[Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:39 pm

He was arrested for breach of bail, after the prosecution dropped the sexual assault charges. He was still basically committing espionage and shit even while in the embassy and Ecuador were getting really tired of his bullshit.

Iduno · Post by **Iduno** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:17 pm

His is an interesting story, where people are stuck between "this isn't the way to do justice" and "he's an irredeemable shitstain who should be shot into the sun."

If I remember the riddle correctly, you're supposed to let him go free after hanging him?

rasmuswagner · Post by **rasmuswagner** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:06 pm

RobbyPants wrote:Julian Assange Arrested In London

He was arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. He went to the embassy seven years ago fleeing rape charges, and refused to leave for fear of extradition. Apparently, the rape charges have been dropped.

Fleeing almost certain extradition to a country known to currently be torturing prisoners. Even the lowliest shitstain has the right to flee and seek asylum under those circumstances.,

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:18 pm

Yeah, this is one of those.... wish he had died of a heart attack things.

He's now basically going to be extradited to the US on charges of conspiring with Manning in concealing her identify and/or attempting to help her conceal her identity when she leaked. Because technically the way he did so was to try to crack a password.

But this is the Trump fucking DOJ going after him for the crime of literally the one good thing he ever did, and not all the shitty things he did and Manning is being put in solitary 20 hours a day to torture her for not testifying against him.

So all this could ever be is a chilling effect on reporters and a precedent that can later be used to argue that engaging in a conspiracy to hide the identity of your source is generally a crime.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:41 am

Yes, we should be able to have the nuance of "He is a shitstain and probably a rapist, who should have faced justice entirely within Sweden, spending time in a (Swedish) prison and then being released like anyone else. Also, the United States are fucking insane and should not be torturing people who expose their wrongdoings (or in some manner assist/conceal the people who expose their wrongdoings)."

And then also have discussions about how Assange helped get Trump in power (I mean if anything, you'd think he'd offer him a top position with security clearance).

phlapjackage · Post by **phlapjackage** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:41 am

rasmuswagner wrote:Fleeing almost certain extradition to a country known to currently be torturing prisoners.

I had a moment where my brain went "Which country do they mea....." and got exactly that far and then went "tha....oh...oh goddamit

"

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:20 pm

Notre Dame is burning

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/wor ... 474597002/

rasmuswagner · Post by **rasmuswagner** » Fri May 03, 2019 1:29 pm

Police beat up antifascists in Copenhagen on may 1, because of course they did. Several of them were not wearing their ID numbers, because of course they weren't. They weren't there to dissolve the demonstration - they surrounded them and registered everyone present, because of course they fucking did.

The only thing new is that most of the mainstream papers don't even pretend to give a shit. Because of course they don't.

I am nauseous with rage.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri May 03, 2019 10:36 pm

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new ... s-14987444

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat May 04, 2019 4:35 am

Ancient History wrote:https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new ... s-14987444

That doesn't make a lot of sense. Bubonic plague is curable with antibiotics. While it's a serious disease (nearly two thirds of recipients die if they don't get anti-biotics), it's a disease that affects a small but significant number of people every year. We don't normally quarantine villages for bubonic plague cases. Worldwide, there are about 750 case per year, of which an average of 7 of them are in the United States.

If we have people in bunny suits putting a village into quarantine, it's because someone doesn't think that's bubonic plague.

-Username17

rasmuswagner · Post by **rasmuswagner** » Sat May 04, 2019 1:26 pm

Ancient History wrote:https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new ... s-14987444

"Double checking the URL, because that looks a lot like marketing".

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu May 09, 2019 3:11 am

Here's a version of the story from WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... ed-plague/

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Sat May 18, 2019 1:33 pm

Looks like the Coalition is still going to be running Australia

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat May 18, 2019 3:21 pm

Yeah. Odds were 52% in favour of Labor, but Brexit taught me that 52% is a fancy way of writing 0%. We're probably looking at "close enough that coalition are one scandal away from fresh new snap elections", so don't be too surprised if we get another PM within the year. Hell even without that, someone in the party might hit ScoMo with an RKO out of nowhere and claim the title. We're pretty much talking the same number of seats as in 2016, except back then they did worse than expected and now they did better than expected and the speeches reflect this despite the actual results being the same. Really the speech should be "What a continued shitshow it's been. We've continued to fuck up but somehow we're still technically in power despite all this. Both major parties need to get our acts together but until then, we're slightly in the lead."

