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Brexit: Britain votes to leave EU in historic divorce


June 24, 2016

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And, in my favorite news story of the day:

###MSN News: Alarmed Britons Ask Pollsters: Why Didn’t You Warn Us?
June 24, 2016

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People were very much on the wrong side of this news. That deep dark hole sure is dark.

Well here we go again. Our stock market plunged 611 points on the day and may get worse.

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…“True Breleavers”. Got out of the EU* and got rid of Cameron. A real bargain, a two-fer :slight_smile:

The UK will be fine on its own, it’s one of the few countries that was keeping the EU afloat, and it was smart enough to not adopt the Euro.

Humorously, now Scotland is ruing that it didn’t vote for independence during its earlier referendum.

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###MSN News: Islamic State prime suspect after suicide bombers kill 41 at Istanbul airport
June 29, 2016

###Dhaka cafe attack: Bangladeshis mourn hostages, officers killed
Updated 3:37 PM ET, Sun July 3, 2016 / by Madison Park, Farid Ahmed and Steve Visser / CNN

###Bangladesh mourns victims of Dhaka cafe attack
3 July 2016 / BBC

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

###Revealed: Heroic Emory student REFUSED ISIS terrorists’ offer to leave besieged Dhaka cafe to stay and be slaughtered with his two female friends
Published: 11:49 EST, 3 July 2016 | Updated: 15:36 EST, 3 July 2016 / Daily Mail

###Family, officials seethe at deaths of 7 Japanese in Dhaka cafe
July 3, 2016 at 17:00 JST / The Asahi Shimbun

###Government flies bereaved family members to Bangladesh
July 3, 2016 at 19:26 JST / The Asahi Shimbun

###Families of Japanese victims arrive in Dhaka on official plane
July 4, 2016 at 13:40 JST / The Asahi Shimbun

###Uniqlo to halt business trips to Bangladesh after attack
July 4, 2016 at 12:15 JST / Reuters / The Asahi Shimbun

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###MSN News: Accepting queen’s invite, Theresa May is now Britain’s leader
July 13, 2016

That was fast.

I’m not sure how smooth this will be as I hear that Theresa May isn’t much of a Brexiter and that battle is still going on (though she picked some Brexiters for key positions) but I’m a bit surprised at how fast they were able to transition, and that Cameron actually stepped down.

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It was fast. Teresa was the only remaining candidate left, so it ended up being her. This becomes the second time in Britian’s history to have a woman PM.

She was part of the “remain” camp but she explicitly said that out means out, so in the midst of political chaos, she’ll have some very difficult decisions to make as they leave the EU.

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Sometimes it’s best to have a person who doesn’t want to do a particular job be the one that does the work. Hopefully PM May will handle the Brexit with greater caution and diligence than might have otherwise been the case.

Mark Gosdin

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At least 84 killed in ‘monstrous’ terror attack on holiday crowd in Nice, France

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/14/truck-plows-into-crowd-in-nice-france-sending-pedestrians-fleeing.html
July 15, 2016

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###A stunned Japan tries to grapple with the emperor’s wish
July 16, 2016 at 18:00 JST / The Asahi Shimbun

###Hastings Entertainment to be liquidated by Oct. 31
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 8:23 PM

####Glowface

Also of Viacom-related note: On Aug. 1st (35 years to the day of MTV’s launch), the VH1 Classic channel will be replaced by MTV Classic.

12:25 PM - 24 Jul 2016

####Glowface

MTV Classic’s first hour 8/1 at 6am will be MTV’s first hour from 1981. The channel will also repeat tons of older MTV series.

12:26 PM - 24 Jul 2016

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###Emperor to talk about his feeling on abdication in August
July 29, 2016 at 17:20 JST / The Asahi Shimbun

###China’s nuclear power ambitions sailing into troubled waters
July 31, 2016 at 15:00 JST / The Associated Press / The Asahi Shimbun

It’s interesting that the Chinese are borrowing our nuclear technology to build reactors willy-nilly when we aren’t building new plants, or even expanding old ones, despite needing the power.

Maybe instead of putting a nuclear reactor onto an oil rig it’d be wiser to find a way to have it pipe up natural gas and run itself off of that?

Alternatively, maybe Duterte, ROC, Abe and the next POTUS can team up to nip this in the bud by pushing China back into its own waters?


August 3, 2016

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Flamingos are inoffensive animals, I don’t understand why someone would do such a thing.

Mark Gosdin

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Rage toward a flamingo? That is not only just sad, but a new low. So tragic.

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