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polfag here

numerous nationwide polish media outlets are talking about Obama being concerned about polish democracy:

http://www.newsweek.pl/polska/szczyt-nato-w-warszawie-barack-obama-andrzej-duda,artykuly,388674,1.html

http://www.rp.pl/Szczyt-NATO/160619986-Barack-Obama-chce-rozmawiac-o-polskiej-demokracji-w-czasie-szczytu-NATO.html

http://natemat.pl/184675,obama-publicznie-gani-dude-i-pis-za-to-co-wyprawiaja-w-polsce-demokracja-to-nie-tylko-slowa

http://wyborcza.pl/1,75398,20372150,szczyt-nato-w-warszawie-obama-powiedzialem-szczerze-prezydentowi.html

There has been a lot of talk lately about polish government/poland rocking the boat, trying to infringe on democratic values. However, most of the people who hasnt been keeping watch on polish political stage - aka majority of the world including poles, might not be aware that its just a part of a political struggle between 2 major parties trying to get back at each other. Theres been a major shift about a year ago in which new establishment won election resulting in demotion of old ruling establishment to opposition status. As always, such change is followed by new ruling party "extracting" all the important political and cushy posts (given the fact that Im 25 Ive witnessed about 3 similar transitions).

Alas, neither political party is interested in changing status quo or democracy for that matter. This is compounded by the fact that all major polish political parties have the same centrist political agenda. No wonder political debate here frequently ends up in name calling - there are almost no major political issues on which those parties disagree on. We dont have any truly left-wing or right-wing representative bodies getting more than 2% votes in the elections. Everybody tries to maintain neutral stance, avoiding any real talk. You can expect it to quiet down in the following years, until the next transition of power of course - 4 or 8 years from now.

>>57295

sounds like political power in your country landed in the hands of oligarchs and they just do whole political business behind the closed door.

>>57302
this.
in 2014 election there was 2mln invalid votes from 12mln voters.
So someone got too much votes...

>>55979
feelgood story of the year, thanks /news/team

> /news/team

It like I just washed a whole month's worth of terrible news off my face.

>>56690
>“I’m not going to give up on this — it needs to be resolved one way or the other,” Mr Smith told The Australian. “Julian is an Australian and Australians should be treated fairly. This is only going to get worse and worse for them (Sweden and the US).”

>Mr Assange moved into the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in June 2012, to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, which he denies and claims are politically driven. He was subsequently granted political asylum by Ecuador.

>Mr Assange claimed that if he was extradited the Swedes would hand him over to the US, to be prosecuted over the WikiLeaks release of classified American documents.

>Mr Smith believes the subsequent stand-off has taken a toll on Mr Assange and that the US needs to resolve it by declaring emphatically it has no intention of seeking his extradition, and Sweden should send police to interview him in London.

>“This time I saw him, he looked very white — he hasn’t seen the sun for four years,” Mr Smith said. “This needs to be resolved.

>“If I found some classified documents, I would give them to our government. But you need people like Assange, because governments don’t always do the right thing. We need whistleblowers.”

>Mr Smith warned there would be “horrendous” consequences for the Australia-American relationship if Mr Assange was taken into custody by the US, and threatened to target Swedish companies such as Ikea and the Saab aerospace and defence group.

>In his letter to US Ambassador John Berry, which he also sent to Swedish Ambassador Par Ahlberger, Mr Smith links Sweden’s role in the Assange stand-off to its desire to protect its arms trade, and likens that to the country’s “immoral” conduct during World War II.
...

>>56693
>“Sweden continued to supply iron ore to Germany throughout the Second World War, while young Australians and Americans were being killed trying to defend Europe,” Mr Smith’s letter says.

>Neither ambassador responded to requests for comment yesterday. Mr Smith said he had a record of helping to secure the release of Australians detained in controversial circumstances, having campaigned for David Hicks, who was released from Guantánamo Bay in 2007, and asylum seeker Peter Qasim, who was freed from detention in 2005.

>>56690
>and revealed he had toyed with the idea of using a helicopter to airlift the Australian from the embassy.
FUND IT

It's clear the rash of mass shootings is the due to copycats. It's becoming "normalized". The less we react to it because of overexposure and desensitization, the more "acceptable" it seems. In essence, it's become part of our culture.

sure is right wing SJW in here

>>57194
>sure is group I don't like in here
Summer my newfriends, Summer is here.

>>57131
>judicialwatch
Are you kidding? Do you even know who they are?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fitton#Controversy

>>57132
I didn't see anything there that other sources haven't/wouldn't try. It's not like he killed babies.

Although politifact rated his accusations 'mostly false,' and they're always spot on. Id like to see where the 'mostly' comes from.

>>57131
>>>57132
>Although politifact rated his accusations 'mostly false,' and politifact is always spot on. Id like to see where the 'mostly' comes from.
Let me clear that up, my bad.

