2017年9月4日星期一

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Republicans Could Protect Dreamers If They Wanted To. But Will They?

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 08:31 PM PDT

Republicans Could Protect Dreamers If They Wanted To. But Will They?WASHINGTON ― Republican lawmakers who have said they sympathize with young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will now get the chance to prove it.


Idaho Police Department Thanks 'Heroic' Nurse For Standing Up To Utah Cop

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:58 AM PDT

Idaho Police Department Thanks 'Heroic' Nurse For Standing Up To Utah CopAn Idaho police department is hailing nurse Alex Wubbels as a hero for standing up to Salt Lake City Detective Jeff Payne, who tried to take blood from a patient without a warrant or the patient's consent.


Largest wildfire in Los Angeles history forces hundreds to evacuate

Posted: 02 Sep 2017 07:39 PM PDT

Largest wildfire in Los Angeles history forces hundreds to evacuateBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A wildfire on the northern edge of Los Angeles rapidly grew on Saturday into what the mayor called the largest blaze in the city's history, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people and the closure of a major highway. The 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) La Tuna Fire, named after the canyon area where it erupted on Friday, has led authorities to evacuate more than 700 homes in a north Los Angeles neighborhood and in nearby Burbank and Glendale, officials said. Authorities warned of erratic winds that could force them to widen the evacuation zone, after the fire destroyed three houses in Los Angeles on Saturday.


Trump Lawyer Asks Journalist If She's On Drugs After James Comey Question

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 04:41 PM PDT

Trump Lawyer Asks Journalist If She's On Drugs After James Comey QuestionWhite House special counsel Ty Cobb asked Business Insider's Natasha Bertrand if she was on drugs during an email thread late on Saturday.


Adorable rat portraits look to remove stigma attached to rodents

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT

Adorable rat portraits look to remove stigma attached to rodentsA committed photographer who's made it her mission to remove the stigma attached to the creatures took these adorable rat portraits.


4-Year-Old Waves Flag For National Guardsmen Who Helped During Hurricane Harvey

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 08:57 AM PDT

4-Year-Old Waves Flag For National Guardsmen Who Helped During Hurricane HarveyHis parents have taught him the importance of military.


Cambodian paper to close as opposition leader arrested for treason

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 03:51 AM PDT

Cambodian paper to close as opposition leader arrested for treasonOne of Cambodia's few remaining independent newspapers announced on Sunday it would close hours after the country's opposition leader was arrested for treason, the latest in a string of blows to critics of strongman premier Hun Sen. The Cambodia Daily, which is often critical of the government, said Monday's edition would be its last after it was slapped with a multi-million dollar tax bill that its publishers said was politically motivated. The announcement came after Kem Sokha, head of the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), was arrested shortly after midnight on treason charges with Prime Minister Hun Sen accusing him of acting in cahoots with Washington, an escalation of his often angry rhetoric against the US.


Sara Netanyahu undergoes lie detector test in bid to deflect fraud investigation 

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 09:14 AM PDT

Sara Netanyahu undergoes lie detector test in bid to deflect fraud investigation Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister, has undergone a lie-detector test in an attempt to deflect allegations she misused public funds.  Police are investigating her on fraud and breach of trust charges after the former caretaker of her official residence made claims she had told him to inflate the number of guests at dinners and to record their purpose as state instead of private in order to receive more money for them.  She has denied the charges. Avi Hadad, the owner of the company which conducted the test, said that, "upon examination of the test, we did not find in Mrs. Netanyahu's answers to the relevant questions any physiological responses which would indicate she is lying." Mrs Netanyahu is a divisive figure, and has been described as "one of the most unpopular people in Israel".  The results of private lie detector tests are not admissible in Israeli courts because they are not believed to be reliable.  The news of the test came amid reports on Israeli television that the attorney general was expected to indict her by September 10.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Credit: REUTERS/Amir Cohen  Yossi Cohen, her lawyer, told Israeli public radio that the decision to take the test was taken, "following the horrible mudslinging against her and after we heard that she is going to be put on trial". Her husband, Benjamin Netanyahu, is also under investigation in two corruption cases. The first relates to suspicion he received illegal gifts from wealthy supporters, and the second alleges that he attempted to improperly arrange favorable coverage from a daily newspaper in exchange for legislation that would have hurt its competitor.  He has been questioned in relation to both the cases. Close associates of his are also implicated in two other corruption investigations, though Mr Netanyahu is not directly suspected in them. The scandals resulting from accusations against him and his inner circle have raised questions about his political survival.  He denies all allegations of wrongdoing, and is not required to stand down unless convicted.


