Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral Friday at 6:36 a.m. EST on an Atlas 5 rocket Kennedy Space Center Florida/USA, Nov 20, 2019. Starliner almost immediately ran into trouble when it was unable to perform its orbital insertion burn as planned. NASA Administrators says the problem will preclude the capsule from rendezvousing with the International Space Station as the capsule burned too much fuel during the anomaly.
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White Supremacist groups emerged early-on in the history of United States. They usually operated clandestinely, in an attempt to avoid the attention of law enforcement and the media. Historically, these groups relied primarily on word-of-mouth notoriety to intimidate their intended targets. Their numbers were sporadic until recently. Now there is unprecedented growth in the number of and membership in, white supremacist groups. According to the Florida Gang Investigators Association (FGIA), a group that includes members of law enforcment, lawyers and Judges, about 25,000 Americans are hardcore ideological activists for the white supremacist movement, and though their numbers area tiny fraction of the population, they appear more visible today than a decade ago. They range from seemingly innocuous religious sects or tax protesters to openly militant, even violent, neo-Nazi skinheads and Ku Klux Klan Klaverns. Every morning, Chester Doles, a fourth generation Ku Klux Klansman, former leader of the white supremacist National Alliance, and convicted felon, begins the day around 5 a.m., sometimes doing the laundry and folding the clothes for the family, or else heading to the gym. The 59-year-old, a direct descendant of a Confederate General named Chester Pierce Doles, considers himself above all a mainstream white American. As he sees it, his own project is no different from that of a long line of white American leaders, even though these days, Doles’ claims he has softened his own description of it. The self-declared white nationalist now says he is simply fighting against the extinction of what he considers to be the ‘white race.’ He said he is a ‘God, country and family man’ who shares 95% of President Trump’s goals and is considering a run for Georgia’s legislature, to replace retiring state Rep. Doug Collins. Despite his violent past, Doles’ day to day reality these days is ordinary, more conventionally American than revolutionary. He likes his coffee with Creamora and Stevia. He is loyal to Harley Davidson motorcycle brand. He is known for his chili and omelets and hot, homemade salsas. He works at a job loading five-gallon water containers into trucks for distribution around his hometown of Dahlonega, in northern Georgia, and has a side job training body builders. He is a father of 13, a grandfather of 27, a man who clings to his old beliefs even as he tries to make them palatable to the changing world around him.
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The Chilean government announced plans to roll out a $5.5 billion economic recovery plan after rioting and protests triggered the worst monthly contraction in a decade, and crippling the countries economy. In the current scenario of the Chilean economic crisis, the southern austral regions represent a historical and coherent example of the country’s problems. These are areas are scarcely inhabited, displaying a harsh landscape with vast forest areas, often beaten by the cold antarctic winds. These natural resources have always been themselves the subjects of economic speculations. The Chilean woodcutters in the community of Caleta Tortel, in the south of the Aysen region, endure daily hardships of survival which are compounded with bad weather and lack of resources in this remote and isolated area. Tortel is located several hundred kilometers from the regional capital Coyaique and was once only accessible by the waters of the Rio Baker and the Pacific Ocean. Chile is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of wood and wood pulp. Cutting and collecting logs has always been entrusted to individual lumberjacks. The artisanal nature of the activity and the harsh climate contribute to making the living conditions of workers and their families more difficult. The Cypress trees of Guaiateca are widespread in this region, a tree with flexible wood, very resistant to water and with highly flammable resins. The cutting of this tree is allowed by law only from the moment when the trunk is no longer green or considered dead. The chainsaw is the primary tool for the production of logs for both sales and home heating. Arriving only at the end of the 80s, however, chainsaws have not yet completely replaced the manual skill of the axe. In recent years, the difficulties have been amplified by the fall in sales prices due mainly to the development of mass tree extraction companies working in the more easily accessible areas (not least the Amazon region). And following decades of intensive forest cutting and clearing, the Chilean woodcutters today have to push themselves into an even more remote area regions, like the small islands of the southern fjords. To achieve a sufficiently profitable amount of timber the loggers work alone with their own chainsaws for up to fourteen consecutive hours, spending entire days in the rain or in the cold, away from their families.
December 6, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Anni Harjunpaa , 23, introduces herself as preliminary duding for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant begins. She hadn’t entered any beauty pageants until this year, when she was crowned Miss Finland.
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December 6, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Anni Harjunpӓӓ, 23, in swimsuit competition segment of preliminary judging for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant begins.
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December 6, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Anni Harjunpӓӓ, 23, in swimsuit competition segment of preliminary judging for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant begins.
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Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press
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October 31, 2019, New York: A parade goer dressed as ‘The Whistleblower’ attends the 46th Annual Village Halloween Parade. Sanitation trucks, seen in the background, are used as a protective barrier due to recent world events.
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December 2, 2019, Kolkata, West Bengal, India: A protest and awareness campaign was organized by students from various colleges of Kolkata against the crime of rape that happened in Hyderabad and other crimes on woman that have been happening throughout various parts of the country.
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October 4, 2018 – Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia – A resident stands on the ruins of a building that was destroyed by the earthquake..A deadly earthquake measuring 7.5 magnitude and the tsunami wave caused by it has destroyed the city of Palu and much of the area in Central Sulawesi. According to the officials, death toll from devastating quake and tsunami rises to 1,480, around 800 people in hospitals are seriously injured and some 62,000 people have been displaced in 24 camps around the region.
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The Trump Impeachment dominated the news and anti-government demonstrations continued in Hong Kong and Chile. Violence in Syria and the Middle East escalated while an NFL player used a helmet as a weapon!
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