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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó leaves his hotel in Salinas, Ecuador, Sunday. Source: Getty

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Tornadoes Kill 23 in Alabama
Officials say the death toll could still rise in the aftermath of at least two twisters that left a several-mile trail of destruction through Lee County Sunday — the state’s deadliest day for tornadoes since 2011. “I wouldn’t wish this on anybody,” one resident said. Gov. Kay Ivey extended an existing state of emergency due to severe weather, and search and rescue efforts will continue today.

Are more tornadoes expected? The worst seems to have passed, but the same storm system is expected to blanket much of the eastern U.S. with winter weather.


hope so
pat tou buggers

Will Malaysia Reopen the Search for MH 370?


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Will Malaysia Reopen the Search for MH 370?
“We are prepared to look at it.” So said the country’s transport minister five years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people aboard — and 10 months after the most recent search concluded. A widespread effort led by the Australian government and another search by U.S. firm Ocean Infinity attempted to locate the aircraft, but only three confirmed wing pieces have been recovered from the Indian Ocean.

 

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hope so
pat tou buggers

Will Malaysia Reopen the Search for MH 370?
Why now? Ocean Infinity claims new technology could help improve its search effort, prompting interest from the Malaysian government.

Read OZY’s feature about the mysterious plane crash that changed Pakistan.

The Presidential Daily Brief for March 04, 2019

 

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old style politicking if you ask me,comensurate with aged thinkiong

get

those fresh ideas youngsters working, supptessed by thr wealthy white olds if you ask me 2

oh right i forot
i am not allowed a voice/your politics

Sanders on Venezuela – Does His Critique of US Policy Go Far Enough?

Sanders on Venezuela – Does His Critique of US Policy Go Far Enough?
At the CNN town hall, Sanders opposed U.S. intervention in Venezuela, refused to call Maduro a dictator, or recognize Guaido, but he didn’t call for an end to sanctions – with Jacqueline Luqman, Eugene Puryear, Norman Solomon and host Paul Jay

 

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ignorance doesent care about humanity

US shuts Jerusalem consulate, downgrades Palestinian mission |

Published on Mar 4, 2019
The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to Palestine.

For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians. Now, that outreach will be handled by a Palestinian affairs unit under the comment of the US Embassy to Israel.

Palestinian leaders see the decision as another move against them by US President Donald Trump's administration, with which they froze contact after his 2017 decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

 

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ACUMEN
In Cape Town, 'If It's Yellow, Let It Mellow' Is Practically Law
The South African capital’s crippling water crisis has spawned a host of new taboos and industries.
It’s 11 am on a Saturday, and both my Cape Town local mall and my bladder are pumping. After one B-grade Americano too many, I slip into the gents. Look at the state of it! Whoever went before me hasn’t just left the seat down (and wiped it too); they’ve even gone and flushed. Whatever happened to “if it’s yellow, let it mellow”?

The heady aroma of stewed urine is just one of the taboos Capetonians have turned up their noses at in response to the city’s crippling water crisis. At the height of the crisis, the city published the ultimate name-and-shame: a map of the city that showed which addresses were using the most water. Social media shaming added to the fervor, and neighbors would comment passive-aggressively about one another’s suspiciously green lawns.

City dwellers also have started to get excited about flushing No. 2s with a quarter bucket of three-day-old shower water (there’s a certain Pythagorean fun to it); embraced dirty cars and learned to live with parched lawns and half-full swimming pools. We save rinse water from washing machine loads and dish-filled sinks; even hotels have urged guests to save their shower water in buckets. It’s a whole new world … and it’s produced real change.

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BULLSHIT

like any religious #@.org,outfit
theyre too religiously manic indoctrinated to do/be thinking that

Catholics think the Vatican will self-destruct if it can’t tackle sexual abuse

ie
like the USA
love there leader /supposedly doing everything perfectly,too much for the slightest of change to take place

The Catholic Church's recent summit on protecting children was supposed to be an opportunity to prove that the religious institution was finally taking its sex abuse crisis seriously.

But after four days, the 190 cardinals and bishops in attendance came away with a surprisingly basic list of 21 guidelines, with suggestions like creating a handbook on what to do when a sex abuse case emerges and telling law enforcement if an offense occurs.

Mark Rozzi, a Pennsylvania state representative who says he was groomed and raped by a priest starting when he was 13, was not impressed.

“What I need to see is true policy changes that will actually protect children,” he told VICE News in Rome. “They will destroy themselves internally, by their own self-protectionism.”

Watch our segment, which originally aired on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

 

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seems
be careful how big you get,and where the money comes from, applies to all/everything maybe


The World Wildlife Fund is one of the world’s biggest charities — and it has funded paramilitary operations around the world. (BuzzFeed News)

WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People
The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching. A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the hidden human cost.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wide-fund-nature-parks-torture-death

 

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any problem with a Chinese dream, i dont think so each to there own

Chinese innovation makes the "Chinese Dream" real for many
As China and the US negotiate a trade deal, it's a strategy — not intellectual property theft — that is boosting China's innovation, argues an economics professor.

