In the news thread

Anyone know of the best organisations to donate to help them? Don’t want my money going to an organisation who’ll take most of the donations for admin .

Yeah he’s not going to go without screaming like a little spoiled brat.

What will be even more embarrassing to him is there hasn’t been a one term president since George Bush Snr back in the 80s. Strangely leaders tend to go to war when their popularity is waning, Trump doesn’t seem interested in that and is one of the few presidents to of not dragged America in to another needless war while he’s been in office.

Surely he’s tried though. Stuff with Iran and that

The killing of Qassem Soleimani was looking sketchy for a minute or two but I don’t think he did it to start a war. He has stopped drone strikes because he knew civilians would die. I just don’t think war is on his agenda. Look at him trying to be mates with Kim Jong Un than going down the military route.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/08/04/councilscan-demolish-contaminated-buildings-new-powers-stop/

Saw this on my local news website, smell like an excuse to demolish building for development. Surely it’s cheaper to spray a building? And doesn’t it only last X amount of days?

It stinks

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This is just some clickbait reporting I think. The paragraph is taken from an existing act.

“to impose restrictions or requirements to close contaminated premises; close public spaces in the area of the local authority; detain a conveyance or movable structure; disinfect or decontaminate premises; or order that a building, conveyance or structure be destroyed”

I imagine that the first part is the more relevant bit.

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"President Donald Trump called the suit a “very terrible thing”.

“I think the NRA should move to Texas and lead a very good and beautiful life,” Mr Trump said on Thursday. “Texas would be a great place, or to another state of their choosing.”

Even if that lawsuit is successful and the inevitable appeal is upheld, they’ll just re-group under a different name, with a more aggressive MO.

Republican operatives are helping Kanye to get on the ballot in some states.

I guess they think he will take votes away from Biden.

I guess they’re right.

Considering his wife tried to get him sectioned for his mental health problems it’s pretty fucking awful for that politicians are doing that.

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Yeah, he a proper pawn in all this now.

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I’m not sure they’re are. He’s polling at 2% and I reckon that most of them are probably torn between Trump and Kanye.

He’s probably waiting until October to start campaigning properly, to suit the attention span of the people likely to vote for him.

Kicking off on the streets of Beirut.

I’m sure I watched this when it aired. I’m pretty certain the boy’s mum had asked to be able to say what the murderers had called their son, because it was genuinely shocking to hear that on daytime TV. It was powerful as fuck hearing a grieving mother repeat those words, the last words her son heard, and it made the word ‘nigger’ sound even more repulsive.

If that’s the same thing I’m thinking about I’m not sure why they’re having to apologise. I may be way off though.

It’s complex in that I can understand why people are offended with the word being used on air but also think that the BBC were right to respect the wishes of the family by reporting verbatim the language his attackers used. I suppose this was a way of emphasising that the attack was racially motivated.

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