Leave it to Saturday Night Live to satirize two subjects with a single stone, uh, video. Last night, the 43-year old comedy show took aim at the Presidential Alert test that most U.S. smartphones received last Wednesday at 2:18pm ET. This system will be used to warn the American people about a national emergency, catastrophic weather conditions, and other dire situations.

Calling the message a Presidential Alert is actually a misnomer. The content of the message is not written by President Donald Trump, although the president can decide when to send one out. There is actually a law called The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015 that prevents Trump, or any future president, from using the system for anything other than alerting the public about a national disaster.

While we don't want to give the whole gag away, the premise of the SNL video is that the content of these alerts are written by Trump in the same style he employs on Twitter. In real life, 75% of the U.S. population was sent a Presidential Alert as over 100 stateside carriers participated in the test.

According to SNL though, customers of one pre-paid wireless company did not receive the alert. To find out more, click on the video at the top of this article. And remember, this is only a joke.
 

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Internet mogul Kim Dotcom has again vowed to "fight for internet freedom" in a series of tweets sent out.

Mr Dotcom has battled a years-long court case over copyright laws, with him being accused of causing the loss of millions of dollars to copyright owners in the US through the file sharing site he founded Megaupload.

Earlier this year, it was revealed he could be extradited to the US to face trial. 

He was indicted by US Grand Jury in 2012 over the allegations.

"I will continue to fight no matter what it takes," Mr Dotcom said.

"No matter where the journey will take me I will defend internet freedom, I will fight for your rights and I will stand up to the injustice brought upon us by the deep state."

Mr Dotcom also joked that he had been advised by lawyers that "an insanity defense won't work in a copyright case".

Mr Dotcome has argued extradition is unlawful in this case because a copyright infringement in a civil case rather than a criminal case.

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With Venom chomping its way through October box office records this weekend, a sequel seems all but certain. Sony’s next installment in its Spider-Man universe is expected to be the Daniel Espinosa-directed Morbius, starring Jared Leto. While a cameo from Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock, setting up a future team-up, or showdown between the wicked web-slinger and the living vampire, certainly doesn’t seem outside of the realm of possibility, audiences are surely wondering what’s next for Venom’s solo adventures. Luckily, there’s a whole host of Venom stories and adversaries for sequels to pull from, and this first film sets up quite a few of them.

The mid-credits scene for Venom, arguably one of the most satisfying codas to come out of the age of post-credits scenes, gave a good indication of where the next installment of Venom will go. The scene introduces serial killer Cletus Kasady, played by Woody Harrelson, who famously becomes Venom’s adversary Carnage in the comics. While the two characters meet under different circumstances in the film than in the comics, it’s clear that Kasady will eventually become the host of Venom’s spawn. As Eddie enters the prison cell where Kasady is kept, we can see that the red-headed psychopath has written “welcome god” in blood on his prison walls, suggesting the Kasady’s brand of madness gives him an awareness of Brock’s “other.”

There’s a range of places a sequel could go with Carnage, though for his first go-round as big bad, it might be most compelling to start small and personal. Carnage on the loose and carving his way through San Francisco seems like the perfect place to start, particularly if the film delves into questions of what makes Venom’s drive to kill different from Carnage’s. The idea of seeing Hardy and Harrelson chewing up scenery at the same time is too good to pass up on.

So what else can the comics tell us about what comes next?

The secondary sequel villain: Man-Wolf

Carnage wasn’t the only foe cameoed in Venom. Astronaut John Jameson, son of publisher J. Jonah Jameson, has a cameo in the opening minutes of the film when the symbiote Riot disguises himself as the man in order to escape. While we could assume that the younger Jameson is dead, it seems more likely that he escapes from the wreckage or was lost on the mission. In the comics, Jameson gets ahold of an other-dimensional ruby, the Godstone, that transforms him into werewolf, Man-Wolf. Never one of Spider-Man’s most popular foes, there’s a lot of room to move around in terms of bringing Man-Wolf to the screen and fleshing out Jameson as a character. While Man-Wolf doesn’t quite have the excitement factor as Carnage, and should probably be paired with another villain or major plot point, who wouldn’t want to see Venom go up against a space werewolf?

The trilogy capper: She-Venom and the Planet of the Symbiotes

Putting those two concepts together sounds like the greatest '60s B movie title that was never made. Regardless, it’s clear from the end of Venom that there are still several symbiotes hanging around on Earth, and a race of millions hovering out there in space. In Venom, we briefly got to see Eddie Brock’s ex Anne Weying (Michelle Williams) host the symbiote as She-Venom, with the symbiote suggesting they would all be together eventually. It would definitely be great to see Williams get in on more of the action in the sequel, and obtain a symbiote of her own. Though, Brock, Anne, and the symbiote all being bound together as one sounds a body horror extravaganza right out of Cronenberg’s climax of The Fly (1986).

The comic event Planet of the Symbiotes (1995) saw an army of the aliens land on Earth in order to take over the planet’s population so that they could feel human emotion. This could be a way to broaden the scope of Venom’s film series and take some of the action outside of San Francisco. Venom and Anne against a global epidemic of symbiotes, with rad names like Lash, Phage, Scream, and Agony, could really up the ante and provide for some great action sequences for what seems tailor-made for a third installment.

The Team-Up Event: Maximum Carnage

Carnage’s most famous storyline in the comics is the 1993 crossover event, Maximum Carnage, which involved Spider-Man and a collection of other Marvel heroes including Captain America, Iron Fist, and Deathlok. While those characters are clearly out of the picture, others who played a role in the series like Morbius, Nightwatch, and Black Cat are up for grabs. More of an Avengers-style event than a Venom sequel, Maximum Carnage could be what Sony’s solo films are leading up to.

