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With a population of over 325 million, United States of America is one of the most populated

countries in the world.

Welcome to All in 5 Minutes, and today I will tell you more about it.

The USA or the United States of America is a highly developed country, with the world's

largest economy by nominal gross domestic product (GDP).

USA consists of 50 states (like California, Texas and Florida), a federal district (Washington,

D.C.), five major self-governing territories (Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, U.S. Virgin

Islands and Northern Mariana Islands), and various possessions.

USA is approx.

9.8 million km2 (3.8 million square miles) large.

The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City.

Other large cities are Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia.

The arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 started the European colonization of the Americas.

In 1607, Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in America.

In 1775, began the American Revolutionary War which was a conflict between Great Britain

and its Thirteen Colonies who wanted to declare an independence.

On July 4, 1776, the US declared its independence from Great Britain by approving the Declaration

of Independence.

In 1783, Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris officially ending the

Revolutionary War and recognizing the United States as a sovereign nation.

The Founding Fathers of the United States are people who led the American Revolution.

They are John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James

Madison, and George Washington.

The American Civil War was a conflict from 1861 to 1865.

It was fought between the Union in the north of the US led by Abraham Lincoln, and the

Confederacy in the south led by Jefferson Davis.

The war started because the Confederacy wanted to leave the United States of America.

The Union won the war, and as a result, slavery was made illegal in the United States.

The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global

military power.

The USA was the first country to develop nuclear weapons, the only country to use them in warfare,

and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

Nowadays the USA is a leading military, political, cultural, and scientific force internationally.

The supreme law of the United States is the Constitution.

It divides the government into three branches to ensure a central government where no individual

or group gains too much control.

The three branches are: Legislative (makes laws)

Executive (carries out the laws) Judicial (evaluates laws)

The legislative branch includes Congress which consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Congress confirms or rejects the President's appointments and can remove the President

from office.

The executive branch enforces laws and it includes the President, Vice President, and

the Cabinet which has advisors to the President.

The President can veto or reject laws passed by Congress.

Donald Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States of America.

The Vice President is Mike Pence.

The judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court and other federal courts, and it applies

laws to individual cases and decides if they violate the Constitution.

And here are some interesting facts

Americans eat about 100 acres of pizza each day, with about 3 billion pizzas sold annually

in the USA Women got the right to vote in the United

States in 1920 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of

the other 49 states combined.

Global Positioning System (GPS) is controlled by the USA and can be switched off at any

time.

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U.S. rejected Japan's 'unrealistic' conditions for talks with N. Korea: Kyodo - Duration: 0:50.

The United States is also getting ready for a summit with North Korea.

And in the mean time, the U.S. has apparently rejected a quest from Japan that it put certain

preconditions on the talks.

Japan's Kyodo News cites several diplomatic sources who say that Tokyo's foreign minister,

Taro Kono, when he was in Washington, asked that the U.S. only meet with Pyongyang if

the regime is willing to abandon its medium-range missiles... and the resolve the issue of its

kidnappings of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 80s.

Kyodo's sources said those preconditions were rejected as "unrealistic"... when Kono met

with incoming secretary of state Mike Pompeo, defense secretary James Mattis, and others.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, when he goes to Washington in mid-April to meet with

President Trump,... is expected to make a similar request.

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After Enacting Tough Penalties Against China, Trump Deploys US Military to Deliver Brutal Message - Duration: 3:56.

After Enacting Tough Penalties Against China, Trump Deploys US Military to Deliver Brutal

Message On Thursday, the Trump administration hit

the Chinese with $60 billion in trade penalties for intellectual property theft.

Hours later, Trump sent Beijing a message of a different sort — sailing a destroyer

near one of artificial islands created by China in the South China Sea in an attempt

to expand its geographic purview.

According to Reuters, the destroyer USS Mustin sailed within 12 nautical miles — the internationally-recognized

territorial limit — of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands on Friday, according to

Reuters.The destroyer then conducted "maneuvering operations" off the manufactured islands.

The move was part of what are known as "freedom of navigation" operations, or FONOPS, which

essentially send a territorial message to nations engaged in maritime irredentism.We

conduct routine and regular freedom of navigation operations, as we have done in the past and

will continue to do in the future," said Lieutenant Commander Nicole Schwegman, spokeswoman

for U.S. Pacific Fleet, when asked about the actions.

According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese officials called it a "serious military

provocation" and claimed the destroyer had been "warned off" by two Chinese frigates.What

the U.S. is doing will damage the military-to-military relations and atmosphere," Chinese defense

ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said.

Also damaging the atmosphere: $60 billion in trade penalties levied against China for

intellectual property violations by the Trump administration just hours prior.We have a

tremendous intellectual property theft situation going on," President Trump said as he announced

the penalties, The Daily Caller reported.

