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All cultures forged by nations--the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania--are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.

The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle Subcomandante Marcos

RIP

Brother Number 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuon_Chea

Mass Shootings in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

• Current high score?
• 8chan
• Export of violence
• Uruguay travel warning

Nikolai Kardashev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kardashev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

Damian Lovelock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Lovelock https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-03/celibate-rifles-frontman-damien-lovelock-dead/11373500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MsDb41NOU

Let's not forget Yemen ... 36 people in the attack that killed this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir_Al_Yafi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Movement

Pakistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Ali_Khan http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/season8/ustad-hamid-ali-khan.html

... and China https://medium.com/@farooqtirmizi/cpec-is-dead-somebody-tell-beijing-9e18a891ff0b

Hamza (location unknown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_bin_Laden

F.U.

Sudan https://news.yahoo.com/sudan-deal-defuses-threat-slide-chaos-093951684.html

Democracy Sausage

Small target strategy

Casinos

Gas market intervention

Facebook abrogates https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/31/facebook-says-it-was-not-our-role-to-remove-fake-news-during-australian-election https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/01/revealed-johnson-allys-firm-secretly-ran-facebook-propaganda-network

Things

CPAC

Melbourne Train Strike https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/city-file/article/melbournians-catch-two-days-free-trains-august-part-industrial-action

Ancestral admixture in hominins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_(hybrid_hominin) https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/tibetans-inherited-a-high-altitude-gene-from-ancient-denisovans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates#/media/File:Population_curve.svg

Speaking of hybrids ... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/03/first-human-monkey-chimera-raises-concern-among-scientists

Stacks

Google Not OK in Euro ... https://www.businessinsider.com/google-stops-audio-reviews-europe-privacy-concerns-2019-8

... or to women https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nmkx/google-employee-alleges-discrimination-against-pregnant-women-in-viral-memo

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Cricket

Overwatch https://www.esports.net/news/overwatch/world-cup-roster-round-up/

Gob B https://www.esports.net/news/csgo/gob-b-retires-big-restructure-team/

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