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A UK Tory MP late on Friday filibustered the proposed "Alan Turing Law" to pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of sexual offences that are no longer criminal, stopping the bill dead in its tracks.  MPs yelled, "Shame!" as Conservative Party jackass Sam Gyimah spoke for so long that the legislation ran out of time.  His reason?  Gyimah claimed the bill wouldn't prevent men being accidentally pardoned for sex with a minor or non-consensual sex, relying on that most disgusting and dishonest of Conservative canards that somehow consensual sex between adults is linked to pedophilia - IT'S NOT. 

So, instead of spending this weekend celebrating the removal of archaic and wrongful criminal convictions that have harmed people in the UK in the areas of employment, housing, and their own social and family lives.  The law was named after British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, who broke German military codes enabling the Allies to win World War II.  Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts when it was still illegal and accepted chemical castration as an alternative to prison.  He committed suicide two years later.

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition demanding the ouster of a Montana judge who sentenced a man to just 60 days in jail for repeatedly raping his 12-year old daughter.  Judge John C. McKeon sentenced 40 year-old Martin Blake to only 60 days of incarceration and probation, so he could rebuild his relationship with the victim.  Prosecutors asked for a 100 year prison sentence with 75 years suspended, meaning he would spend 25 years in prison.  But not with Judge John C. McKeon of the American wild, wild west.

A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a little-known company slowed or halted Internet access for millions on Friday.  The well-coordinated attack focused on a company named Dyn, which provides internet services for PayPal, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Soundcloud, and others.  The US is investigating, but the motivation and identity of the attackers (cough cough russia cough cough russia cough) isn't clear. 

The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the siege and bombing of the rebel-held city of Aleppo as possible war "crimes of historic proportions".  The council did not specifically name Russia, but the focus of the investigation is clear.  Russian jets have relentlessly pounded civilian areas, killing hundreds.

Islamic State is purportedly holding some 550 families as human shields in the city of Mosul.  Iraqi and Kurdish forces are in the process of retaking the country's second-largest city from two years of occupation under the terrorists.  IS is also trying to divert the advancing Iraqis by launching a counterattack on the city of Kirkuk, southeast of Mosul.

France will begin demolition of "the Jungle" migrant camp next to the Port of Calais on Monday.  Thousands of refugees from Africa and the Middle East are living in shanties there, trying to find ways to smuggle themselves aboard trucks about to enter the Channel Tunnel and make their way to the UK.  France plans to redistribute these people to refugee centers in other parts of the country.

Burkina Faso says it has foiled a coup attempt by supporters of deposed dictator Blaise Compaore.  Ten plotters are under arrest, others are still on the run.  This is now at least the second failed coup attempt by supporters of Compaore, who was overthrown in 2015 - 27 years after he murdered the late, great President Thomas Sankara.

At least 53 people died in the derailment of an overcrowded passenger train in Cameroon.

The magnitude 6.6 earthquake that injured six people in Tottori in western Japan occurred along a previously unknown fault, according to seismologists.

Mexican investigators finally tracked down the former police chief of Iguala town, and detained him.  That's the town where 43 student teachers from a progressive college were last seen alive at a protest of local corruption, and were presumably killed.  The Mexican government initially tried to claim that local cops handed the 43 over to a drug gang, who murdered them - but independent investigations have discounted that, and the families of the missing say the government is refusing to investigate the possible role of soldiers stationed nearby.

The Philippines is furiously trying to back pedal after President Rodrigo Duterte with to Beijing and announced the country's "separation" from its long-time ally, benefactor, and protector the United States of America.  Trade Minister Ramon Lopez told reporters, "Let me clarify.  The president did not talk about separation," although that is the very word used by Rodrigo, along with the insult, "America has lost".  Mr. Lopez claims that Rodrigo merely meant that the Philippines won't be too dependent on either side.  Back home, Duterte also walked back his stupidity.  Polls indicate that although voters still like Duterte, they also strongly support the United States and are suspicious of China.

The European Space Agency Schiaparelli Mars EDM Lander probe was likely destroyed upon crashing into the red planet earlier this week.  Flight Director Michel Denis said, "Schiaparelli reached the ground with a velocity that was much higher than it should have been - several hundred kilometers per hour - and was then unfortunately destroyed by the impact."  This mission is not a total failure, or even mostly a failure:  The main part of the space probe, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), remains in orbit performing its mission of sniffing out methane and other gasses that might indicate signs of life.