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This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
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Is it?
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Just as one that people might be less familiar with, Schenck v. United States was p bad
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Dred Scott
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You get to make important decisions
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I don't typically care for shooters, but that one kinda interests me
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jumi posted...

Why? Is her middle name Sandra or something?

Short for Alexandria.
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Oh no, a burning trash can
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https://wapo.st/2u3bibX

From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East to Southern California, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.

Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports the heat is to blame for at least 54 deaths in southern Quebec, mostly in and near Montreal, which endured record high temperatures.

In Northern Siberia, along the coast of the Arctic Ocean where weather observations are scarce model analyses showed temperatures soaring 40 degrees above normal on July 5, to over 90 degrees. It is absolutely incredible and really one of the most intense heat events Ive ever seen for so far north, wrote meteorologist Nick Humphrey, who offers more detail on this extraordinary high-latitude hot spell on his blog.

On Thursday, Africa likely witnessed its hottest temperature ever reliably measured. Ouargla, Algeria soared to 124.3 degrees (51.3 Celsius). If verified, it would surpass Africas previous highest reliable temperature measurement of 123.3 degrees (50.7 Celsius) set July 13, 1961, in Morocco.

No single record, in isolation, can be attributed to global warming. But collectively, these heat records are consistent with the kind of extremes we expect to see increase in a warming world.

Lets take a tour around the world of the recent hot-weather milestones.

A massive and intense heat dome has consumed the eastern two-thirds of the United States and southeast Canada since late last week. Its not only been hot but also exceptionally humid. Here are some of the notable all-time records set:

- The University of California Los Angeles set its all-time high-temperature of 111 degrees on July 6, along with several other locations in Southern California.
- Denver tied its all-time high-temperature record of 105 degrees on June 28.
- Mount Washington, N.H., tied its all-time warmest low temperature of 60 degrees on July 2.
- Burlington, Vt., set its all-time warmest low temperature ever recorded of 80 degrees on July 2.
- Montreal recorded its highest temperature in recorded history, dating back 147 years, of 97.9 degrees (36.6 Celsius) on July 2. The city also posted its most extreme midnight combination of heat and humidity.
- Ottawa posted its most extreme combination of heat and humidity on July 1.

Excessive heat torched the British Isles late last week. The stifling heat caused roads and roofs to buckle, the Weather Channel reported, and resulted in multiple all-time record highs:

- In Scotland, Glasgow had its hottest day on record, hitting 89.4 degrees (31.9 Celsius). Previously, it was reported that Scotland set its hottest temperature on record of 91.8 degrees (33.2 Celsius) on June 28 in Motherwell, about 12 miles southeast of Glasgow. However, upon further evaluation, the U.K. Met Office determined the record was invalid due to an artificial heating source near the temperature sensor.
- In Ireland, on June 28, Shannon hit 89.6 degrees (32 Celsius), its all-time record.
- In Northern Ireland, Belfast hit 85.1 degrees (29.5 Celsius) on June 28, its all-time record.
- Castlederg hit 86.2 degrees (30.1 Celsius) on June 29, its all-time record.

A large dome of high pressure, or heat dome, has persistently sat on top of Eurasia over the past week, resulting in some extraordinarily hot weather:

- Tbilisi, Georgia: On July 4, the capital city soared to 104.9 degrees (40.5 Celsius), its all-time record.
- Yerevan, Armenia: On July 2, the capital city soared to 107.6 degrees (42 Celsius), a record high for July and tying its record for any month.
- Several locations in southern Russia topped or matched their warmest June temperatures on record on the 28th.

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Dammit, this topic got me re-hooked. Played like 3 hours last night
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https://wapo.st/2ucHQA6

Federal prosecutors on Friday dismissed rioting charges against all remaining defendants arrested after destructive Inauguration Day protests in the nations capital, bringing to a close a controversial case that led to allegations of government overreach.

Prosecutors began filing paperwork Friday afternoon to formally drop the cases against 39 people who had been awaiting trial.

