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These 15-year-old twins are the reigning queens of Musical.ly, the Generation Z app that was just bought for ~$1 billion

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Friday that prosecutors were allowed to&#xa0;charge German comedian Jan Böhmermann based on a poem he broadcasted on German TV that insulted Turkish President&#xa0;<span>Recep Tayyip Erdogan.</span><p><span>Merkel also&#xa0;announced in her speech that her government would&#xa0;aim to replace the current law, which criminalises insulting foreign leaders.</span></p><p><span>Böhmermann, read out his offensive poem about Erdogan two weeks ago on German TV&#xa0;and&#xa0;made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2e2yHjc_mc" target="_blank">fun of an earlier German song that ridiculed Erdogan</a>.</span></p><p><span>What Böhmermann did is illegal under German law - Erdogan pressed charges for insulting him personally- but the inquiry needed the approval of the German government to begin.</span></p><p>"There were different opinions between the coalition partners - the conservatives and the SPD (Social Democrats),"<span class="highlight"> Merkel said, according to Reuters.&#xa0;</span>"The outcome is that the German government will give the authorization in the current case."</p><p>Merkel insisted that the&#xa0;decision did not amount to a verdict on whether the comedian was guilty or not.</p><p><span>If found guilty, the comedian could face up to five years in jail for insulting a foreign head of state, and one year for defamation, <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/german-chancellor-merkel-allows-investigation-of-satirist-b%C3%B6hmermann/a-19190684" target="_blank">according to Deutsche Welle</a>.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span></span><span>The decision which was widely awaited has shocked people everywhere and the reactions started flooding social media straight away.</span></p><p><div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<div></div></p><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<div></div></p><p>Merkel had initially defended the poem and has on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/12/angela-merkel-stresses-commitment-free-speech-row-erdogan-poem" target="_blank">multiple occasions during negotiation with Turkey</a>&#xa0;insisted on the value of free speech. She later called the poem "deliberately offensive."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-speaks-at-husbands-rally-2016-4">Melania Trump: If you attack my husband 'he will punch back 10 times harder'</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="t3d2psMjE6W-NzbmC-um4mRrOtU692UF" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Germany's Merkel allowed the prosecution of a comedian who mocked the Turkish president on German TV

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Mark Blinch/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">People hold signs as they participate in a labor activists march in Lansing, Michigan June 1, 2009. For decades, unionized manufacturing jobs have been considered the surest path to middle-class prosperity and realizing the vaunted American dream for blue-collar workers.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Protectionism has grown quite popular as American workers continue to worry about losing jobs to other countries.</p><p>And politicians have zeroed in on these anxieties as they vie for the top job in the White House.</p><p>Donald Trump made the debate over free trade one of the central topics of his campaign after criticizing China, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-trade-idUSKCN0WQ0WG">Mexico</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/business/international/unease-after-trump-depicts-tokyo-as-an-economic-rival.html">Japan</a>. He even once suggested putting a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-45-tariff-chinese-imports-china-2016-1">45% tariff</a> on Chinese imports.</p><p>Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has recently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-clinton-says-she-does-not-support-new-pacific-trade-pact-pbs-2015-10">edged away</a> from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) after previously calling it the "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/clintons-quotes-favoring-pacific-trade-pact-now-opposes/">gold standard</a>" of trade agreements.</p><p>Bank of America Merrill Lynch's global economist Ethan S. Harris and US economist Lisa C. Berlin argue that this shift has two major near-term implications.</p><p>"First, we now believe the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trade-ministers-reached-a-landmark-agreement-on-a-deal-thats-a-cornerstone-of-obamas-legacy-2015-10">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> is less likely to pass the US Congress," the duo wrote in a note to clients. "Given the recent very negative rhetoric from both sides of the aisle, we now think passage of TPP is a very close call under a Clinton Presidency and is unlikely under Trump."</p><p>And "a second implication is that conflicts over currencies could escalate," they continued. </p><p>As they explain in greater depth regarding point two:</p><p style="padding-left: 60px;">"The US Treasury has been flirting with naming China and other countries 'currency manipulators' for many years. Recently, they put a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fx-markets-may-2-2016-5">big spotlight on China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Germany</a>. They said that each had exceeded two of three thresholds for being designated for 'bilateral engagement' - (1) a bilateral trade surplus with the US of over $20 billion, (2) an overall current account surplus of 3% of GDP, and (3) persistent purchases of foreign currency that amount to more than 2% of GDP over a year. Under a Clinton administration, we would expect Treasury to follow through on these rules, while they would likely be tightened further under a Trump administration."</p><p>Although the aforementioned short-term implications are certainly interesting to consider, perhaps the more interesting thing about this whole populist shift is the huge gap between economists' opinions on free trade and those of regular Americans.