>>55402
>Hyde admits he has been questioned by law enforcement over the Twitter rumors, but won’t go into detail. Friends and family members have also been fooled into thinking he is a violent gunman. Hyde explained in an email
>My wife’s boyfriend (open relationship) heard it from the news first and so he and my wife’s son were both scared silly for a few days before everything was explained. I also got a call from my rabbi frantically trying to talk me out of doing anything more violent until finally I managed to explain to him that it was a hoax
>wife's bf
>wife's son
>rabbi
IS THIS MAN TRULY THE LAST PARAGON GENIOUS OF OUR GENERATION??

Sam Hyde is the living product of memes. I cant tell if I love him or hate him. It's like he's hilarious but completely retarded at the same time.

>>55416
>The writer had to add an addendum to the article after they realized Sam was just fucking with them
Sam is a hero.

>>53615
Obvious...

>>53615
Looks like they're writing a GUI in VB as we speak

>>53615
the average sever will "collect" (log) ip addresses without a warrant, both for statistic and protecting themselves from abusers, why would the authorities need a special permit to do so in their investigations?

Martial law in 3... 2...

Haha just messing
As if they need to 'officially declare' it

>>57010
^this

oh look - its literally nothing.

>Sturm, Ruger & Company stocks also rose the morning after the Dallas shooting, reaching a midday trading high Friday of $68.14, up from its closing price on Thursday of $65. Taser International, which produces non-lethal stun devices and Axon body cameras used by police departments nationwide, also opened higher on Friday at $26.99, up from its previous closing price of $25.77. Digitally Ally, another body camera maker, opened at $6.57, up from its Thursday closing price of $4.13.

>John Blank, chief equity strategist for Zacks Investment Research, points out "This is the share price pattern on days like this,” noting that both Sturm and Smith & Wesson received a similar-sized boost after the mass shooting in Orlando in June that killed 49 people.

>“In short, more public shootings with guns in the news headlines apparently means more demand for guns,” Blank says. “I assume the idea is everyday people in America go out and buy more guns to protect themselves when they see this kind of public gun-driven chaos out there.”

>Fears that the Obama administration will increase gun control have also spurred sales of guns and increases in their share values throughout his term. Smith & Wesson’s stock has risen steadily from 3.59 in July 2011 to Friday's opening of $29.74. During that same time Sturm’s share price has grown from $23.37 to $67.62.

>President Barack Obama condemned the Dallas shootings as "a vicious, calculated, and despicable attack on law enforcement," and repeated his plea for awareness about the risks of gun violence that accompany easy access to weapons.

>"When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately, it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic," he said Friday during a summit in Poland. "In the days ahead, we will have to consider those realities as well. In the meantime, today, our focus is on the victims and their families."

more coverage:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/smith-wesson-poised-to-open-near-all-time-high.html

Makes sense. It's been well-reported by now, since mass shootings have been covered so often, that every big/politicized shooting incident results in a spike of gun sales (people fearing that gov't is going to ban guns, if you can't figure out why -- some are revolution nuts, but others smartly presume from precedent that any assault rifle or handgun ban will not require surrender of existing privately-owned weapons). It's usually silly for stock prices to track short-term profit spikes, since only those with enough shares to get decent dividends would really benefit, but that's what they do.

Both the stock price and actual profits for gun companies will tank should a categorical weapons ban ever pass, however, so this is the worst time to buy long-term.

>no shaw
>no jerry west
>snoop holding trophy like a penis

fucking garbage

I think people will just make fun of you if you drive in that.

Who gives a fuck what rich people do? Fag

apparently the individual is armed with a rifle while there have been claims that there are two people involved I doubt the authenticity of that claim as it contradicts earlier claims that were relatively consistent

>>56174
Current update:
sniper was shooting from atop a building
shot multiple rounds from what appears to be a semi-automatic machine gun
10 officers shot
3 DPD dead
suspect still active

Holy shit. Nigres interviewed on Fox News:
"Yea I guess he had on a bullet proof vest, but dat aint no reason to arrest him!!" Jesus christ. How fucking stupid.

Can't really put your boss in jail.

>>55743
She won't be going to jail because she didn't do anything seriously wrong.

>>55771
Politicians are supposed to be saints.

When they do something remotely wrong they're supposed to face the harshest of consequences.

>>55735
>be in london
>I don't like you immigrant!
>hate crime

This is why policing thought/words is fascism.

>>55757
More like threatening people's lives (which is assault / hate crime)

>>55798
There is no mention of threatening lives. In england, talking shit is a hate crime. You don't have to threaten or harm anyone. Fuck you nigger is a hate crime.

>>52580
Why would he cheat for a fake sport? The winner is decided before they even begin.

>>53015
It's a performance. He wanted to look nicer

>>53015

It's a fake sport in that they aren't actually trying to kill each other, but you're a fucking retard if you don't think it's still extremely physically strenuous.

If it was my job to dance around a ring all day, while man-handling 200lb gorillas, I'd consider taking steroids too.

>>56955
Here we go again. A young black man gets into an altercation with an illegally owned gun, and its the guns fault. We know how this goes.