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Most young like socialism because leaving the care of the parents and getting a real job is scary. Then once a decent job is attained the fear is generally replaced by anger at how much is taken from the checks.
Of course this transition doesn't occur for folks that stay in the university system (and to a lesser extent Unions) where jobs are protected.
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In the defense of the Millennials they all know they are going to pay for the Boomers in the rest homes and probably want to get what they can out of the Boomers now before it is too late.
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Ima calling bullshit - if I remember my high school science classes correctly, that massive ball of molten iron in the Earth's core would be a far better candidate for explaining this movement.
Oh, yeah? How do you know it's not on it's second lap?
Seriously, Raj nails it. Magnetic declination changes over time and with location, likely due to that big swirly blog of molten iron. It's Science, bitches.
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I'm surprised Business Insider carries such a juvenile science article. The North pole has always moved. It used to be in the land mass now referred to as Saudi Arabia.
Next you will see an article about the velocity of the earth is being slowed by air pollution. Or one even harder to believe...the Clinton emails were disinformation to the US foreign enemies.
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By shifting the balance of water and ice on land through global warming
I remember a Geography class that described the surface of the earth. After a series of slides and film strips (yup, no PowerPoint) showing the Teton Range, Death Valley, Himalayas, Marianas Trench, etc., the professor (no TA there) said that even with those apparently vast changes in the earth's surface structure, taken as a whole and given the size of the earth, its surface is still as smooth as an eggshell.
We are just subatomic particles in the grand scheme of things.
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We are just subatomic particles in the grand scheme of things. Posted by Mullah Richard
...and the older one gets, the more 'subatomic' you realize that you actually are. The good news; just like the Haplotaxida we have an earthly purpose as well.
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It's a "filler" article. The editors had a gap in their paper and couldn't fill it with actual/factual news or ads, so they found a "shiny" article to placate the proles.
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The pole is not moving toward London, London is moving toward the pole.
So some imbecile actually thinks a minor change in the water/ice balance is going to shift the entire crust of the planet? That would be like an ant crawling on a soccer ball makes the whole ball spin.
[FRANCE24] A congressional committee on Monday recommended impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, setting the stage for a crucial vote in the lower house to decide whether she should face trial.
The committee voted 38 to 27 in favor of Rousseff's ouster. Both sides yelled slogans and waved placards as the vote was completed after hours of bad-tempered debate.
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Next stop, "retirement" in Kooba...
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I never trusted her. "Dilma"...right
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Many of the workers were minors whose families were falsely promised a good education and quality of life if they let their children leave Guatemala.
Castillo-Serrano took deeds to land in the victims' native country as collateral.
So the real problem is that he was running his own Student Loan program that promised nothing in the end but insured debt and servitude to the lender. Competing directly with the government is frowned upon and dealt with harshly.
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Well, the Wisconsin State Teachers Union (among other unions, like the SEIU) has grabbed the Internationalist Socialist Organization's (ISO for short, and not the 'international standards' one - another group of lawyers should look into this) 'clenched fist' logo for their own during protests, elections, etc.
Maybe the Russian commies, upon seeing this, don't want their brand 'diluted' or something.
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North Korea blamed the South for the defection of 13 North Koreans from China, calling it an "unprecedented kidnapping incident." Even if it were true, it would hardly be unprecedented. I seem to recall a number of Japanese citizens were kidnapped by the Norks about 30 years ago in order to learn the language.
Calling the incident "a grave provocation," the North Korean Red Cross also warned of "unthinkable consequences" if Seoul doesn't repatriate the defectors, Yonhap reported. Sure. Right after those Japanese hostages are returned.
This event, a fabrication of the South Korean puppet regime, is a grave provocation against [North Korea], an intolerable insult that cannot be allowed," a North Korean Red Cross spokesman said in statement, according to North Korean media outlet Uriminzokkiri. So we can agree that those who take hostages are the scum of the earth, right?
This is the first public statement North Korea has issued since 13 North Koreans -- a man and 12 women --arrived in the South last Thursday, after they sought asylum at Seoul's embassy in Bangkok.
North Korea slammed Seoul, claiming South Korea "dragged" the North Koreans to a "Southeast Asian country." We saw 'em do it!