The coalition broke the law in one area, putting up signs that look like Electoral Commission signs, explaining how to vote in Chinese - with "Place a 1 next to LNP, then number the rest in order". But because they won, nobody will be held accountable for this.

Dutton (the hate-filled potato man) retained his seat, because QLD is the worst state in a country that has NSW, but hey, Abbott (the hate-filled former PM who eats raw onions) lost his seat, so hopefully people will stop treating him as being relevant.

It's absolutely a bad result, but not even that surprising and Australia is not important enough to really matter compared to what's going on elsewhere. The sooner everyone over the age of fifty is killed dies, the better, but that's true in most of the world.

Edit: I got the QLD and NSW the wrong way around in that saying, because I swap them around so frequently anyway.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 18, 2019 5:50 pm

And now in european news:
Austria Vice Chancellor steps back after video leaked of him openly discussing illegal monetary contributions to their next election efforts and offering compensation to russians.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/18/euro ... index.html

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Mon May 20, 2019 10:26 am

Stahlseele wrote:And now in european news:
Austria Vice Chancellor steps back after video leaked of him openly discussing illegal monetary contributions to their next election efforts and offering compensation to russians.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/18/euro ... index.html

And new elections.

I wonder if the whole 6 hours of the video will be become public.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon May 20, 2019 7:38 pm

Don't think there can be anything actually more important than those few minutes there in that vid.
And yes, new elections.
And that was the right wing party dude vice chanceller what done fucked upped too.

Usamimi · Post by **Usamimi** » Thu May 23, 2019 5:40 pm

Carl Benjamin has recently become a member of UKIP. Milkshakes have been thrown at him four separate times. Nigel Farage was afraid to leave a bus because of milkshake-wielding antifascists.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri May 24, 2019 5:29 am

Which is weird, you'd think they'd be happy to be all white.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri May 24, 2019 8:43 pm

Today in Humanity is too stupid to survive:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/0 ... affic-jam/

At least four more climbers have died on the overcrowded slopes of Mount Everest after a run of clear weather saw mountaineers stuck for hours in a high altitude human traffic jam.

No, this is not a scandal.
No, this is not a Tragedy.
This is natural selection.
I am so not feeling sorry for any of those idiots.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Sat May 25, 2019 4:37 am

Eh, the traffic ham was a lot more than just the ones that died, most of them survived their stupidity.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Sat May 25, 2019 6:51 am

It only counts as natural selection if they had no surviving offspring.

Considering each of them needed to pay $11,000 bucks just for a permit, before taking in account the equipment and assorted supplies and whatnot, and also that they were between 27-59 years old, seems quite probable to me they left behind children with a nice inheritance that will keep passing their genes.

zugschef · Post by **zugschef** » Tue May 28, 2019 5:26 am

Stahlseele wrote:And now in european news:
Austria Vice Chancellor steps back after video leaked of him openly discussing illegal monetary contributions to their next election efforts and offering compensation to russians.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/18/euro ... index.html

The Venga Boys will perform "We're going to Ibiza" on Thursday as part of the regular Thursday Demonstration. :'D

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue May 28, 2019 6:38 am

*snickers*

tussock · Post by **tussock** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:52 am

In Brazilian news today, or a couple days ago at least, the current Minister of Justice, who was previously the Judge overseeing the case against the previous President, actually conspired with prosecution to bring the case that he then sat on, imprisoning Lula, and resulting in the change of govt. where he is now a high paid part of the new one.

Oh, and the entire "anti-corruption" group in the police was just full of shit and trying to put the government out and lied all the time. Which is, yeah, that's not what police are supposed to do at all.

Hmm. That's, shocking really. More to come, as Glen Greenwald apparently has a huge hoard of leaked tapes and documents. Excellent.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/bra ... -car-wash/

Perhaps most remarkably, after Bolsonaro won the presidency, he created a new position of unprecedented authority, referred to by Brazilians as “super justice minister,” to oversee an agency with consolidated powers over law enforcement, surveillance, and investigation previously interspersed among multiple ministries. Bolsonaro created that position for the benefit of the very judge who found Lula guilty, Sergio Moro, and it is the position Moro now occupies. In other words, Moro now wields immense police and surveillance powers in Brazil — courtesy of a president who was elected only after Moro, while he was as judge, rendered Bolsonaro’s key adversary ineligible to run against him.

It just gets worse as you read more. Complete coup hidden behind a sham of an election.