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Daemon
Member
Thu Dec 23 13:28:00
I would watch the movie

http://www...puppy-deaths-captured-in-india

21 Dec 2021

Monkeys blamed for hundreds of puppy deaths captured in India

Villagers claim animals were carrying out ‘revenge killings’ after dogs killed an infant monkey


Two monkeys that allegedly killed hundreds of puppies in the Indian state of Maharastra have been captured.

Villagers in Lavool village, in the Beed district of Maharastra, reported the langur monkeys after they witnessed them engaging in what seemed to be targeted killings of the neighbourhood puppies by snatching them and taking them up to deadly heights.

The villagers claimed the monkeys were carrying out “revenge killings” after dogs had killed an infant monkey.

“In the last two to three months, there have been incidents where the langurs roaming in the area would catch puppies and take them to a place with considerable height to throw them from there. At least 250 dogs have been killed so far,” a villager told the Indian news agency ANI.

The monkeys were reported to have left puppies on roofs and in trees where they would die from lack of food and water, and in other incidents they would be thrown down and killed. The locals said the monkeys had been so thorough that there were no puppies left in Lavool village.

An official from the district office said there was no proof the monkeys’ actions were being driven by revenge.

“This [the killing of an infant monkey by dogs] is said to have enraged the monkeys who in retaliation are killing the puppies of dogs as per local residents. But we do not have any proof to back up this theory. It’s animal behaviour and we cannot ascertain why they are behaving like this,” he said.

The villagers reported the animals to the forest department after the monkeys allegedly began harassing local children.

The local forest department confirmed they had captured the two alleged culprits, who would be released into a nearby forest.

“Two monkeys involved in the killing of dogs have been captured by a Nagpur forest department team in Beed,” forest officer Sachin Kand told local media.

The incident went viral across social media in India, prompting “Monkey vs Dogs gang war” to begin trending.
Rugian
Member
Thu Dec 23 13:32:13
I love how monkeys in India are total assholes lol.

"The locals said the monkeys had been so thorough that there were no puppies left in Lavool village."

Literal genocide. Damn.
Paramount
Member
Thu Dec 23 14:44:00
I couldn’t see any video.
murder
Member
Thu Dec 23 15:59:38

Yeah ... I think the villagers were eating the dogs and blaming the monkeys.

Habebe
Member
Thu Dec 23 16:01:49
India has savages ( dog eaters) like TC and Jergul.
Rugian
Member
Thu Dec 23 22:44:38
Dog vs monkey gang war

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw5O5oX67Gs
murder
Member
Thu Dec 23 23:14:13

Strap up and hunt all those monkeys down like dogs! >:o(

Daemon
Member
Fri Dec 24 03:05:48
THANK YOU AMERICA!

http://www...-headed-to-fuel-starved-europe

A Flotilla of U.S. LNG Cargoes Is Headed to Fuel-Starved Europe


Ten U.S. LNG cargoes have declared European destinations
Twenty more tankers crossing Atlantic Ocean on path to Europe



Ten U.S. LNG cargoes have declared European destinations
Twenty more tankers crossing Atlantic Ocean on path to Europe

Cold-stricken Europe is drawing a flotilla of U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes amid an energy crisis that has sent gas prices to record levels.

Facing a winter shortage and little relief from the continent’s main supplier Russia, natural gas in Northwest Europe is trading for about $57.54 per million British thermal units, up almost a third from a week earlier. That’s roughly $24 higher than Asian prices and more than 14 times higher than gas being sold on U.S. benchmark Henry Hub.

Out of 76 U.S. LNG cargoes in transit, 10 tankers carrying a combined 1.6 million cubic meters of the heating and power plant fuel have declared destinations in Europe, shipping data compiled by Bloomberg shows. Another 20 tankers carrying an estimated 3.3 million cubic meters appear to be crossing the Atlantic Ocean and are on a path to the continent. Nearly one-third of the cargoes come from Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana, the shipping data shows.

