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twoot posted:I'd love to see Apple just go nuclear and threaten to stop selling the iPhone in the UK. A socialist MP in France proposed a similar bill, with a 1 million euro fine for refusing to comply. Not to be outdone, a right-wing MP proposed an amendment setting the fine at 2 million euros and adding a one-year ban on the phone model in question (A ban on iPhones, essentially). The right-wingers are also saying that refusing to assist investigations by decrypting phones is tantamount to being an accomplice in acts of terrorism. It's an impressive combo of batshit authoritarianism and not having the slightest idea what they're talking about.
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Plush French hotel turns away British royal family Once again, France shows the correct way to deal with royals 
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Spangly A posted:immigrants really means muslims these days, doesn't it? Not sure there's a real difference other than they're different code words for "not white".
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He asked a Muslim woman in Croydon to "explain Brussels", she replied it had nothing to do with her. He called that answer "mealy mouthed".
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J_RBG posted:Maybe I'm being charitable but I reckon it was a joke tweet anyway. Problem is it's perfectly plausible such a thing would happen Doesn't look like it, he was honestly defending himself from people calling him out on Twitter. He said is that he was in shock at the time. Helen Highwater posted:This is a pretty good example of a popular movement toppling a government as a result of catching them in a lie. The government at the time was the Partido Popular, a right-wing party that was widely expected to win the elections that were scheduled for a few days after the attack. At the time, ETA activity had been increasing with small-time stuff like shooting at police stations, calling in bomb-threats to government buildings etc. The PP was very strongly against Basque independence and had previously campaigned on a platform of being tough on terrorists. The commuter trains in Madrid were blown up three days before the elections and the PP immediately blamed it on ETA. The ETA denied involvement and AQ claimed that it was their attack. Despite this, the government continued to blame ETA and announced a series of crackdowns on Basque and Catalan separatists (even non-violent ones). There were national protests in the streets of almost every major city as a result. The PSOE (Socialist party) pointed out that AQ had claimed responsibility in retaliation for Spain's involvement in the US-led coalition in Iraq (which was significant, extensive and deeply unpopular in Spain). In the face of mass protests, the government doubled down and suggested that they had evidence of ETA involvement. They were never able to produce any of it though. Three days after the bombing, the PP lost the election to the PSOE despite having had a clear lead in polls before that. Basically it was their Falklands moment and they hosed it up massively. Also the new government proceeded to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq and, surprise! No more terrorist attacks and the country didn't become a caliphate overnight.
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Guavanaut posted:burning your wife on a pyre in an embassy back yard Wait, what?
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Guavanaut posted:http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2012/mar/28/dominique-strauss-kahn-diplomatic-immunity-scandal Wow, Jesus. I actually got confused and thought those were all things that happened at the Saudi embassy. That seemed a bit much, to say the least.
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, and happened in Singapore iirc, who presumably found it less amusing than I did.