</p><p>Mainstream economists pretty much all <a href="http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_0dfr9yjnDcLh17m">agree</a> that free trade is "<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EffectOfTariff.svg">good</a>" for an economy in the long-run (even though within an economy there will be some people who benefit less), while trade-restrictive measures <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tariff.asp?layout=infini&amp;v=5B&amp;orig=1&amp;adtest=5B">hurt</a> consumers. </p><p>However, many everyday regular people believe that free trade actually hurts the US - which is likely a reflection of their personal experience. According to Pew Research statistics cited by Harris and Berlin, 89% of Americans think that the loss of US jobs to China is a somewhat or very serious issue. Moreover, they added that only <span>46% of Americans think NAFTA was good for the economy.</span></p><p><span></span>Notably, there is some empirical evidence to back up Americans' grievances. Back in January, <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w21906">labor economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published a paper</a> showing that increased trade with China actually caused some really big problems for American workers.</p><p>From the paper's meaty abstract (emphasis ours):</p><p style="padding-left: 60px;">"China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. ... <strong>Adjustment in local labor markets is remarkably slow, with wages and labor-force participation rates remaining depressed and unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences.</strong> Exposed workers experience greater job churning and reduced lifetime income. At the national level, <strong>employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition, as expected, but offsetting employment gains in other industries have yet to materialize.</strong>"</p><p><span>Just to be clear, it's way too much of an exaggeration to say that free trade is not "good". </span><span>After all, it's definitely easier on consumers' wallets to not pay 45% tariffs. Plus, o<span>ne could argue that </span><span>15 years isn't enough for the global and US economies to adjust to the huge China shock.</span></span></p><p><span>But it's still interesting to think about the split between what's "good" for the global and US economies versus what's "good" for your everyday regular American worker - and how these kinds of issues will be addressed going forward.</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/global-economy-biggest-threat-2016-4">FORMER GREEK FINANCE MINISTER: The single largest threat to the global economy</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="4wNWo1MzE6mCXkk1XHZUEjn1PYYwkNot" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

The rise of protectionism could soon have 2 huge economic consequences

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Despite his deep seated concerns for US growth, popular Canadian economist David Rosenberg is more optimistic for the global growth outlook, which he thinks could surprise on the upside, based on the turnaround stories in emerging markets and a fiscal stimulus out of Germany.<p>In an interview with <a href="http://rvtv.io/DavidRosenberg15">Real Vision TV</a>, Rosenberg welcomed the realization, even among central banks, that policy has really hit the limits, saying it's time for something new, with fiscal policy able to pick up the baton.</p><p>"There are some interesting things happening right now overseas in Southeast Asia, even parts of Latin America, and in India," Rosenberg said. "And I think that actually when you do a bottom-up approach towards your global GDP growth forecast, say, for the next year, the next two years, it's probably going to be higher, not lower. And the question is going to be, how much higher? And then will it be sustained?"</p><p>These views and plenty more, including Rosenberg's call for a multi-trillion-dollar fiscal boost in the US to stave off the threat of recession, are featured in the full length interview on Real Vision. You can see a short clip here:</p><div><div></div></div><h2><strong>Starting to Believe the Numbers Out of China</strong></h2><p>Emerging markets are starting to improve, despite the weakness in the US economy, and Rosenberg is impressed that the growth rate in China has stabilized at around 6-6.5%, but more significantly that the private sector numbers are validating the official statistics.&#xa0;</p><p>"Now there's all sorts of concerns about the state-owned banks and about the credit bubble. That much is true. But their economy, it looks as though it is stabilizing and at the margin doing a little bit better," Rosenberg said.</p><p>"You're seeing a lot of other turnaround stories there," he added. "Philippines is doing quite well. I'm noticing the numbers out of Korea, Taiwan, the export and production numbers have started to pick up in Asia.</p><h2><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>India Ready to Resume China's Growth Mantle</strong></h2><p>"And they all have huge savings rates that, if they can draw them down, they have real interest rates of 300 basis points. So if you're looking at the part of the world that has the capacity to ease policy, it's that part of the world."</p><p>He also noted that the stock market - which is a discounting mechanism - for the emerging market world was up 20% year to date. "That's a dynamic part of the world that could end up making a difference in the coming year," he said.</p><p>Emerging stock markets have been indicating the same sort of turnaround story all year, Rosenberg said, with the BOVESPA up 30%, while he was particularly bullish on India, which has the same share of global GDP that China had 20 years ago. "Unlike China, their demographics are phenomenal. And Modi is doing right now a stellar job. And the one thing that he just did in the past few weeks was get through some major tax reform to reduce the complexity and increase the simplicity of the system."</p><h2><strong>Deutsche Bank - Too Interconnected to Fail</strong></h2><p>While the Emerging Markets are doing their bit for global growth, Rosenberg's perspectives on Europe are a touch more sanguine than some of the views more prevalent in the media lately. Offering a more "rational" view on Deutsche Bank, for example, Rosenberg doesn't think it's going under and not because it's too big to fail, but it's too interconnected to fail. "Once you do something to Deutsche Bank, you open up the door for something to happen. And I think that will get resolved," he said.