In line and in life, Harvey's victims wait and worry

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 06:09 AM PDT

In line and in life, Harvey's victims wait and worryPASADENA, Texas (AP) — The line snakes on and on, along a wall inside the shopping mall, each person in search of help after a hurricane swamped their town.


Joel Osteen Tells Harvey Survivors Not To Have A ‘Victim Mentality’

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 08:58 PM PDT

Joel Osteen Tells Harvey Survivors Not To Have A 'Victim Mentality'Pastor Joel Osteen, who has been under fire for his Houston megachurch's slow response to helping survivors of Hurricane Harvey, vowed on Sunday that God would "pay back" victims for what they lost.


North Korea nuclear test: When asked whether US will attack, Donald Trump replied 'we'll see'

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 08:55 AM PDT

North Korea nuclear test: When asked whether US will attack, Donald Trump replied 'we'll see'Donald Trump has added to fears of war between the US and North Korea, saying simply "we'll see" when asked if he was planning to sanction a military attack.


Denmark Is Selling Off Its Last Oil Company And Spending The Money On Wind Power

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 10:58 AM PDT

Denmark Is Selling Off Its Last Oil Company And Spending The Money On Wind PowerREYKJAVIK, Iceland ― Denmark, the world's top wind turbine producer, is selling off its last oil company.


Arson caused fire at Kenyan school that killed nine girls: minister

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:50 AM PDT

Arson caused fire at Kenyan school that killed nine girls: ministerBy John Ndiso and Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's education minister said on Monday that arson was to blame for a weekend blaze that killed nine pupils at a girls' boarding school, part of a rising trend of deliberate school fires. "It was not an accident, it was arson," Minister Fred Matiang'i said of the fire on Saturday at Moi Girls School in Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross said on its Twitter feed there had been three other school fires reported in different parts of the country on Monday.


K-9 Officer Alerts Border Control To Pair Being Smuggled Into U.S. in Trunk

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:31 PM PDT

K-9 Officer Alerts Border Control To Pair Being Smuggled Into U.S. in TrunkAll four people, including two Americans, in the car were arrested.


Touchdown! Hall of Fame Quarterback Troy Aikman Marries ‘the Love of My Life’ in California

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:30 PM PDT

Touchdown! Hall of Fame Quarterback Troy Aikman Marries 'the Love of My Life' in CaliforniaTroy Aikman is a married man!


Furious Moscow demands swift return of closed US facilities

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 11:32 AM PDT

Furious Moscow demands swift return of closed US facilitiesRussia demanded Sunday that the US rethink its shuttering of Moscow's diplomatic premises, insisting that Washington bore sole responsibility for worsening ties after the "hostile act". "We consider what has happened as an openly hostile act and a gross violation of international law by Washington," the foreign ministry in Moscow said in a statement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov for his part accused Washington of "trampling on international law".


Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:42 PM PDT

Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas houseWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police are investigating after the body of a small child was discovered encased in concrete inside a rental home in Wichita, Kansas.


Harvey Left Countless Pets Homeless. Here’s What It Takes To Shelter Them.

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 03:32 PM PDT

Harvey Left Countless Pets Homeless. Here's What It Takes To Shelter Them.Katy, Texas - Among the smallest victims of Hurricane Harvey are thousands of pets left without a home after floodwaters inundated large swathes of the Houston area.


Cambodia Shut Our Paper Down. Don't Let Trump Do That

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 10:17 AM PDT

Cambodia Shut Our Paper Down. Don't Let Trump Do ThatTwo reporters tell Newsweek what The Cambodia Daily meant to them and to a country whose democratic institutions are under threat.​


Row over bears in France intensifies after angry farmers 'fire shots' in protest at sheep deaths