U.S. LNG export terminals are operating at or above capacity after reaching record flows on Sunday. Asia is typically the top destination for U.S. LNG cargoes, but that has changed this winter with the significant premium for gas in Europe.
Daemon
Member
Sat Dec 25 08:46:26
Launch successful
http://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Rugian
Member
Sat Dec 25 08:53:42
^ i look forward to forgetting about that thing for 5 years, then be wowed for 10 seconds when its researchers finally make their report, then forgetting about it again for good.
murder
Member
Sat Dec 25 19:54:03

You'll be hearing more about it soon if it fails to open properly.

murder
Member
Sat Dec 25 20:17:13

http://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

For anyone interested.

Daemon
Member
Thu Jan 06 14:27:22
"We have an app for that!"

http://www...app-crash-101641356598371.html

Jan 05, 2022

China’s locked down Xi'an city in chaos after Covid app crash

Not being able to access their Covid infection status, created massive trouble for the people of Xi'an. A mother lost her baby after waiting for more than two hours as the hospital that won't let her enter without her infection status.

China’s Covid-19 health code system that strictly governs people’s movements crashed in Xi’an this week, worsening conditions in the locked-down city where the country’s worst outbreak since Wuhan has been unfolding.

The crash has complicated efforts to weed out cases through mass testing, created hurdles for people seeking care at hospitals and led to the suspension of a top official, the latest among a slew of bureaucrats to be punished as Beijing fumes over the situation.

Liu Jun, head of Xi’an’s big-data bureau, was temporarily dismissed over performance failures, the municipal Communist Party Committee said in a statement. While the committee didn’t explicitly lay out the reason behind its decision, it came after Xi’an’s health code system -- which is under Liu’s purview and tracks individuals’ movements and vaccination status -- broke down on Tuesday.

The system crash meant that locals were unable to access their Covid infection status after Xi’an embarked on a new widespread round of nucleic acid tests, according to a media report. The provincial government said in a statement later that the system was temporarily paralyzed due to overwhelming traffic, and being fixed. It had also experienced technical issues in December.

People must show their health codes -- which prove that they tested negative for Covid -- to enter hospitals.

A mother lost her baby after waiting more than two hours as a hospital wouldn’t let her in without the health code showing that she was infection-free, according to a video trending on Weibo. The provincial women’s federation said it was looking into the matter.

Similar complaints and criticisms were seen elsewhere on Chinese social media as patients failed to get timely treatment at hospitals already overwhelmed by the virus.

With more than 1,700 cases, the virus situation in Xi’an has triggered shortages of food and medical care amid a lockdown that has banned its more than 13 million residents from leaving their homes without a special reason. The strict measures -- some of the toughest in the world -- come as Chinese authorities race to curtail the country’s Covid outbreak ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics next month, and have led to increasingly vocal frustration among locals.

A Dozen Days of Lockdown Spurs Angst in Chinese City of Xi’an

China is the only country left practicing a zero-tolerance Covid strategy, which involves ever-escalating measures to bring infections down to zero. While the Xi’an outbreak is of the delta variant, the more-transmissible omicron strain now roiling the world will challenge the approach even further. Mainland China has not yet reported any community spread of omicron.

Two other local officials, including the deputy mayor, were removed this week over their handling of the outbreak.

“The Xi’an outbreak is the most severe after the Wuhan lockdown,” Zeng Guang, one of China’s top Covid-19 advisers and former chief scientist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was quoted as saying by a local newspaper Tuesday. “We hope Xi’an can create a new experience in containing an outbreak in the short-term, after losing control at the very initial stage.”
Daemon
Member
Wed Jan 12 07:36:28
Kill it with fire!
(see pics)
http://www...ntina-due-to-intense-heat-728/

Millions of brown beetles in Argentina due to intense heat
murder
Member
Wed Jan 12 07:46:04

Oh yeah!

http://i.stack.imgur.com/QhqVv.gif


Paramount
Member
Thu Jan 13 02:39:21
Look at this: http://twitter.com/raptvcom/status/1480378657541705731?s=21

China has created an artificial sun ^

I don’t know what kind of engineering is behind this, but it must be nice.
murder
Member
Thu Jan 13 03:11:25

The rocket kind?

Habebe
Member
Thu Jan 13 03:58:54
It's China, they stole it.
jergul
large member
Thu Jan 13 04:10:41
Habebe
That is what superpowers do. You and the USSR stole all German patents, quite a number of its researchers, and what was left of its industry.

