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Islamic State claims attack on Shiite center in Kabul, 41 dead
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China-Japan-Koreas
Is China secretly selling oil to Kim Jong-un? US satellites 'have spotted Beijing tankers transferring fuel to North Korean ships 30 times in three months' despite UN trade embargo
[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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Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I’d rather then sell oil than the missle tech Bill Clinton sold them.
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/28/2017 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  IOW Mr.Garrison is 'colluding' with Mr.Hat.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/28/2017 1:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I’d rather then sell oil than the missle tech Bill Clinton sold them

Missile tech they give to Norks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2017 2:31 Comments || Top||

#4  You thought they wouldn't?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/28/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||


Economy
Mass Exodus: Hundreds of Thousands Fled These Deep Blue States In 2017
[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.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2017 14:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  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.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/28/2017 14:07 Comments || Top||

#2  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.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/28/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  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.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/28/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Metastasis
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2017 14:50 Comments || Top||

#5  They clusterbomb the countryside with ignorance and malice.
Posted by: newc || 12/28/2017 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  some red states also losing population

WY and W VA have lost population both due to natural gas replacing coal in power generation
Posted by: lord garth || 12/28/2017 15:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Like the plague. First you kill the fleas before you kill the rats otherwise the fleas simply find new hosts.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 12/28/2017 17:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Before you call them locust consider that many are probably conservatives that have had enough living in occupied territory.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/28/2017 18:20 Comments || Top||

#9  ...tell that to the indigenous conservatives in Colorado.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 12/28/2017 19:58 Comments || Top||


Europe
Airbus may axe A380 if Emirates deal fails
Posted by: Grunter || 12/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From 2014:

"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."
Posted by: A. Omereck6265 || 12/28/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  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.

LINK
Posted by: Bobby || 12/28/2017 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  "Every conceivably bad idea that anyone's ever had about the aviation industry is embodied in this airplane."

As God is my witness, I thought the A380 could fly.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/28/2017 19:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Heh
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2017 20:06 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Facebook boasts it helped the SNP 'achieve an overwhelming victory' in the 2015 General Election
[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.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  keep it up faceburg. We will be challenging your power next.
Posted by: newc || 12/28/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  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.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/28/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-12-28
  Islamic State claims attack on Shiite center in Kabul, 41 dead
Wed 2017-12-27
  Swede among 'terror' suspects arrested in the Netherlands
Tue 2017-12-26
  Six Islamic State, involved in killing policeman, killed in Kirkuk
Mon 2017-12-25
  ISIS military commission chief killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan
Sun 2017-12-24
  Taliban’s IED expert famous as Osama killed in NDS operation
Sat 2017-12-23
  Terror Attack in Pennsylvania's State Capital?
Fri 2017-12-22
  US drone strike kills Qaeda propaganda chief in Yemen
Thu 2017-12-21
  ISIS shadow judge among 5 killed in Afghan forces operations
Wed 2017-12-20
  US drone targets compound in Kurram
Tue 2017-12-19
  Ballistic missile intercepted over Saudi Arabia capital Riyadh just seconds before it slammed into royal palace
Mon 2017-12-18
  Senior Al-Shabaab Militants Killed In Somalia Drone Strike
Sun 2017-12-17
  Suicide bombers attack Pakistan church, killing at least 9, officials say
Sat 2017-12-16
  Judge Lori Walkley hands down death penalty to convicted Islamic murderer
Fri 2017-12-15
  Yemen Islah party sever ties with Muslim Brotherhood
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