International Politics (non-USA)

We could rename this the “Matlock and Firetorch Sexual Tension thread”? :kissing_heart:

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Done, you two lovebirds.

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So there’s been chaos in Barcelona overnight with ISIS linked van attacks killing 13 and injuring 100.

^^What is Wolf smoking??? (Note that even Huffington Post thinks this is nuts)

Haha, the American media has gone NUTS this week with this…they were pumping out the articles using Barcelona as an excuse to bash Trump again…“why is ISIS mowing down pedestrians in a van called terrorism by Trump but not one loony who decides in a heated clash to hit someone with a car”. Gee, have a think guys!

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We wish to foster an environment where we’re encouraged to explore using all the senses.

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It’s not simply a small minority, the alt-left, that is crazy. The far-left has now infiltrated the media and public services (like the police) in the UK.

“Brown sauce” was thrown from a car window and splattered another vehicle in what police are treating as a racially aggravated crime.

The left’s infiltration of the police in the UK has become INSANE:

A senior police officer at the Metropolitan Police has said victims of crime who don’t speak English could be prioritised more during call outs.

Craig Mackey, deputy commissioner for the force, said the Met could decide who receives a face to face visit from the police depending how ‘vulnerable’ they are.

The more you read, the more sickening the details get:

German (no surprise) supermarket Lidl deciding to airbrush religion out of view…

Sorry if I’m hijacking the “Matlock and Firetorch Sexual Tension thread” :wink:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/british-politicians-seek-answers-in-suspected-russian-role-in-brexit-campaign-20171024-gz7lyk.html

“It does feel at long last as if politicians in Britain are waking up to the fact of Kremlin subversion of our democracy,” Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said on Tuesday.

“Putin had made no secret of the fact he wanted a Brexit vote. His main strategy is to weaken and destabilise Europe and Brexit is so far his biggest success.”

On Tuesday a House of Commons select committee published a letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, requesting “information regarding the use of Facebook advertising and pages by Russian-linked accounts in the lead up to and during the 2016 [Brexit] Referendum”…

The result of this inquiry should be very interesting.

If a botnet was used by Brexit campaigners then it could have fallen foul of laws that require election communications to be clearly sourced, to ensure transparency about who is campaigning…

Former Leave.EU head of communications Andy Wigmore has previously revealed using Facebook profiling technology he called “creepy” to target voters with anti-EU messaging.

In August he tweeted that “we had our own bots in Bristol and we used AI [artificial intelligence] to target specific groups – it worked because we knew who to hit”.

But asked again this week about Leave.EU’s use of Twitterbots, he angrily denied it.

More of the obvious extra (ongoing) costs the UK will incur leaving the EU…

…further showing how huge a lie the Leave campaign’s claims of budget savings were.

I wonder if this is a first in world politics. A prime minister expecting a baby.

Benazir Bhutto did in Pakistan, but certainly very rare. And great news.

Let the countdown to the “Jacinda Adern is in Labour” jokes commence… how many hours until June?

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But what does that even mean? This problem is getting worse. It is the hate that is spreading around the world.

Humans are, overall, pretty terrible. But tragedy brings us together and I find that to be beautiful.

And, by the way, he made Australia more of a target.