Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Diomedes]

The Pope came to the United States expressly to congratulate Kim Davis.

[General_Failure]

He was hoping to be her fifth marriage, but she chased him off while yelling about anchor babies.

[ice grillin you]

if you are a communist hippie wanting to destroy merica is there a better song in the world than don henley

[General_Failure]

Trans-Atlantic Data Pact Struck Down by EU's Highest Court

A trans-Atlantic pact that potentially allows U.S. spies to get their hands on European citizens' private data was declared invalid by the EU's highest court, a ruling that threatens to plunge Internet companies into a legal limbo.

Judges at the European Union's top court struck down the so-called safe-harbor accord after an Austrian law student complained about how U.S. security services can gain unfettered access to Facebook Inc. customer information sent to the U.S. The ruling affects more than 4,000 companies, ranging from tech giant Google Inc. to cereal maker Kellogg Co.

Meanwhile, Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Reached, but Faces Scrutiny in Congress

The Pacific accord would phase out thousands of import tariffs as well as other barriers to international trade, like Japanese regulations that keep out some American-made autos and trucks. It also would establish uniform rules on corporations' intellectual property, and open the Internet even in communist Vietnam.

I don't know what definition of "open the internet" they're using, but it doesn't seem to be one that the EFF agrees with. link

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold:

(1) Intellectual Property Chapter: Leaked draft texts of the agreement show that the IP chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users' freedom of speech, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples' abilities to innovate.

(2) Lack of Transparency: The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.

[MDS]

matt drudge evidently hides and doesnt speak....i wish it would stay that way

http://www.mediaite.com/online/matt-drudge-gives-incredibly-rare-interview-to-alex-jones-talks-hillary-sick-america/

[Rome]

Drudge is a douchebag coward.  If liberals were one scintilla the murderous nazis he portrays them to be, he'd be dead by now and so would a walking racist piece of shtein like Alex Jones.  I, for one, wouldn't whip my meatcicle out and piss on either one of them if they were on fire.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Oh snap!!

David Simons tweet in response to Rupert Murdochs

@AoDespair: Did this soulless farg just take it upon himself to define who is black?  Did that just happen in a public forum?

@rupertmurdoch: Ben and Candy Carson terrific.     What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide?  And much else.

[phattymatty]

mccarthy dropped out of speaker race. things are gonna get fun.

[phattymatty]

such a pimp

https://twitter.com/cbrangel/status/652180885891063809/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

[Rome]

The thugs are up in Paul Ryan's ass to run for Speaker.

That's the best they got.   Paul Ryan.

Just nuke us now, already.

[phattymatty]

i didn't know until this happened yesterday that the speaker doesn't even have to be a sitting congressman. they can literally elect anyone. how dumb is that.

[General_Failure]

Doctor's Without Borders Takes Unprecedented Action Against US Military

"This was not just an attack on our hospital—it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated," Liu stated. "These Conventions govern the rules of war and were established to protect civilians in conflicts – including patients, medical workers and facilities. They bring some humanity into what is otherwise an inhumane situation."

MSF has asserted that Saturday's airstrike amounts to nothing less than a war crime. Twenty-two people died in the attack, including 12 MSF staff members and 10 patients, and an additional 37 were wounded.

Since that time, U.S. officials have altered their account of the bombing a total of four times, the most recent explanation given by General John Campbell being that the attack, which was called in by U.S. Special Forces, "mistakenly struck" the hospital. However, MSF has repeatedly said that the U.S. military was aware of the hospital's GPS coordinates.

[General_Failure]

Ankara explosions leave more than 80 dead - officials

After the ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish state broke down in July, Turkey has spiralled into tit-for-tat attacks between the two sides, and tension between Kurds and Turkish nationalists has soared.

Amidst the frenzy of a repeat election in November, it was expected that something dangerous was imminent.

The pro-Kurdish HDP party has blamed the state. That is undoubtedly a reference to the so-called "deep state" often talked about here: a shady mix of nationalist forces either colluding with or supporting the government in power.

The West's vital ally in the Middle East is now facing a perfect storm: deep political polarisation, the bubble of economic success on the brink of bursting, a resumption of violence with the PKK, the threat from Islamic State, and two million Syrian refugees and counting.

[Diomedes]

Post WWI white men meddling coming home to roost.

[phattymatty]

so when ben carson was a not well known mild mannered former scientist he was polling at about 1%. now that everyone clearly knows that he's batshtein insane he rockets up close to the lead.