[TheBlaze] Digital gold from Blizzard’s massive multiplayer online game "World of Warcraft" is worth more than actual Venezuelan currency, the bolivar, according to new data.
According to the site dolartoday.com, which actively tracks the worth of the bolivar on the black market, the bolivar has dropped to 11,185.95 per dollar since KalebPrime posted .
Meanwhile, according to mmobux.com, which tracks the value of WoW’s in-game currency for sales outside of the game, the lowest sale of 10,000 gold in a real life exchange will get you $1.21.
This drop in the worth of the bolivar is stark compared to its worth just a few months ago. In May, 279 bolivars would net $1, according to CNN Money. In June, the worth dropped to 408 bolivars for every dollar.
[DailyCaller] Australian scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) ordered a review of temperature recording instruments after the government agency was caught tampering with temperature logs in several locations. Wonder how many of their employees are Soros funded...
Agency officials admit that the problem with instruments recording low temperatures likely happened in several locations throughout Australia, but they refuse to admit to manipulating temperature readings. The BOM located missing logs in Goulburn and the Snow Mountains, both of which are in New South Wales.
Meteorologist Lance Pidgeon watched the 13 degrees Fahrenheit Goulburn recording from July 2 disappear from the bureau's website. The temperature readings fluctuated briefly and then disappeared from the government's website. The readings were incorrect according to the dogma, therefore they must be purged.
MMGW is little more than a cult.
"The temperature dropped to minus 10 (13 degrees Fahrenheit), stayed there for some time and then it changed to minus 10.4 (14 degrees Fahrenheit) and then it disappeared," Pidgeon said, adding that he notified scientist Jennifer Marohasy about the problem, who then brought the readings to the attention of the bureau.
The bureau would later restore the original 13 degrees Fahrenheit reading after a brief question and answer session with Marohasy.
"The bureau's quality control system, designed to filter out spurious low or high values was set at minus 10 minimum for Goulburn which is why the record automatically adjusted," a bureau spokeswoman told reporters Monday. BOM added that there are limits placed on how low temperatures could go in some very cold areas of the country.
Bureaus Chief Executive Andrew Johnson told Australian Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg that the failure to record the low temperatures at Goulburn in early July was due to faulty equipment. A similar failure wiped out a reading of 13 degrees Fahrenheit at Thredbo Top on July 16, even though temperatures at that station have been recorded as low as 5.54 degrees Fahrenheit.
Failure to observe the low temperatures had "been interpreted by a member of the community in such a way as to imply the bureau sought to manipulate the data record," Johnson said, according to The Australian. "I categorically reject this implication." Of course you do. Your job and power are on the line.
Marohasy, for her part, told reporters that Johnson's claims are nearly impossible to believe given that there are screen shots that show the very low temperatures before being "quality assured" out. It could take several weeks before the equipment is eventually tested, reviewed and ready for service, Johnson said.
"I have taken steps to ensure that the hardware at this location is replaced immediately," he added. "To ensure that I have full assurance on these matters, I have actioned an internal review of our AWS network and associated data quality control processes for temperature observations."
BOM has been put under the microscope before for similar manipulations. The agency was accused in 2014 of tampering with the country's temperature record to make it appear as if temperatures had warmed over the decades, according to reports in August 2014.
Marohasey claimed at the time that BOM's adjusted temperature records are "propaganda" and not science. She analyzed raw temperature data from places across Australia, compared them to BOM data, and found the agency's data created an artificial warming trend.
Marohasey said BOM adjustments changed Aussie temperature records from a slight cooling trend to one of "dramatic warming" over the past century. It is all a con. World wide con. Everyone involved need to be shot. The damage to the economies and people these fraudsters have caused is devastating.
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You can 'adjust' after you record the original data and show your adjustments, which may or may not be challenged. Adjusting without such record is 'cooking the books'.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] The University of Iowa’s student newspaper has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth. This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.
They're students. It wouldn't be fair to expect them to understand the differences between knowledge, wisdom, and processing speed.
The Daily Iowan revealed the discovery of this new privilege earlier this week.
Garden-variety white privilege “is an important topic that deserves a public discussion,” the op-ed on “cognitive privilege” explains, but it is also “prudent to at least mention the wider concept contained therein: that of privilege itself.”
Privilege in general is “the receipt of certain benefits wholly through accident of birth and it is “undeniable that privilege itself is a reality,” the student newspaper explains.
As with skin color and much else, Daily Iowan author Dan Williams argues, people have no control over how smart they are. Life is a huge cosmic lottery full of winners and losers.
