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[Silverthrone]

Heh, true. Hence why I do try to speak up if I think I have been trodden on, so to speak. Sorting things like that out is better than the usual result of that sort of misunderstandings, when you end up with a dreary bog of passive-aggressive sniping. _{And thank goodness for prawns, indeed.} I'm glad it's not only me.

I do see your point, and I worry about complacency, as well. Complacency was largely what got us all into this mess in the first place. I think we can see the cracks in it, but on balance, some suspicion and worry is warranted, like you say. Although a few drops of hope can't hurt, either.

[martinuzz]

Norway police arrested 20 people on suspicion of being members of a pedosexual network, amongst whom a father that has confessed abusing his own children. Vice-Chief of Police Gunnar Floystad says they have 51 suspects, and more arrests are to follow in other parts of the country. According to him, most suspects are highly educated judges and politicians. This is the largest abuse case Norway has ever seen.

The investigation into the network started last year. The men met on the 'dark web', using encryption to avoid detection. While the investigation is ongoing, the police cannot comment further.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/noorse-politie-arresteert-20-verdachten-pedonetwerk-onder-wie-politici~a4419258/

[scriver]

I wonder if this will go over the border into Sweden.

[smjjames]

The British and Spanish are having their usual spat over Gibraltar.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Norway police arrested 20 people on suspicion of being members of a pedosexual network, amongst whom a father that has confessed abusing his own children. Vice-Chief of Police Gunnar Floystad says they have 51 suspects, and more arrests are to follow in other parts of the country. According to him, most suspects are highly educated judges and politicians. This is the largest abuse case Norway has ever seen.

The investigation into the network started last year. The men met on the 'dark web', using encryption to avoid detection. While the investigation is ongoing, the police cannot comment further.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/noorse-politie-arresteert-20-verdachten-pedonetwerk-onder-wie-politici~a4419258/

Any connection with the British?

[TempAcc]

It now got bundled with pizzagate and the fact twitter has been supposedly banning trump support accounts and verified the muslim brotherhood's account on the website.
The account that exposed the cp content and the accounts associated with it got banned in a flash by twitter, but not before it spread, and now /pol/ is flooding twitter with the post and the hashtags.

Shit's getting pretty real in twitter.

[Baffler]

I was actually wondering if it had any connection to all the stuff that's erupting on Twitter today, with 4chan supposedly uncovering hundreds/thousands of accounts on Twitter openly sharing images of children (apparently trending under the topic of 'Twittergate').

Wait, did something actually come of that whole pizzagate thing?

Of all sad words of tongue and pen...

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

So Twitter banned the whistleblower account and those associated with it, but not the actual paedos themselves?

Doesn't surprise me though. Didn't Twitter recently censor people calling for more women's rights in Saudi Arabia?

Then again...

I was actually wondering if it had any connection to all the stuff that's erupting on Twitter today, with 4chan supposedly uncovering hundreds/thousands of accounts on Twitter openly sharing images of children (apparently trending under the topic of 'Twittergate').

Wait, did something actually come of that whole pizzagate thing?

Of all sad words of tongue and pen...

There seems to be enough there that lots of amateurs are still investigating it. I don't care to expose myself to that kind of sickness, so I can't offer my own opinion. I know that pol and r/conspiracy and a few other places are all looking into it with some fervor.

As for whether this Twitter thing from today is related to that, or something entirely new... who knows.

Twitter may shadowban people who criticize celebrities. Does anybody remember the time Twitter got caught social engineering?

[Sergarr]

Major political developments in France:

New favourite to become French President, Francois Fillon, wants to drag Russia back into the European fold. Stop it sliding towards Asia

Spoiler: 2016 WTF stop doing this (click to show/hide)

Francois Fillon, set to pull off stunning upset in French conservative primary tonight, favored fighting ISIL alongside Russia, Iran, Assad

Spoiler: he has also met with Putin in person (click to show/hide)

Seems like all that Le Pen's Russian support was just a strategic ruse, deflecting all attention from real Putin's candidate.

Is this how the end of Euro-Atlanticism looks like?

EDIT: Apparently, there's also this:

From Fillion's site using Google Translate:
4. A sovereign trade policy that protects our interests
- Reject European decisions going against the economic interests of France as the sanctions against Russia that seriously affect our businesses.
- Propose a new EU / Russia trade partnership that would offer our businesses new opportunities.

So much for "annexation of Crimea will forever alienate Russia from Europe".

[scriver]

Nathan Fillion noooo

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Major political developments in France:

New favourite to become French President, Francois Fillon, wants to drag Russia back into the European fold. Stop it sliding towards Asia

Spoiler: 2016 WTF stop doing this (click to show/hide)

Francois Fillon, set to pull off stunning upset in French conservative primary tonight, favored fighting ISIL alongside Russia, Iran, Assad

Spoiler: he has also met with Putin in person (click to show/hide)

Seems like all that Le Pen's Russian support was just a strategic ruse, deflecting all attention from real Putin's candidate.

Is this how the end of Euro-Atlanticism looks like?

EDIT: Apparently, there's also this:

From Fillion's site using Google Translate:
4. A sovereign trade policy that protects our interests
- Reject European decisions going against the economic interests of France as the sanctions against Russia that seriously affect our businesses.
- Propose a new EU / Russia trade partnership that would offer our businesses new opportunities.

So much for "annexation of Crimea will forever alienate Russia from Europe".

So basically Europe doesn't think America is powerful anymore, so they want Russian overlords?

[Sergarr]

So basically Europe doesn't think America is powerful anymore, so they want Russian overlords?

Russia has an economy the size of Italy, or at least, that's what I've heard, so I don't know exactly how would Russia be "overlording" over Europe, which has, what, five times the population and even more of that in terms of financial and industrial advantages?

I'm genuinely curious about it, because I thought that economy was the deciding factor in these sort of power games... but apparently, it's not?

[Detoxicated]

In the mean time:
Alt-Right Party AFD of Germany is gaining power and popularity, while the media is unable to work against them (Lügenpresse argument...)
So america, you might have your trump, but here in germany we will have a similar party ruling soon if they are not stopped by the leftists parties... Please help germany to not succumb to neo-fascism...

It is interesting to see that the alt-right followers of Trump actually used the term Lügenpresse (lie media) while chanting Trump Heil...
There is an international movement of fascists, and the hippies of the left are to obsessed with political correctness to do anything about it.
Same problem in France, same stuff in the Brexit debate, Austria has their share of racisist in parliament. Netherlands and Hungary have had their  alt right presidents for a while now, Scandinavia is struck with identitary movements as well. When will people wake up to this. Seriously it is NOT fun to be ruled by autocrats, I am german, believe me when I say it. Dictators will kill their opposition, and those they deem fit to pay for their "New Reforms". The autobahn was built this way.

[martinuzz]

Netherlands and Hungary have had their  alt right presidents for a while now

Wut? We don't have an alt right president. The furthest Wilders has come was his party being an 'coalition endorsing opposition party' of a government that fell long before it's term was due.
His party's popularity is trending up again though.

(We do have a liberal-right president. But his party is not alt right, it's the traditional liberal's party VVD, which is almost as far away from being the alt right as the leftist elite. The VVD is the party for the rich elite.)

[Sergarr]

Netherlands and Hungary have had their  alt right presidents for a while now

Wut? We don't have an alt right president. The furthest Wilders has come was his party being an 'coalition endorsing opposition party' of a government that fell long before it's term was due.
His party's popularity is trending up again though.

I see the term "alt-right" is rapidly achieving the "SJW" status of a mostly meaningless curse word that puts all the things you hate as a part of a single Great Coalition of Evil. Quite impressive.