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(04-17-2017, 09:20 PM)Qvait Wrote: So, have you guys and gals heard about what happened with United Airlines? Despicable. Indeed a week or so ago. Yeah, despicable, but at least it went to memes like this only two days later: [Image: blhbq3na.jpg]
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Gianluca IV Roleplayer (active in TSP since 2016) TSPedia-Author Head Bartender of the Lampshade Bar & Grill Information about my roleplay Pacifica GI-Land, Snolland (Hazelbrust), Guardian of the World Forum, IUFA-FWC/WFWC- and Pacivision Supervisor • Aurora Markatt (Maura) I woke up to a lot of news today. I haven't seen so much news in quite a while. In sports news, former (American) football player Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd, was found dead in his prison cell in what was an apparent suicide. Also in sports, tennis star Serena Williams is 20 weeks pregnant. In political news, Congressman Jason Chaffetz announced that he will not run for reelection. In a Georgia special election, Democrat Jon Ossoff failed to win 50% of the vote, forcing a top-two runoff against Republican Karen Handel. In media news, Bill O'Reilly will no longer be working for Fox News after a series of sexual harassment allegations.
"Aaron Hernandez found dead after hanging in prison cell" (ESPN) http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19191...rison-cell "Deleted Snapchat post indicates Serena Williams is pregnant" (Sports Illustrated) https://www.si.com/swim-daily/2017/04/19...nouncement "Jason Chaffetz, Powerful House Republican, Won’t Run in 2018" (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/po...sight.html "Ossoff falls just short in Georgia special election as GOP gets wakeup call" (CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/g...index.html "Sources: Fox News Has Decided Bill O’Reilly Has to Go" (New York) http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...to-go.html
I just pose the question here too: Would anyone be interested in a (daily) news overview here (Thanks @Qvait for giving me the idea for it
 ) or do you like this "system" we have now better (Like: Only the news, the user founds interesting enough to post here, gets posted here and the rest you already take/took from your sources anyway)?
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Gianluca IV Roleplayer (active in TSP since 2016) TSPedia-Author Head Bartender of the Lampshade Bar & Grill Information about my roleplay Pacifica GI-Land, Snolland (Hazelbrust), Guardian of the World Forum, IUFA-FWC/WFWC- and Pacivision Supervisor • Aurora Markatt (Maura)
Yeah that'd be good.
John Hills- President of Ausstan
Ok. I volunteer for it and will give a summary of the top news I've heard of throughout the day - hopefully daily
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Gianluca IV Roleplayer (active in TSP since 2016) TSPedia-Author Head Bartender of the Lampshade Bar & Grill Information about my roleplay Pacifica GI-Land, Snolland (Hazelbrust), Guardian of the World Forum, IUFA-FWC/WFWC- and Pacivision Supervisor • Aurora Markatt (Maura)
News from Germany, 24th April 2017
The new report of the crime statistics by the police of Germany was published and presented by the minister of the interior Thomas de Maizière. The number of politically motivated crimes rised in 2016 again, especially crimes related to right-wing extremism and political motivated crimes by foreigners. In Hanover the "Deutschland-Dinner", organised by the "Handelsblatt" took place. One guest was Siemens-boss Joe Kaeser, who stated, that Trump would really want to do the best for the US. The Siemens-stock rose to an all-time high. The USA imposes sanctions on 271 Syrian government employees and scientists as a reaction on the recent toxic gas attack, Assad allegedly has done. Horst Seehofer, prime minister of Bavaria, wants to candidate as such and as head of the CSU-party (Christian-Socially Union) again. Joachim Herrmann will be the CSU's candidate for the federal elections in September. A 23 year old German-Turkish medicine student, who worked as a doctor for IS in Rakka, admitted to have worked together with the terror organisation. Furthermore he gave important information on the vice-head of IS in Germany, Abu Walaa, so he could get imprisoned. The 23 year old man fled voluntarily from IS and is now part of a witness protection program. After the first round of the French Presidential Elections, the German stock exchange "DAX" rose high. Especially banks like "Deutsche Bank" made big wins after the election. The WTA-tournament in Instanbul started with a loss for German tennis star Andrea Petkovic. She lost against the Ukrainian Dajana Jastremska with 6:3, 0:6, 3:6. New Orleans got rid of its first out of four confederate statues, that would have been a symbol for the former south's racist policies. Seven years after the mass panic on the Loveparade in Duisburg, the organisators now stand trial. 21 Persons were killed because of organsational errors during the mass panic. Esperanza Aguirre, a former Spanish minister for education, former councilwoman of Madrid and former party spokesman of the parliament in Madrid resigned from her offices after a corruption scandal. Today it was Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. Fitting to this, the antisemitism report was published for Germany and sadly jews don't feel safe in Germany. Verbal antisemitism and insults are unfortunately common throughout all parts of the populace, especially when it comes to persons with a right-wing ideology. Physical attacks increased too and are mainly popular among muslims. Marine Le Pen resigned from her position as party leader of the Front National. She wants to stand above party interests and gain as many voters as possible for the final ballott in May. French authorities are investigating against the PSA-group, because of suspicions regarding faking the exhaust values of their diesel-vehicles like Volkswagen did. And last but not least some football news: In the 2nd Bundesliga the top game between the aspirants for the promotion to the 1st Bundesliga VfB Stuttgart and 1. FC Union Berlin ended 3:1 in favor of Stuttgart. Stuttgart solidfied with that win its 1st place, while Union Berlin still has to fight, if the team wants to overtake Hanover and get the third place, which would lead to the relegation against the 16th place of the 1st Bundesliga.
