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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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We should chop America up into 7 different countries. Seriously.

Look, we had a good run.

Well, maybe "good" isn't quite the right word ... but certainly it's been interesting. These United States were a grand experiment. But the experiment has gotten out of hand. It's time to peacefully dissolve the union.

I know, I know. This is not what good Americans are supposed to suggest. "Four score and seven years ago" and all that. But to borrow a lesser-known phrase from that brief address, it seems to me we have tested whether this nation "can long endure," and increasingly it is clear it cannot. It's just not working. Do you really disagree? Do you like the way things are?

We are fresh off a midterm election which has guaranteed two years of gridlock and rancor. But the issues that animated this campaign season are in no sense resolved. David Brooks' recent diagnosis of "two electorates" conducting entirely separate conversations and motivated by entirely different primal fears remains equally perceptive. Mutual partisan hatred is still nearly total. It is still the case that the sort of person who would attend a Trump rally and one who joined the Women's March do not wish to share a country with each other.

They may not explicitly say so, but they do come very close. How else should we interpret, "If you don't like it, leave," or, "If [candidate] wins, I'm moving to Canada"? However unserious, these are basically expressions of a desire for separate nations.

So ... what if we did that? What if we stopped demanding that people with fundamentally different value systems who live nowhere near each other constantly fight about politics so they can develop temporary political compromises that are unsatisfactory to all?

That sounds nice, doesn't it? I suggest it's appealing because this nation is just too big to function. We have 325 million people flung across 3.8 million square miles. A majority will always feel forgotten by Washington, because they are. Consider that the House of Representatives has one member for every 747,000 Americans. In the first Congress, that ratio was 57,000 to one. One person may be able to fairly represent 57,000 others, but I doubt it. Representing 13 times that is impossible.

And even if real representation were feasible at this scale — even if we enormously expanded the number of seats in Congress and made other major structural reforms to how our elections work — that would only highlight the depth of our disagreements. What strikes someone in California or Vermont as a necessary freedom may herald the breakdown of society in Mississippi or Utah. One American's noble mission to spread democracy is another's war crime.

But practically, could we really divide the United States of America? How would it work?

A quick Google search will summon proposals for slicing the United States into two, five, seven, a different seven, eight, nine, 11, 12, or 13 smaller nations. I don't have a particular favorite, though I suspect simply cutting the country in half risks unnecessary conflict without solving many of the problems of size.

What sort of division we pursue is crucial. Many of those maps make their cuts to give each new nation a population equal with all the rest. That has a certain tidiness, but it is politically unwise. Splitting up the union should prioritize and honor regional differences, even if that means ending up with countries of unequal proportions. Electoral maps can be deceiving, but they offer some basic direction in this regard. States need not stay intact, though that would be more convenient for maintaining local governance structures.

On a smaller scale, many of the maps listed above chop up the Black Belt, which strikes me as a mistake. Likewise, while several recognize unique cultural influences along the Gulf Coast, only one notes the concentration of Mormon communities in and near Utah, and none to my knowledge do anything to acknowledge Native American tribal lands. These are the sorts of details a workable split must incorporate.

This may strike you as a defeatist proposal. Perhaps, after nearly 250 years, you believe the union is inherently worth preserving. But what are we really trying to keep? The vague and frankly outmoded idea that "America" is the most important nation on Earth, and must be the most powerful? This is a puerile fantasy. And splitting up won't undo our history together or cause us to forget our culture. If anything, it might stave off some of the bland national homogenization that threatens to blot out distinct features of our most interesting places. Having, say, seven nations of America wouldn't make us any less American in any way that really matters.

What it would do is make truly representative and responsible government significantly more possible. It would cut down on political anger and argument, allowing us to work within a smaller range of regional perspectives. We could find nuance in fresh solutions that our hateful red vs. blue fights cannot permit. We could preserve the good things about the United States while losing the bitter and unwieldy national politics which almost none of us can meaningfully influence.

Ironically, chopping up the United States could make us more united.
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https://theweek.com/articles/805689..._8F-kch9jfFjqnceeIlc48nskmxbpaTHm0B9avm4mV16c

A leftist who wanst to destroy America? What a surprise.
 
