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cRobo:
You aren't current with news

fotadmowmend:
only change is constant.... anything can happen at any time

Palehair:
And what does having kids have to do with leading a country?
And moreover it's 2020, even straight people who are barren knows there are lots of ways to have children

drips8:
I read that they have always stayed neutral in most wars that have occurred.

Like in WWII, they shot down military planes in the airspace be it axis or allies.

Jimi24:
Two major LIES gaining currency.
1. Trump will win next election.
No he won't.
2. Sanders is not acceptable because he is a democratic socialist.
Yes he is AND just because of that.

Fash20:
The solar system has been in existance for billions of years why would it out of the blue stop to exist tomorrow

Reteurs
February 12, 2020

Portugal prosecutor orders seizure of Isabel dos Santos accounts

(Reuters) - Portugal's public prosecutor said on Tuesday it had ordered the seizure of Portuguese bank accounts belonging to Isabel dos Santos, who is a suspect in a fraud investigation in Angola.

Dos Santos, the daughter of former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, was not immediately available for comment. She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the past weeks.

"The public prosecutor's office requested the seizure of bank accounts (belonging to Isabel dos Santos) as part of a request for international judicial cooperation by the Angolan authorities," a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said....

Portugal's central bank declined to comment

A banking source familiar with the case told Reuters that accounts held by dos Santos were seized at Millennium bcp (BCP.LS), Portugal's largest listed bank.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-dossantos-portugal-idUSKBN2052B3

Wait until Dos Santos dies. Portugal will seize all the assets and claim that the man was a dictator. His daughter who has invested a lot of money out there will see all doors closed in her face when she asks for any legal help in Europe.
Panafrican
September 29 , 2013
https://www.nairaland.com/1458928/angola-helps-out-portugal

1.
King Sobhuza II held the throne in Swaziland for 82 years, a reign believed to make him the longest-ruling monarch ever.

He was born on July 22, 1899, amid the Boer War in southern Africa.

2.
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej died at age 88, in 2010 after holding the throne for 70 years.

https://www.businessinsider.com/longest-ruling-kings-queens-world-2016-10

beamtopola:
The op too is also confused

How far away is the Sun?
The Sun is at an average distance of about 93,000,000 miles (150 million kilometers) away from Earth.
It is so far away that light from the Sun, traveling at a speed of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second, takes about 8 minutes to reach us. Like all of the other planets in our Solar System, Earth does not travel around the Sun in a perfect circle.

Instead its orbit is elliptical, like a stretched circle, with the Sun just off the center of the orbit. This means that the distance between Earth and the Sun changes during a year.

At its closest, the Sun is 91.4 million miles (147.1 million km) away from us. At its farthest, the Sun is 94.5 million miles (152.1 million km) away.

The Earth is closest to the Sun during winter in the northern hemisphere.

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/8-How-far-away-is-the-Sun-

Marching up dusty roads past hordes of fleeing French refugees and soldiers—“La guerre est finie!”—the Doughboys and Marines went into action at Château-Thierry and Belleau Wood and stopped the German onslaught on the Marne.

With Haig facing defeat in Flanders, actually warning London in April 1918 that the British had their “backs to the wall,” American troops— the manpower equivalent of over 100 French or British divisions—permitted Foch to shift otherwise irreplaceable French troops to the British sector, where a dazed Tommy, sniffing the tang of the sea air over the stink of the battlefield and apprised that Haig had spoken of British backs to the wall, replied, with a glance at the English Channel, “what bloody wall?”


The Americans saved Britain and France in the spring and summer and destroyed the German army in the fall. Most historians argue that the war was won by Marshal Ferdinand Foch’s famous Hundred Days Offensive – a coordinated Anglo-French-American envelopment of the German army on the Western Front – and most emphasize the performance of the British and French and speak of the American battles at Saint-Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne as sideshows.

They were anything but. After rousing success in August and September, the British and French offensives had stalled. Haig suffered nearly half a million additional casualties in 1918, and so did the French.

They spent their dwindling strength breaching the Hindenburg Line and had little left for the Meuse, Moselle, or Rhine lines, where the Germans would stand fast. Lloyd George’s war cabinet warned Haig that the shrinking army he was conducting slowly eastward was “Britain’s last army,” and it was going fast.

As winter approached and the Allies sagged, everything hinged on the pending American thrust northward from Saint-Mihiel and Verdun toward Sedan– aimed at the vital pivot of the whole German position west of the Rhine.

