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Good. Need only a yahoo or two to feel violated by the hat and/or t-shirt and go full whack. Headline "Trump Supporter Violates Electioneering Law - Incites Riot."
As I get older, I find "In Your Face" is a sub-optimal persuasion position.
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Justin Timberlake almost got into trouble over in Memphis over this. Tennessee has, as do several other states, a law against taking a selfies in the voting booth of you and your completed ballot for a record of how you voted. Why would this be against the law (other than to prevent an Anthony Weiner kind of scenario)? Voting booths in our area do not give you a paper trail after you push the "Vote" button.
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The ban on phones is common world wide. It aims to prevent vote buying. The selfie can be used as proof you voted for someone and thus are entitled to the money or other favor they promised you for such vote.
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At least in Germany it's not. You may not publish a photo with your filled out ballot though because this violates secret voting.
Vote buying isn't an issue in Germany.
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We don't have to worry about vote buying here. The Soros-provided voting machine will make sure you vote the approved way.
At least four people were arrested in connection to the sale of counterfeit Dollars and Afghanis in the city, the security authorities said Friday.
Nork dollars or Pak dollars?
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the four individuals were arrested as they were attempting to sale 446,000 Afghanis and 5,000 US Dollars in the city.
NDS further added that the individuals have been identified as Adam Khan son of Zadran, Abdul Karim famous as Hashmat son of Mohammad, Shaheen son of Sher Agha, and Abdul Bair son of Abdul Ghafar.
The detained individuals have confessed that they were selling counterfeit 1000 banknotes and 500 banknotes in the city before they were arrested.
This comes as at least five foreigners were arrested along with three million counterfeit Dollar and Euro currencies in capital Kabul late in the month of December in 2014.
NDS said the intelligence operatives also confiscated chemicals which are used to produce counterfeit currencies.
According to NDS the suspects were demanding up to $100,000 from the Afghan people to buy chemicals from Dubai and use them to produce counterfeit currencies in Kabul.
Surging prices of coal are working against international efforts to sanction North Korea over its missile and nuclear programs. Coal is one of major products North Korea exports to China, accounting for over 40 percent of its total exports, and the rising prices are boosting funds for the North's weapons program.
Trade volume in money terms between the two countries increased 3.4 percent on-year in the third quarter this year.
"North Korean coal prices have surged by 68 percent in value recently... The average price of its anthracite coal arriving at major Chinese ports rose to US$99 a ton in recent weeks from around $59 in early August," the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
"In August, North Korea exported 2.47 million tons of coal to China, the highest monthly total on record. Exports slipped in September but remained higher than a year earlier."
The main reason is new mining restrictions in China to tackle overcapacity and supply disruptions after heavy rains there in July. Global coal supply has also dwindled because of shutdowns at two major coal mines in Australia. Experts do not expect coal prices to cool off until the second half of next year. North Korea's coal shipments to China are rising because UN Security Council sanctions exempt transactions for "livelihood purposes."
"Beijing is not going to go along with an effective coal embargo on North Korea because it hurts China too," the WSJ quoted an expert as saying.
Meanwhile, trading volume between the North and China amounted to about $1.55 billion in the third quarter, Voice of America reported the same day, up 3.4 percent from a year earlier despite the sanctions.
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Now there is a job to die for...being a coal miner in North Korea.
And getting new shoes every Christmas. If they ever had any Christmas at all.
#5
Eastern Pennsylvania has a lot of anthracite, but the mines were closed years ago - long before the War on Coal. I suppose there was no market for it then.
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China will unveil its new generation J-20 stealth fighter jet at an air show next week, the air force said on Friday, the first public showing of a warplane China hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States.
The Pentagon has said the fifth generation stealth aircraft China is developing, the J-20 and the J-31, are necessary for China's air force to evolve from a mostly territorial force to one that can carry out both offensive and defensive operations.
The J-20 will give a flight demonstration at next week's China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in the southern city of Zhuhai, the People's Liberation Army Air Force said in a statement on its official microblog.
Air force spokesman Shen Jinke said the J-20's production was proceeding according to plan and would assist in the air force's mission to "safeguard sovereignty and national security".
"This is the first public appearance of China's indigenously manufactured new generation stealth fighter jet," the air force said.
In June, it said the jet would enter service "in the near future".
