Interesting News Items

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Sean Spicer's Urgent Tweet to the Nation: n9y25ah7. Is It a Password?

"Trump press secretary tweets and deletes something that 'looks an awful lot like a password,' according to Gizmodo"

This guy had a long feud on Twitter with a company that makes some kind of ice cream called Dippin Dots. No one knows why he thought it was so important to say how much he hated it, but the company seemed to think it was funny. He wasn't joking. The tweets should still be there.

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This was bound to happen

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...te-south-korea

Remember the anti-drug campaign in the Philippines (where the president said it was OK to kill drug dealers) - well cops kidnapped, detained illegally and strangled to death an innocent Korean businessmen.

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Doctors are scarce on India’s river island – so the witch-hunters are back

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nd-assam-india

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is it ok to punch a bishop?

N.J. bishop punched in face during Mass at Newark cathedral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLliQOYMzJs

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This punch I'm on board width, AND he's a very snappy dresser.

One more reason not to punch nazis:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...eattle-charges

In the USA, the right is the side with the guns. (in this case a Trump supporter)

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Real News I didn't get that from a German Onion style magazine at all - I totes swear
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The real news - emigration/refugee bans are window dressing - this is important shit so pay attention.

Today: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/u...rmed.html?_r=0

12 jan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...outh-china-sea

March 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...a-sea-no-doubt

South China Sea: Beijing?s military ramp-up is nearly complete, Sir Angus Houston says

Long story short, two of the key advisers (Tellerson is secretary of State and Bannon on the National Security Council’s “principals committee") are either predicting or calling for war with China over the South China Sea. China has been building up sand bars to become airfields and missile bases and thereby extending their territorial borders - encompassing undeveloped oil fields.

So while we are freaking about muslim bans and border wall, the white house is planning WWIII.

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Not really news as such - but worth a read. Previous surveys showed the dissatisfaction with government ratings that foretold Brexit and Trump.

http://www.eiu.com/Handlers/Whitepap...cracyIndex2016

The interesting thing is that the USA has been downgraded from full democracy to flawed democracy.

"Trust in political institutions is an essential component of well-functioning democracies. Yet surveys by Pew, Gallup and other polling agencies have confirmed that public confidence in government has slumped to historic lows in the US. This has had a corrosive effect on the quality of democracy in the US, as reflected in the decline in the US score in the Democracy Index. The US president, Donald Trump, is not to blame for this decline in trust, which predated his election, but he was the beneficiary of it. Popular confidence in political institutions and parties continues to decline in many other developed countries, too. "

USA is equal with Italy at 21st in the global democracy ratings

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You might have missed this - happened same day as the travel ban
Donald Trump declares his inauguration day National Day of Patriotic Devotion - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Kim Jong Un couldn't have said it better

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Anthony Weiner may get slapped with child pornography charge | New York Post