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Gianluca IV Roleplayer (active in TSP since 2016) TSPedia-Author Head Bartender of the Lampshade Bar & Grill Information about my roleplay Pacifica GI-Land, Snolland (Hazelbrust), Guardian of the World Forum, IUFA-FWC/WFWC- and Pacivision Supervisor • Aurora Markatt (Maura)
Actually, I might do that. Sorry for stealing your idea, but I actually prefer this. This way we can throw up many topics, and still talk about what we feel is an important issue.
Gimme a few minutes to find stuff, I live in a former convict colony on a small rock in the middle of the pacific which has slower internet than Romania. No jokes.
John Hills- President of Ausstan
The Aussie news. It is largely Aussie stuff to do with Anzac Day, which is today. Today commemorates the sacrifice made by the Aussie and New Zealand Army Corps, in particular in the landing at Gallipoli, on the 25th of April 1915. It is probably the third or fourth biggest holiday in Australia.
News from Australia Trump warns North Korea to stop nuclear tests and calls for UN to toughen the sanctions on them. http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/lead...b5535a6f2c Australia celebrates ANZAC day http://www.news.com.au/national/australi...0396f69389 New evidence of cruelty from the Syrian Government http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east...f975f8f4f1 Marine Le Pen leaves the National Front to attract more voters http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/lead...37be587120 North Korea talk their forces up, compare US ships to "gross animal" http://www.news.com.au/world/north-ameri...f006071acd Barack Obama enjoys retirement http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/lead...ffbf6ad598 Independent right wing mocks major right-wing party ally, supports slightly tougher border control. http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/lead...4a67358010 Bloody good game of AFL, with my beloved Richmond Tigers winning a stunning come from behind game against Melbourne Demons in front of a huge 85,000 people. http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/richmon...845802d9ce Very Aussie centred, but hey, I'm Aussie Also, sorry its a bit biased, in particular the last one!
John Hills- President of Ausstan
I think, that's the point ^^
Our news are of course "from our country" and that it is politically and otherwise biased is normal too (even though my sources are everything from right-wing (Focus) to left-wing (SZ) thanks to Twitter).
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Gianluca IV Roleplayer (active in TSP since 2016) TSPedia-Author Head Bartender of the Lampshade Bar & Grill Information about my roleplay Pacifica GI-Land, Snolland (Hazelbrust), Guardian of the World Forum, IUFA-FWC/WFWC- and Pacivision Supervisor • Aurora Markatt (Maura)
News from Germany, 25th April 2017
Politics Russian hackers try to impair Macron before the final ballott against Le Pen. Source: SZ W20-Summit with Ivanka Trump and Angela Merkel - Talks about women's rights, emancipation etc. Source: Twitter Martin Schulz (SPD) criticised the right-wing party AfD for their demand at their members to leave the church. Source: Welt The Turkish airforce attacks the Kurdish YPG in Syria and Iraq. Kills 20 people. Source: Taz Netanyahu, president of Israel, cancels the meeting with German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) after he talked to government opponents. Source: Spiegel The FBI ran a couple of child porn websites illegally and gave users viruses on their computers. Source: reason.com/Edward Snowden on Twitter In Italy the people celebrated the end of national socialistic fascism again. Source: Reddit Culture Elton John had to cancel his gigs in California after a severe, bacterial infection. Source: FAZ Albert Uderzo, inventor of the "Asterix" comic series, celebrated his 90th birthday! Source: Spiegel Angela Merkel received the Elie-Wiesel-Price 2017 for he commitment against the oblivion of the Holocaust. The Elie-Wiesel-Price is the highest award by the American Holocaust Museum. Source: FAZ Mikayla Holmgren will be the first contestant with Down-Syndrome, who may be part of the Miss USA pageant. Source: BBC The "International Games Week" opens in Berlin. Source: Berliner Morgenpost Disney announced the release date for Star Wars 9. It'll be the 24th May 2019. Source: Berliner Morgenpost TV Angela Merkel (CDU) and Martin Schulz (SPD) will come together for a TV-debate on the 3rd September 2017. It will be broadcasted simultaneously on ARD, ZDF, RTL and SAT.1. Source: Berliner Morgenpost Torsten Albig (SPD) and Daniel Günther (CDU) got together in a TV-debate today for the elections in Schleswig-Holstein in a few weeks. A spectator claimed, that Günther would have called her a "Ver.di-bitch" (Ver.di is one of the biggest labor unions in Germany). Source: Berliner Morgenpost Sports/Football John Anthony Brooks, a football player of Hertha BSC and of the US' national team, is injured and won't play the next few games. Source: Hertha BSC on Twitter In an exciting DFB-Cup-semi-final Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach with 8:7 (after penalty shootout). Source: Bundesliga on Twitter In the French-Cup-semi-final SCO Angers won 2:0 against EA Guingamp.
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