Last summer, U.S Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer began an investigation into whether

China was violating Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 through policies "related to

technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation are unreasonable or discriminatory

and burden or restrict U.S. commerce."On Wednesday, testifying before Congress about

trade policy, Lighthizer seemed to indicate the administration was leaning in the direction

of imposing tariffs upon China as part of the administration's penalties for this

property theft.

"Our view is we have a very serious problem of losing our intellectual property.

We are losing to China in ways not reflected in underlying economics," Lighthizer said.China

is generally considered to be the main offender when it comes to American intellectual property

theft, which can cost us to $600 billion a year, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur

Ross.

White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro added Thursday that talks had failed to produce

any sort of meaningful results.

In addition to tariffs, the administration is also looking into blocking certain investments

as part of the penalties.A statement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Thursday

said that Beijing "has expressed its position on many occasions that we resolutely oppose

this type of unilateral and protectionist action by the U.S. China will not sit idly

by while legitimate rights and interests are hurt.

"We must take all necessary measures to firmly defend our rights and interests."

Whether or not that resonates with the Trump administration is anyone's guess, although

Friday's actions in the South China Sea might provide a pretty big hint.

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U.S. departs Somalia after the Battle of Mogadishu - 3/25/1994 - Duration: 1:04.

- Today in military history, 1994.

The last U.S. troops depart Somalia after

an unsuccessful campaign in a divided country.

In 1992, the United Nations sent a peace keeping force

to the country to provide food and aid

after drought, famine, and civil war

threatened the population with starvation.

In December, President George H. W. Bush launched

Operation Restore Hope, providing 25,000 U.S. troops

to support the mission and help maintain security

from Somalia's warring factions.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton

reduced the U.S. presence to 4,200 troops

and the U.N. formally assumed responsibility

for the operations.

In June, however, Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers

were ambushed by Somali warlord, General Mohamed Aidid.

President Clinton dispatched elite special ops troops

on a mission to capture Aidid,

resulting in the first battle of Mogadishu,

which would result in the loss of two Blackhawks

and 18 soldiers, with another 84 wounded.

Clinton ordered a total U.S. withdrawal

by March 25, 1994.

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JOHN KERRY OFFICIALLY UNDER INVESTIGATION AS DOSSIER PROBE TARGETS OBAMA STATE DEPARTMENT - Duration: 4:28.

JOHN KERRY OFFICIALLY UNDER INVESTIGATION AS DOSSIER PROBE TARGETS OBAMA STATE DEPARTMENT

Fox News contributor Sara Carter revealed that the House Intelligence Committee is now

investigating former Secretary of State John Kerry's "possible role," in the Steele

dossier that was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton Campaign.

The committee began looking into Kerry's connections after his former counsel and State

Department colleague Jonathan Winer published an op-ed in the Washington Post.

Sara Carter reported:

The House Select Committee on Intelligence is now investigating former Secretary of State

John F. Kerry's possible role into the unverified dossier paid for by the Democratic National

Committee and Hillary Clinton Campaign, this reporter has learned.

The dossier, assembled by a former British spy, laid the foundation for the FBI's investigation

into alleged collusion between President Trump and Russia and was the essential piece of

evidence used by the FBI to get a warrant to spy on a former volunteer for the Trump

campaign.

For more than a month, the committee has been in its second phase of investigations focused

on former Obama State Department officials and their role in either transmitting information

or using information provided by former British spy and investigator Christopher Steele.

Steele was hired by embattled research firm Fusion GPS, also under several congressional

and Senate investigations.

[…] Jonathan Winer, a long-time colleague of Kerry

and who served as the former envoy for Libya during his tenure at the Department, wrote

an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Feb. 8, defending his relationship with Steele

and his role in the infamous dossier.The Gateway Pundit reported:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) recently revealed to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that Kerry

had been briefed on a 'second dossier'.

"There were comments over the weekend from people from within the State Department that

said John Kerry had been briefed on the dossier–the new dossier whatever this new dossier is and

that they also provided it to the FBI," Nunes told Ingraham.Byron York of the Washington

Examiner previously reported that the Obama State Department was being probed as to whether

or not they had a hand in the dossier.

York notes Steele was viewed inside the Obama State Department as a valuable source for

intelligence on all things Russia.

Obama State officials made a habit of disseminating reports the former British spy authored for

private clients around the Department:

A book published in November by a correspondent at the Guardian, "Collusion: Secret meetings,

dirty money, and how Russia helped Donald Trump win," noted that Steele's 2010 work

on the World Cup soccer corruption investigation won him the trust not only of the FBI, but

the State Department as well.

From author Luke Harding: The [soccer] episode burnished Steele's

reputation inside the U.S. intelligence community and the FBI.

