shyduck posted:

The DPRK News twitter parody guy just ragequit

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/836841236929654784
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/836841317565071361
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/836841964888854531

bird food bathtub posted:

Hasn't McCain been a completely spineless opposition figure who occasionally uses a stern wag of the finger then votes like 99% lock step?

quote:

FORMER VP JOE BIDEN is still hanging around town. He was spotted looking tan and relaxed, sporting a blue blazer Sunday at the Whole Foods on Wisconsin Avenue. He posed for photos with staff, hugged and kissed a staff member who was particularly excited to see him and walked out with groceries and the Sunday New York Times.

quote:

Sweden is to reintroduce conscription due to difficulties filling the ranks on a voluntary basis at a time of increased security concerns, the defence minister has said.

Sweden ended compulsory military service in 2010 but military activity in the Baltic region has increased after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, prompting Sweden to strengthen its military preparedness.

The draft will cover men and women born in 1999 or later, though only a small minority will be selected to serve.

The defence minister said the move was in response to a deteriorating security environment in Europe.

“We have had trouble staffing the military units on a voluntary basis and that needs to be addressed somehow,” Peter Hultqvist told public service radio.

The lack of military preparedness has been exposed in recent years, such as when Russian warplanes carrying out a mock bombing run on Sweden in 2013 caught air defences off guard.

The government’s decision entails the call-up of 4,000 men and women for military training in 2018-19. Hultqvist said motivation would be an important factor when selecting recruits.

facialimpediment posted:

DENIED

https://twitter.com/WaysMeansCmte/status/837344564897857539

facialimpediment posted:

He looks like Crapgame/Rickles from Kelly's Heroes.

Edit: loving hell that's a good custom title pun

CommieGIR posted:

Watch Trump start a w...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/white-house-explores-using-military-force-against-n-korea.html?mid=facebook_nymag


I'm so loving glad I'm outprocessing the guard Saturday.

Third World Reggin posted:

quote:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed Germany on Sunday for its practices reminiscent of the Nazi era after Germany barred Turkish ministers and government officials from attending rallies gathering Turkish citizens in that country, organized within the framework of the constitutional reform referendum scheduled on April 16.

"Germany has gone astray from the path of democracy, its current practices have nothing to do with democracy and even comparable with those of the Nazi regime,'' the Turkish president also said.

"We used to believe that Germany had left its Nazi experience aside, but revivalists prove us wrong. We don't want to see the resurgence of the Nazism,'' Erdoğan added.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

This story is really sparse on the backstory. Are they specifically banning Turkish officials from political speech in Germany, or is it a broad measure against foreign officials?

CommieGIR posted:

Ben Carson was quoted today saying slaves were "Immigrants who came to America seeking new opportunities while working for less"

Jesus gently caress

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

No but seriously is this guy for real?

quote:

According to Ars Technica, Schindler had been on leave since June, after photos a penis, purportedly his, surfaced on Twitter. The photos had been sent to an unnamed woman with whom he had a reportedly consensual relationship, and was highlighted by some as the rare case of apparent revenge porn enacted by a woman against a man.

facialimpediment posted:

Aaaaaaaaaahahahahah

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/839127767660769281

hobbesmaster posted:

Our security is imperiled due to leaking documents like the CIA's list of Japanese style faces.

quote:

Speaking outside his firm's offices in Belgravia, he told the Press Association: "I'm really pleased to be back here working again at the Orbis's offices in London today.

"I'm now going to be focusing my efforts on supporting the broader interests of our company here.
"I'd like to say a warm thank you to everyone who sent me kind messages and support over the last few weeks.

"Just to add, I won't be making any further statements or comments at this time."

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov/status/839613372261941248

I loving love turkey lol

quote:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Dutch as "Nazi remnants and fascists", as a row grows over a cancelled Rotterdam rally.
Earlier, the Dutch government withdrew landing permission for a plane carrying Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu.

He was originally scheduled to speak at Saturday's rally in support of a Yes vote in a referendum which would give Mr Erdogan greatly increased powers.
The rally was banned for security reasons, Rotterdam's mayor said.

"Ban our foreign minister from flying however much you like, but from now on, let's see how your flights will land in Turkey," President Erdogan said at a rally in Istanbul.
Mr Cavusoglu also warned Turkey would impose heavy sanctions if his visit were blocked.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a statement (in Dutch) that the Turkish threat of sanctions made "the search for a reasonable solution impossible".
Therefore the Netherlands was withdrawing landing rights, he said.

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When President Trump welcomes Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to the Oval Office on Tuesday, their meeting will take on a symbolism unlike any he has held so far: The great disrupter confronts the last defender of the liberal world order.