The new Y-20 military transport aircraft will also give a flight demonstration at the seven-day air show, which is held every two years and opens on Tuesday.
China showed off the J-31 at the last Zhuhai air show in 2014, a show of muscle that coincided with a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama for an Asia-Pacific summit. China hopes the J-31, still in development, will compete with the U.S.-made F-35 stealth aircraft in the international market, according to China military watchers and state media reports.
Some analysts have said photographs of the J-20 suggest China may be making faster-than-expected progress in developing a rival to Lockheed Martin's radar-evading F-22 Raptor.
But others say China's defense manufacturers are still struggling to develop advanced engines that would allow its warplanes to match Western fighters in combat.
Without the advanced engine the J-20, and every other 4th and 5th generation fighter, is an expensive lawn dart...
Beijing has been ramping up research into advanced new military equipment, including submarines, aircraft carriers and anti-satellite missiles, which has rattled nerves regionally and in the United States. China says there is nothing unusual about its development of military technology, and that it is a reasonable course of action for every country that wants to defend its security.
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"It's just as good, except for the engines" is not a great selling point
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[Ynet] The flow of Iranian natural gas to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... halted after an kaboom hit a gas pipeline in eastern Turkey, a senior Iranian official told Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim on Friday.
"Iran's gas flow to Turkey has temporarily stopped because of a blast by some opposition groups inside Turkey around 1830 GMT on Thursday night," Interior Ministry official Majid Aghai told Tasnim.
Sabotage is common on pipelines leading into Turkey from Iran and Iraq, where the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gang is based.
You know, if President Erdogan weren't so determined to wipe out the Kurdish threat to Turkish hegemony until the Turks die out for lack of offspring, they wouldn't have problems like this.
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[Jpost] The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1.
The IDF decided on Wednesday to expand the designated fishing zone off the coast of Gazoo for the upcoming fishing season.
"COGAT decided to approve the expansion of the fishing zone along the Gazoo Strip," read a statement from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, a branch of the Defense Ministry.
The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1 and expire approximately two months later.
COGAT said that it made the decision "to facilitate increased activity in Gazoo Strip’s fishing sector, which is an [important] source of income."
A similar measure to expand the fishing zone between April and June 2016 resulted in a 15% increase in the total output of fish, compared to the same period in 2015, according to COGAT.
The total output of the fish market in Gazoo stands at NIS 6 million annually.
Amjad al-Shrafi, the secretary- general of the Gazoo fisherman’s union, told The Jerusalem Post that he welcomes the expansion, but expressed his frustration that it will only last for two months. "We consider the expansion of the fishing zone an achievement of our rights as fishermen, but why will it only last for two months?" he said. "We believe the Israeli authorities should make this change permanent."
Ibrahim Bakr, a Gazook fisherman, said that he is happy about the decision, but also is concerned it will not be fully implemented. "We support any decision to expand the fishing zone, but the Israeli authorities must allow us to take advantage of all nine miles," he said. "When Israel expanded the zone to nine miles in April, it frequently barred us from going beyond 7.5 miles.
"On many occasions, I would go out beyond seven and eight miles and then the Israelis would yell to retreat and shoot warning shots."
COGAT also said that it hopes to keep the zone open for the fishing season, but warned fishermen against taking advantage of the expansion.
"We emphasize that the expansion of the [fishing zone] is conditioned on the fishermen respecting the agreement [of nine nautical miles] and not exploiting it to smuggle or penetrate Israel’s territory," the statement added.
Shrafi said the fishermen solely want to catch fish and provide for their families. "We have no interest in conflict with the Israeli authorities.
All we want is to catch fish and take care of our families," he said.
There are approximately 4000 fishermen in Gazoo today.
After the Gazoo war in 2014, Israel extended the fishing zone from three to six nautical miles, a substantial increase, but far less than the 12 nautical miles from before the second intifada and 20 nautical miles stated in the Oslo Accords.
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After the Gazoo war in 2014, Israel extended the fishing zone from three to six nautical miles, a substantial increase, but far less than the 12 nautical miles from before the second intifada and 20 nautical miles stated in the Oslo Accords.
"Actions have consequences, bitches"
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There are approximately 4000 fishermen in Gaza today.
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China will unveil its new generation J-20 stealth fighter jet at an air show next week, the air force said on Friday, the first public showing of a warplane China hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States.
[Jpost] The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1.
