http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/opinion/the-importance-of-retaking-ramadi.html?_r=0
Iraqi Government ground and US Coalition air forces delivered the most crushing defeat to the IS Group to date. As the provincial capital of Anbar the city is highly symbolic for the Iraqi nation, and as the third largest city formerly under the control of the "caliphate" the impact on IS is two fold. First, the IS group will be losing tax income, manpower, a staging area to threaten Baghdad, and the perception of being blessed by their death god. Second, the loss of the city will significantly restrict the group's ability to hide its equipment, infrastructure, and personnel from bombardment.
If the victory is also an indication that the Iraqi Army is back on its feet then it would seem that IS is not long for this world, or at least Iraq.
Former thread:
>>8289
>>12490
I take it as a proof of concept. If the Coalition can find and support fighters that will push out warlords in Iraq without replacing them with terrorism then it can also be done in Syria. If something worse doesn't follow ISIS tyranny then it won't necessarily follow Assad tyranny.
It's far from over. I've read in numerous sources that ISIS is going full Viet-Cong and making extensive tunnel networks. This fight is far from over.
>>12551
Yeah, I read a report about those tunnels, it's suppose to save them from the bombings, apparently they are insanely long.
> Enter Trump, who has the temerity to point out that the party establishment says one thing but does another. He launched his campaign by calling the GOP’s bluff on immigration: If the 11 million people here without documents are really “illegal,” as the party loudly proclaims, then send them home. Other candidates were put in the position of having to explain why, after claiming that President Obama was somehow “soft” on immigration, their position on allowing the undocumented to stay is basically the same.
> Also, the party has long sought to capitalize on fear of terrorism by haranguing the president for not using the exact phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” (as if semantics could bring peace to Syria). So when, after the attack in San Bernardino, Calif. , Trump called for banning Muslims from entering the country, much of the Republican base was receptive. Other candidates had to backpedal and remind voters that George W. Bush made clear his “war on terror” was not a war against Islam.
> Trump has given voice to the ugliness and anger that the party spent years encouraging and exploiting. He let the cat out of the bag, and it’s hungry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-donald-trump-is-destroying-the-republican-party/2015/12/28/747668f6-ad9e-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.html
The party of: slavery, succession from the union (the Confederacy), segregation, the KKK, denying women the vote, killing children one month from being born, not executing murders, making sure only criminals have guns, Japanese american internment camps, and giving non Americans more rights than citizens.
Yep the Democrat Party.
How could Trump be worse?
>>12474
>comparing mostly decades or century old history with recent history
I think you need to learn about perspective.
>>12478
Pretending the Democrat Party was not behind maintaining slavery and the horrors of discrimination against minorities long after other civilized countries outlawed it is just a sign of how effective the propaganda is.
How does it feel to be defending your ignorance with "duh"??
http://www.people.com/article/bill-cosby-arrest-warrant-alleged-sexual-assault-2004
>An arrest warrant has been issued for entertainer Bill Cosby for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania mansion in January 2004, Montgomery County District Attorney-Elect Kevin Steele said at a Wednesday press conference.
Bill Clinton not available for comment
>>12723
What does Bill Clinton have to do with it?
>>12722
>2004
C'mon guys, it's the >current year!
The influx of EU migrants can lead to pay reductions of nearly two per cent in some industries including catering, hotels and elderly care, the research showed.
Campaigners last night seized on the document as official confirmation that EU migration is undermining the living standards of the UK’s least paid workers.
Lord Green of Deddington, the chairman of the pressure group Migration Watch, said: “For many years the immigration lobby have claimed that there is no evidence that immigration has any significant effect on the wages of British workers.
“This new research by the Bank of England blows their claims out of the water. It has found a significant negative impact on those in the lower skilled services sector in which six million UK born are working. This amounts to nearly a quarter of all British workers.”
Ukip MEP and migration spokesman Steven Woolfe said: “We must start to discuss and fully understand the impact, directly and indirectly, that mass migration has on our economy and jobs sector.
“Net migration at over 300,000 per year is preventing wages rising in line with inflation for native, British workers.
“This level of migration is compressing the low skilled jobs sector which is bloated to bursting point.”