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:25 AM PDT

Row over bears in France intensifies after angry farmers 'fire shots' in protest at sheep deathsA bitter dispute over bears in France's Pyrenees mountains has intensified after farmers were accused of firing "50 shots" at state experts who came to assess how many sheep the beasts had killed. Prosecutors in the Ariège, south-west France, have launched a judicial investigation into "violence with weapons" after a group of "thirty aggressive people" allegedly unleashed a hail of bullets in the vicinity of four experts from the national hunting and wildlife office, ONCFS. The agents had come to check damage to sheep on August 25 after farmers reported fresh bear attacks on their livestock. The farmers threatened to kill the terrified experts, according to the Ariege authorities. A brown bear Credit: UKRAINE-BEAR/CENTER/REUTERS No-one was hurt but the shots were "manifestly to intimidate them", said Karline Bouisset,the local prosecutor, who denounced a "general climate of hostility". The experts' car tyres were also slashed. They have pressed for charges. Nicolas Hulot, the environment minister, swiftly condemned the incident. Tensions have reached boiling point in the mountain range that straddles the French-Spanish border since July, when more than 200 sheep died after they hurtled over the edge of a cliff in the Pyrenees while being chased by a bear. The sheep belonged to a farmer in the Couflens area on the French side of the border, but their bodies were found at the foot of a cliff just over the border in Spain. Local authorities sent experts to examine the scene and they concluded that the sheep had been running away from a bear. A female brown bear with cubs  Credit: TASS / Barcroft Images Owners are compensated for each animal killed under a deal between the government and farmers when brown bears from Slovenia were introduced in the late 1990s. But local sheep rearers complain that the bears have killed 400 livestock in the past month and say that cohabitation is no longer possible. "Given the situation, it is clear that the bear and pastoralism are incompatible," warned three farmers' unions.   They received the support of a group of local elected representatives who officially requested the French state remove the bear population, estimated at 39. The officials from the Ariège council said that the animals, should be "sent back" to their native Slovenia. France, eastern Pyrenees , aerial view of Villefranche de Conflent, Mont Canigou Credit:  Brigitte MERLE/ Getty Images Alain Servat, mayor of Uvuas, where most of the sheep deaths have occurred, has even unilaterally passed a decree banning bears from "wandering" into the mountainous area around his village. "There will one day be a problem with man - a tourist or inhabitant," he warned. "Bears are no more peaceful here than in Canada where they take precautions," he told La Dépêche du Midi. Local state authorities say that coexistence is possible, pointing out that in return for re-introducing the bears, farmers receive financial compensation for any damage and funding to buy Pyrenean dogs capable of keeping bears at bay. "The state places supportive means to better protect shepherds and their flocks," Marie Lajust, the regional state prefect told AFP.  "But pastoralism must evolve." "I'd rather shoot a bear than see sheep rearer shoot himself in his barn out of despair," replied Bruno Besche-Commenge, spokesman for the anti-bear Association for the Sustainable Development of the Identity of the Pyrenees ADDIP.  He refused to condemn the shooting incident, saying that it was understandable that farmers were starting to "lose the plot" and that they had only fired in the air. He said that it was in practice impossible to implement the recommended protective measures given the "very steep" terrain and the fact that "bears like wolves are intelligent and find ways round them". "Last year the bears attacked and killed two 'patou' sheep dogs supposed to protect the flocks so it doesn't work," he told the Telegraph. If nothing is done, "pastoralism in the central Pyrenees will die out within three years," he predicted. For the pro-bear camp, bears only account for a tiny part of sheep losses in the Pyrenees.  "The amount of sheep killed (by bears) , without playing down the tragedy for rearers, is only a very small part of deaths due to falls, storms, parasites or other animals like stray dogs or wild boar," said Alain Reynes, president of Pays de l'Ours-Adet, a pro-bear association, who put figure of deaths from other causes at up to 30,000 per year. "The bear is a scapegoat." If anything, pro-bear activists warn, the bear population is at risk of dwindling because no new ones have been have been reintroduced to the region since 2006, with successive governments avoiding the issue.


9 Luxury Hotels With Sweeping Views of Iconic Architecture

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 05:30 AM PDT

9 Luxury Hotels With Sweeping Views of Iconic Architecture


Mexico breaks world record with 3-tonne guacamole

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:21 PM PDT

Mexico breaks world record with 3-tonne guacamoleBy Fernando Carranza CONCEPCION DE BUENOS AIRES, Mexico (Reuters) - The recipe for a record-breaking guacamole? 25,000 avocados and 1,000 people to mash them. That is what avocado growers in Mexico's Jalisco state mobilized on Sunday to break the world record for the biggest guacamole, a whopping 3 tonnes (6,600 lbs) of delicious dip made from "green gold." The mass mash-up was part entertainment and part politicking, as growers and Mexico make the point that they - and the guacamole loving Americans - have benefited from the North American Free Trade Agreement that is now under threat from U. ...


