****ASF Breaking News****

[CanOz]

Brazil Nightclub Fire 'Kills At Least 245 People' In Town Of Santa Maria
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...icid=maing-grid7|uk|dl1|sec1_lnk2&pLid=149340

Struth...how awful...

 

[MrBurns]

Why they still allow bands to use pyrotechnics on stage is beyond me
This has happened a number of times before

 

[noirua]

Violence Flares In Egypt After President Declares State Of Emergency In 3 States
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/egypt-violence_n_2566735.html

Queen Beatrix To Abdicate Dutch Throne April 30
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/queen-beatrix-to-abdicate_n_2567717.html?utm_hp_ref=world

5 Murders In Chicago Overnight, Woman Loses 4th Child To Gun Violence [VIDEO] | Breaking News for Black America
http://newsone.com/2168404/shirley-chambers-sons-dead/?omcamp=aolhomepage

Mexico Violence: 8 Bodies Found In Well Near Monterrey
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/mexico-violence-bodies-well_n_2566940.html

 

[noirua]

Syria Massacre: Group Says At Least 65 Found Shot In Head, With Hands Bound In Aleppo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/syria-massace-aleppo-report_n_2572910.html

 

[noirua]

BBC News - Israeli 'air strike on convoy on Syria-Lebanon border'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21264632

Hadiya Pendleton Dead: Chicago Teen Who Performed At Inaugural Events Fatally Shot
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/hadiya-pendleton-dead-chi_n_2581309.html

Phoenix Office Shooting: Multiple Injuries Reported In Attack At Arizona Workplace
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/phoenix-office-shooting_n_2582832.html

South Korea Rocket Launch: Satellite Reaches Space Weeks After North Korea Test
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/south-korea-rocket-launch-space-satellite_n_2580678.html

 

[Calliope]

What an obnoxious clown Anthony Mundine is.

[video]http://video.heraldsun.com.au/2330569333/Mundine-says-he-was-robbed-in-loss-to-Geale-311[/video]

 

[MrBurns]

Former Labor MP Craig Thomson has been arrested by NSW Police

 

[noirua]

Price Middle School Shooting: Multiple Injuries In Attack At Southeast Atlanta School
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...hool-shooting_n_2592672.html?utm_hp_ref=crime

Peregrine CEO Russell Wasendorf Sr. Sentenced To 50 Years In Prison
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...-sentenced_n_2591758.html?utm_hp_ref=business

Jackie Long: Caught on Camera: Senior Rabbi Telling an Alleged Victim of Child Sexual Abuse Not to Go to the Police
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jac...cid=maing-grid7|uk|dl12|sec3_lnk3&pLid=150606

 

[DB008]

Syria Massacre: Group Says At Least 65 Found Shot In Head, With Hands Bound In Aleppo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/syria-massace-aleppo-report_n_2572910.html

Surprised that there isn't a thread on "Syria".

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/intense-battle-scenes-from-damascus/100450/

I don't understand the situation well enough to comment on Syria. Terrible situation from what I've seen in the news/media so far. I've seen some very graphic pictures on what is happening there. Shocking.

 

[CanOz]

Just heard on the Bloomy that former NY mayor Ed Koch has passed away, at 88. I felt a bit sad as i have spent many hours listening to his radio show...Seemed like good bloke.

RIP Ed....

CanOz

 

[CanOz]

There has been an explosion out the US embassy in Turkey....

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

There has been an explosion out the US embassy in Turkey....

Can you post a link

Can't see it mentioned in Drudge, NYT or Bloomberg.

gg

 

[CanOz]

Can you post a link

Can't see it mentioned in Drudge, NYT or Bloomberg.

gg

Yeah mate, its there now...click on the blue text

 

[pixel]

There has been an explosion out the US embassy in Turkey....

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-02-01/explosion-us-embassy-ankara-turkey/

Information is still sketchy. ABC News not yet on the ball.

Reports: Several wounded in explosion at US embassy

Several people have been wounded in an explosion outside the US Embassy in Ankara, according to Turkish TV.

 

[pixel]

Yeah mate, its there now...click on the blue text

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/turk...ts-explosion-front-us-embassy-turkish-capital

apparently, a suicide bomber blew himself up and took a couple of guards with him.

 

[noirua]

Eddie Ray Routh Charged In Murder Of Chris Kyle, 'American Sniper' Author
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/eddie-routh-chris-kyle-murder-navy-seal_n_2611117.html

 

[MrBurns]

North Korea hints nuke test is imminent

North Korea has hinted that a nuclear test is imminent, saying leader Kim Jong-un has made an important speech to the country's military commanders

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-04/north-korea-hints-nuke-test-is-imminent/4498530

Looks like it wont be an asteroid that wipes us out but this idiot.

I think an international fund should be set up to finance the US so it's doesnt fall behind China in world domination, once the US goes we're sunk.

 

[bellenuit]

Michelle Grattan quits

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/02/michelle-grattan-quits.html

 

[Julia]

Good luck to her. I don't think she owes Fairfax anything.
Despite an obvious innate Left bias, she has usually provided a fair analysis of most political situations.

It's not clear if she will still make the morning appearance on Fran Kelly's Breakfast program on RN.
They started 2013 off with combining Grattan with the awful Paul Bongiorno, who makes no attempt at all to disguise his blatant left bias. If Kelly's morning chats with the Press Gallery are in future going to be restricted to Mr Bongiorno, the whole program will massively lose credibility imo.

 

[sptrawler]

I wonder how long before Ross Gittins joins her?