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[Spirit Ghidorah 2010]

A key witness who testified against Amber Guyger, the police officer who shot Botham Jean in his own apartment, has died from multiple gunshot wounds Friday night.

[BlankAccount]

Yeah that's not suspicious at all.

[Fish Cakes]

I don't understand how anyone could see Always Sunny and think that what they do is endearing. It's funny as shit, but that's because they're really bad people and suffer as much as they cause suffering, often to other really bad people. It's a great, high-quality show and anyone who dislikes it knows nothing of the fine arts.

Also, the joker seems like it's more a film about what can happen if we ignore the violence towards, blame, or otherwise are just plain shitty towards people suffering from mental illness and trauma. How toxicity creates further toxicity, that sort of thing. Kind of a warning film?

[G2000]

US troops withdraw from positions in northeast Syria in preperation for a Turkish attack on Kurdish YPG forces in that area

[Rhedosaurus]

US troops withdraw from positions in northeast Syria in preperation for a Turkish attack on Kurdish YPG forces in that area

Trump has been ripped hard for that by his own side. As he should. We abandoned them after the first Gulf War, Obama more or less did the same thing, and now we are doing it again. It should be the opposite and we should be arming them up and encouraging them to have a separate country, Kurdistan.

I mean honestly. Why are we appeasing Turkey when they've already gone full Islamo-Nazi via Erdogon?

[LSD Jellyfish]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/worl ... gibis.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/07/weat ... index.html

Hurricane/Typhoon Hagibis is hitting! It's heading right for Japan! Thankfully, I'm protected by Mt. Fuji, but I will be giving live updates from when the storm hits!

I'm prepared for Godzilla X Mechagodzilla opening weather!


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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news ... l/01/1919/

"Agency official Yasushi Kajihara said, "The Typhoon may make landfall in the Tokai or Kanto region on Saturday, and to remain extremely strong. In addition to storm winds and high waves, we're looking at the possibility of record rainfall around the Kanto region."

Japan's Meteorological Agency has classified Typhoon Hagibis as "very strong". The storm is moving northwards over the Pacific towards Japan's main island of Honshu.

Hagibis could be on par with a typhoon that killed more than 1,200 people in the Kanto region and Izu archipelago in 1958. The Meteorological Agency is preparing to issue emergency warnings for heavy rain.

Storm surges are expected along the Pacific coast of eastern Honshu from Saturday through Sunday. Torrential rain is forecast from Friday through Sunday, with a severe risk of floods and landslides."

[Spirit Ghidorah 2010]

Turkish-backed militias kill 9 Kurdish civilians (including Kurdish political leader Hevrin Khalaf) in Syria offensive

Texas police officer fatally shoots African American woman in her own home. The officer in question has received paid leave.

[G2000]

At least 8 dead and more than a thousand detained as Chile suffers worst violence since the fall of Pinochet

Between Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Ecuador, Catalonia and this it seems like half the world is rioting

[Rhedosaurus]

Drug cartels defeated the Mexican Army in a battle.

The IJN aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi, both sunk during the decisive Battle of Midway, have been found.

[G2000]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly killed in US special forces raid in Syria

[Noble Saber]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly killed in US special forces raid in Syria

Delta Force fighting the good fight.

[MandaSaurus]

The IJN carriers Kaga and Akagi found? Whoa, that's some serious history right there...

[G2000]

After weeks of violent protests, Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns after international observers confirm his reelection was fraudulent

Hong Kong protests escalate after protestor died on Friday amid clashes with police; at least one protestor has been shot by police as demonstrators block roads and trash shopping malls

And the riots continue pretty much everywhere else, too; Iraq, Chile, etc.

[Rhedosaurus]

The IJN carriers Kaga and Akagi found? Whoa, that's some serious history right there...

Yep. Not long ago we also found the wreck of the destroyer USS Johnston. Her commander, Ernest Edwin Evans, was one of the bravest men in the US Navy.

[LSD Jellyfish]

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/13/asia ... index.html

[Gawdziller1954]

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/13/asia ... index.html

Andromeda Strain, anyone?

[LSD Jellyfish]

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/13/asia ... index.html

Andromeda Strain, anyone?

You didn't get the Space Amoeba reference?

[Gawdziller1954]

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/13/asia ... index.html

Andromeda Strain, anyone?

You didn't get the Space Amoeba reference?

I did, i'm more paranoid about something like Andromeda Strain tho

[_JNavs_]

"RYUGA" and "OSIRIS REX" are such cool names, do these Space companies do that on purpose?

[LSD Jellyfish]

"RYUGA" and "OSIRIS REX" are such cool names, do these Space companies do that on purpose?

Yes.

Too lazy to look up meanings, but Ryu is dragon, so it's probably something cool like (cool adjective here) Dragon.