The vandalism of downtown businesses on the day President Trump was sworn in stretched more than 16 blocks as part of a disturbance called DisruptJ20. Members of a large group of protesters set small fires and used bricks and crowbars to smash storefronts.

In all, 234 people were arrested and charged with rioting. Of them, 21 defendants pleaded guilty before trial. But prosecutors had been unable to secure convictions at trial against others in the group.

Defense attorneys have long contended that prosecutors went too far in pursuing cases against more than 200 people. They argued that their clients were not rioting, but were swept up in the arrests while peacefully protesting.

Lacy MacAuley, one of the organizers of the DisruptJ20 Inauguration Day protests, said she celebrated the decision to end the prosecutions. She said the defendants have suffered more than a year of angst associated with the arrests, forcing many of them to put their lives on hold as they waited for outcomes in the criminal cases.

How do you plan for your job and family and personal life when you are facing decades in prison? MacAuley said.

After the first six defendants to go to trial were acquitted late last year, prosecutors dropped charges against more than 150 others, saying they were unable to prove those people planned or participated in protests with the aim of causing damage. Charges against several additional defendants were dropped after D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin found that the U.S. Attorneys Office failed to turn over some video evidence to the defense.

At a second trial involving another handful of defendants, jurors either acquitted them or were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

Jurors in the two cases that went to trial said afterward that the government couldnt prove which of the people in the chaotic crowd were the vandals. Over time, prosecutors dismissed more of the cases, and others had been set for trial.

Jessie K. Liu, U.S. attorney for the District, declined to comment on the decision. In a statement from her office, prosecutors noted that 21 of the people arrested have admitted guilt but said in light of the results in the cases brought to trial they had made the decision to halt the cases.

The U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Columbia believes that the evidence shows that a riot occurred on January 20, 2017, during which more than $100,000 in damage was caused to numerous public and private properties, the statement read. The destruction that occurred during these criminal acts was in sharp contrast to the peaceful demonstrations and gatherings that took place over the Inauguration weekend in the District of Columbia, and created a danger for all who were nearby.

Prosecutors had contended that the rioters blended in with protesters by using black-bloc tactics, wearing dark clothes and hiding their faces with masks and goggles so it would be harder for authorities to identify them while they participated in violence.

They overreached in terms of their legal theory, said Mark Goldstone, a D.C. defense attorney who represented two defendants, both of whose cases were dismissed. That a person is responsible criminally for any destruction and violence incurred by someone in the same vicinity because of the clothes they wore and because of that, a person is facing 70 years in jail because of someone elses actions that is absolutely preposterous.

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"trap" music!
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Even arguments about history don't hold up; Robert E. Lee never set foot in New Orleans, a city which has a rich history and culture that is all its own.
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Wow, first she took your V card, now she takes your gym card.
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No, not the one you're thinking of, a different Holocaust denier

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/us/politics/john-fitzgerald-holocaust-denial.html

A Republican congressional candidate in a reliably blue California district managed to capture nearly a quarter of votes cast in the states open primary last month just after the state Republican Party caught wind of his anti-Semitic comments and rescinded its automatic endorsement.

The candidate, John Fitzgerald, urged people on his campaign website to pay attention to Jewish supremacism, among other anti-Semitic views, which led party leaders to rescind their support in May, about two months after the official endorsement.

In the weeks since, Mr. Fitzgerald has increased the frequency of his anti-Semitic statements and has appeared on podcasts in which he claimed the Holocaust was a fabrication.

Everything weve been told about the Holocaust is a lie, Mr. Fitzgerald said last week on a radio show hosted by Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, an anti-Semitic commentator who has glorified Hitler.

My entire campaign, for the most part, is about exposing this lie, Mr. Fitzgerald said.

The brief endorsement of a Holocaust denier by a major political party in California has prompted Republican leaders there to take candidate vetting more seriously, and comes at a time when extremist and anti-Semitic candidates are receiving increased exposure on the national political stage.