Verdun had always been a thorn in the German side, forcing the German front in France to bend sharply around it—compressing Hindenburg’s vital railways into a narrow space—and offering great opportunities to the Allies, if only they had the manpower, to thrust upward from Verdun to cut the famous four-track railroad line through Sedan and Mézières that conveyed most of the German army’s men, matériel, and supplies.

The American battle in the Meuse-Argonne, from September 26 to November 11, 1918, pierced the most redoubtable section of the Hindenburg Line, reached Sedan on both banks of the Meuse—denying the Germans the river as a defensive shield—and cut the vital four-track railway there, which carried 250 German trains a day.


With it, the Germans had moved five divisions every two days to any point on the Western Front; without it, they could barely move a single division in the same span. The American offensive was, a British war correspondent concluded, “the matador’s thrust in the bull-fight.” It cut the German throat.


The Doughboys won the war by trapping the German army in France and Belgium and severing its lifeline. Looking at 1918 in this new way, restoring the enormous impact of the U.S. military to its proper scale and significance, achieves two important things.

First, it fundamentally revises the history of the First World War. Second, it brings out the thrilling suspense of 1918, when the fate of the world hung in the balance, and the revivifying power of the Americans saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the United States as the greatest of the great powers.

https://time.com/5406235/everything-you-know-about-how-world-war-i-ended-is-wrong/

Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong


GEOFFREY WAWRO September 27, 2018
Time


A hundred years ago today, September 26th, the greatest artillery bombardment in U.S. history—more shells in a few hours than had been fired in the entire American Civil War—fell silent and 350,000 American soldiers got to their feet and began to advance across no-man’s-land toward the German trenches in the Meuse-Argonne.
With the French and British stalled in their sectors, the Doughboys aimed to cut the German army’s principal supply line on the Western Front and end World War I.

The American role in the First World War is one of the great stories of the American Century, and yet it has largely vanished from view.
Most historians tell us that the U.S. Army arrived too late on the Western Front to affect the war’s outcome, an outcome determined by Allied grit, better tactics, the British blockade of German ports, and, ultimately, German exhaustion and revolution.

It must be baldly stated: Germany would have won World War I had the U.S. Army not intervened in France in 1918.

The French and British were barely hanging on in 1918. By year-end 1917, France had lost 3 million men in the war, Britain 2 million.

The French army actually mutinied in 1917, half of its demoralized combat divisions refusing to attack the Germans.

The British fared little better in 1917, losing 800,000 casualties in the course of a year that climaxed with the notorious three-month assault on the muddy heights of Passchendaele, where 300,000 British infantry fell to gain just two miles of ground.

By 1918, French reserves of military-aged recruits were literally a state secret; there were so few of them still alive. France maintained its 110 divisions in 1918 not by infusing them with new manpower – there was none – but by reducing the number of regiments in a French division from four to three.

The British, barely maintaining 62 divisions on the Western Front, planned, in the course of 1918 – had the Americans not appeared – to reduce their divisions to thirty or fewer and essentially to abandon the ground war in Europe.

1918, eventually celebrated as the Allied “Year of Victory,” seemed initially far more promising for the Germans.

The French army limped into the year, effectively out of men and in revolt against its officers; British divisions, 25 percent below their normal strength because of the awful casualties of Passchendaele, had not been reinforced. Prime Minister David Lloyd George refused to send replacements to Field Marshal Douglas Haig’s army on the Western Front, so controversial were Haig’s casualties.
Lloyd George feared social revolution in Britain if casualties continued to mount, and lamented that Haig “had smothered the army in mud and blood.”

The waning of the French and British in 1917 could not have come at a worse moment, when the Germans had crushed the Russians and Italians and begun deploying 100 fresh divisions to the Western Front for a war-winning offensive in 1918: 3.5 million Germans with absolute artillery superiority against 2.5 million demoralized British and French.

What saved the day? The Americans. The United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, drafted a million-man army (the A.E.F.) in the ensuing months, and deployed it hurriedly to France in the winter of 1917-18. In June 1918, the Germans brushed aside fifty French divisions and plunged as far as the Marne River, just fifty miles from Paris.

https://time.com/5406235/everything-you-know-about-how-world-war-i-ended-is-wrong/

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

CTPlayer:
Some of that is economics. Not sure about making money have enough to raise kids, some is feminization where women don't want to have kids.
Will be interesting to see if more Men find women through fiance visas.

20. Italy: The population is projected to drop from 60.5 million in 2020 to 54.4 million in 2050, a 10.1% decline.

19. Cuba: The population is projected to drop from 11.3 million in 2020 to 10.2 million in 2050, a 10.3% decline.


18. North Macedonia: The population is projected to drop from 2.1 million in 2020 to 1.9 million in 2050, a 10.9% decline.