The Bank of England report, entitled “The Impact of Immigration on Occupational Wages”, was written by Oxford academic Stephen Nickell, who is a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility, and Bank of England economist Jumana Saleheen.
They argued that the impact on wages was “small” in terms of the overall UK economy but was also “statistically significant”.
“The biggest effect is in the semi/unskilled services sector, where a 10 percentage point rise in the proportion of immigrants is associated with a two per cent reduction in pay,” the authors wrote.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628640/Bank-of-England-migration-down-wages
>>12502
Supply and demand. With all these people now looking for work, why should they have any incentive to pay anything higher than minimum wage for a basic job?
>>12502
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Documents/workingpapers/2015/swp574.pdf
>What should we make of this finding? Our earlier investigation into the facts about
immigration unveiled that low-skill occupations, such as semi-unskilled services, had witnessed the largest increases in immigration in recent years. If immigrants in these occupations earn less than natives, the 1.88 percent negative impact of immigration on wages reported above could simply reflect compositional changes within the occupation, towards a higher share of (lower paid) immigrants. The compositional effect will be determined by the wage differential between immigrants and natives within occupations.
>A simple hourly wage equation suggests that, in semi/unskilled services, immigrants earn 5.4 percent less than natives (Table 6).17
>In other words a 10% rise in immigration alone, would lead to a 0.54 percent fall in wages — that is the size of the compositional effect. It is striking that the compositional effect is small when compared to the large impact of 1.88 percent reported above. From this we conclude that the impact of immigration on wages in semi/unskilled services is much larger than can be accounted for by purely compositional effects, suggesting that the vast majority of this effect refers to the impact on native workers.
>The same cannot be said for skilled production workers. Here a 10% rise in immigration lowers wages by 1.68%, but the compositional effect is in the same ball park, around 1.13%. So for skilled production workers the impact of immigration on wages can largely be accounted for the compositional effect.
So, worth noting that, since natives make more on average than non-natives, the effect on Britons is somewhat less than 2%, and near 0 for skilled workers. That's still a significant decrease.
Interesting. As they note in the introduction, this is still an open question. Also, apparently there was no difference between EU and non-EU immigrants.
>>12516
Well, remember that they're both producers and consumers. Increasing the population means increasing aggregate demand, while will increase prices and therefore wages. The question is whether that effect is enough to counteract the effect of the increased workforce on aggregate supply, and therefore wages.
I would draw a picture showing how both AS and AD increase with an increase in the quantity of people in the economy, but no images on /news/. Sorry
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-cow-dung-patties-are-selling-like-hot-cakes-online-in-india/
So Indians had to outsource shitting everywhere to cows
>>12292
Must be a slow /news/ day.
Ok, this is not surprising at all.
The cow is one of most if not the most holy things in India and just about everything about it is heavily respected.
This should have been a thing a long time ago.
>>12321
Every day is a slow news day on /news/...
They're pooing in the internet now
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/28/uk-floods-costs-financial-ruin
Yet another failing of the government not looking into a problem until it was too late.
Why on earth did the flood gates in York get opened anyway? Would they seriously have caused more damage if they were kept closed?
>>12298
They literally had a Dutch king, a DUTCH king, and didn't learn one god damn thing.
Some of the news from my area.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3378081/Looters-target-flood-victims-homes-Thieves-steal-properties-submerged-dirty-water-Storm-Frank-threatens-6in-rain.html
They caught the fucker! They finally caught the little spoiled piece of shit muther fucker!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-affluenza-teen-detained-mexico-cnn-032035321.html
>>12279
FUCK YO' COUCH, NIGGA
>>12279
Heard a theory that the judge gave him probation because she knew he would fuck it up.
>>12288
Imagine being the kind of asshole to get a second chance like that and completely fuck it up. What a fucking retard.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35192184?OCID=twitterasia
>People honestly believe that having no internet is better than breaking the net neutrality morale code.
Net neutrality is internet communism in my opinion.
>>12640
They aren't on the internet per se, they're on Facebook's walled garden network. It's like AOL was in the 90s.
>>12640
related:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/DDoSing-a-regulator-A-how-to-manual-from-Facebooks-Free-Basics/articleshow/50370919.cms
I'm for net neutrality, but you really don't have a right to complain about what a free service offers. If they want full internet access, they can pay for it.