Here was a pro, a well-connected Brit, who understood Russian espionage and its subterranean

tricks.

Steele was regarded as credible.

Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine.

These were written for a private client but shared widely within the State Department

and sent up to Secretary of State John Kerry and to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria

Nuland, who was in charge of the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis.

Many of Steele's secret sources were the same sources who would supply information

on Trump.

One former State Department envoy during the Obama administration said he read dozens of

Steele's reports on Russia.

The envoy said that on Russia, Steele was "as good as the CIA or anyone."

Steele's professional reputation inside U.S. agencies would prove important the next

time he discovered alarming material, and lit the fuse again.

Hillary Clinton, who admitted her 2016 presidential campaign helped fund the dossier, was Obama's

Secretary of State between January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013.

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The Real Reason Toys "R" Us Is Going Under - Duration: 5:29.

SO YOU HAVE HEARD THAT TOYS

"R" US HAVE GONE BANKRUPT.

THEY'RE GOING TO CLOSE ALL THEIR

STORES IN THE U.S. AND YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD DIFFERENT REASONS FOR

THAT BUT

YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T HEAR THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE SO THAT'S WHAT I

WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY.

CNN EXPLAINS:

IS IT MARKET REASONS?

YOU'VE GOT AMAZON CAUSING TROUBLES OBVIOUSLY FOR THE RETAIL INDUSTRY,

YOU'VE GOT OTHER COMPETITORS.

LET'S FIND OUT.

THEY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS BEFORE

AMAZON BECAME THE GOLIATH THEY ARE

NOW.

IT'S ABOUT TO GET WORSE FOR THEM.

WAS

IT THE DEBT, OR WAS IT OTHER

ISSUES AND BY THE WAY, THEIR

DEAL WITH THE KUSHNER FAMILY IS IN REGARD TO BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK

CITY, NOT RELATED TO TOYS "R" US TO BE CLEAR.

WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM?

CHRIS ISADORE WRITING FOR CNN EXPLAINS:

THIS IS

ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

WHEN

COMPANIES ARE BOUGHT BY PRIVATE EQUITY GUYS LIKE BANE CAPITAL, A LOT

OF TIMES THE PRIVATE EQUITY GUYS TAKE OUT A SIGNIFICANT CHUNK OF

MONEY FOR THEMSELVES OUT OF THE COMPANY RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING.

THEY SADDLE THE COMPANY WITH DEBT THAT SO THE COMPANY CAN NEVER

IMPROVE ITSELF.

LET'S GIVE YOU THE SCOPE

OF IT.

EXACTLY AS WAS PREDICTED, AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THESE COMPANIES

ARE LOADED WITH DEBT.

THERE'S A LOT OF

DIFFERENT REASONS WHY A COMPANY MAY HAVE DEBT, THAT IS

NOT YOU LEGITIMATE.

NOT ALL OF KKR AND BAIN'S INVESTMENTS GO SOUTH LIKE

THIS AND THEY DO NOT WANT IT TO GO SOUTH, THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE

MONEY OUT ON THE BACK AND THE FRONT END.

ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN THEY

ARE OVERLEVERAGED LIKE THIS AND A COMPANY HAS TO SPEND $400 MILLION A

YEAR JUST ON SERVICING THEIR DEBT, IT IS VERY HARD TO RECOVER.

IT IS

VERY HARD TO PUT IN THE NECESSARY INVESTMENTS IN THE ACTUAL BUSINESS

ITSELF TO GROW THE BUSINESS, TO UPKEEP THE BUSINESS, AND TO HAVE IT

BE PROFITABLE.

SO BASICALLY, YOU CAN CALL IT A VAMPIRE SQUID IF IT IS

OVERLEVERAGED, AS THEY COME IN AND THEY START SUCKING THE MONEY OUT AND

THEN WHEN IT COLLAPSES THEY GO AMAZON, WALMART.

THOSE ARE FACTORS,

BUT THEY WERE NOT THE MAIN FACTOR.

IN FACT:

BLOOMBERG REPORTS:

DON'T CRY FOR THOSE PRIVATE EQUITY COMPANIES BECAUSE THEY HAD ALREADY

TAKEN OUT NEARLY HALF $1 BILLION FROM TOYS "R" US BEFORE IT COLLAPSED

SO UNDERSTAND WHEN YOUR LOCAL STORES GO DOWN, THERE IS SOMETIMES AN

OBVIOUS REASON THAT YOU CAN SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES, COMPETITORS DID

BETTER.

SOMETIMES THERE ARE REASONS YOU CANNOT SEE AND THAT HAS TO DO

WITH

HOW PRIVATE EQUITY IS STRUCTURED AND HOW MUCH DEBT THEY PUT ON THESE

COMPANIES AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, AND MOST OF THE DEALS, THE PRIVATE

EQUITY GUYS GET MONEY IN THE FRONT.

