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co-founder David Mikkelson started taking all sorts of trips around the world to bang whores after that sweet liberal shill money started rolling in
Ah, helping the working class. Doing for them literally what his fellow travelers just do metaphorically.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Radio City Rockettes are confirmed to perform at Trump's inauguration
One of the group's dancers took to Instagram to voice her disapproval of Trump
The women have been told they do not have to participate in the show
A-Listers like Judd Apatow had urged people to call the producers of the show
Donald Trump claims 'A-list celebrities' are desperate to attend his inauguration
Celine Dion, Kiss, Elton John, and Garth Brooks have already turned Trump down
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OK he is an A-Lister, sez the article, but....this is the first time in my life I have seen the name Judd Apatow - who tf is he? not even worth googling.
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ok sorry browser acting all janked up
Fixed. These things happen.
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What will be interesting is whether there is a quiet change in her employment status after the event. The Rockettes want to be an apolitical organization so that they don't drive away half their potential audience; I can see not fighting with dancers now so as not to give the story legs, but making it clear later that being a Rockette is a privilege many would willing keep their mouths shut to have, and those who aren't will be replaced. There are a great many tall, leggy, underemployed dancers out there, after all.
[AA.TR] Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... 's president-elect Adama Barrow has assured the 1.9 million inhabitants of the small West African nation that he will be sworn in on Jan. 19 when President Yahya Jammeh's term expires despite latter’s announcement that he will not step down.
"The incoming president wants it to be known without any shadow of a doubt that he has the constitutional mandate to prepare to assume Office in January 2017," Halifa Sallah, the front man of the president-elect, told journalists.
"Outgoing President Jammeh took office on Jan. 19, 2012. His five-year term expires in January 2017. Anybody could do the arithmetic for one’s self."
The statement came in the wake of another threat issued by President Jammeh during a meeting with delegates from the African Bar Association on Dec. 20 that he will not step down when his term expires.
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[Al Jazeera] A recently formed rebel group in the Central African Republic (CAR) is wreaking havoc in the western half of the country, displacing thousands and emptying towns and villages in a country already hit hard by instability.
The Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation group, or 3R, was formed in late 2015 and has displaced at least 30,000 people in the Ouham Pende region in CAR, debilitating relief efforts in the region, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... told Al Jazeera on Thursday.
"Approximately 15,000 fled [from Koui in Ouham Pende] to the neighbouring town of Bocaranga and another 15,000 have not been identified yet ... they sought refuge in the bush and along the axis leading to Bocaranga," Yaye Nabo Sene, spokesperson at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the capital, Bangui, said.
Sene said that overall, some 70,000 people have been displaced across CAR since September, due to ongoing festivities between gangs vying for regional control.
The UN's comments come two days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) described the emergence of a new rebel group operating in the western parts of the country.
The watchdog accused the group of killing at least 50 people and displacing another 17,000 in a series of campaigns launched across the region between November 21 and 27. Two months earlier, the group allegedly raided the town of De Gaulle, killing 17 people and raping up to 43 women and girls.
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[Daily Caller] Pressure is mounting on the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir to not perform at president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in January, but the choir is not backing down.
In a Friday statement to The Daily Caller, the choir responded to an online petition that wants to the choir not to sing at Trump’s inauguration. The statement said while the group has received "mixed reactions," it will still perform for the 58th Inauguration in Washington, D.C. just as it has done in the past.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked to “restore the framework of bilateral cooperation” with the U.S. in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month — which the transition team released Friday. The letter offers Christmas and New Year’s wishes, then Mr. Putin suggests the two nations find a way to get beyond the loggerheads of the last few years.
“I hope that after you assume the position of the President of the United States of America we will be able — by acting in a constructive and pragmatic manner — to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation in different areas as well as bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level,” Mr. Putin said.
Mr. Trump, in a statement, called it “a very nice letter” and said “his thoughts are so correct.”
“I hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to travel an alternate path,” he said.
Democrats and the Obama administration have accused Mr. Putin of meddling in the U.S. election to try to sink Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee and former secretary of state who had tried but failed to earn better relations with Russia.
The release of the letter comes a day after both Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump suggested they might push to expand their countries’ nuclear capabilities — a move that arms control groups said could presage a new arms race.
During the campaign, Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump each had positive things to say about the other’s leadership style.
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[Times of India] MIRPUR KHAS: The girl called Jeevti was just 14 when she taken from her family in the night to be married off to a man who says her family owed him $1,000.
Her mother, Ameri Kashi Kohli, is sure that her daughter paid the price for a never-ending debt.
Ameri says she and her husband borrowed roughly $500 when they first began to work on the land, but she throws up her hands and says the debt was repaid.