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This recording's just a stitched-together simulation that uses stock sound effects, it's not remotely an actual WW1 recording or even a recreation from the information on that paper. You can very clearly hear the same stock explosions several times in a row. An actual WW1 recording would sound more like this:
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this was my thinking exactly. people seem willing to believe anything if you frame it in the right way. several of those explosion sounds are blatantly taken from the DOOM games, specifically the rocket/exploding barrel sound.

you can even hear that the repeated use of some stock sounds have slight pitch variations applied to them. are there really people dumb enough to believe this is a real recording? i could make a more convincing piece from scratch with a decent synthesizer and audacity
 
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https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-kn...-very-lucky-i-dont-have-to-wear-a-jewish-star


Comedian Sarah Silverman on Friday said she is "very lucky" she doesn't have to sew a Jewish star to her clothes under the Trump administration.

Silverman, in an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," made the comment after Maher congratulated her for receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier that day.

"You know, in a time, Bill, where anti-Semitic crime is up 57 percent since this douchebag has taken office, it is not lost on me that I am very lucky that I get a star and I don't have to sew it on my clothes," Silverman said.

Maher and the audience gasped in response to her comments.

"Oh, no you didn't!" Maher quipped.

"I did," Silverman responded. "I don't know if that's gallows humor or just like 'it's funny because it's true' humor."

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which tracks anti-Semitic activity across the country, found that there was a 57 percent uptick in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017, which coincides with the year Trump came into office.

Silverman's comments came shortly after 11 worshipers were killed during a shooting inside a Pittsburgh-area synagogue. The ADL has called the incident the deadliest attack against Jews in U.S. history.

Her remarks also landed on the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a night of anti-Jewish terror and destruction carried out during the early days of Nazi Germany.

Also known as the "Night of Broken Glass," Kristallnacht resulted in hundreds of Jewish synagogues and businesses being burned and destroyed. Jewish citizens were assaulted, killed or sent to concentration camps.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday warned of growing dangers of anti-Semitism across the world, saying "we are living once again in a time of far-reaching change."

"In such times, there is always a particularly great danger of those who react with supposedly simple answers gaining support," Merkel said at a Jewish synagogue in Berlin.

Silverman, who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and then former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, has been a regular critic of the president.
 
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Reminder that this is a “comedian” who thinks that the military would gladly perform a coup on the president, thought utility markings on the street were poorly drawn swastikas, and publically dressed in blackface for a skit on her own show
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Don't forget her "muh wagegap" complaining that she had to retract and apologize for when the club owner called her on it with facts.
 
So, according to the Japan Weather Bureau, El Nino is back:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/wo...r-bureau-says-el-nino-appears-to-have-formed/

Japan weather bureau says El Nino appears to have formed

09 November 2018 - 08:38BY REUTERS

Ocean surface topography from space on 24 October 2018.
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Japan's weather bureau said on Friday the El Niño weather pattern appears to have formed and that there was a 70 percent chance it would continue into the Northern Hemisphere spring.

A US government weather forecaster on Thursday projected an 80 percent chance of the El Niño weather pattern forming and continuing through the Northern Hemisphere in winter 2018/19.


The last El Niño, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, occurred around 2015/2016 and caused weather-related crop damage, fires and flash floods.
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http://newobserveronline.com/south-africa-first-black-bank-collapses-after-being-looted-by-owners/
VBS Mutual Bank—lauded as the first bank in South Africa to be totally owned and managed by Africans—has collapsed after its owners stole all the cash and bribed government and local government officials into depositing money in the operation, an official inquiry set up by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has found.
According to the official report issued by the SARB, titled “The Great Bank Heist: Investigator’s Report to the Prudential Society,” the African owners at the VBS Mutual Bank “made away with almost R2 billion” in what it described as “a single criminal enterprise.”
VBS Mutual Bank became a mutual bank in 1992, and was listed on the South African Stock Exchange in 2017. It ran into what media called “liquidity problems” early in 2018, and was placed under curatorship in March this year.
The SARB report found that R1,894,923,674 (US$ 130 million) was transferred from the Bank to fifty three individuals between 15 March 2015 and 17 June 2018. According to the report, R16,148,569 (US$1.09 million) went to Brian Shivambu, younger brother of the anti-white Economic Freedom Fighter senior politician Floyd Shivambu.
Other cash went to local government officials in at least 15 regions as payments for switching banking facilities to the African-owned bank. Among those implicated are the African National Congress’s deputy chairman for the northern Limpopo province, Florence Radzilani, and that organization’s regional treasurer, Danny Msiza.
Below: The headline in the Sowetan newspaper detailing the extent of the theft.
A report in South Africa’s News24 service said that the report “has recommended that more than 50 individuals be criminally charged and held liable in civil proceedings, following the bank’s implosion earlier this year.
“This includes the bank’s former executives and their associates, shareholder executives, politicians and their relatives and auditors who signed off on the bank’s fraudulent financials.
“The criminal charges should stem from evidence of fraud, corruption and bribery perpetrated by the bank’s leadership and public officials with whom they were in cahoots.”

