed nearly $560 million to 91 conservative organizations focused either exclusively or in part on casting doubt on climate change and the need for action to counter it.
>Farrell identified another 73 groups, expanding the sample to 164. To represent the donor community, he focused on ExxonMobile and the Koch Family Foundations. Previous studies had identified these two organizations as among the most influential.
>In addition, he used computer-based text analysis to hunt for common themes among nearly 41,000 documents or speeches the network produced during the 20-year period.
>The first part of the analysis, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on the donors and the organizations they fund.
>Not all contrarian groups in the sample received money from ExxonMobil or the Koch Family Foundations, the study noted. Those that did, however, were more likely than the received-nots among contrarian groups to write and publish documents aimed at polarizing public views on climate change.
>Prior to this analysis, “we didn't know that there was a difference between these two groups,” Brulle says. “We knew there were variations among groups, but we hadn't tied that to their funding.”
>Perhaps more important, the money was a signal of the recipients' places nearest the center of the contrarian network. That's where the money goes because “they are better organized and better connected, which leads to more influence,” Farrell notes.
>In addition, Farrell's data hint at the influence corporate and foundation money may have on the themes that recipients emphasize. By 2013, for example, funded groups were placing a higher focus on criticizing scientists' analysis of global temperature than groups that had not received funding. That marked a reversal from what had been the norm during the past 20 years, and the change took place over the past eight years, data show.
>The shift loosely tracks the rise of the so-called hiatus or pause in global warming as an issue. The notion of a pause didn't come from the scientific literature, where researchers are interested in trends over century time scales, notes Drexel's Brulle.
>Instead, “it was a climate disinformation meme” he says, one that the media amplified. It sent scientists scrambling to explain it, even though the decade in question not only was the warmest on record, it hosted several of the warmest years on record – later to be topped by 2014 and now expected to be topped by 2015.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/flash/adobe-kills-flash-name-rebrands-animator-friendly-animate-cc-124189.html
>With the Flash name now a liability in the tech world, Adobe announced today that it will kill the Flash name, in deference to the emergence of HTML5 as an online video standard, and reintroduce the software as Adobe Animate CC in January.
>Adobe says that the rebrand is “much more than just a name change” and unveiled a new video today in which Michael Chaize, principal Creative Cloud evangelist, explains some of the new features in Animate CC:
>At first glance, Animate CC seems to be more animator-friendly with Illustrator-level vector art brushes and less focus on website banners and buttons. The Capture CC app also looks promising as a way of quickly translating line art to vector, though it lags behind animation software like Toon Boom Harmony, which has those capabilities built into the program.
>Adobe, for once, is even pushing the fact that its software can be used by broadcast animators, citing in today’s announcement that Flash is “widely used in the cartoon industry by powerhouse studios like Nickelodeon and Titmouse Inc.” While the claim is not untrue, it should be noted that most Nick shows today are currently made in Toon Boom. [...]
Another nail in the coffin. ;_;
>>>/f/2966652
>>4320
I was gonna make a comment about going back to ShockWave, but Adobe owns that as well.
>>4320
Finally.
>>4320
Do you think they will rename /f/?
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2437549/google-brings-chrome-47-to-the-desktop-ditching-the-notification-centre
>The biggest change this time has been the removal of the Desktop Notification Centre after three years. Google has said that this was down to lack of use. At the end of the day, it is a feature that is best served in an operating system, not a browser. As such, it remains part of Chrome OS but any calls to its API from the browser version will now throw up an error.
>Also included are 41 security fixes provided by the community as part of the company's bounty rewards programme and others caught using Address Sanitiser and Memory Sanitiser. The bug bounty has been a rich one, paying out $105,000 to developers spotting shonky code, including $11,337 for a single bug.
They changed many things.
>>5195
>The biggest change this time has been the removal of the Desktop Notification Centre after three years. Google has said that this was down to lack of use.
that's kind of shit
mostly since Showdown used it to let me know when it was my turn to play
there's dick all reason for it to go away, even if it wasn't really used that much
>>5195
yeah BUT YET
they still havent fixed their ungodly amount or disk usage & i/o reads and writes to disk which reaches into the 10's of millions in a 6-7 hour session.
FIX YOUR FUCKING BULLSHIT BROWSER CHROME FOR FUCKS SAKE IT"S BEEN YEARS ALREADY.
JUST FIX IT.
>>5332
>mostly since Showdown used it to let me know when it was my turn to play
Literally the only thing I used it for
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34980504
https://archive.is/Jd7R7
>David Cameron has told MPs that bombing IS in Syria will "keep the British people safe" - but Jeremy Corbyn said his case for war "doesn't stack up".
>Mr Cameron faced calls to apologise for saying opponents of military action were "terrorist sympathisers", with Mr Corbyn saying it "demeaned" his office.
>The 10 hour Commons debate will end with a vote on whether the UK joins others such as France, the US and Russia in bombing targets in Syria.
>According to BBC research, of the 640 MPs expected to vote, 362 MPs are in favour of the motion while 175 are against. Of the remainder, 19 are "leaning to" supporting the government, three are "leaning against" while 80 are undecided.
Is it worth the UK joining in? Will it actually make any difference? Also is Cameron right in saying anyone opposing is a terrorist sympathiser?
>>4600
I think that the decision of the UK to fight Daesh is more nuanced than for America. Many of the most recent Islamic terrorist attacks have taken place in Europe. It's true that Daesh is becoming stronger but the majority of the terrorists (if not all of them) have been home-grown. That's why I don't think that destroying Daesh will stop terrorist attacks in Europe.
The problem is deeper than "bomb these guys and call it a day." The Western world is seen as islamaphobic by these guys and we need to do our best to change that image, not only for our own safety, but so that groups like Daesh don't emerge again. Proving a firm hand is useful in the short term, but we need to do a lot more to rebuild the infrastructure of the middle east after we spent trillions to tear it down.
Not to mention that worsening living conditions in the middle east brought on global climate change pushes desperate people to violence and extremism. The plan for attack is complex and many-fold, but our first step should probably involve destroying Daesh, especially for Europe.
This all being said, Cameron's rhetoric is pathetic and cowardly. It's easy to call someone a "terrorist sympathizer." They should not immediately scramble to take on Daesh, but rather think of a way to do so while simultaneously offering aid to displaced Syrians and offering to take in even more refugees.
>>4600
What will airstrikes do exactly?
I get they'll kill some people, who clears out the towns of le isilboogeymen? who takes over if they magically vanish? Is there anyone able to govern and protect these areas? 'moderate' rebels?
>>4610
>The Western world is seen as heathen
ftfy,
Regrettably the arab nationalist movements were destroyed and replaced with sunni or shia islamism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-nye-climate-change-paris-terrorism_565ccdebe4b079b2818b810b
>>4555
>le mainstream meme sideboob gazette
Leave it to them to pay smart people to say stupid shit
>>4570
Bill key has a bachelors in engineering.
Not a scientist
Not that smart
>>4580
That's always been my biggest complaint with him. You're a fucking engineer. Your job is the hobby of actual science, why the hell are you an authority on anything?
sup /news/ance
what are some good/your personal favorite news sources?
i use RT occasionally,
https://www.rt.com/
would like to find something less bias.
I remember talking points memo being pretty good, but that probably means the it has a significant liberal bias.
>>4485
thanks I'll check it out
>>4484
everything has bias, use an aggregator like google news or yahoo news.
you only get a sense of what is really happening by seeing all the stories everywher and not the just the stories the sites want to cover and pick out for you.
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