OFTENTIMES IN THE BACK, THEY MAKE

PLENTY OF MONEY AND THAT IS THEIR JOB BUT SOME OF THESE COMPANIES

COLLAPSE IN THE MEANWHILE AND WE NEVER HEAR OF THEM AGAIN.

AND THAT

IS HOW THIS GAME IS PLAYED.

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S. Korea's trade minister to announce outcomes of U.S. trade talks Monday - Duration: 0:42.

Korea's Trade Minister, Kim Hyun-chong , returned home Sunday from the U.S., ending a month-long

series of talks with his counterparts in Washington on the possible amendment of the two countries'

free trade agreement,... as well as the issue of exempting Korea from U.S. duties on steel

imports.

The minister said he plans to unveil the outcomes of the bilateral trade talks at Monday's Cabinet

meeting,... but it's believed the two countries have come to an agreement on most of the contentious

issues.

The minister told reporters that the talks have actually made it easier for Korean entities

to advance into the U.S. market and that Korea did not have to make concessions in its agriculture

sector.

For more infomation >> S. Korea's trade minister to announce outcomes of U.S. trade talks Monday - Duration: 0:42.

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Kasich: US should engage, not fight with world - Duration: 6:47.

For more infomation >> Kasich: US should engage, not fight with world - Duration: 6:47.

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How Did Yoga Come To The United States? - Duration: 10:08.

*Breathes out*

I actually am pretty terrible at yoga.

But I grew up watching my not-blood uncle Ranjit practicing yoga in his home every day.

And let me tell you, it didn't look like this.

"The goats love this more than the people do.

The goats are having a lot more fun, between you and I."

Yoga today is a massive industry in the United States– and it's a major part of leading a

healthy lifestyle for millions of Americans. And a fashion style for lots of others.

And while we may all know that "Om" and "Namaste" and maybe even "Chakra" are words somehow related

to yoga, the actual history of how yoga came to the United States, spread across the world

and gave birth to millions wearing Lululemon isn't as well known.

Hey guys, I'm Sana. And today I'm gonna explore the history of yoga in the United States and ask your favorite question:

Are our yoga classes cultural appropriation, appreciation...

or just late-stage capitalism?

Yoga is a massive industry in the United States.

One study found that Americans spend $16 billion a year on clothing, equipment, classes and accessories.

It's also reported that over 36 million, or 15%, of Americans had done their downward dog

at some point in the last six months. Over the course of their lives, that number increases to 28% of Americans.

And it's also everywhere in pop culture.

"Unless you're planning to move those hands down, get them off me."

"Baby bend over, baby bend over - lemme see you do that yoga."

"I'm so good at yogaaaa"

So how did a South Asian spiritual practice dating back thousands of years even get to America?

Well, say hello to Swami Vivekananda—the man credited for introducing yoga to Americans.

Vivekananda came to Chicago in 1893 to speak at the first-ever Parliament of Religions conference,

a meeting of faith leaders from around the world that was part of the Chicago World's Fair.

He's credited for having introduced Hindu spirituality to Americans through a series of speeches he gave at the conference.

Dr. Andrea Jain, who focuses on the popularization of yoga around the world, says that

while Vivekananda made yoga better known in the United States, there were others who were already dabbling in it before him.

Many Americans appropriated yoga and practiced it as a part of their spiritual traditions long before that.

They appropriated, of course, modern versions of yoga, yoga that they thought were non-dogmatic

and oftentimes removed from religious institutions.

And Vivekananda wasn't even the guy who popularized the kind of yoga we do today in classes.

B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois and T.K.V. Desikachar are credited for being the founding fathers of modern yoga.

All three were students of perhaps the most influential yoga teacher, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.

Among Krishnamacharya's most influential students was Indra Devi.

Indra Devi was key in really teaching yoga in a way that distanced it from those stereotypes of Hinduism that many Americans deemed threatening,

especially specific Hindu beliefs that might be perceived as a threat to the American religious identities.

Indra Devi – whose real name was Eugenie Peterson – was a Russian actress who

brought yoga with her to Los Angeles in 1947, where it attracted the attention of actors interested in fitness and breathing techniques.

I want to mention here that from the 1880s into the early 1900s, in response to fear of incoming immigrants,

the U.S. government enacted a series of immigration laws that barred or limited immigration from Asia.

And yoga, in particular, was treated as a "strange cult" that was "stealing" young white women.

And it's following this period that we see Indra Devi, a white woman, teach yoga.

Now, while there were many Westerners traveling to India for access to knowledge of yoga and Hindu spirituality,

it's only after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that we see yoga become a part of the American counterculture of the 1960s.

