So Trump has decided to pull out of a non binding agreement on climate change .....looking for a better deal for the US ,how is a non binding agreement a bad deal in the first place?...there are no fines to pay to anyone!!! The US gets to make its own targets to meet!!!!

There's been an explosion after an Ariana​ Grande concert in Manchester ,UK..

Can anyone from the UK or if there is a SYD/SYC member that is family or friends with the Middleton's, tell me how Kate and Pippa snagged the men that they married? I do think I recall Kate going to school with Prince William and she's definitely a beauty and there's no denying that Pippa is a beauty, too! Do the Middleton's hold some title, are they wealthy?

Ex-MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden dies at 35

Obviously, they are not thinking this through. Just have Mexico pay for it!
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Donald Trump is heading to Saudi Arabia, where he plans to deliver a speech about--I shit you not--Islam! (Because, as he will no doubt tell us,Donald J. Trump knows more about Islam than the Muslims do.) Tell me, please, how THAT isn't going to go all pear-shaped.

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Hoping this loads for all the Trump De Dump voters How does it make you feel?

Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a memo requiring federal prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offenses” for d.rug violations. The idea behind it is to allow him to continue the mission he began as a U.S. Senator—undermining the Democrat-Republican work on the failed war on drugs.

For years, members of Congress from both parties have been trying to pass the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, which would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent d.rug offenders and give judges more sentencing discretion. But today’s memo has ordered U.S. attorneys to pursue charges that “carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences.”


Sessions believes that mandatory minimums “reduce the ability of law [enforcement] officers to negotiate and protect the public,”as he testified at a Congressional hearing in 2015. The research on this shows the opposite. Former Attorney General Eric Holder has been studying this issue for years now, starting with his Smart on Crime Initiative that he launched when he was at the Justice Department. In response to Sessions’s memo, Holder released his statement, saying that the DOJ’s “own data revealed just last year that, since I implemented Smart on Crime policies in 2013, prosecutors have used the discretion I gave them to focus on more serious d.rug cases. The data showed that while they brought fewer indictments carrying a mandatory minimum sentence, the prosecutions of high-level d.rug defendants had risen and that cooperation and plea rates remained effectively the same.”

The NHS has been hit as part of a global cyber-attack that threw hospitals and businesses in the UK and around the world into chaos.

The unprecedented attack on Friday affected 12 countries and at least 16 NHS trusts in the UK, compromising IT systems that underpin patient safety. Staff across the NHS were locked out of their computers and trusts had to divert emergency patients.

As the prime minister, Theresa May, confirmed that the NHS disruption was part of a wider international event, the attack was declared a major incident by NHS England. In Scotland, the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, chaired a resilience meeting on the issue.

The same malicious software that hit NHS networks attacked some of the largest companies in Spain and Portugal, including phone company Telefónica, and has also been detected on computers in Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan and eight other countries.

In the UK, computers in hospitals and GP surgeries simultaneously received a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs.

Patient records, appointment schedules, internal phone lines and emails were rendered inaccessible, and connections between computers and medical equipment were brought down. Staff were forced to turn to pen and paper and to use their own mobile phones.

Computer security experts suggested that the crisis could reflect weaknesses in the NHS’s cybersecurity. Ross Anderson, of Cambridge University, said the attack appeared to exploit a weakness in Microsoft’s software that was fixed by a “critical” software patch earlier this year but which may not have been installed across NHS computers.

The vulnerability that appears to have been exploited was allegedly discovered and developed by the US National Security Agency and then stolen by an online group known as the Shadow Brokers.

“If large numbers of NHS organisations failed to act on a critical notice from Microsoft two months ago, then whose fault is that?” Anderson said. “This is the sort of thing for which the secretary of state should get roasted in parliament.”

Alan Woodward, a visiting professor of computing at the University of Surrey, said that the attack’s success “is likely to be because some organisations have either not applied the patch released by Microsoft, or they are using outdated operating systems”

Last December, it emerged that 90% of NHS computers still run on Windows XP, two and a half years after Microsoft stopped supporting the operating system.

Fucking Windows XP.... fucking incompetence