Daily News Thread 10/26

Chaos in Catalonia as Separatists Revolt on Reports of Retreat

Catalan separatists are rebelling against their leader’s plan to draw back from declaring independence as Spanish authorities finalize plans to oust his insurgent administration.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/catalonia-is-said-to-lean-toward-elections-not-independence-j98c78kx

Las Vegas shooter's laptop hard drive missing, brother charged with child porn

Investigators recovered a laptop computer from Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's hotel room, but its hard drive is missing. In a separate case, Paddock’s brother has been charged with possession of child pornography.
rt.com/usa/407799-stephen-paddock-bruce-paddock/

Tillerson: Assad family reign coming to end, only issue is how to bring it about

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the “reign of the Assad family” in Syria is coming to an end, and the “only issue is how that can be brought about.”
rt.com/news/407855-tillerson-syria-assad-russia/

Mental health costing UK economy £99bn due to 'shocking' job losses and absences

Report claims 300,000 people a year lose jobs over mental health issues.
ibtimes.co.uk/mental-health-costing-uk-economy-99bn-due-shocking-job-losses-absences-1644625

Emails reveal Foreign Office alarm at Trump travel ban

The UK government wanted to set up an internal warning system to monitor and react to decisions made by President Donald Trump, emails show.
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41739491

World War 3 hideout for the super-rich shuts its doors

New Zealand's new prime minister is shutting the door on super-rich foreign property buyers who want somewhere to escape to in the event of a third world war or nuclear holocaust.
ibtimes.co.uk/world-war-3-hideout-super-rich-shuts-its-doors-1644683

George Bush Senior's second apology after sex assault claims

Actress Jordana Grolnick told US website Deadspin Mr Bush groped her in 2016 after announcing his favourite magician was "David Cop-a-Feel".
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41766987

Twitter bans RT and Sputnik ads amid election interference fears

Twitter is banning two of Russia's biggest media outlets from buying advertising amid fears they attempted to interfere with the 2016 US election.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41766991

Trump to Declare Opioid Epidemic Public Health Emergency

President Donald Trump on Thursday will declare widespread opioid abuse a public health emergency, while resisting a controversial move that might have tapped federal funds sought by hurricane-stricken Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/trump-to-declare-opioid-epidemic-as-a-public-health-emergency

New US flight security measures take effect

The measures may include short interviews with passengers and inspection of digital devices.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41759167

Reddit bans Nazi pages and alt-right forums in new crackdown on violent content

Reddit has begun banning pages for Nazi, white supremacist, alt-right and other hate-based groups from its site as part of its new policy change and crackdown on violent content.
ibtimes.co.uk/reddit-bans-nazi-pages-alt-right-forums-new-crackdown-violent-content-1644629

Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to humanoid robot

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The lucky machine is Sophia the Humanoid, who was designed to look like Audrey Hepburn.
rt.com/news/407825-saudi-robot-citizen-sophia/

Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point

Rents have increased rapidly across U.S. housing markets as the share of renting households has risen faster than the number of new units. Now, in a survey published Thursday by an apartment-listing service, nearly one in five respondents reports struggling to make the monthly payments.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/rising-rents-are-pushing-more-tenants-past-the-breaking-point

Other urls found in this thread:

reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-science/
theintercept.com/2017/10/26/disaster-capitalists-take-big-step-toward-privatizing-puerto-ricos-electric-grid/
nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/remind-troops-niger.html
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/can-trumps-wall-stop-illegal-immigration/544056/?utm_source=feed
rt.com/op-edge/407858-rt-twitter-us-election/
rt.com/news/407873-twitter-rt-ads-retaliation/
aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/number-homeless-tops-record-level-car-171026105535807.html
nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/tampa-killer.html
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

TYBNA

LOL

TYBNewsAnon2.0

top top lel

Does the female Saudi robot have to wear a burka?

If a US war with North Korea destroys K-Pop I'm assassinating Trump tbh

OP/ED

The Body Trade: Part 3

Science Care reaps $27 million in annual revenue by recruiting body donors through hospices, funeral homes and online ads.
reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-science/

Disaster Capitalists Take Big Step Toward Privatizing Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid

theintercept.com/2017/10/26/disaster-capitalists-take-big-step-toward-privatizing-puerto-ricos-electric-grid/

Remind Me Why We Have Troops in Niger?

The players and the scene in Niger, with a note on what to expect if (when?) we go to war.
nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/remind-troops-niger.html

The Border-Wall Prototypes Are Up—Now What?

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/can-trumps-wall-stop-illegal-immigration/544056/?utm_source=feed

Fuck off

Hopefully they'll ban /r/the_donald so I can see their users sperg out.