While Carnage seems like a sure thing for a sequel, he also doesn’t seem like a villain filmmakers would want to dispatch of early a la Riot. His return, along with girlfriend Shriek, and allies like Demogoblin, Doppleganger, and Carrion, as they carve a path through San Francisco, to create as high a body count as possible would be perfect for a Venom team-up movie that saw the fruits of Sony’s labor come together in a major way.

The next stage: Knull

So after Carnage, and an army of symbiotes, what’s left for Venom to face? No, not Spider-Man. God. Or at least a god. Marvel Studios has found massive success tapping into more recent character iterations and storylines for inspiration and there’s no reason why Sony couldn’t do the same. 

Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman’s most recent run on Venom not only taps into the psychological trauma of the character but also expands the mythos in such a way that the adage “everything you though you know is wrong” is more than a marketing ploy. Currently Venom is up against, Knull, the deity older than the universe who wages a war against the light through the creation of his weapon: the symbiotes. Along with a dragon symbiote, Grendel, Knull has awakened to begin his conquest of universe anew, starting by reclaiming the symbiote from Eddie Brock. It’s a storyline that’s panning out to be just as epic as it sounds and would certainly be a bold new direction for a film series.

Wherever Venom’s franchise is headed next, it’s sure to bring in more characters, more action, and more teeth.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she could not expect her Scottish National Party (SNP) lawmakers to vote for any likely current format of a Brexit deal when it is put before parliament. Sturgeon told the BBC she expected British Prime Minister Theresa May to reach a “cobbled-together” deal to leave the European Union which parliament would be expected to rubber stamp with no details. Such an outcome would be unacceptable, she said.

Senior German conservatives facing painful losses in two state elections this month have ruled out forming coalitions with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

“I am very clear about this: not with the AfD,” parliament speaker and former finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told mass-selling Bild am Sonntag newspaper. 

His comments support Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position to ostracize the anti-Islam party, although other members of her Christian Social Union (CDU) party have expressed willingness to work with the AfD. 

The AfD entered the German parliament for the first time in an election last year, buoyed by conservative voters angry with Merkel’s decision in 2015 to welcome almost one million, mainly Muslim, asylum seekers. 

The AfD also has lawmakers in all but two of the regional parliaments in Germany’s 16 states. It is expected to enter the assembly in the southern state of Bavaria in an election next Sunday and storm into the parliament in Hesse two weeks later. 

CDU officials in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony, which hold elections next year, have expressed readiness to form coalitions with the AfD. 

Merkel said last month “I categorically rule this out,” sticking to her position not to work with the party that says Islam is not compatible with the German constitution. 

Merkel’s conservatives, which include her CDU and their Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) sister party, have seen support slide since last year’s election. 

The conservatives formed a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) as their junior partners in March, after Merkel’s first attempt at forming a government following the September election ended in failure. 

Polls indicate the CSU will lose its absolute majority in Bavaria on Oct. 14 as voters in the state are expected to turn to the ecologist Greens and the AfD. 

CSU leader and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has also ruled out a coalition with the AfD in Bavaria. 

“There will be no coalition between the Union and the AfD. No, No, No!” he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, referring to the CDU/CSU alliance, which is know as the Union. 

Under a deal between the two parties the CSU represents the CDU in Bavaria and the CDU runs in the rest of Germany.

Prisoners rioted and seized weapons at a detention centre in South Sudan’s capital Juba early on Sunday, a security source and local residents said. One of the detainees said by phone from the centre that he and many other others were political prisoners, held without trial, and were demanding their release. 

“We are about five metres apart from the government forces. They are trying to force us to lay down our arms. We need international guarantors like the Red Cross. We will not surrender,” Kerbino Wol said. 

“All political prisoners and detainees need to be released or given fair trial. The lack of trials is illegal,” he added. 

A South Sudanese government spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment. 

The prisoners were caught in a stand off with guards and the centre, called Blue House, had been sealed off, the security source said. 

“Prisoners have taken over the facility from inside through the help of some officers,” the security source said. 

South Sudan has been gripped by conflict since late 2013 when rivalry between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar deteriorated into clashes between their supporters, then civil war. 

Last month Kiir’s government signed a peace agreement with his opponents to try and end the war which has uprooted a quarter of the country’s 12-million-strong population and devastated the economy. 

On Oct. 1 the president’s spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny, told local broadcaster Radio Tamazuj that all political detainees had been released, under the terms of a separate agreement. 

Wol said he was detained in April and has been held without charge ever since.

“It’s a very nice day that promises a good future for both countries,” Kim said, speaking through an interpreter, as he sat down at the lunch table with Pompeo. 

“Thank you for hosting, President Trump sends his regards. And we had a very successful morning, so thank you and I am looking forward to our time here at lunch as well,” Pompeo said. 

A U.S. official who was part of Pompeo’s delegation said the trip was “better than the last time” but added: “It’s going to be a long haul.” 

Pompeo’s last trip did not go well. He left Pyongyang in July hailing progress, only for North Korea to denounce him for making “gangster-like demands.” Pompeo did not meet Kim on that trip. 

Pompeo visited Tokyo on Friday and is also due to travel to Beijing before returning home on Monday. 

Pompeo had said en route to Asia he aimed “to make sure we understand what each side is truly trying to achieve.” He said he also hoped to agree a “general date and location” for a second summit. 

But he declined to comment when asked if he would agree to North Korean demands for a declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War or to South Korea’s suggestion that to break the current stalemate, he should avoid pressing again for an inventory of North Korea’s nuclear weapons. 

Recently, Pompeo has angered North Korea by insisting that international sanctions must remain in place until it gives up its nuclear weapons. 

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations last month that continued sanctions were deepening the North’s mistrust of the United States and there was no way Pyongyang would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally under such circumstances.