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The crooks are running the joint. - Dr Gob

F.U.

#centrelinkfail http://huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/12/centrelink-sent-out-20-000-false-robodebts-in-just-a-few-monthsa23205409/

Population https://www.clubofrome.org/

People setting other people on fire

RIP (aka Things Coming to an End ... aka The End Times)

Al-Mu'tassimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah (yes, that's his full name) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbdulHalimofKedah <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangdi-PertuanAgong">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangdi-Pertuan_Agong

The Stacks

A nation of 2 billion https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4259677

Facebook: where we're going, we don't need nations http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/media/facebook-russia/index.html

Vault7 https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

NEWS

SpaceX & the X-37B https://www.space.com/38067-spacex-launches-x-37b-space-plane.html https://www.space.com/75-x-37b-spaceplane.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

Earthquake in Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richtermagnitudescale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentmagnitudescale

No end in sight on N Korea

Massive Russian exercises on Baltic borders (feat: Belarussia)

Assad seems to be losing Syria

Macron seems to be losing France

Merkel might yet hold Deutschland

Brexit in an episode Yes, Minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpS-yBj7gY

Weather and Climate

Cyclones and monsoons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticyclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon

The Day After Tomorrow https://twitter.com/karaschlegl/status/906073510761570304

The New Nation's Capital

Can't spare $100M for a vaccine http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-07/robbie-buchan-case-prompts-call-for-free-meningococcal-b-vaccine/8883024

Some more RIPs

Sir David Robert Ford https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DavidRobertFord

Pat Goodman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Goodman

Wang Hairong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Hairong

Peter Luck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Luck

Gauri Lankesh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauri_Lankesh

The Clock

https://www.gc2018.com/