RT's response:
Revealed: How Twitter pushed RT to spend big on 2016 US election

Twitter pushed RT for a large ad buy for the 2016 US election, but the channel declined the offer.
rt.com/op-edge/407858-rt-twitter-us-election/

Russia's response:
Twitter decision on RT & Sputnik aggressive step, retaliation to follow – Russian Foreign Ministry

The move by social media company Twitter to ban two Russian news outlets from placing advertisements on the site is a "blatant violation" of international norms, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said, adding that retaliation measures are unavoidable.
rt.com/news/407873-twitter-rt-ads-retaliation/

Please ban r/The_Donald so the transformation between Holla Forums and reddit is fully complete. God I'm begging, please just destroy it fully fuse Holla Forums with all its cancerous aspects, all the consequences of its actions, and all the 15 year olds its seduced

Please, god just do it.

Like clockwork

And they say socdems are pointless.

Cry about it bitch

Big wet sloppy tears from r/The_Donald

Post about it on your blog nobody gives a shit

Only liberals call for that "right to say it crap"

Looks like the_donald cuck is triggered. Why don't you go protest with a tiki torch about it?

That’s what you get for being such cancer. You brigade constantly, make out of place political statements, and the more extreme subs call for genocide and murder of anyone who disagrees with you.

If they were making more money instead of lazing around they wouldn't have this problem tbh :^)

so it's official: saudis treat robot women better than actual women

Go. Post somewhere else

here's an interview with the robot

What the fuck is happening with this shit?

Wahey

(you)
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(you)
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Y O U H A V E T O G O B A C K

You can come stay with me oniichans~

Someone's assmad.

Nobody can make me stop liking K-Pop.

Mad about posts?

Destroying K-Pop would be the only good thing coming out of that.

Wait people actually like Korean pop music? I thought this was just some kind of ironic internet thing I didn't get.

Holla Forums on suicide watch

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nothing to see here, my fellow leftists, move along
oh boy more deepstate railroading that the Annoying Orange is gonna bend over and take more of
hahaha wut
oh boy an emergency time to let my civil liberties get fucked up the ass slightly harder because some assclown wants to look like he's making jackshit of a difference
this surely won't spread to every means of transport into and out of the US
great more r/the_cuckold rapefuges incoming

It would be funny tho

But think about the kqts!

That's legitimately a bit funny.

is that all that's left to us, a momentary feeling of smug superiority when the other side gets owned?

aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/number-homeless-tops-record-level-car-171026105535807.html

You know we'll be next, as the violent alt-left

'Violent alt-left'

Strategically it would benefit us if r/the_donald gets banned and becomes so inhospitable that Holla Forums's already reputation gets fucking kicked down the side of the road far enough to fall down a storm drain.

It should be banned not because I necessarily agree or believe why it is be banned, but because it should be banned regardless in interest to us.

We don't have much of a presence on reddit as the "other" kind of leftist. On the contrary, Holla Forums is absolutely infested by reddit, this would just drive it sooo fucking worse. We don't suffer from the same problems.

Terrible taste tbh lads

And I don't care how old he is, HW should be shot in the head already
Here's another article I found interesting concerning potential state response to future crises/happenings
nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/tampa-killer.html

S. Korea is the only place worse than America when it comes to vapid, consumerist culture and K-Pop is its worst embodiment.

Hard to say right now, there's nothing really linking the two together at this point. Shit's just weird, a laptop missing its hard drive…might as well have had a big red name tag on it that said "Hello! I am suspicious."

???

Based Kiwis

tfw Saudi Arabia values Robots over women

What do you expect

Why, some will come here. And /r/the_donald is the worst board to ever exist

Yay another non-issue to keep prols distracted.

Fuck

this

I don’t think the hard drive had pedoshit on it. Why would you care if people found out you were a pedo if you were already dead. It probably has political content such as .pdf on it. He destroyed the hard drive to not cause his ideology to be smeared.

THERE'S NO WAY OUT PORKY, JUST ACCEPT IT

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Much more empathetic than the Saudi royalty.

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Obama is still alive tho???

He no longer has power.

Why does Porky think here in NZ will be safe?
Not to mention we even applauded Trump's attack on that Syrian airfield and the last PM supported the US completely in this NK thing

Not by the hairs of my chinny chin chin.

Because the sheep will protect him.

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wtf /r9k/ and Holla Forums love Saudis now

pls no at least let him finish his emoji language

New Zeeland? Is that the Country with shitty internet or a ban on watersports porn?

Also, there will always be dummy corporation purchases. But that do you expect from a socdem who haven't had any new ideas since 1989?

Wow, even George H W Bush is still more suave than Sam Kriss lmao

>"We understand there are sometimes reasons to post violent content (e.g., educational, newsworthy, artistic, satire, documentary, etc.) so if you're going to post something violent in nature that does not violate these terms, ensure you provide context to the viewer so the reason for posting is clear," the site said.

You have to be delusional to think any mod on Reddit will start banning "violent alt-left" posts

a tinfoil burka

What are you referring to, specifically?

I don't know wether to be laughing or cringeing at the days to come.

no nukes will be automatically fired there, safer from fallout, etc.

does anyone have a complete list of

It would mostly benefit r/the_donald. It might benefit "us" in the sense of "people wanting to spread awareness of the dangers of corporate authoritarianism", but it would simultaneously designate trumpism as the apparent solution, which doesn't exactly help.

Now, reddit banning its "leftists" would be a two birds, one stone scenario.