China will build on stolen stuff just like you did.
nhill
Member
Thu Jan 13 11:29:38
Yeah, that's not an artificial sun, nice try tho.

jergul

It's okay if we do, we're the good guys.
Paramount
Member
Sun Jan 16 11:13:16
Austria to make Covid jabs compulsory from February

Austria will become the first European country to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for adults in February, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Sunday, acknowledging that it was a "sensitive topic".

Nehammer, a conservative who took office in December, said those who didn’t comply would face a hefty fine.

“We will decide on compulsory vaccination as planned. It will come into force at the beginning of February” for adults, he told a news conference.

http://www...sory-from-february-chancellor/

Wasn’t Adolf Hitler born in Austria?
Rugian
Member
Sun Jan 16 11:29:47
Yep.

Nice to see Nazism make a comeback after all these years, complete with a new group of untermenchen (the unvaxxed) to blame for all of society's problems.
Daemon
Member
Sun Jan 16 12:08:13
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59913513

Denmark frees suspected pirates in dinghy in Gulf of Guinea

Published

7 January

Three suspected pirates who were detained for six weeks on a Danish warship off West Africa's coast have been released at sea in a small dinghy.

The three were captured in November after a fatal exchange of fire in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Danish Armed Forces said they had failed to find a country in the region which would take the alleged pirates.

So the decision was taken to release the men near Nigerian waters, with enough food and fuel to get to shore.

According to Danish authorities, a shootout took place on 24 November after suspected pirates attacked a container ship.

Four of the men were killed by the Danish military - which is in the area as part of an operation to protect shipping amid heightened security risks from pirates - while a fifth person fell overboard.

Four others were detained on the Danish navy ship. They were accused of attacking the Danish soldiers first - something they deny.

However, only one of the suspects - who was taken to Ghana where his leg was amputated - has been transferred to Denmark to face a charge of attempted manslaughter.

The Danish Justice Ministry said they did not feel it was possible to safely release him at sea. Charges against the other three were dropped, their lawyers confirmed to news agency AFP.

But Birgitte Skjodt, the lawyer of the detained suspect, criticised the decision to still press charges against him, telling local media: "It simply cannot be right to treat the four people so unequally."

Justice Minister Nick Haekkerup defended Denmark's decision, saying that it would deter other pirates from attacks. He added that if they had sent the men to Denmark, then there was a "risk that they would not subsequently be deported".

This is the first time Denmark has extradited a piracy suspect to its territory. It has no agreement regarding extradition with the countries along the Gulf of Guinea coast.

The Gulf of Guinea - with its tankers carrying oil and gas - has been known as a piracy hot spot for some years.

Political instability, the lack of law enforcement and poverty on land are other factors which have contributed to the increase in piracy in the area.

But efforts by national authorities and foreign naval ships to step up security efforts in the region have increased.
murder
Member
Sun Jan 16 12:48:01

Why would they detain pirates? Just feed them to the sharks.

Daemon
Member
Sat Jan 22 05:04:30
Germany is and remains the freest nation on earth! Billionaires from all over the world come to Germany to enjoy our freedom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pg1hhW5qhM

Bugatti Chiron on Autobahn - 417 KPH


http://jalopnik.com/germany-continues-debate-over-ending-unlimited-speed-se-1848390727

Germany Continues Debate Over Ending Unlimited Speed Sections On Autobahn After Bugatti Run
A Czech Bugatti owner hit 259 mph on a derestricted section of the Autobahn



There’s increasing debate in Germany over whether or not they should be adding speed limits to the Autobahn’s legendary unlimited section – especially since their last election a few months ago. Now, those calls are being renewed after a Bugatti Chiron owner tried to max out his car on the public road.

The Green Party – now a junior partner in Germany’s new coalition government – called for 130 kph (80 mph) speed limits across the Autobahn’s thousands of miles of road, according to the Associated Press. The idea was proposed mostly as an environmental measure to stop cars from consuming the large quantities of fuel that are needed to achieve such high speeds.

It’s a common misconception that the entire Autobahn system is unlimited. In fact, only about 70 percent of it is truly derestricted, while the rest of the Autobahn has a speed limit of 100 kph (62 mph).

It’s not immediately clear how successful the proposal would be – given the idea was ditched during talks to form the new coalition government in the country.


That being said, this latest top speed run from a Bugatti Chiron owner who hit 259 mph isn’t winning any hearts and minds in the German government.