Mr. Trump and Ms. Merkel are poles apart on issues like immigration and trade; they have circled each other warily since the American presidential election. But both sides, officials said, are determined not to let this first meeting devolve into a clash of competing worldviews.

Ms. Merkel has been studying Mr. Trump’s speeches to get an insight into the new president’s thinking. American officials said Mr. Trump would ask the chancellor for advice on how to deal with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whom, after dozens of meetings over her 11 years in power, she knows better than any other leader in the West.

The threat posed by Russia to Europe could give Ms. Merkel and Mr. Trump a sliver of common ground. The Trump administration is demanding that Germany and its other NATO allies increase their military budgets, a message the Germans appear to be taking to heart, even if their spending still falls well short of what the United States would like.

But if Mr. Trump and Ms. Merkel find common cause on NATO, they risk new tensions over trade. Administration officials have railed against Germany’s huge trade surplus with the United States. One of Mr. Trump’s top economic advisers, Peter Navarro, recently accused Germany of exploiting its trading partners by depressing the euro to boost its exports.

TBeats posted:

I wonder what she conclusions she was able to draw.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Yeah, I can't imagine how a female in power would bug Trump in any way and prompt him to be a shithead and/or throw a hissyfit afterwards.

Office Pig posted:

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-seals-f-35s-decapitation-strike-north-korea-2017-3?op=1

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

i personally call him fuckerberg

quote:

The acting president of Brazil has reportedly moved out of his official residence because of “ghosts”.

Michel Temer, who has been running the country since Dilma Rousseff was impeached last year, told a Brazilian news magazine that he and his family were leaving the Alvorada Palace because they found it spooky.

He told Veja magazine: "I felt something strange there. I wasn't able to sleep right from the first night. The energy wasn't good."

"Marcela felt the same thing. Only Michelzinho, who went running from one end to the other, liked it."

He joked that they had even started to wonder whether there were ghosts in the modernist palace which was inaugurated in 1958.

The 76-year-old’s move comes as he is facing mounting pressure as the ongoing corruption scandal facing the Brazilian political elite continues.

Mr Temer is himself facing allegations that he benefited from illegal donations when he and Ms Rousseff ran on the same ticket in 2014.

quote:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied a journalist's claim that his wife once threw him out of a car in a convoy during a row.

Igal Sarna wrote on Facebook two years ago that Sara Netanyahu had stopped the prime minister's fleet on a highway one night and ejected her husband.
But at the start of a libel case on Tuesday, Mr Netanyahu told a court that the journalist's post was a "lie".
Mr Sarna has insisted it was "entirely true" and based on "reliable sources".

The Netanyahus are seeking 280,000 shekels ($76,400; £69,200) in damages.
The couple accuse Mr Sarna of committing an injustice against them in a manner that was "disgusting, cynical, low, mean and inordinate" and intended to "shame... revile them and embarrass them publicly", according to Haaretz newspaper.
The journalist, who works for Yediot Aharonot newspaper, wrote that the prime minister's convoy had stopped on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway. He said that "a not-so-young man" was "ejected in the dark, with shouts" because "one woman doesn't want him to remain with her in the car".

quote:

Trump has an important opportunity to turn the page, seize the initiative and take the fight to our terrorist enemies. To do this, the United States must align ends, ways and means in Afghanistan.

The U.S. objective in Afghanistan is the same now as it was in 2001: to prevent terrorists from using the country’s territory to attack our homeland.

We seek to achieve this objective by supporting Afghan governance and security institutions as they become capable of standing on their own, defending their country and defeating our common terrorist enemies with less U.S. assistance over time.

Doing this successfully requires the right number of people in the right places with the right authorities and the right capabilities. Our assessment, based on our conversations with commanders on the ground, is that a strategy for success will require additional U.S. and coalition forces and more flexible authorities. It will also require sustained support of the Afghan security forces as they develop key capabilities, especially offensive capabilities such as special operations forces and close air support needed to break the stalemate.

Two Finger posted:

i'm certain i remember reading somewhere that zuckerberg is really socially awkward in person

if they were dumb enough to nominate him trump would absolutely take him to pieces in a debate if that's true

Hot Karl Marx posted:

As much as I hate trump I still love his "cause you'd be in jail" slam in the one debate lol

https://youtu.be/AFGiZT-MnI4

Zeris posted:

Trump did say earlier than the strongest unused tool against Norks is China, and that he would leverage them via trade in order to produce better results re: Norks. I guess that's a decent/reasonable approach.

The hacking / sabotage stuff is cool and reminds me of the cold war, but it's just going to buy time until whatever big thing occurs.

Is assassinating KJU off the table still due to devil-you-know reasoning?