How a Houston Community Fed Thousands of First Responders

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 06:59 AM PDT

How a Houston Community Fed Thousands of First RespondersA volunteer group has been making 3,000 meals a day to feed those in need


US warns N. Korea of 'massive military response' after nuke test

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:45 PM PDT

US warns N. Korea of 'massive military response' after nuke testThe United States warned it could launch a "massive military response" to any threats from North Korea following Pyongyang's provocative detonation of what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke out on Sunday after North Korea carried out an unexpectedly strong nuclear test, more powerful than the bomb that levelled Hiroshima in 1945. President Donald Trump called an emergency meeting of his national security advisers and had his second telephone call of the weekend with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but did not talk to South Korea's Moon Jae-In -- instead accusing Seoul of "appeasement".


Man Tells 911 He Woke From a Dream to Find Wife Stabbed in Their Bedroom: 'I Think I Did It'

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:54 AM PDT

Man Tells 911 He Woke From a Dream to Find Wife Stabbed in Their Bedroom: 'I Think I Did It'Matthew Phelps, an aspiring pastor, has been arrested for the murder of his wife, who was a Sunday school teacher.


Mummified Dog And Other Oddities 'Shatter Your Senses' In New Ripley's Book

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:48 AM PDT

Mummified Dog And Other Oddities 'Shatter Your Senses' In New Ripley's BookIn case you haven't noticed, it's a weird world out there.


106-year-old Afghan woman faces deportation from Sweden

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:30 PM PDT

106-year-old Afghan woman faces deportation from SwedenHOVA, Sweden (AP) — A 106-year-old Afghan woman who made a perilous journey to Europe, carried by her son and grandson through mountains, deserts and forests, is facing deportation from Sweden after her asylum application was rejected.


Golfer Vows To Donate Earnings To Houston, Then Wins Tournament

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 08:13 AM PDT

Golfer Vows To Donate Earnings To Houston, Then Wins TournamentLPGA veteran Stacy Lewis pledged last week to donate all her earnings from the Portland Classic to help Harvey-stricken Houston ― and she won the tournament by a stroke on Sunday to break a three-year victory drought, the Associated Press reported.


Mother's fight to discover fate of dead baby's body finds empty coffin

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:27 PM PDT

Mother's fight to discover fate of dead baby's body finds empty coffinA mother who has been fighting for four decades to find out what happened to her dead baby boy has discovered that his coffin has no human remains in it.


Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:26 AM PDT

Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes. The compulsory evacuation of 60,000 people was Germany's biggest such maneuver since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers helping to clear the area around the bomb, which was discovered on a building site last week. The evacuation area included two hospitals, care homes, the Opera House and Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, where $70 billion in gold reserves are stored underground.


Hundreds of People Displaced By Hurricane Harvey Fed After Couple Postpones Wedding

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:28 AM PDT

Hundreds of People Displaced By Hurricane Harvey Fed After Couple Postpones WeddingThe food was scheduled to be used for the couple's welcome dinner.


In Nicaragua, a fight to save endangered tapirs

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 03:25 AM PDT

In Nicaragua, a fight to save endangered tapirsThe largest land mammals in Central America, the brown, pig-like animals with sloping snouts came into the world in captivity, in an enclosure a short distance from the country's Masaya Volcano, under a scheme to save their endangered species. "Here, they're well fed," said Eduardo Sacasa, a wildlife expert who runs the reproductive program. Human encroachment and climate change have decimated the woodland habitat of the Baird's tapir, one of five species left in the world, and, along with human and feline predators, have helped wipe out 16 other tapir species.


North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Tests Are Aimed at Splitting Its Rivals

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:54 AM PDT

North Korea's Nuclear and Missile Tests Are Aimed at Splitting Its RivalsCan Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. stand firm against Pyongyang's efforts to drive wedges among them?


Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied | Michael Paarlberg

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:29 AM PDT

Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied | Michael Paarlberg'It's hard to imagine a more anti-worker agenda from any president, much less one claiming the mantle of champion of the American worker.' Donald Trump in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June, where he spoke about renegotiating Nafta. As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as a shock that a president who was previously best known for firing people on TV might not have been completely sincere in his promise to put "American workers first".