17. Portugal: The population is projected to drop from 10.2 million in 2020 to 9.1 million in 2050, a 10.9% decline.

16. Georgia: The population is projected to drop from 4.0 million in 2020 to 3.5 million in 2050, an 11.8% decline.

15. Poland: The population is projected to drop from 37.8 million in 2020 to 33.3 million in 2050, a 12.0% decline.



14. Hungary: The population is projected to drop from 9.7 million in 2020 to 8.5 million in 2050, a 12.3% decline.

13. Estonia: The population is projected to drop from 1.3 million in 2020 to 1.2 million in 2050, a 12.7% decline.

12. Greece: The population is projected to drop from 10.4 million in 2020 to 9.0 million in 2050, a 13.4% decline.

11. Romania: The population is projected to drop from 19.2 million in 2020 to 16.3 million in 2050, a 15.5% decline.


10. Albania: The population is projected to drop from 2.9 million in 2020 to 2.4 million in 2050, a 15.8% decline.

9. Japan: The population is projected to drop from 126.5 million in 2020 to 105.8 million in 2050, a 16.3% decline.



8. Republic of Moldova: The population is projected to drop from 4.0 million in 2020 to 3.4 million in 2050, a 16.7% decline.

7. Croatia: The population is projected to drop from 4.1 million in 2020 to 3.4 million in 2050, an 18.0% decline.


6. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The population is projected to drop from 3.3 million in 2020 to 2.7 million in 2050, an 18.2% decline.

5. Serbia: The population is projected to drop from 8.7 million in 2020 to 7.1 million in 2050, an 18.9% decline.

4. Ukraine: The population is projected to drop from 43.7 million in 2020 to 35.2 million in 2050, a 19.5% decline.

3. Latvia: The population is projected to drop from 1.9 million in 2020 to 1.5 million in 2050, a 21.6% decline.


2. Lithuania: The population is projected to drop from 2.7 million in 2020 to 2.1 million in 2050, a 22.1% decline.

1. Bulgaria: The population is projected to drop from 6.9 million in 2020 to 5.4 million in 2050, a 22.5% decline.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-fastest-shrinking-countries-in-the-world-declining-populations#1-bulgaria-the-population-is-projected-to-drop-from-69-million-in-2020-to-54-million-in-2050-a-225-decline-20

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Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion table
Fahrenheit (°F) Celsius (°C)
-459.67 °F -273.15 °C
-50 °F -45.56 °C
-40 °F -40.00 °C
-30 °F -34.44 °C
-20 °F -28.89 °C
-10 °F -23.33 °C
0 °F -17.78 °C
10 °F -12.22 °C
20 °F -6.67 °C
30 °F -1.11 °C
32 °F 0 °C
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60 °F 15.56 °C
70 °F 21.11 °C
80 °F 26.67 °C
90 °F 32.22 °C
100 °F 37.78 °C
110 °F 43.33 °C
120 °F 48.89 °C
130 °F 54.44 °C
140 °F 60.00 °C
150 °F 65.56 °C
160 °F 71.11 °C
170 °F 76.67 °C
180 °F 82.22 °C
190 °F 87.78 °C
200 °F 93.33 °C
212 °F 100 °C

The 5 coldest and the 5 hottest places on Earth

Published Feb. 8, 2020 3:04 PM
The five coldest and the five hottest locations on Earth might become your favorite travel destinations.

The Hottest
Death Valley, California
Death Valley is known as one of the hottest places in the world for some time. The name of the location tells you everything you need to know about how hot it can get. Plus, the desert experiences extreme heat most of the year because it is over 200 feet below sea level. The hot air is allowed to swirl around because of the topography of the area. The second-highest temperature ever was recorded in this place at 134 degrees.


Al-Aziziyah, Libya
This stretch of desert is not far from Tripoli, and it is the place where the hottest temperature was ever recorded. This torturous temperature skyrocketed to a whopping 136 degrees in 1922. The geography of the area and the desert air make the area extremely hot all year long.

Dallol, Ethiopia
Dallol is almost 400 feet below sea level, and it has the highest average temperature in the world of 93 degrees. This means that it never cools down at night, and the hot air is allowed to collect in the valley because it is so far below zero.

Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok is the warmest city in the world because the humidity is regularly around 90%. The humidity alone makes the heat inhospitable to everyone, and the temperature routinely averages above 90 degrees in the summer. Plus, the average temperature for the entire year is over 80 degrees.