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said the group defection should serve as a sign to the North. Another sign to the North would be that South Koreans aren't exactly flocking to the North.
"If the North Korean government continues to make the wrong choices that include nuclear weapons development, similar incidents will continue to arise," Yun told reporters in Seoul, adding the "winds of change" are sweeping across Asia and around the world. They will if 0bean and his ilk remain in charge.
"I believe the North Korean restaurant workers came to the South, to find new freedoms," Yun said. It was probably a leap of faith driven by desperation.
The number of North Koreans defecting to the South has slightly declined since Kim Jong Un fully assumed power in 2012, but in the first quarter of 2016, that number was up from the same time period in 2015. I wonder what the numbers would be had he not cracked down on defections.
A total of 342 North Koreans defected to the South January-March 2016, 51 more people than in 2015.
A significant majority of defectors are women, but the number of male defectors was up in early 2016 - 77 of the 342 defectors were men, up 22 from the first quarter of 2015. I wonder what their family situation was.
[Iran Press TV] German officials say they are examining a formal request by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to prosecute a satirist for reciting a poem on TV mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan.
Government front man Steffen Seibert said on Monday that officials are carefully examining a request by Turkish embassy for "criminal prosecution" of Jan Boehmermann who read a satirical poem on ZDF television about Erdogan two weeks ago.
"The Turkish embassy, in connection with the ZDF broadcast 'Neo Magazin Royale', sent a cable to the foreign ministry," Seibert said, adding, "The content of this cable and the way forward will now be carefully examined by the government."
Seibert said the review would decide in a matter of days whether a probe could be launched under Section 103 of the criminal code which addresses cases of insulting organs or representatives of foreign states. According to the law, the charges can carry a sentence of up to three years in prison.
The official said, however, that Germany will remain committed to its constitutional obligation on freedom of expression.
"This applies, and this is very important to me, regardless of whether the chancellor personally finds something artistically successful or repellent, tasteful or tasteless," he said.
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The official said, however, that Germany will remain committed to its constitutional obligation on freedom of expression.
The why are you mulling it over? Seems to me Section 103 of the criminal code and this alleged commitment to freedom of expression are at loggerheads.
An NYPD cop was caught on video telling a Bronx driver that it's Mayor Bill de Blasio's fault he's getting a ticket -- and that he himself never would have voted for the guy.
"Mayor de Blasio wants us to give out summonses, OK? All right?" the cop says to the man, who is seen holding the summons in a YouTube video that has since been taken down.
"I don't know if you voted for him or not. I don't live in the city. I wouldn't have voted for him because this is what he wants. He wants us to give out summonses," the officer adds.
The driver responds, "I feel you, this is a hard job."
The 10-second video was posted Saturday by a user with the handle 181elvis before being removed from the site Monday.
A police source said the incident took place in the 46th Precinct, in the west Bronx. Police weren't able to say when it happened, but said the officer has been suspended during an investigation. I'll bet he has.
"The incident is under review by the Precinct Commanding Officer," the NYPD said in a statement, without identifying the cop.
City Hall spokeswoman Monica Klein defended the mayor's traffic safety enforcement policy, saying, "Vision Zero is saving lives. Traffic fatalities are down 22 percent since Vision Zero started, making 2015 the safest year on city streets since record-keeping began."
De Blasio launched Vision Zero in 2014. The initiative included lowering the speed limit to 25 mph in many areas, adding traffic cameras and increasing criminal charges against violators.
Through February of this year, NYPD officers had handed out 181,892 tickets, a more than 20 percent increase over the same period in 2015 and about the same as in Mayor Mike Bloomberg's final year in office, 2013.
This isn't the first time a cop was filmed getting real with a driver. An NYPD detective caught on video last year chewing out an Uber driver was stripped of his shield and gun and placed on modified duty.
Detective Patrick Cherry was removed from the department's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force after mocking the driver's accent and berating him.