</p><p>"The political risk, actually, in Europe is less dire than it seems because a lot of the anti-EU rhetoric and a lot of the anti-EU parties, it doesn't look like they're going to be strong enough to form any governments," Rosenberg said. "In light of the fact that we have a German election, a French election, a Dutch election, it doesn't look like we're going to be going for all the concern that these right-wing parties that are anti-EU. I don't think they're going to be able to form governments to make Brexit into something that's going to be a domino effect."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Less worried about the political risk in Europe, Rosenberg is calling on Germany to take the lead and ease fiscal policy which they certainly have the latitude for. Elsewhere across the continent, he welcomed how Syriza in Greece have now seemingly joined the establishment, while some of the structural reforms taking place in Spain and in Portugal were seen as very impressive.<p>"Look. I'm not saying that Europe is going to be a primary source of growth," he stated. "The question is, how unstable will it become? I think that a lot of the narrative-- and there's lots of narrative. Look, being bearish is a lot of fun. People want to listen to you when you're bearish because, let's face it, fear is a more primal emotion than greed is. "</p><p>Brexit was all about immigration, he said, drawing parallels with the upcoming vote in the US. "So it's about a new form of xenophobia that's taking hold, which I guess textbooks would say, history would say, after a near depression and lack of recovery, this is what happens," Rosenberg said.</p><h2><strong>German Fiscal Policy Can Be the Game Changer</strong>&#xa0;</h2><p>"Really, what ails Europe, what ails the global economy is fundamentally because we still have far too much debt relative to the income to support that debt. Well, so basically, I guess we could try and write down some of that debt. Or maybe, let's try and grow the income line."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Rosenberg said he still holds Germany culpable in that respect for the austerity imposed and for not trusting the Club Med countries, but recent talk of easier fiscal policy would be a step in the right direction.&#xa0;<p>"This could be a game changer, fiscal stimulus in Germany," he said. "As far as what it means for aggregate demand in Europe, this is a very big deal. And it takes a lot of pressure off the ECB. And imagine if the fiscal stimulus coming out of Germany is so big that it gives the ECB the opportunity to get off its negative interest rate policy, which clearly is one of the problems for Deutsche Bank and the banking system in general.</p><p>"It's the killer for the banks. So there's a lot of good things that can actually happen under the context of the fact that we are in a very fragile environment. The fiscal stimulus that comes out of Germany may, in fact, be even more important for the global economy than what we'll see out of the US next year."</p><p><em>Real Vision is the world's only video-on-demand channel for finance. 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ROSENBERG: Deutsche Bank is too interconnected to fail

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>National Archives and Records Administration</span></p></div><p></p></div>The new George Clooney film <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/monuments-men-reviews-not-great-2014-2">"The Monuments Men"</a> movie pales in comparison to the real art historians, architects, curators, and museum directors who saved Europe's finest art during World War II.</p>
<p>These men and women were civilians who were launched into a deadly war and tasked with saving an entire culture.</p>
<p>It was well-known that Adolf Hitler was hoarding Europe's plundered art for his planned Führer Museum in Linz, Austria. In addition to stealing Europe's paintings and sculptures, he also intended to destroy "degenerate" works of art that he despised from both Jewish and modern artists.</p>
<p>So Francis Henry Taylor, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, <a href="http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-roberts-commission/taylor-francis-henry" target="_blank">lobbied Washington D.C. to protect Europe's museums and art</a>. President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed, and <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/civilian/rg-239.html" target="_blank">established the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program in 1943</a>. The goal: to recover and return works of art that had been stolen and hidden by the Nazis.</p>
<p>Despite extraordinary odds, this team of art experts were highly successful. Because of their efforts, <a href="http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/monuments-men-foundation-the-preservation-art" target="_blank">more than five million works of art</a> were saved or discovered in Nazi hiding places, many of which are still immensely famous today.</p>
<p>Here are 11 of the most amazing paintings, sculptures, and architecture that were rescued or recovered during history's greatest treasure hunt.</p>
<h3><strong>Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mona_Lisa,_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>In 1939, prescient Louvre officials bundled the "Mona Lisa" into an ambulance and <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/monumental-mission-16753884/" target="_blank">evacuated it from the Louvre along with 400,000 other works of art</a>. The famous painting was on the go through much of the war, expertly hidden in various homes throughout the French countryside. It avoided capture with the help of the Monuments Men by changing locations more than six times, and was finally returned to the Louvre in 1945.</p>
<h3><strong>Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Monuments-Men-sought-to-return-the-most-desired-5236683.php#page-2" target="_blank"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lamgods_open.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></a></div><p></p></div>One of the most frequently stolen art works in the world<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Monuments-Men-sought-to-return-the-most-desired-5236683.php#page-2" target="_blank"></a>, the "Ghent Altarpiece" is ginormous, weighing over a ton. It was <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/21/hitler-s-hunt-for-the-holy-grail-and-the-ghent-altarpiece.html" target="_blank">coveted by Hitler</a> since it symbolized the ideal of Aryan supremacy, having been painted by a Germanic artist.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>National Archives and Records Administration</span></p><p class="caption">The Monuments Men uncovering the famous "Ghent Altarpiece."</p></div><p></p></div>It was taken by the Germans in 1942 from its hiding place at Chateau de Pau, in the south of France, and found in the Altaussee salt mine by the Monuments Men after the war.</p>