Mr. Fitzgerald received 23 percent of the vote to finish second in the 11th Congressional Districts June primary, which is open to all candidates regardless of party and allows the top two finishers to qualify for the general election. He is running against Representative Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat, in a district northeast of San Francisco that has not elected a Republican to the House since 2004.

The states Republican Party automatically endorsed Mr. Fitzgerald in March because party rules say the organization will automatically back the only Republican in the field, said Matt Fleming, a spokesman for the California Republican Party. The party reversed its decision in May and issued a statement denouncing his candidacy.
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The comments that alerted the party to Mr. Fitzgeralds views were in a post on his campaign website asserting that Jewish people played a prominent role in the Atlantic slave trade and urging awareness of Jewish supremacism. Scholars have countered historical claims that Jewish people dominated the slave trade with research showing that their role was marginal.

Mr. Fleming said the initial endorsement of Mr. Fitzgerald was preceded by minimal vetting of his views. Now, he said, the party is bolstering its vetting process by thoroughly surveying candidates public comments and the content of their campaign websites.

Mr. Fitzgeralds qualification for the states general election makes him the latest in a series of high-profile extremist candidates across the nation including Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier described as a Nazi by the Illinois Republican Party. Mr. Jones won the Republican congressional primary in March in a heavily Democratic district that includes part of Chicago. In Wisconsin, a white nationalist and anti-Semite, Paul Nehlen, is running for Speaker Paul D. Ryans vacated House seat.

In both instances, the state Republican Party distanced itself from the candidate and condemned his views.

Mr. Fitzgerald ran for Congress in California as a Democrat in 2010 and 2012, but did not receive the partys endorsement in either case. He is running as a Republican in November but said he identifies more as an independent.

Am I a Republican? Mr. Fitzgerald said. What is a Republican anymore?

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What are the downsides here
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Jim is now doing military roles
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8.36
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What's more, I'd note that Jordan recently said he knew nothing about it; others are contradicting his story on this.
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The freedom to do nothing about sexual abuse?
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A UFC champion is now among those accusing him of turning a blind eye:

https://thinkprogress.org/jordan-wrestlers-coming-forward-758b8ddcc70e/
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darkjedilink posted...

Latin America is largely populated by Hispanics, and the World Cup teams from there are almost entirely Hispanic. Ergo, eliminating Hispanic players from the World Cup is just as racist as Trump.

You're not as dumb as you are pretending to be.
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I never got around to finishing WotC. My thing is I'm too chicken for Ironman mode, but otherwise I spend most of my time re-loading and save-scumming
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Distant_Rainbow posted...

DanHarenDynasty posted...

This team is just too good. Lukaku and De Bryune, and Courtois is so good.

The hell you talking about? Lukaku's played like s*** for the last two games.

Did you watch today? he was great
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Antifar posted...

Trump has laid bare in a very useful way the distance between standard GOP and the actual forces and impulses that motivate their voters.

I meant to say standard GOP rhetoric
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BWLurker posted...

Good. Congress needs more challenge to Trump's insanity, not just yes-men

Had he resigned in time to allow a replacement to be elected this fall, there would have been a greater chance of one.
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Seems bad, imo
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Trump has laid bare in a very useful way the distance between standard GOP and the actual forces and impulses that motivate their voters.
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E32005 posted...

Israel run by trump?

Netanyahu could be thought of as an Israeli Trump, complete with dipshit son.
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It is possible both for pedestrians to make mistakes and for SUVs to make those mistakes more deadly for them.
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Belgium is really good!
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It does not say that

Antifar posted...

Data and safety experts verified that long-standing common factors in pedestrian deaths, such as alcohol and jaywalking at night, did not account for the growth.

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Abyssea posted...

are minorities just more likely to jaywalk then? I mean... how could it be effecting them more statistically?

They are disproportionately likely to live in cities
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LedZeppelin posted...

