[DailyMail] - Satellite images 'show Chinese and North Korean ships tied together off China'
- South Korea claims there have been 30 such transactions in just three months
- Such trades are banned under a UN resolution adopted in September this year
US satellites have spotted Chinese tankers transferring oil to North Korean ships 30 times in three months - despite strict UN trade embargoes, it has been claimed.
Overhead images appear to show ships from the two countries shackled together for a fuel transfer in the West Sea off China.
Such ship-to-ship trades are banned under a UN Security Council resolution adopted in September.
But according to South Korean government sources, American satellites have pictured large vessels from both China and North Korea illegally trading in a stretch of the West Sea on multiple occasions.
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[Western Journal] Three Democrat-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week.
New York’s domestic out-migration during that time period was about the same as it was in the same time 2015 and 2016. Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center.
Despite the massive domestic out-migration flow, New York’s net population grew slightly, largely due to high levels of international immigration and a so-called "natural increase" ‐ the difference between births and deaths in a given year.
New York’s net migration was about minus 60,000 residents, but the state had 73,000 more births than deaths, resulting in a net population growth of about 13,000.
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Long beset by twin budget and pension crises and the erosion of its tax base, Illinois lost so many residents that it dropped from the fifth to the sixth-most populous state in 2017, losing its previous spot to Pennsylvania.
Unexpectedly!
California was the third deep blue state to experience significant domestic out-migration between July 2016 and July 2017, and it couldn’t blame the outflow on retirees searching for a more agreeable climate. About 138,000 residents left the state during that time period, second only to New York.
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But the stupid jerks bring all their toxic politics and ideologies with them and screw over their new states.
New Hampshire is going this way as is North Carolina and I don't know how Texas will hold out.
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Locus effect. They move on from the destroyed land to new fertile land with no knowledge of what they did that caused the destruction in the first place and will do it again to the new land.
"It's a commercial disaster," Mr. Aboulafia says. "Every conceivably bad idea that anyone's ever had about the aviation industry is embodied in this airplane."
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Dublin-based Amedeo counts eight A380s among its fleet, and has a further 20 on order from Airbus, but such is the lack of interest in the world's largest passenger plane that it has been unable to renew its leases, or find new customers, despite months of negotiations.
So it has come up with a novel solution: launching its own A380-only airline.
[DailyMail] - Facebook has a government and politics unit to help with election campaigns
- Media giant claimed cheap ads and massive reach helped SNP's 2015 landslide
- Concerns voiced about Facebook using unparalleled reach to target voters Wait, what?!
Nota bene: SNP is the Scottish National Party (nationalist social democrats). I believe they lost their last campaign for independence.
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And don't ever forget how Facebook delivered zillions of data points on information on its members to the Obama Campaign committees.
Also, whatever the "Russian" bots were doing, Facebook was literally wall to wall with lies, innuendos, and fake news about Trump. It was worse that SNL or the WaPo.
Google did the same. Giving huge amounts of information and performing free data mining for the Zerobama campaigns.
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.