Cognitive privilege is one of “many kinds of privilege besides white privilege.”
Also, Williams declares, robots will wipe out manual labor jobs but will somehow not affect jobs available to members of a special cognitive elite.
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Shove it all up that Professors ass from whence it came.
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Reminds me of a story where the average and more intelligent were forced to wear headphones which would belt out very loud sounds every 5 seconds or something to jolt them so they could never finish a train of thought.
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On the flip side of this, we could force people to go through a simulation and those that can't move well, think quickly on their feet and improvise are killed.
Takes care of 85% of the human population right there.
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All of their electronic warfare stuff computers and altered food have made it so most if not all of them have no cognitive abilities anymore how stupid do the real research and science!
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If you are share Marxist world-view, Yes, you can be that silly.
Back in 2009 all of the talking heads were in love with the word "reify" and this brought me to look up the Reification(Marxism) wiki. You can agree that everyone can only have 24 hours in a day, but only a Marxist would assert that the this means that all rewards be equal. Or that there are not workers that produce better work if you pay them to go home and stay there...
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While I was growing up, this was called "Being blessed by God" in Church. The reason Marxists and SJWs don't like this form of attribution is that the one being blessed is accountable to God, excluding the possibility of someone goose-stepping into your life and telling you that you are accountable to THEM.
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When freedmen were mustered but collared,
Though calls and responses was hollered,
Attacks on the Saxon
Were not for Judge Jackson,
A C-note whose sense should be followed.
[AA.TR] At least 115 people, majority of whom are women have been killed in Tanzania since January for allegedly practising witchcraft, according to a human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group based in Dar es Salaam.
In a report released Monday, the Legal and Human Rights Centre said 79 women were killed, mostly by violent mobs in the country after they were accused of being witches, often on the flimsy pretext of them having "red eyes".
The human rights group said the eyes of the women most likely turn red from smoke in their kitchens during cooking, which some members of their community perceive as a sign of being witches.
The report also highlighted the fact that most of these women were middle aged or elderly.
Deep-rooted beliefs in witchcraft and other traditions that condone gender-based violence, and erosion of respect for old people have for decades triggered vicious attacks against women in the east African nation, according to rights’ campaigners.
Hellen Kijo-Bisimba, the center’s executive director, said: "This report shows gross violation of citizens’ rights, especially the right to live. It also shows gross violation of women and kiddies rights."
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Maybe JK Rollins could lead the Coven in an all out attack!
[An Nahar] Thousands of people gathered in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Monday to witness the public execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl.
Mohammed al-Moghrabi, 41, was sentenced to death for the June 25 rape and murder by a court run by the Shiite Houthis who control Sanaa.
The gruesome crime coincided with the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the Moslem holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and sparked anger among the population.
Moghrabi was first given 100 lashes and then made to lie flat, his face on the ground, and killed by multiple gunshots by security forces to cheers from the crowd.
Police said they escorted him to Tahrir square where he was executed amid fears the angry crowd could lynch him.
The public execution was widely aired on Huthi-run media in Yemen, framed as an example of the Iranian catspaws' efforts to combat crime in their areas.
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[DAWN] Bangladesh police have tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! four men over the rape of a teenager whose head was shaved as punishment by the accused’s wife in a case that has shocked the conservative country, an official said on Sunday.
Police detained the four men including Tufan Sarker, a unionist linked to the ruling Awami League party, after pictures of the victim and her mother at hospital with shaved heads caused outrage.
A manhunt is still underway for Sarker’s wife Asha Khatun, who is accused of dragging the teenager and her mother to their home, beating them and forcibly shaving their heads.
Sarker, 25, has been charged with raping the 16-year-old at home on Friday, said local police front man Sonaton Chakroborty. "He threatened to kill her and her mother if she would dare to talk to anyone about the incident," he said.
Another officer told AFP that Sarker was a local leader of the labour wing of the Awami League, which has been ruling Bangladesh for most of the last decade.
Photos of the victim and her mother at hospital with their heads shaved spread quickly online, outraging Bangladeshis who urged police to take prompt action.
The victim, whose identity has not been disclosed, said Sarker’s wife suspected she was in a relationship with her husband. "They shaved my entire head. I repeatedly apologised but they didn’t listen. They even beat my mother and shaved her head," she told a local news channel.
Police said they were also pursuing Sarker’s sister-in-law, a councillor in Bogra city, for allegedly abetting the assault by sending thugs to help beat the victims.
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[An Nahar] The United States branded Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" threatening his country's democracy on Monday and imposed sanctions targeting any assets he might hold on US territory.