The German Transport Ministry heavily criticized the stunt from a Czech millionaire who also posted the video on YouTube. In a statement the agency said it “rejects any behavior in road traffic that leads or can lead to endangering other road users.”

All road users must abide by the rules of the road traffic regulations,” the agency added.

They cited the first clause of Germany’s road traffic law, which states that “anyone participating in traffic must behave in such a way that no other person is harmed, endangered or obstructed or inconvenienced more than is unavoidable under the circumstances.”

The ministry also added that the law requires drivers to “only drive so fast that the vehicle is constantly under control.”

It’s impossible to say of Radim Passer – the driver of the Chiron – was constantly in control of the car. However, he said that at least someone was.

“We thank God for the safety and good circumstances, as we were able to reach the speed of 414 km/h!” he wrote.

Raim Passer achieved his top speed on a stretch of the A2 Autobahn between Berlin and Hannover. In the video’s description, he said it was filmed last year on a 6 mile long section with three lanes and plenty of visibility.

“Safety was a priority, so the circumstances had to be safe to go,” he wrote.

That being said, the car passed several other vehicles on the road that were going considerably slower than 250 mph.

So, while it is technically okay to drive nearly 260 mph on the Autobahn, we really cannot suggest doing it. However, time may be running out for you to see how fast you’re willing to go on one of the derestricted roads in the world.
Rugian
Member
Fri Jan 28 14:12:43
I try not to click on entertainment articles, but this is one of the funniest headlines I've read in a while:

"Kanye West allegedly spreading rumors Pete Davidson is gay, has AIDS"
murder
Member
Fri Jan 28 17:10:24

I thought Kanye was the gay fish?

Habebe
Member
Fri Jan 28 17:49:19
Because he likes fish dicks, in his mouth.
Daemon
Member
Fri Feb 04 04:17:05
"more pleasure and higher satisfaction"

http://www...icle/abs/pii/S0278431922000287

When Female (Male) Robot Is Talking To Me: Effect of service robots’ gender and anthropomorphism on customer satisfaction

Abstract

Along with the popularity of service robots in various service settings, service robots are often gendered as either female or male. This study examines the role of service robots’ gender and level of anthropomorphism of service robots on pleasure and customer satisfaction at service encounters. A 2 gender of service robots (female/male) X 2 level of anthropomorphism (low/high) between-subject factorial design is employed to test hypotheses using a scenario-based experimental survey. Results of the proposed moderated mediation model suggests that female service robots generated more pleasure and higher satisfaction compared to that of male service robots, and its influence is amplified when the level of anthropomorphism is high rather than low. Findings highlight the benefit of female service robots in a hotel setting which is only effective when the service robot is humanized, which provides useful guidelines for hoteliers when applying service robots in their service settings.
(...)
murder
Member
Fri Feb 04 08:17:31

"service robots are often gendered as either female or male"

It's pronouns are it/them/they.



Daemon
Member
Mon Feb 07 14:47:17
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60285068

China's Tencent restores Fight Club ending after backlash

Chinese streaming giant Tencent has reinstated the original ending of a Hollywood movie after a censored version last month sparked backlash.

The original ending to the 1999 film Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt, shows scenes of explosions and relentless fighting. But China's version simply showed a message on screen saying the authorities won and saved the day.

The change ignited intense debate about cinematic censorship in China.

Warning: There are plot spoilers ahead.

The latest version on Tencent reportedly restores about 11 of the 12 minutes that were cut. According to news site SCMP, the scenes still missing are those featuring nudity.

The cult classic, directed by David Fincher, stars Edward Norton as the narrator and Brad Pitt as his imaginary alter ego, Tyler Durden.

The film's original finale shows Norton's character killing his alter ego, before bombs destroy buildings in a subversive plot to reorder society.

China's version of the film, which was only released last month, cut all those scenes, and instead explained that the police foiled the plot, arrested the criminals and sent Durden to a "lunatic asylum".

"Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding," it said.

The censored ending was ridiculed online and criticised by both human rights groups and Chinese viewers who had previously seen pirated versions of the original.


Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the 1996 novel that Fight Club was adapted from, wrote sarcastically on Twitter: "This is SUPER wonderful! Everyone gets a happy ending in China!"