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Using security personnel as revenue agents. Doesn't play out well in the long run. Hey, you exist to serve the state. Be grateful. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[Iran Press TV] From shields and plate armors used by soldiers and warriors in the medieval era to bulletproof vests worn by security forces in the modern times, personal armor has traveled a long way through history to protect bodies from enemy’s piercing weapons through absorbing the impact and reducing or stopping penetration. As the latest in a new generation of armor materials, metal foam armor can marvelously stop speeding bullets by turning them into dust upon impact, making it the ultimate armor so far.
The new armor was made just recently out of composite metal foams (CMFs), a new ultra-light, high-strength material of the metal foam family, to further protect people and soldiers alike from armor-piercing bullets. CMFs are also used in the aerospace, military, naval, automotive, medical and other industries.
"We could stop the bullet at a total thickness of less than an inch, while the indentation on the back was less than eight millimeters. To put that into context, the NIJ (National Institute of Justice) standard allows up to 44 millimeters indentation in the back of an armor," said Afsaneh Rabiei, an Iranian-born professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the North Carolina State University, who has spent many years in the development of CMFs and investigating their unusual properties.
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This stuff is truly amazing.
My prediction with the X-25 being deployed along with smart rounds that destroy the notion of cover, light armor like this will be needed and soon power armor will come into being.
The battlefield is just getting too deadly for unarmored men to last very long so the old arms race between attack and defense continues.
[DAWN] New York Times investigative journalist Declan Walsh – whose report last year unveiled a “secretive Pakistani software company” that allegedly earned millions of dollars from scams involving fake degrees, non-existent online universities and manipulation of customers – has detailed in a new report published Monday fresh details about the case surrounding Axact.
New details on the case, disclosed in the report, purport that the scandal is “bigger than initially imagined”.
Axact allegedly took money from at least 215,000 people in 197 countries.
CEO Shoaib Shaikh found to be owner of several shell companies in the US and other Caribbean countries that were used to channel funds to Pakistan.
Shaikh used a pseudonym on documentation linked to offshore companies.
Shaikh became a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis, a small Caribbean island that sells passports to rich investors.
Axact sales agents employees used "threats and false promises" and impersonated government officials to rake money from customers, mostly in the Middle East.
The company earned at least $89 million in its final year of operation through illicit operations.
Axact CEO Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, managers Viqas Atique, Zeeshan Anwar, Mohammad Sabir and Zeeshan Ahmed and 14 other officials/employees of software firm Axact were booked in May last year for allegedly preparing and selling fake degrees, diplomas and accreditation certificates of fictitious schools/universities through a fraudulent online system and illegally minting “hundreds of millions of dollars".
The Federal Investigation Agency filed a final charge-sheet in the case last month, but the accused await trial.
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Forgive me. I can't help thinking I have passed up a chance to get multiple degrees from Wossamotta U. And the thing is, in this world of specious degrees, credentialism and 'papering', I don't think anyone would even blink.
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Far easier to just pretend one is, say, an African exchange student?
Argentina Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina
Saudi Arabia Salman, King of Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Abu Dhabi
Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine
Former heads of state
Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, former Emir of Qatar
Sudan Ahmed al-Mirghani, former President of Sudan
Heads of government
Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (resigned April 5, 2016)
Former heads of government
Georgia (country) Bidzina Ivanishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia
Iraq Ayad Allawi, former Acting Prime Minister of Iraq
Jordan Ali Abu al-Ragheb, former Prime Minister of Jordan
Qatar Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former Prime Minister of Qatar
Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
Moldova Ion Sturza, former Prime Minister of Moldova
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Still no Americans.
Was this supposed to be a hit job by Obama on Putin?
Plus, this story is getting no traction in the US. I imagine there are some bigwigs from the US in this list somewhere....
•David Geffen, Hollywood mogul, co-founder of DreamWorks
•Igor Olenicoff, American billionaire
•Marianna Olszewski, American financial author and life coach.
But American pols would know to put all their boodle in the Hill and Bill Foundation.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korea blamed the South for the defection of 13 North Koreans from China, calling it an "unprecedented kidnapping incident."
[DAWN] New York Times investigative journalist Declan Walsh – whose report last year unveiled a “secretive Pakistani software company” that allegedly earned millions of dollars from scams involving fake degrees, non-existent online universities and manipulation of customers – has detailed in a new report published Monday fresh details about the case surrounding Axact.