The rising tide of pedestrian deaths is primarily an urban plague that kills minorities at a disproportionate rate.

jesus fucking christ. apparently suvs are racist now too! guess its time for blm to start protesting suv makers right??

That is not at all what this is saying
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I think you should let Sleeping Dogs lie
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s0nicfan posted...

So why is it the car's fault and not the driver's that pedestrians are being hit?

The drivers are an independent variable here; all things considered an SUV is more likely to kill a pedestrian it hits than a sedan. And not just slightly:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made the connection in 2015 that SUVs were deadlier for pedestrians than cars, referenced on page 90 of a 195-page report. That report, citing 12 independent studies of injury data, said pedestrians are two to three times more likely to suffer a fatality when struck by an SUV or pickup than when struck by a passenger car.

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Frostshock posted...

They have no duty to design for the safety of pedestrians being hit by a fucking car.

They do, though. We have plenty of regulations on car design for that purpose.
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Abyssea posted...

If they don't want to get killed by a SUV, they should have been in an SUV themselves. No one has time for small cars anymore.

Do you know what pedestrian means?
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https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-killing-americas-pedestrians/646139002/

A Detroit Free Press/USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found that the SUV revolution is a key, leading cause of escalating pedestrian deaths nationwide, which are up 46 percent since 2009.

Almost 6,000 pedestrians died on or along U.S. roads in 2016 alone nearly as many Americans as have died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. Data analyses by the Free Press/USA TODAY and others show that SUVs are the constant in the increase and account for a steadily growing proportion of deaths.

- Federal safety regulators have known for years that SUVs, with their higher front-end profile, are at least twice as likely as cars to kill the walkers, joggers and children they hit, yet have done little to reduce deaths or publicize the danger.
- A federal proposal to factor pedestrians into vehicle safety ratings has stalled, with opposition from some automakers.
- The rising tide of pedestrian deaths is primarily an urban plague that kills minorities at a disproportionate rate.

- It is most prominent in cities both in the industrial heartland and warm-weather spots on the nations coasts and Sun Belt. Detroit; Newark, New Jersey; St. Louis; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Miami, San Bernardino, California, Birmingham, Alabama; Tampa; Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Phoenix had the 10 highest per-capita death rates among cities with populations of at least 200,000 in 2009-16.

Vehicle safety measures, which the federal government says could save hundreds of pedestrian lives every year, are available but not widely employed by some automakers nor are they required.

Along with automakers, cities can take action that saves pedestrians. New York City, for example, cut such deaths nearly in half in just four years. The need for steps such as lower speed limits, more midblock crosswalks and better lighting grows in urgency as automakers move strongly toward truck and SUV production.

SUV sales topped sedans in 2014; pickups and SUVs now account for 60 percent of new vehicle sales. Ford recently announced plans to discontinue U.S. sales of most passenger cars, while Fiat Chrysler has already done so.

It might seem obvious that a larger vehicle can cause more damage in a crash, whether to a smaller car or an unprotected skull, but some researchers have been hesitant to assign blame for the spike in pedestrian deaths to Americas love of SUVs, in part because various factors are at play in every crash.

Each of the 5,987 pedestrians who died in 2016, according to federal data, had his or her own tragic ending.

Many who died were males, were jaywalking or had alcohol in their systems on multilane roads in urban areas at night. Some might have been distracted, just as vehicle drivers could have been, by texting or talking on cellphones, although data is lacking to quantify distraction.

Some of these other factors also saw increases in recent years, but the SUV component stands out.

Data and safety experts verified that long-standing common factors in pedestrian deaths, such as alcohol and jaywalking at night, did not account for the growth.

A key factor consistently backed by data is growing involvement of higher-profile, blunt-nosed SUVs.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety calculated an 81 percent increase in single-vehicle pedestrian fatalities involving SUVs in 2009-16. The Free Press/USA TODAY analysis of the same federal data, counting vehicles that struck and killed pedestrians rather than the number of people killed, showed a 69 percent increase in SUV involvement. The assessment also showed increases each year in the proportion of fatal pedestrian crashes involving the popular vehicles.