 

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play the martyr game to get your way
we get sick of all the manpulative bullshit aye
piss me off if an arrest is used as a reason for invason, even a death in an embassy is not deemed worthy of, depending on who it is doing the shitstirring huh

Venezuela's Guaidó to risk arrest as he returns home to challenge Maduro

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó plans to run the risk of arrest by returning home on Monday, after he ignored a court-imposed travel ban and toured Latin American allies to boost support for his campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro.

 

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geeesus
you guys have no privacy whatsoever and your F'n politicians stand there espouting what a great est country you live in FFS

BREAKING NEWS
The N.S.A. shut down a post-9/11 program that analyzed Americans' phone records and touched off years of privacy and legal disputes.
Monday, March 4, 2019 8:17 PM EST
The agency has not used the system in months, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, and the Trump administration might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority, which is set to expire at the end of the year.

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of course they wouldent buy it/anything
perfection only belongs to the west huh
Chinese/Russans masters at hacking,. while privacy of US citizens is never compromised huh duh

BACKDOORS

US Lawyers Don’t Buy Huawei’s Argument on Chinese Hacking
BY TOM SIMONITE

Huawei says Chinese law prohibits the government from ordering it to install backdoors for spying. US lawyers say a law's text isn't always the final word in China.

 

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Al M says

Washington
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US shifts weapons from Iraq to Syria

The Pentagon rerouted millions of dollars’ worth of weapons and vehicles from Iraq to Syria in the second half of 2018.




i say

closer to IRAN or TURKEY for the next war maybe
me,not up with my geography these days
whats up
getting tight on military spending
ot learnt/applying China economy duh

 

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never satisfied
none of our bessness
especially dont want the Americans to go in and likely F'k things up worse

What's left of Hugo Chavez's legacy? l Inside Story

Published on Mar 5, 2019
When Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez died on 5th March 2013, it sparked a series of events that is still playing out today.
His successor, Nicolas Maduro, continued the policies that his critics say have led to hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido is demanding Maduro's resignation, but he's refusing to go.

So, is there a way out? And what's Hugo Chavez's legacy?

 

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under pressure, good job
young roustabout proven to be a non entity Kushner/Trumpalike type


In major blow to Canada's PM Trudeau, second minister quits | Al
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Published on Mar 5, 2019
In a serious blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a second member of his cabinet in Canada resigned saying she had lost confidence in how the government had dealt with an escalating political scandal.
The departure of recently appointed Treasury Board President Jane Philpott, who was in charge of government spending, deprives Trudeau of another powerful female member of cabinet just months before an election that polls show he could lose.
Philpott expressed unhappiness about the government's response to allegations that officials inappropriately pressured former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould last year to help major construction company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid a corruption trial.

 

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laugh
sure not as gung ho as formerly
all these supposed sure fire wesren leaders thinkong the wortlds there oyster
ie
nobody comes before us bullsit
asll turning out to be mediocre players

Xi.Putin going about quietly

Opinion: Emmanuel Macron takes the EU bull by the horns

n a slow European Union election campaign, France's president has taken the initiative by calling for sweeping reforms to the bloc. A fresh burst of energy is just what the EU needs, writes DW's Bernd Riegert.

 

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personally not fussed
Indias Modi ignorantly ignores Pakistans gesture of goodwill
ie talks



Trump's trade move could deal a political blow to India's Modi

The US has decided to end its preferential trade treatment for India. New Delhi has played down the economic impact of the move, but it could cost Narendra Modi politically as he seeks a second term.

 

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sounds similar to Venuzelas health problems
start an internal war amongst yourselves instead


TOP STORIES
Migrants with open wounds, head injuries and other serious ailments are being released by the Border Patrol with little or no treatment.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 10:29 AM EST
An average of 2,200 migrants a day are now crossing the nation’s 1,900-mile border with Mexico. Yet most of the Customs and Border Protection facilities along the border lack sufficient accommodations, staffing or procedures to thoroughly assess health needs or provide more than basic emergency care, a situation that has led to dangerous medical oversights.

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start your own bloody domestic wars instead

 

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dying for the day of its demise
yep dislike/naaaaah Trumplike hate them all
power war hungrymongers the lot of them
Daily Comment
Netanyahu Faces Indictments and a Rising Opposition—Could He Lose Reëlection?
By Bernard Avishai

March 4, 2019

Netanyahu Faces Indictments and a Rising Opposition—Could He Lose Reëlection?

 

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take your pick
have a little read

Huawei, the Chinese tech company the U.S. suspects of spying on behalf of the Chinese government, is trolling the U.S. by opening a new cybersecurity center in Brussels.

Trump threatened to start a trade war with India over knee implants.

The body of U.S. journalist Jamal Khashoggi was reportedly burned in a specialty tandoori oven, and the White House still isn’t pressing for accountability.

Is the U.S.’s Israel lobby too powerful? (New York Times)

More than a third of millennials are concerned about having kids in the age of climate change. (Business Insider)

A controversial post-9/11 National Security Administration program that collects phone and texting data has reportedly been shut down. (New York Times)

 

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quite durprises me
what convenience,laonglife,no efrigeraton required at the possible expense of ones health
- surmising

n India and China, consumers are eager for lab-grown meat. In the US? Not as much.
Mar 5, 2019, 12:20pm EST

Javier Zarracina/Vox

In India and China, consumers are eager for lab-grown meat. In the US? Not as much.