5 Buildings That Show the Power of Modernist Architecture

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT

5 Buildings That Show the Power of Modernist Architecture


Steely Dan Co-Founder and Guitarist Walter Becker Dies

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 12:58 PM PDT

Steely Dan Co-Founder and Guitarist Walter Becker DiesGuitarist Walter Becker has died


In Warsaw, youths rescue Europe's largest Jewish cemetery

Posted: 02 Sep 2017 09:13 PM PDT

In Warsaw, youths rescue Europe's largest Jewish cemeteryWielding axes, rakes and shears, young European volunteers with sweat on their brows have been sprucing up the continent's largest Jewish cemetery, a Warsaw site largely neglected since the Holocaust. "At the cemetery's entrance, the pathways are rather well kept and the graves well preserved, but the rest of it, like this spot here, is more of a jungle," says volunteer Stanislaw Knapowski. Over nine days last month, he cleared the cemetery grounds with around 60 other volunteers from a dozen countries, among them Belarusians, Danes, Finns, Germans and Spaniards.


'The King of Cocaine'. Alleged mafia drugs kingpin arrested in South America after 23 years on the run

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:31 AM PDT

'The King of Cocaine'. Alleged mafia drugs kingpin arrested in South America after 23 years on the runAn alleged mafia boss nicknamed "the King of Cocaine" has been captured in South America after 23 years on the run. Rocco Morabito, who was wanted by Italian police for allegedly masterminding the trafficking of cocaine from Latin America to Europe, was arrested in a hotel in Uruguay. He is considered to be one of Italy's five most dangerous fugitives and has been on the run from arrest since 1994.  During a search of his home in Uruguay, police found 13 mobile phones, which investigators said were used for drug deals, a 9mm pistol, ammunition, a hunting knife and 150 passport photos of himself in different guises. Morabito had been on the run for more than 20 years when he was captured in Uruguay. Credit: EPA Morabito, an alleged kingpin in the 'Ndrangheta mafia, is believed to have been living in Uruguay for around a decade under the alias Francisco Capeletto Souza. He had been able to obtain Brazilian identity documents as well as the right to live in Uruguay. His arrest was the result of a joint operation between police in South America and investigators in Calabria, the home of the much-feared 'Ndrangheta. The villa in which Morabito lived with his wife in Uruguay. Credit: Uruguay interior minister The organized crime network, which for years has been extending its reach from its home territory to other parts of the world, makes millions by smuggling cocaine into Europe, often via Italy. Italian police described Morabito as "one of the most important members of the 'Ndrangheta".  He was arrested in a hotel in Punta del Este, a tourist resort about 90 miles from the capital, Montevideo.  Morabito was on Italy's list of most wanted fugitives. Credit: Italian police The arrest came "after months of intense international cooperation in intelligence matters," the Italian police said in a statement. His false identity was known to Interpol and when he checked into the hotel, an alert was generated.  "He didn't put up any resistance," said Emilio Russo, an Italian officer involved in the investigation. "He tried to deny who he really was, but when put under pressure admitted to his real identity. "We maintain that Morabito was still actively involved in criminality. He was not a former member of the 'Ndrangheta, he was still very much an active member." Police found weapons, ammunition and 13 mobile phones when they searched Morabito's home in Uruguay. Credit: Uruguay interior ministry His wife, a 54-year-old Angolan woman with a Portuguese passport, was also arrested.  When police searched their home, also in Punta del Este, they found the 13 mobile phones and weapons, as well as a dozen credit cards. A Mercedes car was impounded. Morabito is expected to be extradited back to Italy in the coming months, where he faces 30 years in prison for various crimes, including mafia association and drug trafficking. Italy's most notorious fugitive remains Matteo Messina Denaro, the alleged head of the Cosa Nostra mafia in Sicily, who has been on the run for 24 years.  His ability to elude capture has earned him almost mythical status among some Sicilians, and he has not been seen in public for years.  He is among the 10 most wanted criminals in the world, according to Forbes magazine.  He is alleged to have killed up to 50 people and once boasted: "I filled a cemetery all by myself." It is believed that he moves between safe houses in the Trapani area of western Sicily.