<h3><strong>Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Da_Vinci_5.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>In one of the most amazing stories from WWII, da Vinci's "Last Supper" <a href="http://www.monumentsmen.com/blog/2013/08/15/70th-anniversary-of-the-near-destruction-of-the-last-supper-2/3554/" target="_blank">was threatened by the Allies bombing Milan in August 1943</a>. The mural is on the refectory wall of the convent at Santa Maria delle Grazie, and was saved by the Monuments Men by jury-rigging a scaffold of steel bars and sandbags around the wall. After the raid, it was the only wall in the refectory still standing.</p>
<h3><strong>Michelangelo's "Madonna of Bruges"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madonna_Michelangelo_Bruges_-_JPG2.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>The Monuments Men arrived just days after the Nazi's had stolen this two-ton marble Madonna and Child sculpture from the Bruges Notre Dame Cathedrale in Belgium.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/stephen-kovalyak-george-stout-and-thomas-carr-howe-transporting-michelangelos-sculpture-madonna-and-child-15088">Archives of American Art</a></span></p><p class="caption">The Monuments Men uncovering Michelangelo's "Madonna of Bruges."</p></div><p></p></div>Michelangelo's statue was <a href="http://www.monumentsmen.com/blog/tag/bruges-madonna/" target="_blank">later recovered in the ancient Steinberg salt mine in Altaussee</a> - one of the many underground hiding places used by Hitler and the Nazis to stash art - by the Monuments Men.</p>
<h3><strong>Leonardo da Vinci's "Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an Ermine)"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Portrait_of_Cecilia_Gallerani_%28Lady_with_an_Ermine%29_-_WGA12698.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>Another one of Da Vinci's most famous paintings, "Lady with an Ermine" was almost<a href="http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1918349,00.html" target="_blank"> immediately seized by the Nazis after the German occupation of Poland in 1939</a>. In 1940, Hans Frank, the Governor General of Poland, requested it be returned to Kraków and hung it in his suite of offices. At the end of WWII, it was discovered by the Monuments Men in Frank's country home in Bavaria, and was returned to Poland's Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.</p>
<h3><strong>Édouard Manet's "In The Conservatory"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In_the_Conservatory_-_edited.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>This huge oil painting was <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/records-and-research/documenting-nazi-plunder-of-european-art.html" target="_blank">looted from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin</a> during the Nazi plunder.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Manet%27s_Wintergarden_19450425_NARA_5757184.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p><p class="caption">American soldiers standing next to Manet's "In the Conservatory."</p></div><p></p></div>American soldiers and the Monuments Men later discovered Manet's "In the Conservatory" hidden in Germany's Merkers salt mines along with large amounts of Nazi gold, and many other stolen works of art in 1945.</p>
<h3><strong>The Bust of Charlemagne</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aachen_Domschatz_Bueste1.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>This bust was donated to the Aachen Cathedral, a Germany church, in 1349 by Charles IV. It is one of the most highly prized Charlemagne relics, and is thought to contain a piece of his skull. Monuments Men George Stout and sculptor Walker Hancock <a href="http://www.examiner.com/review/smithsonian-exhibit-tells-real-story-of-monuments-men-and-women-feb-7-apr-20" target="_blank">went behind enemy lines while under fire</a> to reach the Aachen treasury hidden in a tunnel. <a href="http://www.route-charlemagne.eu/stationen/Dom/Domschatzkammer/index.html?lang=EN" target="_blank">It still can be seen in the church today</a>.</p>
<h3><strong>Johannes Vermeer's "The Astronomer"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_The_Astronomer_-_WGA24685.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>In 1940, this painting was <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=oOXAtXKvXn0C&amp;pg=PA70&amp;lpg=PA70&amp;dq=seized+from+Edouard+de+Rothschild+in+Paris+astronomer&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=LqfOo0PHdQ&amp;sig=SUDxHURtwvS7v8xEOhPn96ulvGQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=xxUFU6f8BpSusAS0h4GgDQ&amp;ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;q=seized%20from%20Edouard%20de%20Rothschild%20in%20Paris%20astronomer&amp;f=false" target="_blank">seized from Edouard de Rothschild in Paris</a> by the Nazi's Reichsleiter Rosenberg Task force (essentially the German equivalent of the Monuments Men) after the German invasion of France. A small swastika was stamped on the back in black ink, and the painting was sent to Hitler on one of his personal trains and hidden in the ancient Steinberg salt mine in Altausse.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>National Archives and Records Administration</span></p><p class="caption">Soldier with "The Astronomer."</p></div><p></p></div>When it was discovered after the war, it was <a href="http://www.essentialvermeer.com/cat_about/astronomer.html" target="_blank">returned to the Rothchild collection</a>.</p>
<h3><strong>Original manuscript of Ludvig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven_sym_6_script.PNG">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>In the same tunnel that hid the relics of Charlemagne, 600 paintings, and 100 sculptures was the <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2014-02-07/news/47093695_1_monuments-men-hancock-fine-arts" target="_blank">original manuscript of Ludvig van Beethoven's sixth symphony</a>. The tunnel in Siegen, Germany was still behind enemy lines when the Monuments Men went in to try and save the remaining art.</p>