Hindu spirituality, or "spirituality from the East," was big.

And there were many swamis who were able to immigrate to the United States and open up centers and develop the practice.

And many young Americans in search of spiritual fulfillment continued to travel to India.

Jain notes, in our conversation, that Hindu spirituality was seen as an outright rejection of the rigidity of the church.

Most of them were Protestant Christians, and they were rejecting the Church and instead turning to what they considered to be radically alternative.

In the '70s and '80s, the growth of yoga slowed down a bit–

and that lack of growth coincided with a national conservative movement and its backlash against counterculture.

But then the '90s came and there was also a boom in corporatized everything.

Including yoga.

The 90s is when you start to see yoga represented in the mainstream as just another consumer product

that one could buy. Just like an aerobics class, one could choose to go attend a yoga class.

And part of that mainstreaming was yoga's popularity among celebrities

like Sting, Raquel Welch, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and actress slash fitness "guru" Jane Fonda.

Be conscious of how relaxed you feel.

Carry this feeling with you.

One of the most popular yoga books of the early 2000s, by the way, was by supermodel Christy Turlington,

who was also featured on Time magazine's cover for a story on the "Science of Yoga."

Soon, the instructors to the stars, like Baron Baptiste and Rodney Yee, became more mainstream celebrities themselves.

So, back to that pesky question:

Is practicing yoga, if you're not a part of Hindu or even South Asian culture, actually a form of cultural appropriation? Or is it appreciation?

I actually got to sit down with badass Bay Area artist Chiraag Bhakta, who in 2014 put

together an exhibit at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum called #WhitePeopleDoingYoga.

Bhakta's exhibit looked at who got the face time in marketing and teaching yoga in the United States and

—spoiler—it wasn't Indians.

My practice revolves around, focuses on, identity politics. I started coming across grassroots-level meditation and yoga ephemera from like books,

records, advertisements from the 50s to the 80s, and I was kind of curious on how yoga was being branded and marketed to the Western audience.

I don't have the answers, and I think that's why I created the piece, to like really just explore that

and to see what conversations come out of it.

Jain is also quick to point out that the appropriation conversation shouldn't be so simplified—

that yoga's own history in South Asia isn't linear.

We don't want to perpetuate some kind of very simple narrative that suggests that

there is this authentic, original tradition

called 'Yoga' that existed in South Asia that was then appropriated.

Yoga is really culturally South Asian. It doesn't belong to this religion or that.

A lot of the problem also, for Jain, comes down to how yoga is sold.

There are many countless cases in which entrepreneurs and corporations sell yoga products and services and do so in a way that is driven towards making a profit without

benefiting the conduits of yoga in South Asia.

That said, to just reduce the yoga industry to mere commercialization or commodification is just too

simple, because among many yoga practitioners, you have an interest in learning about that history.

But despite how some practitioners may have the knowledge about yoga's history and the power dynamics at play,

the commercialization has nevertheless whitewashed the practice.

In a two-year archival study of Yoga Journal magazine, there was never a South Asian person

on the cover and less than 1% of content contributors were South Asian.

And it's not really surprising when yoga, for the most part of its history, has been marketed to white, wealthy Americans.

I think it's an extension of colonialism in a lot of ways;

of mining the lands and the cultures and then using those materials for your own financial benefit.

Chiraag also pointed out how the founder of Lululemon, the leading name in Yoga apparel, actually made a comment in 2004,

in an interview, about how he chose the name for the company because it was "funny" to hear the Japanese try to pronounce it.

White male, like, making fun of one Asian culture, mining the sh*t out of another culture,

and just sitting on billions of money. And you start seeing this pattern of like, oh yeah, that sounds familiar.

And Jain notes that while many yoga consumers may actually be searching for something spiritual,

the yoga industry functions on, well, a sort of exoticization of that spirituality.

Even though we oftentimes think of commercial yoga as non-spiritual or non-religious or simply

fitness or simply commodities, it's a lot more complicated, because many of the reasons behind why consumers choose yoga

are tied to Orientalist stereotypes.

So when entrepreneurs then sell these products, they are capitalizing off of those stereotypes.

This whole conversation on appropriation and authenticity takes an uncomfortable turn when we look at how yoga has

been weaponized in India under the leadership of Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist BJP party.

They've been trying to reclaim yoga as a Hindu tradition as a way to assert Hindu identity

in a multi-religious country, where Muslims have come under violent threat.

So, how should we approach our yoga classes?

Is it time to drop the sun salutations and incredibly comfortable pants? Well, I'll leave that to Bhakta.

I guess what I want people to take away is to just really stop and think about

what they're stepping on, and, you know, what they're participating in,

when going to a yoga class or buying those yoga pants.

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Marches Held Across The U.S. And On Six Of The Planet's Seven Continents - Duration: 3:09.

