Weekley news roundup 26/06/2016

Evening all,

I've decided to leave Saturdays open for the moment, even I need a little sleep occasionally, as a result, blogs will run from Sundays to Fridays, with Saturdays open for the moment to allow me to recover. That said, let's have a look at the recap for the week.

On Monday we chatted about the worldwide refugee problem, the lychee and dog festival and an inflatable  Donald Trump, (not the sex toy). With regards to the refugee crisis, there's not much that we can say. The past year has been particularly bad what with ISIS being the shitheads that they are, inevitably creating more refugees. The lychee and dog meat festival in China has gone on despite calls from thousands online to stop it. To those who missed the picture of an inflatable Donald Trump dressed up as a member of the KKK, have a look below.

Tuesday's blog was in honour of Mthetho Sandla, a policeman killed in Cape Town in an attempt to stop an ATM robbery. unfortunately there have been no new announcements. If anyone has any information that could lead to the arrest of his killers, please sms your tipoffs to Crime Line: 32211. As usual, the court case regarding SABC censorship concerning the Tshwane riots drags on, Hlaudi Motsoeneng argues that his decision has been based on concern for public safety, claiming that broadcasting the images would have made the riots worse. I for one am not buying it. The last story from Tuesday was regarding good news from the cancer treatment front. Australian scientists have discovered a drug that seemingly helps fight breast cancer in women.

Wednesday's blog started off criticizing Facebook for their bad company policy, the fight continues under the #FacebookVsFreeSpeech hashtag, please remember to share posts concerning this, the more pressure we put on facebook the more likely something will be done about it. No news regarding the charges laid against police for assault and intimidation, it's doubtful that anything will come of the charges though I hold onto hope. By all accounts, Nadia Murad is still doing well all things considered, she continues to campaign for the extermination of ISIS and I wish her all the best.

Thursday was an interesting day to say the least, Andre Slade forgot to stop digging and in an interview with a black reporter told her that she wasn't Homosapien. A short read through of Slade's book shows that his grasp of scientific concepts is minimal at best and you do have to wonder just how much acid the fucker has taken to end up so fucked up. It turns out that the German shooter was most likely not using real weapons, I almost hope that this was a stunt for a YouTube video, anyone that's watched some of the more idiotic prank videos on YouTube will know what I mean. Lastly I talked about Isabelle, the 10 week old baby that ended up contracting whooping cough because fucktards didn't have the sense to vaccinate their kids. Remember people, vaccines save lives!

Well, that's me done for a Sunday night, hope you guys enjoyed. Please remember to comment and follow this, as well as to like the Facebook page!

Ta,
G

So long and thanks for all the... free speech?

Evening all,

It was all of six days ago that I was praising Facebook for their awareness in terms of their social responsibility by releasing tools to assist those thinking of suicide or self harm internationally. Well, six days later it seems I have a bone to pick with Mr Zuckerburg, to those who have not seen what's been happening, Facebook seems to be deleting Facebook groups dedicated to Atheism in Northern Africa and the middle east.

Now to clarify, Facebook aren't simply going around deleting these pages on a whim, the pages have had complaints laid against them by various users in the region. The basis for their complaint? Apparently the pages violate so-called "community standards". The Atheist Alliance - Middle East and North Africa (AA-MENA) have been rallying atheist worldwide to bring attention to the violence and censorship that atheists are subjected to in Muslim communities under the hashtag #FacebookVSFreeSpeech.

Obviously this is not something that Facebook is at fault for, current policy in the company says that community standards are violated when enough of a particular demographic lays the complaint against a page or person, so all that needs to happen is that Facebook needs to change it's policy and stop strangling free speech in Africa.

In local news, two reporters have laid charges against members of the SAPS for assault and intimidation following an incident earlier today where the police tried to stop the reporters from filming them using rubber bullets to disperse crowds of protestors in Pretoria. Having lived in London for five years, I remember the furor when members of the London police tried to stop people filming them and I happen to agreed, if the police are doing as they should, why would the be afraid of public scrutiny?

Last but by no means least is the tale of a very courageous woman named Nadia Murad. Nadia is a 23 year old Yazidi woman who was taken as a slave by members of ISIS when they took control of parts of northern Iraq in 2015. She was beaten and raped but in a supreme display of human courage and tenacity managed to escape and has had a few words for the rest of us. "ISIS will not give up their weapons unless we force them to".

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm by no stretch of the imagination a pacifist, my personal opinion is that if ISIS wants a war, the world as a whole should set everything else to one side and give them one. Every nation should band together to wipe this stain from the face of the earth. To those who point to freedom of speech, please remember that ISIS is not a big fan of talking, they are and always have been all about action against anything that they feel is anti-islamic and the free people of the world need to respond in kind. We will not be terrorized, we will not be cowed, we will fight you and we will win.

Anyway, that's my rant for the night over, tonights clip comes from Jimmy Carr regarding the most offensive joke in the world:



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Ta,
G