<h3><strong>Rembrandt's "Self-portrait, 1645"</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self_portrait_oval.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p></div><p></p></div>This Rembrandt self portrait once hung in the museum of Harry Ettlinger's - <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/war-hero-who-inspired-george-3146664" target="_blank">the last surviving Monuments Men</a> - old home town of Karlsruhe, in the south-west of Germany. In fact, Ettlinger still remembers when he found the painting in the salt mines of Heilbronn after the war.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>National Archives and Records Administration</span></p></div><p></p></div>Today, the World War II veteran now has a print of the painting hanging in his living room. "It reminds me of what we achieved and the sacrifices that people like my buddies made," <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/war-hero-who-inspired-george-3146664" target="_blank">he told the Mirror</a>. The real painting has been returned to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe is the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany.</p>
<h3><strong>Florence's Medieval Architecture</strong></h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torre_degli_Amidei_22.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p><p class="caption">The surviving Torre degli Amidei.</p></div><p></p></div>After the liberation of Florence, all of the <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-monuments-men-saved-italys-treasures-180948005/?page=3" target="_blank">city's bridges were mined and destroyed by the retreating German forces</a>, including the medieval Ponte alla Carraia and Ponte alle Grazie, as well as the Renaissance era Ponte Santa Trinita.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ponte_Vecchio.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p><p class="caption">The Ponte Vecchio today.</p></div><p></p></div>The only medieval vestiges of the city that survived were the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704717004575268933589711578" target="_blank">rumored to have been saved by the express wishes of Hitler</a>) as well as the nearby Torre degli Amidei. The medieval tower was shored up, and rubble was cleared away from the Ponte Vecchio. Both stand to this day.</p>

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<p>BRUSSELS (AP) - European leaders united in anger as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies - allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel said had shattered trust in the Obama administration and undermined the crucial trans-Atlantic relationship.</p>
<p>The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel's own cellphone brought denunciations Thursday from the French and German governments.</p>
<p>Merkel's unusually stern remarks as she arrived at the European Union gathering indicated she wasn't placated by a phone conversation she had Wednesday with President <keyword id="15962" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Barack-Obama">Barack Obama</keyword>, or his personal assurances that the U.S. is not listening in on her calls now.</p>
<p>"We need trust among allies and partners," Merkel told reporters in Brussels. "Such trust now has to be built anew. This is what we have to think about."</p>
<p>"The United States of America and Europe face common challenges. We are allies," the German leader said. "But such an alliance can only be built on trust. That's why I repeat again: spying among friends, that cannot be."</p>
<p>The White House may soon face other irked heads of state and government. The British newspaper The Guardian said Thursday it obtained a confidential memo suggesting the <keyword id="38879" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="NSA">NSA</keyword> was able to monitor 35 world leaders' communications in 2006. The memo said the NSA encouraged senior officials at the White House, Pentagon and other agencies to share their contacts so the spy agency could add foreign leaders' phone numbers to its surveillance systems, the report said.</p>
<p>The Guardian did not identify who reportedly was eavesdropped on, but said the memo termed the payoff very meager: "Little reportable intelligence" was obtained, it said.</p>
<p>Other European leaders arriving for the 28-nation meeting echoed Merkel's displeasure. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called it "completely unacceptable" for a country to eavesdrop on an allied leader.</p>
<p>If reports that Merkel's cellphone had been tapped are true, "it is exceptionally serious," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told national broadcaster NOS.</p>
<p>"We want the truth," Italian Premier Enrico Letta told reporters. "It is not in the least bit conceivable that activity of this type could be acceptable."</p>
<p>Echoing Merkel, Austria's foreign minister, Michael Spindelegger, said, "We need to re-establish with the U.S. a relationship of trust, which has certainly suffered from this."</p>
<p>France, which also vocally objected to allies spying on each other, asked that the issue of reinforcing Europeans' privacy in the digital age be added to the agenda of the two-day summit. Before official proceedings got under way, Merkel held a brief one-on-one with French President Francois Hollande, and discussed the spying controversy.</p>
<p>After summit talks that lasted until after 1 a.m. Friday, Herman Van Rompuy, European Council president, announced at a news conference that France and Germany were seeking bilateral talks with the United States to resolve the dispute over electronic spying by "secret services" by the end of this year.</p>
<p>"What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States," Hollande told reporters at his own early-morning news conference. "They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced."</p>
<p>"It's become clear that for the future, something must change - and significantly," Merkel said. "We will put all efforts into forging a joint understanding by the end of the year for the cooperation of the (intelligence) agencies between Germany and the U.S., and France and the U.S., to create a framework for the cooperation."</p>
<p>The Europeans' statements and actions indicated that they hadn't been satisfied with assurances from Washington. On Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama personally assured Merkel that her phone is not being listened to now and won't be in the future.</p>