It's a familiar story here in southern Pakistan: Small loans balloon into impossible debts, bills multiply, payments are never deducted.
In this world, women like Ameri and her young daughter are treated as property: taken as payment for a debt, to settle disputes, or as revenge if a landowner wants to punish his worker. Sometimes parents, burdened by an unforgiving debt, even offer their daughters as payment.
The women are like trophies to the men. They choose the prettiest, the young and pliable. Sometimes they take them as second wives to look after their homes. Sometimes they use them as prostitutes to earn money. Sometimes they take them simply because they can.
"I went to the police and to the court. But no one is listening to us," says Ameri, who is Hindu. She says the land manager made her daughter convert to Islam and took the girl as his second wife. "They told us, 'Your daughter has committed to Islam and you can't get her back."'
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"The New Little Ice Age Has Started." This is the unambiguous title of a new study from one of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions, the Russian Academy of Science’s Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg. "The average temperature around the globe will fall by about 1.5 C when we enter the deep cooling phase of the Little Ice Age, expected in the year 2060," the study states. "The cooling phase will last for about 45-65 years, for four to six 11-year cycles of the Sun, after which on the Earth, at the beginning of the 22nd century, will begin the new, next quasi-bicentennial cycle of warming." Lets not cut carbon emissions?
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We should be focusing our attentions and research on any climate swings and what it would take to mitigate the effects. Like what food grows better where? What strains are resistant to drought, heat and cold? How could populations be moved if necessary?
Carbon reduction fights... sorry... capitalist reduction fights and socialist movements are not the answer.
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We can't control the climate, despite what the libtards say. We can only adjust. Studies into how we can adjust the best would be much better serving to humanity than carbon credits.
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Carbon credits are, and always were, a huge moneymaking scam, Darth.
If we were to scrape that basement to find out who was behind them, we'd find some pretty big rats. Most of the early 'advocates' got in and cashed out fairly quickly before the Ponzi Scheme became apparent to the masses.
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The paleo reconstructions (ice cores etc) show large and rapid climate changes over time periods as short as 10 to 20 years. And no one knows why.
It might be solar activity as these Russians think, but that would mean solar variability is much larger than we currently understand.
Climate change created the Bahamas - they were once coral reefs. There are ancient beaches in California, 300 feet above sea level. Climate changes; get used to it!
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A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health Organization. Trials conducted in Guinea, one of the West African countries most affected by an outbreak of Ebola that ended this year, show it offers 100% protection.
The vaccine is now being fast-tracked for regulatory approval.
Manufacturer Merck has made 300,000 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine available for use should Ebola strike. GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, provided $5m for the stockpile.
Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, show of nearly 6,000 people receiving the vaccine, all were free of the virus 10 days later. In a group of the same size not vaccinated, 23 later developed Ebola.
Only one person who was vaccinated had a serious side effect that the researchers think was caused by the jab. This was a very high temperature and the patient recovered fully. It is not known how well the vaccine might work in children since this was not tested in the trial.
The director of British-based medical research institute the Wellcome Trust described the findings as "remarkable".
"Had a vaccine been available earlier in the Ebola epidemic, thousands of lives might have been saved," Jeremy Farrar said. "We have to get ahead of the curve and make promising diagnostics, drugs and vaccines for diseases we know could be a threat in the future."
The trial was led by the World Health Organization (WHO), working with Guinea's health ministry and international groups. The WHO's Marie-Paule Kieny said the results could help combat future outbreaks.
"While these compelling results come too late for those who lost their lives during West Africa's Ebola epidemic, they show that when the next Ebola outbreak hits, we will not be defenceless," said Dr Kieny, the lead author of the study.
Other drug companies are developing different Ebola vaccines that could be used in the future too.
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Of course, if it turns out in 50 years that 2 people of the millions who had the vaccine develop cancer, the manufacturer will be sued out of business.
Ignore the millions who lived because of the vaccine.
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Brought to you by the Umbrella corporation. "It's perfectly safe. Nobody turns into zombies."
[NBCNEWS] Kellyanne Conway, the Republican pollster who managed Donald Trump's campaign in its final months, will be appointed counselor to the president, the transition team announced Thursday.
"She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message. I am pleased that she will be part of my senior team in the West Wing," the president-elect said in a statement.
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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.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin asked to “restore the framework of bilateral cooperation” with the U.S. in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month — which the transition team released Friday. The letter offers Christmas and New Year’s wishes, then Mr. Putin suggests the two nations find a way to get beyond the loggerheads of the last few years.
A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health Organization. Trials conducted in Guinea, one of the West African countries most affected by an outbreak of Ebola that ended this year, show it offers 100% protection.