The author also wrote on the online platform, Substack: "How amazing. I'd no idea! Justice always wins. Nothing ever exploded. Fini."

It is not uncommon for Chinese broadcasters to censor anything that may be deemed politically or culturally sensitive.

Last year's Friends: The Reunion special saw several cuts being made by Chinese censors, including scenes with Lady Gaga. The pop star's repertoire was banned from mainland China after she met the Dalai Lama in June, who is considered a separatist by Chinese authorities.

However, it is less common for them to change an ending, and rarer still to see those cuts reversed.
Habebe
Member
Tue Feb 08 16:01:53
BERLIN (Reuters) - Fifteen climate activists glued themselves to the asphalt of motorways in Germany, causing rush hour traffic jams on Monday, in the latest protests demanding a law against food waste and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.


I'll give them credit, its kind of funny.
Habebe
Member
Tue Feb 08 16:01:54
BERLIN (Reuters) - Fifteen climate activists glued themselves to the asphalt of motorways in Germany, causing rush hour traffic jams on Monday, in the latest protests demanding a law against food waste and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.


I'll give them credit, its kind of funny.
Daemon
Member
Tue Feb 08 17:28:39
Yeah they annoy a lot of people

http://mob...ger/status/1490588287857213446
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Tue Feb 08 18:25:46
Putin/Macron meeting:
http://pbs...EAsWTAf?format=jpg&name=medium
(table picked by Putin)
murder
Member
Wed Feb 09 14:09:30

"Yeah they annoy a lot of people"

Who are the morons that keep trying to remove them just to let them go so they can block traffic again? lol :o)

murder
Member
Wed Feb 09 14:11:39

"table picked by Putin"

That table is fucking ridiculous. It looks like they would need an intercom to talk to each other.

tumbleweed
the wanderer
Wed Feb 09 14:26:51
speculation on CNN was some dominance power play or because (allegedly) Putin has great fear of covid
Daemon
Member
Sun Feb 13 03:52:45
A horror movie!

http://www...lls-to-make-sure-you-watch-ads

MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads

The new service is launching this summer with a web3 style wallet where users watch ads to earn credits for movies.

MoviePass is relaunching as a web3-style application where users earn credits to go to the movies by watching ads. The new MoviePass will use facial recognition and eye tracking tech in your phone to make sure that you’re actually watching those ads.
(...)
Paramount
Member
Sun Feb 13 06:56:25
I would love to have my eyeballs tracked so that corporate business can make more money. Where do I sign up? Is it FREE to subscribe to this service or do I have to pay them?
murder
Member
Sun Feb 13 21:38:19

Only in America could a scam company be relaunched by one of it's founders to scam people again.

Daemon
Member
Wed Feb 16 16:01:10
http://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete#toggle-gdpr

THEIR BIONIC EYES ARE NOW OBSOLETE AND UNSUPPORTED
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark

BARBARA CAMPBELL was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”

It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished.

Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. He got the first-generation Argus I implant, made by the company Second Sight Medical Products, in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers.

Yet in 2020, Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt. While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case. “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”


Ross Doerr, another Second Sight patient, doesn’t mince words: “It is fantastic technology and a lousy company,” he says. He received an implant in one eye in 2019 and remembers seeing the shining lights of Christmas trees that holiday season. He was thrilled to learn in early 2020 that he was eligible for software upgrades that could further improve his vision. Yet in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, he heard troubling rumors about the company and called his Second Sight vision-rehab therapist. “She said, ‘Well, funny you should call. We all just got laid off,’ ” he remembers. “She said, ‘By the way, you’re not getting your upgrades.’ ”

These three patients, and more than 350 other blind people around the world with Second Sight’s implants in their eyes, find themselves in a world in which the technology that transformed their lives is just another obsolete gadget. One technical hiccup, one broken wire, and they lose their artificial vision, possibly forever. To add injury to insult: A defunct Argus system in the eye could cause medical complications or interfere with procedures such as MRI scans, and it could be painful or expensive to remove.
(...)
murder
Member
Thu Feb 17 11:18:47

^ that is seriously fucked up. :o\

swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Mon Feb 28 17:42:08
Devon Archer, a close friend and former business partner of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, was sentenced on Monday for defrauding a Native American tribe.