For more infomation >> Marches Held Across The U.S. And On Six Of The Planet's Seven Continents - Duration: 3:09.

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Students March Across The US Demanding Change In Gun Laws - Duration: 5:57.

For more infomation >> Students March Across The US Demanding Change In Gun Laws - Duration: 5:57.

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Students From Around U.S. Converge On Washington To March, Help Make A Change - Duration: 5:26.

For more infomation >> Students From Around U.S. Converge On Washington To March, Help Make A Change - Duration: 5:26.

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Students From Around U.S. Converge On Washington To March, Help Make A Change - Duration: 3:32.

For more infomation >> Students From Around U.S. Converge On Washington To March, Help Make A Change - Duration: 3:32.

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Ekweremadu Sells Two US Properties Below Market Value To Stop Nigerian Gov From Seizing Them - Duration: 7:48.

Deputy Senate President, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, has sold two of his three properties in Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America.

The properties, which were recently exclusively reported by SaharaReporters as owned by him, are townhouses at 2747 Club Cortile Circle and 2763 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida.

The properties which were bought in 2008 for $200,000 each were put on the market in January and sold for $150,000 to the same buyer on February 20 2018.

SaharaReporters' investigations revealed that both properties were sold below prevailing market value in Mr Ekweremadu's apparent bid to avoid forfeiting them to the Federal Government.

He has also put the third one, situated at 4507 Stella Street, Bellavida Estate Kissime, Florida, up for sale, but he is yet to find a buyer.  The owner of the property said to be worth $500,000, is still listed as the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu with his Enugu address clearly stated on the property did.

The two houses already sold were bought in January by a company, Y-Kat Enterprises Inc. , with an address at 10143 Foxhurst Ct Orlando, Florida.

When SaharaReporters contacted the person listed as the owner, Mr Russel Daya, he declined to speak with our reporters, claiming it was too late in the night.

When asked if he knew Nigerias deputy Mr Ekweremadu, he answered in the negative and hung up immediately.

The fire sale of the properties has, however, not concealed that they were previously owned by Mr Ekweremadu. Ekweremadus 4507 Stella Street, Bellavida Estate, Kissimmee, Florida Sahara Reporters Media.

Documents exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters from Osceola County Tax Collector show  Mr Ekweremadu as the taxpayer on the property at 4507 Stella Street, Bellavida Estate Kissime, Florida, till the end of 2017.

A notice of Ad Valorem and non-Ad Valorem taxes from the tax collector, bearing Mr Ekweremadu's address of 4 Iyienu Street, Independence Layout, Enugu, showed that the Deputy Senate President paid a total of $6, 728.

37 as tax on the house as at December 2017.

On the property at 2747 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida, the tax collector's documents showed that the Deputy Senate President paid a total of $1,665.91 as at December 2017. The document similarly bears Mr Ekweremadu's Enugu address.

Likewise, the Deputy Senate President paid taxes on the one at 2763 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida. Ekweremadu-2763-Club-Cortile-Cir.pdf Ekweremadus 2763 Club Cortile Cir. Mr Ekweremadu owns 22 properties across the world, worth millions of dollars.

Though registered in his name, many of the properties were missing from the Deputy Senate President's asset declaration form he submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau in 2015, an indication that he hid them to avoid questions on how he acquired them.

Saharareporters had recently detailed Mr Ekweremadus properties in Nigeria, UAE, UK and the US.

The report showed that in addition to the three properties in the US, the Deputy Senate President did not declare his ownership of 11, Evans Enwerem Street, Apo Legislative Quarters, Abuja; Plot 2633 Kyami, Abuja; Housing Estate (Plot 1106 CRD, Cadastral Zone 07-07, Lugbe, Abuja; and Plot 2782 Asokoro Extension, Abuja.

Similarly, he neglected to declare houses at Citi Park Estate, Gwagwalada; Plot 1474 Cadastral Zone BD6, Mabushi; Congress Court; Flat 1, Block D25, Athletics Street, (24th Street) Games Village; and Plot 66, 64 Crescent, Gwarimpa Estate, all in Abuja.

Two London properties, Flat 4 Varsity Court, Harmer Street, WIH 4NW, London; and 52 Ayleston Avenue, NW6 7AB, London; were equally omitted from his assets declaration form dated 5 June 2015.

In addition to these are his properties in the United Arab Emirates. These include Room 1903, The Address Hotel, Downtown Dubai; The Address Boulevard, 3901, Dubai; two Flats of Burij Side Boulevard (the signature), Dubai; Emirate Gardens Apartment No.

EGG1/1/114, Dubai; Emirate Gardens Apartment No. EGG1/115, Dubai; and Apartment No. DFB/12/B 1204, Park Towers, Dubai. Others are Flat 3604, MAG214, Dubai; and Villa No 148, Maeen 1, The Lakes Emirates Hills, Dubai.

