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[Azeem]

Sri Lankan President fleds after palace stormed by protestors.

[Waylander]

I read the other day inflation runnng at 70% in Turkey and 68% in Argentina. 

[nudge]

58 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

Sri Lankan President fleds after palace stormed by protestors.

Only armed with a banana, too  

[Azeem]

A lot of problems of humanity are simply because of this innate desire to see others become poor after you become rich.

They should study brains of dead corrupt oligarchs, I'm sure there must be some kind of swelling due to excessive wealth that makes them numb in the skull. 

[6666]

The pictures from all these "insurrections" are always fun.

[Azeem]

 

Edited July 10, 2022 by Aladdin

[Azeem]

Twitter will sue Musk over backing off from $40 billion purchase deal. 

[Waylander]

Protests growing in Europe over farming, started with the Netherlands and seems to be targeted at a supra-national group named as the World Economic forum under the umbrella of the EU. 

https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-fire-burning-in-holland-begins

[Azeem]

I don't know about UK but most such stories from US are teenagers who only join military as a last resort to fix their life, they are clearly not fit to function properly in a society; given free hand with fancy weapons.

[Rab]

58 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

I don't know about UK but most such stories from US are teenagers who only join military as a last resort to fix their life, they are clearly not fit to function properly in a society; given free hand with fancy weapons.

Funny you say that because I used to play games with a guy that was always a bit strange and doing weird stuff. Never really had any direction on what he was doing and is now part of the US military.

[nudge]

So the Sri Lankan president was supposed to step down today, but he fled the country instead and left the PM (whom he assigned as a PM a while ago after the former PM resigned due to the pressure from the people) as the acting president. There's now a curfew/emergency situation again, while the protesters occupied the PM's office and the party leaders had a meeting, asking the PM to resign immediately. Certain opposition leaders appealed to the Army personel/police/special forces to ignore any order from the PM or the president, and not to use force against the protesters. This is all not very helpful as the country is currently in talks with IMF, World Bank, and whoever the fuck is willing to talk to them in general, hoping to find the solution to restructuring the debt and getting the country back on track. 

[Waylander]

The reporter on this is Indian and thinks this is the end game for the EU. I don't agree though may cause a problem with the Netherlands at least.

On another link one Netherlands MP said what made this worse was that council officials were pointing to farms saying when that ones goes we can build hotel accomodation for illegal asylum seekers.

Now if that view goes mainstream I would expect the government to fall.

https://www.brighteon.com/6072b5b6-267e-46cd-a093-d0c2b992b444

 

[MUFC]

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/18/london-met-police-officer-filmed-punching-black-man-in-lewisham-17021081/amp/

[Azeem]

Nuclear Threat Initiative, non-governmental organization's mapping of nuclear material mishaps and trafficking incidents.

And to say something and someone other than these powers are the biggest threat to 'world peace'. 

https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/overview-of-the-cns-global-incidents-and-trafficking-database/

[Bluewolf]

Immortality Pill rejected by two thirds of Americans study finds... and let's be honest I think the majority of the rest of the world will probably be relieved about that.. 

A new study has found that the majority of Americans would choose not to take a pill that would make them immortal. Roughly 900 people were asked whether they’d take a pill which would allow them to live forever at their current age. According to research published in the Journal of Aging Studies, only around 33 per cent of the people surveyed said yes.

Around 42 per cent said they wouldn’t take the pill, while 25 per cent said they weren’t sure.

Interestingly, as PsychNewsDaily states, the people fell into three separate age categories, but all voted in a similar way.

There were young people between the ages of 18 and 29, as well as seniors with an average age of 72 and an older bracket with an average age of 88 who all took part.

The figures were consistent across the three groups, but they did have differing opinions on which age they’d ideally be frozen at – with the 88-year-olds, perhaps understandably, stating they’d like to be frozen at a younger age than they were.

 

 

 

 

[nudge]

23 minutes ago, Bluewolf said:

Immortality Pill rejected by two thirds of Americans study finds... and let's be honest I think the majority of the rest of the world will probably be relieved about that.. 

A new study has found that the majority of Americans would choose not to take a pill that would make them immortal. Roughly 900 people were asked whether they’d take a pill which would allow them to live forever at their current age. According to research published in the Journal of Aging Studies, only around 33 per cent of the people surveyed said yes.

Around 42 per cent said they wouldn’t take the pill, while 25 per cent said they weren’t sure.

Interestingly, as PsychNewsDaily states, the people fell into three separate age categories, but all voted in a similar way.

There were young people between the ages of 18 and 29, as well as seniors with an average age of 72 and an older bracket with an average age of 88 who all took part.

The figures were consistent across the three groups, but they did have differing opinions on which age they’d ideally be frozen at – with the 88-year-olds, perhaps understandably, stating they’d like to be frozen at a younger age than they were.

There can only be one! 

[Stan]

1 hour ago, Bluewolf said:

Immortality Pill rejected by two thirds of Americans study finds... and let's be honest I think the majority of the rest of the world will probably be relieved about that.. 

A new study has found that the majority of Americans would choose not to take a pill that would make them immortal. Roughly 900 people were asked whether they’d take a pill which would allow them to live forever at their current age. According to research published in the Journal of Aging Studies, only around 33 per cent of the people surveyed said yes.

Around 42 per cent said they wouldn’t take the pill, while 25 per cent said they weren’t sure.

Interestingly, as PsychNewsDaily states, the people fell into three separate age categories, but all voted in a similar way.

There were young people between the ages of 18 and 29, as well as seniors with an average age of 72 and an older bracket with an average age of 88 who all took part.

The figures were consistent across the three groups, but they did have differing opinions on which age they’d ideally be frozen at – with the 88-year-olds, perhaps understandably, stating they’d like to be frozen at a younger age than they were.

 

 

 

 

I'm guessing they had no idea what immortality was. 

[Spike]

5 hours ago, Stan said:

I'm guessing they had no idea what immortality was. 

Or they are aware that being immortal leads to a 100% possibility of eventually getting trapped somewhere.

[MUFC]

 

[nudge]

Myanmar junta has executed four democracy activists/political prisoners by hanging. Ko Jimmy, 53, a veteran of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, 41, a former hip hop star and National League for Democracy MP, as well as two others (Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw). Their families have been refused access to their bodies for funeral.

 

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/black-day-for-myanmar-as-nation-mourns-executed-democracy-heroes.html

[MUFC]

 

[Azeem]

China is making very aggressive postures about Nancy Pelosi's potential visit to Taiwan. American, Russian and Chinese deep states are all paranoid right now ! daring each other over these meaningless power shows.

[Azeem]

1 hour ago, Aladdin said:

China is making very aggressive postures about Nancy Pelosi's potential visit to Taiwan. American, Russian and Chinese deep states are all paranoid right now ! daring each other over these meaningless power shows.

 

[Azeem]

Pelosi is off to Taiwan after all

[Carnivore Chris]

Germany close to completely legalising cannabis  @Tommy

Edited August 3, 2022 by Carnivore Chris