"Yesterday's illegitimate elections confirm that Maduro is a dictator who disregards the will of the Venezuelan people," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement announcing the action.
"By sanctioning Maduro, the United States makes clear our opposition to the policies of his regime and our support for the people of Venezuela who seek to return their country to a full and prosperous democracy."
Sunday's vote in Venezuela to elect a Constituent Assembly that would supersede the country's opposition-controlled National Assembly earned international scorn, with the U.S. leading a group of nations refusing to recognize the election.
Washington has been a longstanding opponent of Maduro's government -- and of his late predecessor Hugo Chavez -- but Monday's statement marks the first time that a bigwig had publicly branded him a dictator.
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CARACUS, Venezuela (CBS) -- An explosion injured a group of police officers during a Sunday protest in Caracas.
The explosion left eight motorbikes smoldering on a main avenue as protesters blocked roads and clashed with security forces during a controversial election to elect a constitutional super-body that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro vowed would begin a "new era of combat" in the crisis-stricken nation.
Maduro, widely disliked for overseeing an economic collapse during four years in office, has pressed ahead with the vote to create the all-powerful assembly despite the threat of further U.S. sanctions and months of opposition protests in which more than 115 people have been killed.
Opposition parties are boycotting what they call a rigged election. Their sympathizers erected barricades across roads around the South American country and scuffles broke out with security forces who moved in quickly to disperse hooded demonstrators.
Authorities confirmed three deaths over the weekend, including the killing of a candidate to the assembly during a robbery, although opposition lawmakers said the toll was much higher.
Polls show some 70 percent of Venezuelans oppose the vote which has been widely condemned internationally.
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WTF do you need 1500 people at an embassy???? Let's look at other embassies and pull the plug on the hangers on.
In Moscow, 775 were cut loose. Got to cost the USGovt $100K apiece, so we are talking $77.5 million.
Now that is a sizeable chunk of change. How many in the UK, how many in Canada, Germany, France? Etc etc. Chop chop chop.
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From the article "Of the 1,279 people who worked at the embassy in 2013, according to a 2013 inspector general report, 934 were locally hired."
A few points;
--There are 4 facilities in RU - 1 x Embassy and 3 x Consulates.
--I could check but I think the number of US Direct Hire Diplomats in RU is about 800 to 900.
--I'm not defending DOS just trying to show ground truth.
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Thank you BB. I was stunned at the number. So say 900 minus 775? Good start I'd say!
Oh, wait, are they allowed to come back to the US?
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[DAWN] BADIN: A man handed over his eight-year-old daughter to an elderly landlord as a mortgage after failing to pay him back Rs100,000 loan in Tando Bago town, 21 kilometres from here, on Sunday.
The shameful deal came to light when Ms Soomri Machhi approached Tando Bago cop shoppe and complained that her husband Achar Machhi had sold off her daughter Nazia, 8, to an old landlord Ali Murad Chandio in Pathan Water village near the town.
Police raided the village to recover the girl and returned her to her mother who accused his husband of having sold the girl for Rs100,000.
Tando Bago SHO Ali Anwer Leghari confirmed the girl had been sold and said further investigation was under way.
Achar Machhi told journalists that he had handed over his daughter as mortgage after having failed to pay back the loan he had taken from the landlord.
Why are they fussing? He can always make another daughter, whether with this wife or a new one acquired for the purpose.
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Feminist Jill Filipovic can’t figure out why no one likes feminists anymore. She’s so puzzled, in fact, that she wondered about it out loud via Twitter on Monday afternoon.
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Exactly my point. We hate feminism & feminists for that they do not how they look: destruction of the nuclear family, destruction of the educational system, the ongoing destruction of the academic system, wholesale Dunning-Krugerism, hysterical attacks on any man who refuses to crawl.
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Feminist do not have a standard that they will support other than men are bad.. FMG appears to be OK. 10 year olds marrying 30 year old men, OK. My prediction is that Islamists will win the battle because men have the power in that religion. What will Jill do besides kill her line?
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.
[DailyCaller] Australian scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) ordered a review of temperature recording instruments after the government agency was caught tampering with temperature logs in several locations.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] The University of Iowa’s student newspaper has announced the discovery of a special privilege which intelligent people acquire as an accident of birth. This new privilege — called “cognitive privilege” — functions in essentially the same way as white privilege.
[AA.TR] At least 115 people, majority of whom are women have been killed in Tanzania since January for allegedly practising witchcraft, according to a 
[An Nahar] The United States branded Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" threatening his country's democracy on Monday and imposed sanctions targeting any assets he might hold on US territory.
