What's in the news?

[Markus]

http://bbc.in/2FLr3fD

Not that things were particularly democratic in the middle kingdom but this is kinda significant no?

[Lustful Bride]

http://bbc.in/2FLr3fD

Not that things were particularly democratic in the middle kingdom but this is kinda significant no?

Link isn't working for me but I am assuming this is in reference to China?

[TheGlyphstone]

Yeah, it's just the official confirmation of China now having a President For Life.

[ShadowFox89]

I wonder how long before Trump suggests that for himself.

[Oniya]

I wonder how long before Trump suggests that for himself.

Last week.

[TheGlyphstone]

I wonder how long before Trump suggests that for himself.

Too late.

US President Donald Trump was criticised by some commentators for seeming to approve of Mr Xi's unlimited rule, saying on Monday: "President for life... I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day."

At a political rally on Saturday, Mr Trump insisted he had merely been joking during a fundraiser, and that his comments were represented unfairly by some media.

[Oniya]

Apparently, he didn't learn from Ronald 'We begin bombing in five minutes' Reagan.

[Markus]

Putin in Russia, Xi in China. Modi in India. Erdoğan in Turkey. Duterte in Phillipines.
We live in an era of political "strong men" evidently.

[TheGlyphstone]

Putin in Russia, Xi in China. Modi in India. Erdoğan in Turkey. Duterte in Phillipines.
We live in an era of political "strong men" evidently.

And let's not forget the attempts that didn't pan out - France, Sweden, Italy.

[Lustful Bride]

Putin in Russia, Xi in China. Modi in India. Erdoğan in Turkey. Duterte in Phillipines.
We live in an era of political "strong men" evidently.

And let's not forget the attempts that didn't pan out - France, Sweden, Italy.

The stage is already setting itself for the next conflict. Might not be now, it might not even be for another 50 years. But it is on its way.

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Traces of Nerve Agent found at a pub and restaurant in the UK. It seems to be the same one that was used against the Russian defector.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video/british-diners-may-have-been-exposed-to-nerve-agent/vi-BBK6egy?ocid=spartandhp

[Markus]

The stage is already setting itself for the next conflict. Might not be now, it might not even be for another 50 years. But it is on its way.

Imo all this concoction needs is for the belief to spread, that a "limited" conventional conflict can be waged and won under the shadow of nuclear weapons.

[Lustful Bride]

Putin tries shifting blame of possible election tampering by declaring "The Russian Jews might have done it" and gets backlash.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-condemned-for-saying-jews-may-have-manipulated-us-election/ar-BBK6F7a?li=AA4Zpp&ocid=spartandhp

[Deamonbane]

A Bangladeshi airliner with 71 people on board crashed on Monday while coming in to land at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, killing at least 50 people, officials said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bangladesh-airline-crashes-nepals-kathmandu-airport-091326986.html

[RedRose]

Putin tries shifting blame of possible election tampering by declaring "The Russian Jews might have done it" and gets backlash.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-condemned-for-saying-jews-may-have-manipulated-us-election/ar-BBK6F7a?li=AA4Zpp&ocid=spartandhp

I am not surprised. The Jews, the Tatars... always get accused in those parts of the world.

[Lustful Bride]

3 bombs went off in Texas. INjured and dead still unknown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/deadly-package-bomb-could-be-linked-to-earlier-austin-attack/ar-BBK8pBm?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

They seemed coordinated as they went off simultaneously.

[Lustful Bride]

3 bombs went off in Texas. INjured and dead still unknown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/deadly-package-bomb-could-be-linked-to-earlier-austin-attack/ar-BBK8pBm?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

They seemed coordinated as they went off simultaneously.

Correction: They did not go off at the same time, but the bomb that went off today has been linked to two small mail bombs that went off earlier in the month.

[Eye of Horus]

Looks horribly like it might have been a hate crime.

Putin tries shifting blame of possible election tampering by declaring "The Russian Jews might have done it" and gets backlash.

Sometimes I can’t tell if Putin is trolling or just genuinely has no social / empathy filter.

[Sara Nilsson]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43370999

The UK government has confirmed that a controversial compulsory age verification check for online porn visitors will no longer be introduced in April as planned.

In a statement, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it would now start "later in the year".

Good, now never do it at all!

[Lustful Bride]

Yet another video comes out of a US Navy Jet chasing after a UFO.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/video-shows-navy-pilots-encounter-with-ufo/vi-BBK9Umo?ocid=spartandhp

[RedRose]

Looks horribly like it might have been a hate crime.

Sometimes I can’t tell if Putin is trolling or just genuinely has no social / empathy filter.

I think it's a mix

[gaggedLouise]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43370999

Good, now never do it at all!

Agree, it's a ridiculously intrusive proposed law - and the supposed focus on "hardcore BDSM and bondage", snuff porn, incest and other kinds of supposedly demeaning depictions is no more than shoehorn tactics to open the way. What many of them really want is a wholesale shaming out of all kinds of porn and adult material, and a new age of prudery.

[Beguile's Mistress]

Just saw a notice on the internet that Stephen Hawking has passed away.

[Sara Nilsson]

Just saw a notice on the internet that Stephen Hawking has passed away.

According to family spokesman yes. Age 76

[TheGlyphstone]

...well shit. That honestly, genuinely makes me really depressed.

[Blythe]

Hawking lived for so long after his ALS diagnosis--I'm glad the world had the benefit of having that great mind a part of it for as long as humanly possible.