Four Radical Plans to Save Civilization From Climate Change

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 04:00 AM PDT

Four Radical Plans to Save Civilization From Climate ChangeReducing emissions is not going to be enough to prevent catastrophic consequences of climate change. Enter geoengineering.


Mnuchin: Congress should tie Harvey aid to debt limit bill

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 10:35 AM PDT

Mnuchin: Congress should tie Harvey aid to debt limit billWASHINGTON (AP) — Congress needs to combine a $7.9 billion disaster relief package for Harvey with a contentious increase in the nation's borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says, arguing it is needed to ensure storm victims in Texas get the help they need.


This 'Game Of Thrones' Star Just Got An Adorable New Puppy

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:42 PM PDT

This 'Game Of Thrones' Star Just Got An Adorable New Puppy"Game Of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner just made a furry new friend.


Venezuelan President Maduro to address U.N. Human Rights Council

Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:52 AM PDT

Venezuelan President Maduro to address U.N. Human Rights CouncilBy Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro, accused of trampling on human rights and democracy in Venezuela, is expected to address the opening day of a three-week U.N. Human Rights Council session on Sept. 11. Maduro's government has been criticized by the United Nations, Washington and other governments for overriding Venezuela's opposition-led Congress, jailing hundreds of opponents and failing to allow the entry of foreign humanitarian aid to ease a severe economic crisis. "We received a 'note verbale' today that he is coming," U.N. human rights spokesman Rolando Gomez said on Monday.


Tesla offers huge savings on the Model S and Model X if you’re okay with buying a showroom model

Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:00 AM PDT

Tesla offers huge savings on the Model S and Model X if you're okay with buying a showroom model

According to a report from Electrek, Tesla just a few days ago began emailing interested buyers about the potential to save big if they opt to purchase a showroom car. Presumably, Tesla's motivation here is to boost sales before the September quarter draws to a close. The move is altogether not that surprising because even though Tesla has managed to turn the auto industry on its head, investors at the end of the day remain preoccupied with how many cars Tesla manages to deliver each and every quarter.

And speaking of Tesla seeking to boost Model S and Model X sales, you may remember that some Tesla employees over the past few weeks have been pointing prospective Model 3 buyers towards the Model S, largely because new Model 3 orders may not even be fulfilled until 2020.

The email Tesla has been sending out to some individuals reads in part:

Hi [AmpedRealtor],

I hope this email finds you well.

I'm reaching out because we just announced an incentive on Model S and Model X P100D that I thought you may be interested in.

We are offering showroom incentives up to $30,000 off the original configuration price. This means you can lease Model S P100D for $1,500/month and Model X P100D for $1,600/month with 10,000 miles per year. Alternatively we are offering .99% APR financing or a cash purchase with the discount. These incentives are available for deliveries by September 30th 2017.

Lastly, we've reintroduced the Tesla Referral Program. You will receive a $1,000 credit towards the purchase of either a new Model S or Model X and Free Unlimited Supercharging.

It would be my pleasure to help you explore the options for a new Model S or Model X. If you are interested we can schedule a time for a call or if it is more convenient we can communicate via email.

Note that the email specifically references Tesla's performance models. Also of note, and as some on the Tesla Motors Club also observed, the deal Tesla is offering up here is unusually generous, which has prompted some to speculate that perhaps some new performance enhancements are on the horizon.

UPDATE: A Tesla spokesperson has issued the following statement:

Recently, an unauthorized and inaccurate email from a Tesla sales associate was circulated that directly contradicted Tesla's sales principles. This email suggested that Tesla was offering a $30k showroom discount, when in fact we have a strict no negotiation and no discount policy. This has been true since we first started taking orders more than ten years ago, a fact we reaffirmed last year. There are zero exceptions to that policy: every Tesla customer pays the same amount for the same car, period. That is true for Elon, friends and family of the company, or anyone else.

What the sales associate was referring to was not a discount on a new car from the factory. He was referring to a pricing adjustment that is made to test drive vehicles, service loaners, cars that had been damaged and then repaired, or old models, as these cars have wear and tear, mileage, or discontinued features. Naturally, the more miles, wear and tear, or discontinued features that a car has, the greater the pricing adjustment that is made.

No Tesla customer ever has to be concerned about not getting a "good deal." A "good deal" is code for how a company takes advantage of a customer. We don't do "deals." We treat everyone the same. This will never change, ever.


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