Between 2015 and early 2018, bank chairman Tshifhiwa Matodzi, together with his co-directors and ally Robert Madzonga, facilitated the looting, the report continued.
“Substantial bribes were paid to VBS’ directors and “other related parties in order to buy their silence and to look the other way while the looting was going on,” the report added.
Large deposits from dozens of municipalities, as “investments” with VBS, were the result of a concerted and deliberate campaign undertaken by VBS execs and involved, in many instances, the payment of bribes to various public officials who were “in a position to influence the making of such deposits.”
In addition, individuals at VBS manipulated its banking systems to create fictitious deposits in favor of its majority shareholder Vele Investments, its numerous associates and related parties as well as obliterating overdrawn banking facilities enjoyed by Vele and its associates totaling hundreds of millions of rand.
“The captors and their associates went on a massive spending spree at the expense of VBS’ depositors,” the report said.
In addition, the report found that the “engagement partner of [major international auditing firm] KPMG, VBS’ auditor Sipho Malaba, had committed fraud in signing off on the banks 2017 financial statements and on its regulatory reports to SARB.”
“By fraudulent means, the looting of VBS was hidden from view and was allowed to continue and indeed, escalate… These frauds misled the Registrar [of Banks] into believing that VBS was financially sound position whereas in truth its liabilities exceeded its assets by about R180-million and it was thus, hopelessly insolvent as at 31 March 2017.”
The SARB report also recommended that VBS be liquidated, as there is no prospect of saving it.
“It is corrupt and rotten to the core. Indeed, there is hardly a person in its employ in any position of authority who is not, in some way or the other, complicit” in the “widescale looting and pillaging of the monies placed on deposit at VBS.”
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That's what happens when you give black people your money.
 
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Mark Twain, in his american classic Huckleberry Finn, knew that you can't trust a niggo with a bank. To wit,

“Yes. You know that one-laigged nigger dat b’longs to old Misto Bradish? Well, he sot up a bank, en say anybody dat put in a dollar would git fo’ dollars mo’ at de en’ er de year. Well, all de niggers went in, but dey didn’t have much. I wuz de on’y one dat had much. So I stuck out for mo’ dan fo’ dollars, en I said ’f I didn’ git it I’d start a bank mysef. Well, o’ course dat nigger want’ to keep me out er de business, bekase he says dey warn’t business ’nough for two banks, so he say I could put in my five dollars en he pay me thirty-five at de en’ er de year. “Yes. You know that one-legged n----- that belongs to old Mister Bradish? Well, he set up his own bank and said anyone that a dollar investment would return four dollars more at the end of the year. Well, all the n------ put their money in the bank, even though they didn’t have much. I was the only one that had a lot. So I held out for a better interest rate than four dollars and said I’d start my own bank if he didn’t give me more. Of course, that n----- wanted to keep me out of business because he said there wasn’t enough business for two banks. He said if I put in my five he’d pay me thirty-five dollars at the end of the year.
“So I done it. Den I reck’n’d I’d inves’ de thirty-five dollars right off en keep things a-movin’. Dey wuz a nigger name’ Bob, dat had ketched a wood-flat, en his marster didn’ know it; en I bought it off’n him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en’ er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat night, en nex day de one-laigged nigger say de bank’s busted. So dey didn’ none uv us git no money.”
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Also, I think this was the actual business model for that bank.
 
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Heinrich Himmler said:
That's what happens when you give black people your money.
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Thats been well know for long, guess ill powerlevel a bit, when you work with Auditing sub-contractors of NGO`s in Africa, you get handed a pamphlet, thats basicly says "Dont trust niggers, they all steal" without actually saying it, and the fucking thing grows each year, with new rediculus thing to be on the lookout for, its sort of a running joke in the industry,"did you see this years Around black dont relax manual?" im actually surprised one of those things has never made it into the hands of some SJW reporter, they would have a field day with it...
 
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