On Thursday, the Federal Government asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to freeze undeclared assets traced to the Deputy Senate President.

The Federal Government, via an ex-parte motion (FHC/ABJ/CS/284/2018), applied for an interim court order for the temporary forfeiture of the undeclared properties pending the conclusion of further inquiry/investigation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property and possible arraignment of Mr Ekweremadu.

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( US News ) U.S. Warns Syria May Be Developing New Types Of Chemical Weapons - Duration: 1:49.

U.S. Warns Syria May Be Developing New Types Of Chemical Weapons

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is prepared to again take military action against Syrian government forces if necessary to deter the use of chemical weapons and is concerned they may be developing new methods to deliver such weapons, senior U.S.

officials said on Thursday.

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have continued occasional use of chemical weapons in smaller amounts since a deadly attack last April that drew a U.S.

missile strike on a Syrian air base, the officials told reporters in a briefing.

If the international community does not act quickly to step up pressure on Assad, Syria's chemical weapons could spread beyond Syria and possibly even to the United States, one of the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"It will spread if we don't do something," the official warned.

(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by James Dalgleish)    .

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( US News ) German Carmakers Paid For Studies That Tested Toxic Fumes On Humans And Monkeys - Duration: 11:41.

German Carmakers Paid For Studies That Tested Toxic Fumes On Humans And Monkeys

Three top German automakers are under fire after reports that they financed studies in which humans and monkeys inhaled harmful gases, including nitrogen dioxide — a component of car exhaust.

The New York Times reported on the monkey study last week, citing a lawsuit Volkswagen owners filed against the automaker.

On Monday, German media described that study and another involving human subjects.

Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler, the owner of Mercedes, financed the group that commissioned the studies, according to the reports.

The since-dissolved European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport Sector commissioned the tests, which took place in Germany and the United States.

According to the Times, the EUGT received all its funding from the auto companies.

In one of the studies, at Germany's Aachen University in 2013 and 2014, 25 human subjects were exposed to nitrogen dioxide for three straight hours once a week, over four weeks.

The study noted that "among all nitrogen oxides, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is the most toxic one," but that it had obtained written consent from its test subjects and was approved by the university's ethics committee.

Like the study undertaken at Aachen University, the EUGT also commissioned an experiment that forced monkeys to inhale car exhaust in 2014, according to the Times' report.

Scott Olson via Getty Images According to The New York Times, scientists placed 10 monkeys in airtight containers and forced them to inhale fumes from a running Volkswagen Beetle.

At the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, researchers reportedly placed 10 cynomolgus macaque monkeys in airtight containers and fed them fumes from a running diesel Volkswagen Beetle to compare the fumes' effects to those from a 1999 Ford diesel pickup.

To keep the animals calm, researchers said they gave them cartoons to watch.

LRRI's president and CEO, Robert W.

Rubin, said in a statement to HuffPost that the study was ultimately derailed because LRRI's researchers didn't know that Volkswagen had rigged its vehicles to produce emissions that were cleaner in laboratory emissions tests than on the road ― a larger scandal that has cost the company billions and has resulted a seven-year prison sentence for a former Volkswagen executive.

Rubin said the study had in effect been "compromised" by Volkswagen's modified engine and it did "not meet our standards for peer-reviewed publication." "We understood that the EUGT organization was financially supported by automobile manufacturers, but we believed the goal of the study was to advance the scientific understanding of the effects of diesel fumes on our lungs, including the effects of new vehicle technologies that are designed to produce less pollution," he said.

Ho New / Reuters The animals used in the experiment in New Mexico were cynomolgus macaque monkeys.

Similar ones are seen here.

The EUGT shut down last year amid controversy over its work, the Times reported.

There's been an outcry over the studies in the U.S.

and Europe, where on Monday the German government spoke out against the testing.

"These tests on monkeys or even people are in no ethical way justifiable and raise many critical questions about those who are behind the tests," Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said at a news conference in Berlin on Monday.

All three car companies have distanced themselves from the studies and announced an investigation into EUGT's work.

These tests on monkeys or even people are in no ethical way justifiable and raise many critical questions about those who are behind the tests. Steffen Seibert, spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel "The BMW Group in no way influenced the design or methodology of studies carried out on behalf of the EUGT," a representative for the carmaker said in a statement to HuffPost.

Daimler, also in an emailed statement, described its management as "appalled" by the study and said it did not have influence over its design.

Volkswagen, also in an emailed statement, issued an apology for "the inappropriate behavior" and "for the poor judgment of individuals who were involved." The carmaker has also pledged to never test with animals again, Reuters reported.