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Every Alex Jones-esque nutjob who thinks flouride is mind-control will ignore this story because their anti-government aesthetic is a cheap pose and they have no interest in actually challenging power.
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This is the reason Scott Pruitt was kept around despite his obvious corruption: he's very good at burying facts and studies that are unpleasant to powerful chemical companies.
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To the extent that the Democratic Party is a proxy for progressives, this doesn't seem to hold true in the US, where Asians typically vote Democratic
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https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876

Israeli arms are being sent to a heavily armed neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, The Electronic Intifada has learned.

Azov Battalion online propaganda shows Israeli-licensed Tavor rifles in the fascist groups hands, while Israeli human rights activists have protested arms sales to Ukraine on the basis that weapons might end up with anti-Semitic militias.

In a letter about licenses for Ukraine obtained by The Electronic Intifada, the Israeli defense ministrys arms export agency says they are careful to grant licenses to arms exporters in full coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government entities.

The 26 June letter was sent in reply to Israeli lawyer Eitay Mack who had written a detailed request demanding Israel end all military aid to the country.

Azovs official status in the Ukrainian armed forces means it cannot be verified that Israeli weapons and training are not being used by anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers, Mack and 35 other human rights activists wrote.

They had written that Ukrainian armed forces use rifles made in Israel and are trained by Israelis, according to reports in the country.

The head of the Israeli arms export agency declined to deny the reports, or to even discuss cancellation of the weapons licenses, citing security concerns.
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A photo on Azovs website also shows a Tavor in the hands of one of the militias officers.

The rifles are produced under licence from Israel Weapon Industries, and as such would have been authorized by the Israeli government.

IWI markets the Tavor as the primary weapon of the Israeli special forces.

It has been used in recent massacres of unarmed Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza.

Fort, the Ukrainian state-owned arms company that produces the rifles under license, has a page about the Tavor on its website.

The Israel Weapon Industries logo also appears on its website, including on the Our Partners page.

Starting as a gang of fascist street thugs, the Azov Battalion is one of several far-right militias that have now been integrated as units of Ukraines National Guard.

Staunchly anti-Russian, Azov fought riot police during the 2013 US and EU-supported Euromaidan protests in the capital Kiev.

The protests and riots laid the ground for the 2014 coup which removed the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych.

When the civil war began in eastern Ukraine against Russian-backed separatists, the new western-backed government began to arm Azov. The militia soon fell under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian interior ministry, and saw some of the most intense frontline combat against the separatists.

The group stands accused in United Nations and Human Rights Watch reports of committing war crimes against pro-Russian separatists during the ongoing civil war in the eastern Donbass region, including torture, sexual violence and targeting of civilian homes.

Today, Azov is run by Arsen Avakov, Ukraines interior minister. According to the BBC, he pays its fighters, and has appointed one of its military commanders, Vadym Troyan, as his deputy with control over the police.

Avakov last year met with the Israeli interior minister Aryeh Deri to discuss fruitful cooperation.

Azovs young founder and first military commander Andriy Biletsky is today a lawmaker in the Ukrainian parliament.

As journalist Max Blumenthal explained on The Real News in February, Biletsky has pledged to restore the honor of the white race and has advanced laws forbidding race mixing.

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Not every concentration camp is a Nazi death camp

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp
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I would note that US soccer fans tend to be more progressive than European ones. Martin came out before Minnesota's pride night, at which fans unveiled this banner: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/06/29/minnesota-united-fc-supporters-reveal-pride-night-every-night-tifo
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I think "from" would have been the better wording
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Coffeebeanz posted...

We also spend more money per capita on health care than any other country in the world, yet the solution, apparently, is to spend more money.

The solution is to change who is paying so as to reduce costs, like all the other major countries do.
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Italy
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http://english.chosun.com/m/svc/article.html?contid=2018070600907
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