Daily News December 6-2017 Adjust content blockingContent Blocking notlittledevil Rank: #279 Channel: FJNN next random Comment Top Next Comment Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital President of the US Donald Trump has officially announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, where he plans to relocate the American embassy. The US President admitted the move will cause dissent, but says it could help resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. "Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious - that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality," said Trump in a pre-scheduled speech at the White House. "Israel is a sovereign nation with a right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital. Acknowledging this is a fact is a necessary condition for achieving peace. Trump also left the door open for a two-state solution. "The United States would support a two-state solution if agreed to by both sides. In the meantime, I call on all parties to maintain the status quo at Jerusalem's holy sites including the Temple Mount, also known as Haram al-Sharif." In a recorded statement released minutes after Trump finished talking, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his people would be “forever grateful” for the “historic decision” and urged other countries to follow America’s example. “Jerusalem has been the focus of our hopes, our dreams, our prayers for three millennia, the President's decision is an important step towards peace, for there is no peace that doesn't include Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.” He vowed that there would be “no change whatsoever to the status quo at the holy sites” and promised to “ensure freedom of worship” for the three main religions for whom Jerusalem is a holy city. The President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said that Trump’s decision meant that the US “abdicates” any role in mediating the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a televised speech, he said he “condemned and rejected” the US decision, which he said will “serve terrorists” and “bring never-ending wars to the region.” He insisted that Jerusalem remains the capital of any Palestinian state, and said that the decision would serve to unify all Palestinian factions at a “critical moment,” which he promised to gather for a discussion of the appropriate response. Hamas, which is control of Gaza, and is regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States, said that Jerusalem’s new status would “open the gates of hell.” It called upon other actors to “undermine” American interests in the Middle East, and reiterated its promise to stage “three days of rage” in response to Trump’s statement. “Trump’s decision will not succeed in changing the reality of Jerusalem being Islamic Arab land,” said a spokesman for Hamas, which officially does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. archive.is/a0bKq L.A. skirball fire A wind-whipped wildfire raged on Wednesday into a wealthy Southern California neighborhood, destroying at least six homes, threatening hundreds more and scorching a building at a winery owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The so-called Skirball Fire, which erupted early on Wednesday as the latest in a rash of major blazes fueled by hot, dry Santa Ana winds, had burned about 150 acres near large estates in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles by nightfall and was only 5 percent contained. Firefighters battled to save multi million-dollar homes in the path of the flames, which also forced the closure of the San Diego (405) Freeway in both directions. “We are expecting some extreme wind behavior this evening,” Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby told reporters at an afternoon news conference. The new fire also prompted the nearby Getty Center museum to close the doors at its hilltop campus to prevent damage to its world-class art collection. The Skirball Fire in the area south of scenic Mulholland Drive and north of Sunset Boulevard was just one of several major out-of-control brush fires that have sprung up in Southern California since Monday, when Santa Ana wind conditions set in. In Ventura, some 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Los Angeles, more than 1,000 firefighters battled the largest, the Thomas Fire, which has already destroyed more than 150 homes and threatened thousands more. California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency, freeing state funds and resources to assist firefighters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it approved grants to help cover the cost of emergency work for the Thomas Fire and two others. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his thoughts and prayers were with everyone in the path of the wildfires. Although no casualties have been reported, the fires have forced mass evacuations, cancellation of classes at dozens of schools and resulted in the loss of power at more than 250,000 homes in Ventura County. archive.is/bs95v Putin announces run for presidency Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he will seek another term in office in next year’s presidential election. Yes, I will run as a candidate for the Russian presidency,” Putin said. He was meeting with workers at the country’s historic manufacturer, GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod), in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday. The upcoming election on March 18 will be the fourth in Putin’s political career. He held the office of president for two terms from 2000 to 2008, and served as prime minister from 2008 to 2012. Putin then won a third term as president in 2012. Earlier, Russian media reported that he may run as an independent candidate. The Russian president enjoys a high approval rating, with over 82 percent of Russians supporting him according to a poll conducted by state-run VTSIOM in late September. Several other people, including an unprecedented number of women, have announced their candidacy. Liberal-Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Communist Party’s Gennady Zyuganov, the liberal Yabloko party’s Grigory Yavlinsky, journalist and singer-songwriter Ekaterina Gordon, celebrity and activist Ksenia Sobchak, and business ombudsman Boris Titov have all announced their plans to run. archive.is/oThqT