Sean Gallup via Getty Images All three automakers have since distanced themselves from the study.

The German government has also spoken out against the testing.

Christopher Berry, an attorney with the California-based nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund, told HuffPost on Wednesday that potential legal issues revolve around the engine used in the experiment.  Under the U.S.

Department of Agriculture's Animal Welfare Act, researchers are required to provide a detailed report of their precise activities involving animals to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

That means the researchers would have had to report that the engine being used in the experiment was rigged to release cleaner emissions, instead of what was reported, he said.

"Deviating from this protocol without approval would be a violation of the Animal Welfare Act," Berry said.

There's also the issue of the experiment appearing to have no scientific purpose since the engine was rigged to produce skewed results, he said.

Deviating from [the] protocol without approval would be a violation of the Animal Welfare Act. Christopher Berry, attorney Under the federal law, experiments using animals must "make sure that there is scientific value to the experiment," Berry said.

They also must prove that "any pain experienced by the animal is necessary for that scientific pursuit." The state law is similar, he said.

"The New Mexico animal cruelty law prohibits inflicting unjustified injury on animals, however, while there's an exemption for animal research, that exemption does not apply if the person knowingly operated outside out of a provision in research protocol," Berry said.

Berry said his organization ― which files lawsuits to protect animals from harm and offers free legal assistance and training to prosecutors nationwide ― is looking into the case and that more needs to be done to strengthen laws that protect animals.

"Regulatory agencies like the USDA often do nothing at all or at best give those organizations a slap on the wrist," he said.

Google Maps The Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque has defended its work with animals, saying it follows animal welfare laws.

Rubin defended LRRI's work with animals in a statement, saying that in addition to the lab being certified with the USDA, all of the facility's work involving animals is conducted under the supervision of an attending veterinarian to ensure compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and its regulations.  "LRRI is committed to the humane and ethical treatment of animals involved in research," he said.

One critic of the lab and its work, however, is Dr.

Catherine Willet, director of science policy at The Humane Society of the United States, who expressed alarm not only over the experiment with the Volkswagen fumes ― which she called "absolutely pointless" ― but with the number of safety incidents reported at the facility in recent years.

Since March of 2015, the facility has been written up for eight noncritical incidents and five critical incidents involving animals, including dogs, pigs and non-human primates, according to inspection reports released by the USDA and reviewed by HuffPost.

When you're using somebody else's life, you need to carefully consider what it is that you're doing with that life. The incidents include employees failing to report medical issues, failing to provide proper medical treatment, failing to report procedure changes to the IACUC, and a beagle getting left outside overnight.

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( US News ) Ferry Workers Rescue Wallaby Swimming In Sydney Harbour - Duration: 3:49.

Ferry Workers Rescue Wallaby Swimming In Sydney Harbour

A Sydney ferry picked up an unexpected passenger Thursday after crew members rescued a distressed wallaby that had gone for a swim in the harbor.

Staff on the Manly fast ferry, which takes passengers between Circular Quay in Sydney Harbour and the suburb of Manly ― picked up the wallaby after in the early evening after passengers spotted it seemingly struggling about 160 feet off the shore at Manly.  .@manlyfastferry saving our wildlife - one wallaby at a time.

#lifeisbetterinmanly pic.twitter.com/3wq7UyDGYf — Renee Gartner (@renee_gartner) February 1, 2018 Concerned passengers threw down an orange life ring before crew on the ferry lowered ropes to lasso the wallaby and bring it aboard.

Video footage posted to social media on Thursday night showed the wallaby swimming strongly in the water far offshore.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the wallaby may have been chased into the water by a dog.

Just a Wallaby in the harbour #manly #standard #australia @smh pic.twitter.com/ZTG63r4Zz7 — MrCheeseRanger (@MrCheeseRanger) February 1, 2018 Onlookers praised the work of the ferry crew.

"As one of the animal rescuers who assisted in the transfer of the wallaby a BIG THANKS to your Manly Fast Ferry workers who managed to retrieve the Wallaby and contained it until we could get on-board and transfer it," one person wrte on the Manly Fast Ferry's Facebook page.

"The wallaby was checked by a vet and taken to the Sydney Wildlife Enclosure at Terry Hills where it is recuperating, Unfortunately wallabies are very susceptible to stress and only time will tell how well it will do, again thanks to your fantastic guys who did everything right!"    They were so good!! Hats off to them! Went out of their way to get him in - poor bugger had been in the water for an hour https://t.co/q4zePo4HW7 — Renee Gartner (@renee_gartner) February 1, 2018 It's not the first wallaby to get into trouble for being where it wasn't supposed to be.

Police had to alter traffic conditions on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last month when a wallaby bounded down the busy thoroughfare, hopping several miles from its northern Sydney home into the middle of the city itself before being captured and safely removed.

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