Dasht-e Lut, Iran
Surface temperatures in this area have been measured around 160 degrees, and it gets so hot in this area that the air is almost completely driest. Because this is the driest area in the world, nothing can live. Not even bacteria can survive in this location because of the scorching heat and lack of humidity.

The Coldest
Denali, Alaska
Denali is the tallest mountain in North America. People who want to summit this peak will find the conditions to be more than inhospitable. This mountain is considered the coldest mountain earth, and it regularly has temperatures around -40.

Oymyakon, Russia
This town is over 200 miles above the Arctic Circle and holds the record for the lowest temperature recorded in the Northern Hemisphere of -96.6 degrees. This small town still has residents who have braved the cold for generations, and it is a testament to the adaptability of the human race.

Vostok Weather Station, Antarctica
Vostok Weather Station, Antarctica, is located very close to the South Pole, where researchers can study the weather and conduct experiments in the extreme cold. The coldest temperature ever was recorded there at -128 degrees. It is not safe to go outside when studying at this station, and the weather is terrible for half the year that researchers are stuck there. It’s so cold they must wait for the summer to transfer researchers in and out of the facility.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
You might not think that Mongolia is a place where it gets extremely cold during the year, but much of Mongolia sits on a high plateau. Winds sweep the high plateau throughout the year, and the city itself is considered the coldest capital in the world. The temperature rarely rises above zero in the winter.

Eureka, Canada
Eureka sits high in the Arctic Circle, where the frozen ocean allows you to hike and sled across the landscape. This location is so cold that it never gets above zero even in the summer. Imagine the sun shining all day long, even though it is -4 degrees outside.

This town is another testament to how the human race can adapt to its surroundings. It is also an excellent place to go if you would like to take tours with sled dogs that have adapted to extreme temperatures.

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https://www.accuweather.com/en/travel/the-5-coldest-and-the-5-hottest-places-on-earth/656066

timesup234:
They are usually the evil. They died protecting heroin and murdering innocent people around the world. They died for corporations stealing the wealth of third world countries. May maggots consume their corpses

AP

Shrinking country: Serbia struggles with population decline
By JOVANA GEC
yesterday

BLAGOJEV KAMEN, Serbia (AP) — Uros Trainovic remembers when his small mining village in eastern Serbia was a vibrant home to 200 families, had a school of its own, a doctor and a shop.

How times have changed. Now, 60-odd years later, it’s a ghost village with just eight residents.

The transformation of Blagojev Kamen is not unique in a country that experienced years of war and sanctions in the 1990s following the break-up of Yugoslavia. In a twist of historical irony, one of the causes behind those years of war was the idea of creating a Greater Serbia out of the ashes of the former Yugoslavia.

Near-empty villages with abandoned, crumbling houses can be seen all over Serbia — a clear symptom of a shrinking population that is raising acute questions over the economic well-being of the country. The decline is happening so fast it’s considered a national emergency and the United Nations has stepped in to help.


“This village used to be full of people, I used to go to school here,” the 71-year-old Trainovic recalls.

“It is such a pity and so sad that everybody left ... now there are only few of us and there are no young people any more.”

However it’s measured, the numbers look stark.

According to the World Bank, Serbia’s population of just below 7 million is projected to fall to 5.8 million by 2050. That would represent a 25% fall since 1990.

The Serbian government says the Balkan country is effectively losing a town each year, and that as many as 18 municipalities have fewer than 10,000 people: “We are 103 people less each day.”


https://apnews.com/8767299d712918e495b8713907e6d637

Trump fires two major impeachment figures -- Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland
By Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, Katelyn Polantz, Gloria Borger, Kevin Liptak, Jim Acosta and Devan Cole, CNN
Updated 8:31 PM EST, Fri February 07, 2020


Washington(CNN)President Donald Trump fired two key impeachment witnesses Friday, dismissing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council, and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.

An adviser to Trump said the firings of the major impeachment witnesses was meant to send a message that siding against the President will not be tolerated.

"Flushing out the pipes," the adviser told CNN. "It was necessary."

Vindman was pushed out of his role Friday months earlier than expected, according to a statement from his attorney. Vindman was not slated to leave until July, but had been telling colleagues in recent weeks he would likely leave soon.

Sondland said in a statement Friday that he is being recalled from his post.

"I was advised today that the President intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union," Sondland said. "I accomplishments. Our work here has been the highlight of my career."

Trump had continued to fume privately about Vindman's testimony during the impeachment inquiry and foreshadowed his dismissal earlier Friday.

"Well, I'm not happy with him," Trump said. "You think I'm supposed to be happy with him? I'm not."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/alex-vindman-donald-trump-impeachment/index.html