Bitcoin Heist After a mysterious 12-hour service outage, the popular cryptocurrency mining exchange NiceHash announced hackers stole an unknown amount of money from users. However, one bitcoin wallet gained more than $64 million within a matter of minutes. On Wednesday, NiceHash announced there was a security breach involving the company’s website which compromised their payment services, and the contents of the users’ bitcoin wallets. The announcement came 12 hours after NiceHash suddenly informed users that they were undergoing maintenance. Two hours later, a user by the name of Erik Callesen posted an image showing an outgoing transaction he claimed he did not make. “Either I got hacked or something is up,” Callesen wrote. Callesen added that $56 million had been sent to one bitcoin wallet address. “I think I got jacked and probably a lot of other folks?” Callesen wrote. Many other users responded to the company’s maintenance tweet, saying that they had money stolen. When NiceHash admitted that they were hacked, they did not confirm the amount that had been stolen. The service said they were “working to verify the precise number of BTC taken.” However, CoinDesk reported that as many as 4,736.42 bitcoin, worth more than $62 million at the time, was stolen and transferred to one account. Several users pointed to a Bitcoin wallet address that was opened Tuesday at 9:07pm, which went from a balance of 0.01 bitcoin, valued just over $123, to a balance of 4,655.25 bitcoin, worth $57.7 million, after the user made more than 3,000 transactions around 9:17pm. In addition to conducting an internal investigation, NiceHash said that they have reported the incident to “relevant authorities and law enforcement” and are “co-operating with them as a matter of urgency.” The wallet currently has a balance of 4,736.42 bitcoin, worth $64,080,393. archive.is/Taed6 Monster black hole Astronomers have discovered the most distant "supermassive" black hole known to science. The matter-munching sinkhole is a whopping 13 billion light-years away, so far that we see it as it was a mere 690 million years after the Big Bang. But at about 800 million times the mass of our Sun, it managed to grow to a surprisingly large size such a short time after the origin of the Universe. This relic from the early Universe is busily devouring material at the centre of a galaxy - marking it out as a so-called quasar. Matter, such as gas, falling onto the black hole will form an ultra-hot mass of material around it known as an accretion disk. "Quasars are among the brightest and most distant known celestial objects and are crucial to understanding the early Universe," said co-author Bram Venemans of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany. This quasar comes from a time when the Universe was just 5% of its current age. At this time, the cosmos was beginning to emerge from a period known as the dark ages - just before the first stars appeared. The quasar's distance is described by a property called its redshift - a measurement of how much the wavelength of its light is stretched by the expansion of the Universe before reaching Earth. The newly discovered black hole has a redshift of 7.54. The higher the redshift, the greater the distance, and the farther back astronomers are looking in time when they observe the object. The discovery of a massive black hole so early on may provide key clues on conditions that abounded when the Universe was young. archive.is/JN2AX ht tps://www.nature.com/articles/nature25180.epdf?referreraccesstoken=5RlSk8gkA9WngEj3Zco4INRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OqRPXsjjgScsA9vtiwnFwpAueweX49aDc6-IVNlxsYDrsUJmqfxXvdkDuuDrCn26r1Lx27LCsrtXbLy9pM3iWV-k-dD4L1HDKZIfFJe2cA622MdC7mjtIXWz8odZENiJMrr1Ws36835V8oE9tHIWO4GG0ZE3nE24WgF2kSqTksRa2tFFdRZhI9e3-lzY%3D&trackingreferrer=www.bbc.com Dinoduck Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs. The latest dino discovery was announced Wednesday in a study by the journal Nature. It walked like an ostrich, was 18 inches tall, had flippers and could swim like a penguin, had a bill like a duck and a neck like a swan but had killer claws and teeth like a crocodile, which it needed because it was a meat-eating dinosaur. It was named Halszkaraptor escuilliei, or “Halszka” for short, after the late Polish paleontologist Halszka Osmolska. According to the study, the skeleton of the tiny bird-like creature was discovered in a sandstone rock and is believed to have roamed Mongolia 75 million years ago. Lead author Andrea Cau, a paleontologist from Bologna, Italy, said he was at first highly suspicious about the fossil's authenticity, both because of its appearance and the fact that the rock containing the skeleton had been smuggled out of Mongolia and left in a private collector's hands. "I asked myself, 'Is this a real, natural skeleton, or an artifact, a chimera? If this is a fake, how could I demonstrate it? Assuming it was a fake instead of starting assuming that the fossil is genuine was the most appropriate way to start the investigation of such a bizarre fossil." Researchers used a Synchrotron, a powerful X-ray generator, to create three-dimensional images of the fossil, which showed the creature was indeed a single animal and not a concoction built from several sources. Paul Tafforeau, a co-author of the study and a paleontologist in Grenoble, France -- home to the European Synchrotron -- said the dinosaur’s mashup body allowed it to run and hunt on the ground and fish in fresh water. Another author of the study, Dennis Voeten described it as “a peculiar animal” adding that the dinosaur "combines different parts we knew from other groups into this one small animal.” archive.is/3MQ4R ht tps://www.nature.com/articles/nature24679.epdf?referreraccesstoken=-VK83vc4XPR5oV68K2DDDdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Mb4AUOLVz95CNI-TMlC3bWWEtvmTn2s8OeAoaXMKU279TAbrTRV-NtQN9EjBBQnicbqGcDCH14gd8VYT-kaOccFLJCjusBwduXIM4Y3bJZXXXVRgBi1AFvNJBUXRBHvNu0gAEg1BgRgHMNyNIJ7wQtcN8oOa15Icim8Q1WODsFGV-TRSm5-NR1LSBnO-4CTthDeV-2S7qCwkQxOksDT1FH3jYKZUF3fV2D21OnGc45l719PiRhmM2BJEYthUHw%3D&trackingreferrer=www.foxnews.com Yesterday's news /s/0O7l99 Vote nigga, vote for Santa! Jerusalem Skirball fire Putin re-run for presidency Bitcoin stolen, JGKingpin found weeping in a corner Monster black hole Dino duck Multiple votes allowed! Vote! 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