2017.10.17 We're All Going to Die, But How Soon?

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. - maybe Voltaire


Show Notes


Quote

"The bigger the lie, the more they believe" - Detective William "The Bunk" Moreland, The Wire

F.U.

MH370 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/mh370-companies-approach-malaysia-restarting-new-search-for-plane

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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist

Lots of people in Mogadishu, Somalia http://www.dw.com/en/somalia-bombing-death-toll-from-explosion-in-capital-mogadishu-tops-250/a-40958028

Choirul Huda http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41630244

LNP hopes of reelection (still)

"Base Load" http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-12/renewable-energy-baseload-power/9033336

Kissinger Watch

https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-trumps-friend-kissinger-steering-him-from-calm-to-storm/5613454

NEWS

Catalonia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/madrid-jails-catalan-separatist-leaders-jordi-cuixart-and-jordi-sanchez-pending-investigation

Kurds and Iraq

WPA2 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/16/wpa2-wifi-security-vulnerable-hacking-us-government-warns

Weather and Climate

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/storm-ophelia-irish-leader-urges-citizens-to-stay-indoors-during-national-emergency

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/16/california-wildfire-death-toll-recovery

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/portugal-spain-wildfires-forest-fires-ophelia-villages-evacuated

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/return-of-ocean-chimney-the-size-of-tasmania-puzzles-antarctic-scientists-20171011-gyz9z1.html

http://www.smh.com.au/world/in-china-the-war-on-coal-just-got-serious-20171011-gyyvi6.html

Stacks

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjv9jz/apple-ios-11-repair-screens-software-update

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/this-is-not-a-drill-microsoft-admits-windows-phone-is-dead-for-real/amp/

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/oculus-go-1202587073/

https://www.axios.com/congress-questions-for-facebook-2495646183.html

Seppo Land

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/16/trump-us-opioid-crisis-national-emergency

SPORT

Peter Norman http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016-olympic-friendships-john-carlos-peter-norman-tommie-smith-mexico-city-1968-black-power-7166771.html http://www.wanderfularts.com/the-salute-that-shocked-the-world-and-helped-change-a-nation/

The Clock

Listener sent in a press release about the Longines Clock ... thanks ... http://www.medianet.com.au/releases/145318/

https://www.gc2018.com/



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