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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...
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>>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,...
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>>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...
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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.
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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....
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>>4617
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>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...
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>>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,...
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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...
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>>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,...
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>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...
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>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...
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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...
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>>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...
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>>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...
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>>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...
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>>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.