<p>"I think we are all outraged, across party lines," Wolfgang Bosbach, a prominent German lawmaker from Merkel's party, told Deutschlandfunk radio. "And that also goes for the response that the chancellor's cellphone is not being monitored - because this sentence says nothing about whether the chancellor was monitored in the past."</p>
<p>"This cannot be justified from any point of view by the fight against international terrorism or by averting danger," Bosbach said.</p>
<p>Asked on hursday whether the Americans had monitored Merkel's previous communications, White House spokesman Carney wouldn't rule it out.</p>
<p>"We are not going to comment publicly on every specified alleged intelligence activity," he said.</p>
<p>But while the White House was staying publicly mum, Carney said the Obama administration was discussing Germany's concerns "through diplomatic channels at the highest level," as it was with other U.S. allies worried about the alleged spying.</p>
<p>Obama adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism Lisa Monaco wrote in an editorial for USA Today that the U.S. government is not operating "unrestrained."</p>
<p>The U.S. intelligence community has more restrictions and oversight than any other country, she wrote. "We are not listening to every phone call or reading every e-mail. Far from it."</p>
<p>Monaco noted that a privacy and civil liberties oversight board is reviewing counterterrorism efforts to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected.</p>
<p>"Going forward, we will continue to gather the information we need to keep ourselves and our allies safe, while giving even greater focus to ensuring that we are balancing our security needs with the privacy concerns all people share," she wrote.</p>
<p>In the past, much of the official outrage in Europe about revelations of U.S. communications intercepts leaked by former NSA contract worker <keyword id="1702690" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Edward-Snowden">Edward Snowden</keyword> seemed designed for internal political consumption in countries that readily acknowledge conducting major spying operations themselves. But there has been a new discernible vein of anger in Europe as the scale of the NSA's reported operations became known, as well as the possible targeting of a prominent leader like Merkel, presumably for inside political or economic information.</p>
<p>"Nobody in Germany will be able to say any longer that NSA surveillance - which is apparently happening worldwide and millions of times - is serving solely intelligence-gathering or defense against Islamic terror or weapons proliferation," said Hans-Christian Strobele, a member of the German parliamentary oversight committee.</p>
<p>Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, said Europe's undermined confidence in the U.S. meant it should suspend negotiations for a two-way free-trade agreement that would account for almost half of the global economy. The Americans, Schulz said, now must prove they can be trusted.</p>
<p>"Let's be honest. If we go to the negotiations and we have the feeling those people with whom we negotiate know everything that we want to deal with in advance, how can we trust each other?" Schulz said.</p>
<p>European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said for many Europeans, eavesdropping on their phone calls or reading their emails is particularly objectionable because it raises the specter of totalitarian regimes of the recent past.</p>
<p>"At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter. We cannot, let's say, pretend it is just something accessory," Barroso told a presummit news conference.</p>
<p>Referring to the former East Germany's secret police, the feared Stasi, Barroso said, "to speak about Chancellor Merkel, in Germany there was a part of Germany where there was a political police that was spying on people's lives every day. So we know very recently what totalitarianism means. And we know very well what comes, what happens when the state uses powers that intrude in people's lives. So it is a very important issue, not only for Germany but for Europe in general."</p>
<p>In Berlin, the German Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to stress how seriously it takes the reported spying on Merkel. Germany's defense minister said his country and Europe can't return "to business as usual" with Washington, given the number of reports that the United States has eavesdropped on allied nations.</p>
<p>A German parliamentary committee that oversees the country's intelligence service met to discuss the spying allegations. Its head, Thomas Oppermann, recalled previous reports to the panel that U.S. authorities had denied violating German interests, and said, "we were apparently deceived by the American side."</p>
<p>Meanwhile, two Western diplomats told The Associated Press that U.S. officials have briefed them on documents obtained by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that might expose their respective countries' levels of intelligence cooperation with the U.S.</p>
<p>The diplomats said the briefings came from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Washington Post said some of the documents Snowden took contain sensitive material about collection programs against adversaries including Iran, Russia and China. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the intelligence briefings publicly.</p>
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<p>Moulson reported from Berlin. Associated Press writers Raf Casert and Juergen Baetz in Brussels, David Rising in Berlin, Cassandra Vinograd in London and Josh Lederman and Kimberly Dozier in Washington contributed to this report.</p>