In November 2021, it emerged that Archer had requested – and Judge Abrams had granted – permission to go on over 40 international trips since his indictment and even conviction.



http://www...business-partner-archer-fraud/

Habebe
Member
Tue Mar 01 07:51:02
Daemon, Holy shit is that fucked up.Like super fucked up.
Rugian
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:06:03
DuckDuckGo is now CuckCuckGo. Unfortunately.

------

"Gabriel Weinberg (DDG CEO)

Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️

At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.

In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics."
Rugian
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:06:58
I used DDG precisely because I didn't want to be flooded with CNN disinformation every time I searched for anything remotely political.

Looks like DDG has decided to become Google Lite.
murder
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:08:07

DuckDuckGo: "we're down-ranking Russian disinformation."

Republicans: "Fuck DuckDuckGo!"

Rugian
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:12:30
Who defines what is "disinfo?" The same people who spent a year telling us that the Covid lab leak theory was disinformation? That the Hunter Biden laptop story was disinformation? That Iraq maybe not having WMDs was disinformation?

Newsflash: no authority on this planet can claim to know the truth about everything. I know that fact runs in direct conflict to your innate submissive attitude to authority, but its true.
murder
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:21:51

"Newsflash: no authority on this planet can claim to know the truth about everything."

Not true. There's Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and every rando who "does his own research" about things that they don't have the first clue about. They all know the truth about everything.

habebe
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:25:30
"That Iraq maybe not having WMDs was disinformation?"

In the NPR spirit, I won't let facts get in the way of the truth, Im sticking to that one.

We should probably invade again.
habebe
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:28:05
I find it hilarious that the left looks down on things like

"Freedom"
"Doing your own research"

And labels them as far right wing extremist talk.
Rugian
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:30:30
Murder

That was a flippant non-answer to my points.

But fair enough. Your implication seems to be that we should unquestionably trust what the federal government and a handful of self-appointed "fact checkers" tell us.

I reject your position entirely, but its your right to hold it i suppose.
Rugian
Member
Thu Mar 10 16:33:48
Habebe

Murder has a childish understanding of the world. Apparently he thinks that "the scientists/experts" all come together (every last one of them, mind you), reach consensus on an issue, and then convey that determination to the federal government for public release. That determination is definitive and not subject to question, because it went through the aforementioned process.

Except that's not how real life works. At all.
habebe
Member
Thu Mar 10 17:33:59
Ive yet to hear a major position murder holds that is not the legacy media consensus at the time.
habebe
Member
Thu Mar 10 18:31:10
http://twi...?t=2DgU-eucg9BKryoN-3cAww&s=19

In DC (shocking) some guy got car jacked and then ran over with his own car. Mayor browser claims the car jacked probably didn't mean to kill the guy.

DC is such a shithole.
Habebe
Member
Fri Mar 11 15:55:09
Rugian

http://twi...?t=BRa3YQ1-TQh2x9E-9FBsfw&s=19

On DDG
Daemon
Member
Sat Mar 12 10:35:31
Can you keep her, please?

http://www...-deported-back-germany-1687208

Anna Sorokin of Netflix's 'Inventing Anna' to Be Deported Back to Germany

3/11/22

The fake heiress and star of Netflix's Inventing Anna, Anna Sorokin, is being deported back to Germany next week after she tried to apply for asylum in the United States.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is scheduled to send Sorokin back home on a flight from New York. She was convicted of fraud in the U.S. and will be with officials until she lands back on her home soil, according to Spiegel Panorama.

Sorokin, 31, pretended to be a wealthy heiress with a $60 million trust fund while defrauding major financial institutions, hotels and New York City socialites out of more than $200,000, as portrayed on the Netflix show. She was convicted in 2019 and served just under four years in prison before she was released in February 2021 for good behavior.

One month later, she was taken back into custody by ICE for overstaying her visa. She was set to be deported back in March 2021, which she tried to prevent from happening by applying for asylum in the United States, Spiegel Panorama reported. In November 2021, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) granted Sorokin's emergency stay request.


However, Spiegel Panorama has reported Sorokin's attempts to stay in the U.S. have failed and the court denied her request for asylum. The fake heiress will now be set to head back to Germany.

Newsweek reached out to ICE, which would not confirm whether Sorokin is being deported back to Germany next week. In an email, the agency said she "remains in ICE custody pending removal."

