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RE: News from your Country - Jay Coop - 08-08-2017
Glen Campbell has passed away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Campbell
RE: News from your Country - Libera Publica - 08-10-2017
In New Zealand we are currently in the midst of campaigning for the 2017 General Election. Usually it's quite boring, full of nothing but politicians sending us all to sleep with their empty promises and inflated egos, but this year has been very interesting indeed.
Already we have had the leader of the main Opposition Party (Labour) resign, and been replaced by a young female with virtually no experience [1] - and they are now rocketing up the polls (honeymoon effect?) [2], the leader of the Government Party (National) is embroiled in a scandal over a junior MP that illegally taped conversations and the Prime Minister allegedly used his parliamentary budget to pay hush money to the victim of the illegal taping, and the junior MP is resigning in disgrace [3], and lastly a major third party (Greens) had a co-leader declare she had defrauded the Government of welfare payments 20 years ago when a beneficiary. She sought to start a discussion about poverty - instead she unleashed a public outcry over her fraud. It was then discovered by the media that she had committed electoral fraud as well by registering at an address at which she did not live. She refused to resign so two senior members of that party resigned in protest over her [4]. They were ejected from the party, but two days after that the co-leader resigned herself after polls showed her party's popularity plummeting [5].
It's been an interesting few weeks ..... just over six weeks to go .....
Links:
[1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11897447
[2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95630696/nz-election-just-how-good-is-this-poll-for-labour
[3] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/94084270/pm-bill-english-grilled-over-barclay-scandal-told-to-front-up-and-tell-us-what-you-know
[4] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95542553/two-green-mps-threaten-to-quit-over-metiria-turei
[5] http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/08/metiria-turei-resigns-as-green-co-leader.html
RE: News from your Country - RandomGuy199 - 08-10-2017
Wow. I never thought New Zealand was capable of producing that amount of insanity
RE: News from your Country - Libera Publica - 08-12-2017
Me neither, but here we are
We've outdone ourselves this electoral cycle 
RE: News from your Country - Hammerstar - 08-13-2017
Is anyone worried of the Doklam Crisis
(I sometimes believe that my 4th birthplace is China)
RE: News from your Country - Griffindor - 08-13-2017
In Virginia, 1 person died and multiple were injured after a white nationalist plowed his car into a crowd of white nationalist and counter protesters. Later, a police helicopter in the area, monitoring the protest, crashed killing two police officers.
www.cnn.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-car-crash/index.html
RE: News from your Country - Jay Coop - 09-05-2017
Rohingya Muslims face persecution and genocide at the hands of Buddhist extremists in Myanmar.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41146706
RE: News from your Country - Jay Coop - 09-05-2017
Hurricane Irma threatens Caribbean islands and U.S. East Coast.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/us/hurricane-irma-puerto-rico-florida/index.html
RE: News from your Country - RandomGuy199 - 09-05-2017
Crap, two in a row. That's really bad luck. Hope it's not as bad as Harvey.
RE: News from your Country - Jay Coop - 09-05-2017
(09-05-2017, 08:51 PM)RandomGuy199 Wrote: Crap, two in a row. That's really bad luck. Hope it's not as bad as Harvey.
Harvey, at its strongest, was a Category 4 hurricane. At this moment, Irma is a Category 5 and current projections have it staying at or above Category 4 from now to Saturday. Puerto Rico and nearby islands will be hit when Irma is a Category 5. If Cuba gets hit, projections have Irma at Category 4. On CNN, a meteorologist pointed out that the waters near Florida are warmer than the waters that Irma is travelling on now, so it is expected to get stronger upon approach to Florida.
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