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<p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Ah, virtual assistants! Nobody really knows where these are headed, but by now it should be obvious that the big three mobile platforms are intent on pushing the frontier forward in what is shaping up to be yet another battlefield. Quite frankly, however, while the industry as a whole has been checking up with Google Now and Apple's Siri every now and then to see how each is doing and how they compare against each other, it's only now that Microsoft has finally entered the space that this is starting to feel like a real race. But before we talk about specifics and discuss where each of the three is likely headed, it's important to first understand where each is coming from.</span><br><br><span>Most of you would assume that Siri is the one we should start with -- after all, when Apple introduced the personal assistant with the iPhone 4S in 2011, it was the first to do so, and it kept that title for a while. But the truth is that Siri and Google Now (introduced in 2012), while technically older products, aren't exactly the veterans here, for Microsoft has been toying with voice recognition for over a decade now. Sure, the form factor was different back then, but the truth is that the company has (or should have) more experience in this particular niche than both of its competitors taken together.</span><br><br><span>And this shows with Cortana, which, despite its BETA tag, is shaping up to be a pretty impressive alternative, and quickly. Indeed, Microsoft has come a long way since this historical blooper, at least judging by its Halo-inspired virtual assistant which is now part of Windows Phone 8.1. Why, however, and what about the rest?</span></br></br></br></br></p><h2><strong>Wait, what? Voice recognition engines</strong></h2><p><span>Yeah, that's where we'll start, because guess what -- if your virtual assistant is unable to understand what you're saying to it with a very high degree of success, then the frustration alone will drive you away from using it and turn it into a useless product. As it happens, the trio of Google Now, Siri, and Cortana, all handle themselves well enough to keep you around, but they're not all equally good.</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>Without a doubt, Siri is the best... at being the least capable. Indeed, while the voice recognition engine it is packing is pretty darn good overall, it's starting to lag behind Google Now and Cortana. What's worse, both Google Now and Cortana will fix what they consider misunderstood queries on the fly rather successfully, while Siri will simply keep to what it "thinks" you said, and make no edits even when an obviously nonsensical query is formed. This means that Apple's virtual assistant is sometimes left perplexed, while its competitors rush to give you the right answer.</span><br><br><span>With Siri out of the horse race (in this category), it's down to Google Now and Cortana to battle it out. Gun-to-</span>our-head, we'd say that Google Now wins this one, but we still can't deny that Cortana is close. Very close.</br></br></p><h2>Helpfulness</h2><p>The<span>n again, even a flawless voice recognition engine is useless if the digital assistant in question is just not programmed well enough to adequately provide help with your agenda and answer your many questions. You know, the kind of things that make an assistant. And, the less you have to do, the better.</span><br><br><span>This particular category, however, is far more complex, and it's worth defining what 'helpfulness' really is in this context. The way we see it, a good virtual assistant should go beyond the basics of just being able to set an appointment, open an app, or call/text a contact. Obviously, these are essential, but they can't quite top getting an extended answer to queries such as "When is Independence Day", which causes Google Now to go into history mode, or being able to teach Siri how to correctly pronounce your name. It's also very helpful if the assistant in question can perform tasks without requiring any input other than your voice -- a bit like how Siri handles tasks like setting reminders, and not at all how Google Now will have you do the grunt work in that same scenario, even if that gives you more control.</span></br></br></p><p><br /></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><br><span></span><p><span>In other words, the virtual assistant right now needs to be talkative and understanding of where the conversation is going. Unfortunately, while Siri has its moments, it can't quite compare with Google Now, which is by far the most chatty assistant of the three, and in a good way. Cortana, at this point, is somewhat silent, and usually just serves the information and lets your eyes do the work. Perhaps most importantly, only Google Now currently supports follow up questions. This allows you to quickly get further information, without ever having to touch the phone. For example, if you first ask which the capital of Germany is, and then simply follow up with a question along the lines of what's the population or time or weather there, Google Now will know that you're still referring to Berlin, Germany's capital. Siri and Cortana, on the other hand, treat every query as a separate entity, unless you stumble upon what we would call pre-made scenarios, e.g. reminders, where the developer has taught the assistant to ask X and Y questions in order to carry out the task. So Siri and Cortana will come up with follow-up questions if you want to set a reminder or call somebody, but that's not comparable with what Google Now has going on.</span><br><br><span>Cortana, on the other hand, has a pretty neat piece of functionality built-in: the ability to set reminders for the next time you interact with people. So if you want to be reminded to congratulate someone on his job promotion next time you contact or are contacted by him or her, whether through a call or a text, Cortana will be there for you. Right now, this is unique to her, and it's a considerable advantage.</span><br><br><span>Last, but certainly not least, it is important to note that Google Now is currently the only assistant that you can call up by simply saying "OK, Google" whilst you're at the homescreen of most latest-generation flagships. Siri will be getting always-listening support in iOS 8 -- only if you're inside the Siri interface or tethered to an outlet, </span>though -- so until then you either have to long-press the Home button to summon her, or enable the 'Raise to Speak' feature so that Siri starts whenever you pull your iPhone to your ear. For the time being, Cortana is only accessible by long-pressing the search key on Windows Phone 8.1-based devices.</br></br></br></br></p><h2>Scope</h2><p>Of course, the scope of supported questions (and types of served results) also differs, and is an important factor when deciding the trio's helpfulness.</p><p><span>In general, Google Now is ahead, and is rarely befuddled by your query. It can define words and objects, is aware of your bookings, provides flight data, and will give you an overlook of how your favorite sports team is doing. It'll also tell you about important landmarks if asked, break down food data like calories, carbs, and salts, and recite the cast of your favorite movie or TV show and its theme song. To be fair, Siri and Cortana won't disappoint you if asked the same, it's just that they don't do as great a job in our opinion, as, in comparison, their answers are usually less extensive and will often have you read the information for yourself (especially Cortana), as if you're performing a normal search.