Newsweek reached out to Sorokin's lawyer for comment.

Sorokin has no known outstanding allegations against her in Germany. She could return to a semi-regular life in the country, with some money left over from her Netflix deal.


The streaming service paid Sorokin $320,000 for the rights to her life story to be adapted into the TV miniseries Inventing Anna. Sorokin already used $199,000 to pay restitution to banks, $24,000 for New York state fines and $75,000 in attorney fees but will likely owe more until all of her legal proceedings have concluded, Insider reported.

The Netflix drama series shows the timeline of Sorokin's life as "Anna Delvey" and is based on journalist Jessica Pressler's New York magazine article that brought Sorokin fame, according to Insider. The show has been successful on the streaming service and reportedly had the most hours viewed for an English-language series since Netflix's reporting data was updated last year.

Habebe
Member
Sat Mar 12 10:46:51
She gets 4 years and Juicy only gets 150 days.
swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Tue Mar 15 07:09:22
Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland – just two HOURS after it was discovered by astronomers

http://www...?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
murder
Member
Tue Mar 15 08:47:08

Giraffes aren't that big. A gas explosion would do more damage.

Habebe
Member
Tue Mar 15 09:04:59
There was a gas explosion in Mexico.

Probably Putin.
Habebe
Member
Tue Mar 15 09:05:16
Or Mexican white supremacists.
Habebe
Member
Wed Mar 16 20:58:37
The juice is loose!

Jussie smollet was released from jail today while he awaits his appeal.

Which goes to show protected status people are above the law.

He wasn't released cause he was black and rich. Plenty of rich blacks go to jail.

But he is a darling of the wokists, in Chicago, so he gets special treatment.

"There is no room for politics in our court system," defense attorney Nenye Uche said in a news conference shortly after the actor's release. "Regardless of what you think about this case ... the real question is, should Black men be walked into jail for a Class 4 felony?"

http://www...llett-released-bond/index.html
Habebe
Member
Wed Mar 16 21:05:49
Russia has launched Rossgram, a nationalized version of Instagram.

Donald Trump is apparently very popular.
Habebe
Member
Sat Mar 19 01:07:26
http://www...uad/ar-AAVfBbs?ocid=uxbndlbing

South Carolina has updated their death row facilities to now make firing squad an option for death penalty administration.
Daemon
Member
Fri Mar 25 03:38:58
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60864283

Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal


17 hours ago

A 16-year-old from Oxford has been accused of being one of the leaders of cyber-crime gang Lapsus$.

The teenager, who is alleged to have amassed a $14m (£10.6m) fortune from hacking, has been named by rival hackers and researchers.

City of London Police say they have arrested seven teenagers in relation to the gang but will not say if he is one.

The boy's father told the BBC his family was concerned and was trying to keep him away from his computers.

Under his online moniker "White" or "Breachbase" the teenager, who has autism, is said to be behind the prolific Lapsus$ hacker crew, which is believed to be based in South America.

Lapsus$ is relatively new but has become one of the most talked about and feared hacker cyber-crime gangs, after successfully breaching major firms like Microsoft and then bragging about it online.

The teenager, who can't be named for legal reasons, attends a special educational school in Oxford.

City of London Police said: "Seven people between the ages of 16 and 21 have been arrested in connection with an investigation into a hacking group. They have all been released under investigation. Our inquiries remain ongoing."

The boy's father told the BBC: "I had never heard about any of this until recently. He's never talked about any hacking, but he is very good on computers and spends a lot of time on the computer. I always thought he was playing games."


"We're going to try to stop him from going on computers."

The BBC has also spoken to the boy's mother, who did not want to comment.


"White" was outed - or "doxxed" - on a hacker website, after an apparent falling out with business partners.

The hackers revealed his name, address, and social media pictures.

They also posted a biography of his hacking career, saying: "After a few years his net worth accumulated to well over 300BTC [close to $14m]… [he is] now is affiliated with a wannabe ransomware group known as 'Lapsus$', who has been extorting & 'hacking' several organisations."

As first reported by Bloomberg, cyber-security researchers have been tracking "White" for nearly a year and have linked him to Lapsus$ and other hacking incidents.

"We've had his name since the middle of last year and we identified him before the doxxing," said Allison Nixon, chief research officer at cyber-security investigation company Unit 221B.