So national geographic spent years and millions of dollars to film a giant squid, building a submarine and travelling hundreds of metres below the depths - only to have one to swim to the shores a couple years later, healthy and able to swim back to sea.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/giant-squid-visits-harbor-in-japan-151228.htm?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DNewsSocial
Holy shit, I bet nat geo is super pissed right now.
>>12371
It's probably sick/dying if it came up to the surface.
It's the thought that counts mate, plus that shit is amazing!
Jesus Christ someone DOVE IN to film it?! Guy either has balls of steel or is the biggest idiot of the century.
Trump is finally spending money on ads, and is preparing to spend 2 million a week. Since he announced his candidacy, Trump has only spent 200,000 on ads (primarily radio ads in Iowa)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/28/trump-plots-big-tv-ad-blitz-that-could-change-campaign-landscape.html
trump is an evil, racist and disgusting man. Nuff said.
>>12202
all the more reason hes getting my vote!
>>12202
how so?
http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/6211359-cops-arrest-suspect-in-masturbating-incident-at-oshawa-hospital/
>>12747
http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/team-usa-tattooed-subway-masturbator-turns-himself-in/
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/billionaire-space-club-pits-spacex-vs-blue-origin-vs-virgin-galactic/
>>12697
Anon-Space will wipe them all out!!!
Further your education and practice proper lab safety in the coming years. Commercial and diplomatic space flight will be more than possible or at least this non-O would project about as much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&list=PLzKiypScsQiNKqY4UVvJPr-ViwCgwIjnd
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rice-family-attorney-on-non-indictment-592660035613
>Instead of flying sound effects, one boy's toy plane that he received for Christmas played an Islamic prayer. KING-TV's Ryan Takeo reports from Seattle.
>>12554
It only costs $9.11!!!
>http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rice-family-attorney-on-non-indictment-592660035613
I think you posted the wrong URL famalam.
Anyway, I'm sure this just some loony fundie hearing what they want to hear. I remember a story from years ago about talking doll that supposedly said "Islam is the light." Sounded like absolute gibberish.
" TOKYO — Japan and South Korea said Monday they had “finally and irreversibly” resolved a dispute over wartime sex slaves that has bedeviled relations between the two countries for decades.
In something of a surprise development, the two countries’ foreign ministers met in Seoul to finalize a deal that will see Japan put $8.3 million into a South Korean fund to support the 46 surviving “comfort women” and to help them recover their “honor and dignity” and heal their “psychological wounds.”
The move was welcomed in Washington, which has been both concerned and annoyed by the fighting between its two closest allies in Asia. This year marks seven decades since the end of World War II and the end of the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula.
Independent historians have concluded that as many as 200,000 women and girls — from occupied countries including Korea, China, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations — were coerced by the Japanese Imperial Army to work as sex slaves during the war.
“We made a final and irreversible solution at this 70th anniversary milestone,” Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told reporters in Tokyo after speaking to his South Korean counterpart, President Park Geun-hye, on the phone."
Continues here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-korea-japan-reach-settlement-on-wartime-korean-sex-slaves/2015/12/28/e0578237-0a00-4f10-8491-1d85e72890b3_story.html
So what do you guys expect this entails down the line? Closer ties economically and militarily? They have pretty similar interests, I think, and they both want to curb growing Chinese dominance. I think recent incursions into their territories is what spurred this agreement: Japan finally decided grandstanding wasn't worth it.
The only standing issue I can think of is that one island between SK and Japan, but I imagine that issue isn't that big and that they have other things they'd benefit from dealing with together, that have much more serious implications.
>>12221
I would hope Japan is prepared to back down from Dokdo with the Koreans agreeing to some sort of sharing of mineral rights, and support for Japan's Senkaku claims. If the rest of Asia wants to keep China in check, there needs to be much closer ties and cooperation than there is now.
They know that North Korea is starting to get troublesome so they're smoothing out ties with allies.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/us/tamir-rice-shooting/index.html
>>12259
lol what. u stupid af.
This can not continue to happen non lethal weapons and community bonding and support as much as possibly from now on we need to prevent this
>>12307
We must preserve the existence of our people and a future for black children