</span></p><p><span>&#xa0;</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></span><br><span>Indeed, the way information is served is pretty important, especially since most queries will, ideally, trigger both an overview spoken response, but also provide you with at-a-glance summary (often a table (Siri) or an accompanying picture (Google Now / Cortana)). Google Now also usually provides you with more control on how to proceed next when compared with Cortana and Siri, so if you ask about the Statue of Liberty, you'll also get shortcuts to navigation, call information, and the landmark's very own website. Google Now is also far more open to queries from all around the world, while Siri will refuse to support a whole slew of queries if it doesn't have official regional support, including ones that don't really rely on having in-depth support for the locale. </span>Ugh!</br></p><h2>Where Google Now loses, big time</h2><p>So if you know nothing about the above virtual assistants, your impression so far will likely be that Google Now has a lead on the rest. While that's generally true, Google Now loses in one specific category right now: having a soul and being fun.<br><br><span>Objectively, Google Now is the least likable assistant of the three, as it's always down to the point. It's like that colleague you have who seems to be all about the work, and none for the fun. This is not overly surprising, however, as it's obvious that the three companies envision what is still a fledgling category differently.</span><br><br><span>To be more specific, it seems like Apple and Microsoft agree that for a virtual assistant to be successful, it needs to not just be a tasks-obsessed robot, but more of a companion that will know you and perhaps even "get you" in the future. For example, did you know that Cortana can sing? That's right, she'll actually sing you a song. And, as mentioned, Siri will learn to better pronounce your name, and is also aware of your birthday. Both will tell you </span>that they like you a lot if asked, and even tell you a joke when you're feeling blue, or turn you down when you make the inevitable inappropriate (and weird) move on them. None of these will work with Google Now, which will simply perform a web search and basically give you a blank stare.&#xa0;</br></br></br></br></p><h2>Speed</h2><p>It's hard to definitively say which of the three assistants is the fastest, as comparing them directly can sometime feel like comparing apples and oranges. They're alike, but not the same thing.</p><p>The main reason behind this is t<span>hat Google, Apple, and Microsoft, all programmed their assistants differently, so they don't always pull the same type of information. In other words, Google Now usually provides the most thorough answers, while Cortana often offers the least. Apple is somewhere in the middle, and usually ties with either of the other two depending on the query.</span><br><br><span>All said, it's generally true that Google Now is a bit faster than Siri, which, in turn, is a bit faster than Cortana. In the table below, we've basically defined speed as the time it takes either of the three to recognize what you're saying, ask the server it utilizes on the back end, and fetch you a result. As you can see, however, the differences on the whole are pretty small.</span><br /></br></br></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><br><span></span><p><span>Now, while Cortana came last, we do have to say that we're feeling more lenient towards it -- sure, Microsoft has a ton of experience in this area, but it's also true that Cortana is still officially in BETA and is available only in the US. This, more than likely, means that Microsoft is yet to scale its servers' processing power up, so Cortana's speed is pretty satisfying at this point. Hopefully, it will get even better.</span></p><h2>Conclusion and expectations</h2><p><span>In conclusion, it really comes down to what exactly you're looking for when it comes to virtual assistants. If you have a no-nonsense-give-me-the-facts type attitude, then you're most likely going to side with us when we say that Google Now is the best right now, at least when it comes to providing you with the answers you need, and fast. What's more, Google Now is far more pro-active than the rest, and offers insights and help even when you're not interacting with it in any way.</span><br><br><span>A big reason for that is the fact that Google is a master at search, and has a pretty obvious interest in pushing Google Now farther and farther, specifically now that Android Wear is a reality that the company is seemingly intent on supporting well. Indeed, if anybody stands to win from having the most polished, contextually-aware assistant right now, it's Google.</span></br></br></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As for Siri, while it is inferior to Google Now on the whole, one can't deny that Apple just has a way of doing things in an appealing way, and its virtual assistant is a good example. Unlike Google Now, it feels like Siri actually has a soul. Unfortunately, and while Apple hasn't abandoned the project, it feels like Siri isn't much of a priority for Cupertino at this point</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Speaking of personality, we can't forget Cortana, either. She can sing, after all! Sure, that's more flavor than anything else, but it does indicate the path Microsoft has taken with its very solid personal assistant. </span><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We do understand that Cortana still has that "new" appeal of course, yet, quite frankly, we can't help but be very excited about what Microsoft has in store for her. It's one heck of a solid BETA piece of code, that's for sure.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ultimately, however, the truth is that these assistants are still a very tiny consideration when it comes to what drives consumers towards this or that platform. A bit like wearables right now, these little helpers are still very much a work-in-progress, so the sky is the limit. The cynics among us, however, could construe their current state of being a little more than particularly smart search engines as a sign of weakness for the whole paradigm, and it's hard to argue with that right now. 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