"Unit 221B working with [cyber-security company] Palo Alto after identifying the actor, watched him on his exploits throughout 2021, periodically sending law enforcement a heads-up about the latest crimes."

Mrs Nixon says researchers tracked him through a trail of activity linked through a nearly unbroken stream of the boy's online accounts.

"We did it by watching the post history of an account and seeing older posts provide contact information for the guy."

Mrs Nixon says the trail was followed thanks to mistakes "White" made in failing to cover his tracks.


The Lapsus$ cyber-extortion group has gained notoriety in a short space of time thanks to its high-profile targets and active presence on the messaging app Telegram. Its channel has grown to 47,000 subscribers.

The last message was posted on the channel on Wednesday, with the group saying: "A few of our members has a vacation until 30/3/2022. We might be quiet for some times. Thanks for understand us - we will try to leak stuff ASAP."


Chris Morgan, from cyber-security company Digital Shadows, says Lapsus$ has risen in prominence in recent months "after targeting several enterprise technology companies, breaching significant amounts of data and posting on to their dedicated Telegram data leak channel".

"Little is known of the origins of the group, however, given that Lapsus$'s initial activity was directed towards several organisations in Brazil, some researchers have speculated that the group is based in South America," Mr Morgan said.

In a Wednesday blog post, Microsoft said Lapsus$ had gained limited access to its system.

Security company Okta admitted that it too had been hacked by the group, with consequences for hundreds of its clients.
Habebe
Member
Fri Mar 25 04:03:55
My local gas station now sells alligator as well as Kangaroo jerky.
Daemon
Member
Wed Mar 30 07:08:12
This is real internet piracy:

http://www...e-mobster-cops-say-2022-03-28/

In Brazil, your internet provider may be a mobster, cops say

March 28, 2022

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 28 (Reuters) - As Rio de Janeiro residents sheltered at home last year during the deadliest phase of Brazil's COVID-19 outbreak, police detective Gabriel Ferrando said he got a tip that something suspicious was upending local internet service.

Access had vanished across broad swaths of Morro da Formiga, or Ant Hill, a tough neighborhood on the city's north side. When Ferrando quizzed a technician from broadband provider TIM SA tasked with fixing the outage, the worker, whom he declined to name, said armed men had chased him away with a warning not to return.

Turns out a new internet provider had claimed this turf: a company whose investors at one time included an accused drug and arms trafficker with alleged ties to Brazil's notorious Red Command crime syndicate, according to Ferrando, court documents filed by authorities and business registration records viewed by Reuters. Using stolen equipment, some of it pilfered from TIM, the newcomers soon had their own internet service up and running, Ferrando said. Residents could sign up with the new firm, he said - or do without.

TIM, a unit of Telecom Italia SpA (TLIT.MI), declined to comment, referring all inquiries to Brazil's telecom industry association Conexis. In a statement, the group called on the nation's law enforcement to act to protect legitimate operators.

Ferrando, a veteran of Rio's top organized crime unit, is trying to do just that. In a sealed report documenting months of investigation, he asked Rio state prosecutors in February to pursue charges against the purported pirates. The prosecutors' office did not respond to a request for comment. No charges have been filed.

Morro da Formiga isn't the only community reporting troubles. Reuters interviewed nearly two dozen telecom industry executives, law enforcement officials, technicians, academics and internet customers in Brazil, and reviewed thousands of pages of court filings submitted by police.

The people and documents described an audacious takeover of internet service in dozens of neighborhoods in Brazil's major cities by companies associated with alleged criminals unafraid to use force and intimidation to push out rivals. The result, these sources said, is that tens of thousands of Brazilians now depend on unreliable, second-rate broadband networks estimated by industry and law enforcement officials to be generating millions of dollars annually for purported crooks.

Bootleg providers can be unresponsive when service crashes and impatient when a bill is missed, some customers told Reuters. In Rio's working-class Campo Grande neighborhood, a resident described how someone knocks on his door monthly to collect 35 reais ($6.80) - in cash.

There's "pressure to pay on the day that they choose with no delay," said the customer, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.

It's a reliable revenue stream made all the more lucrative by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced families online for school, work and shopping. In 2020 alone, the proportion of Brazilian households with an internet connection grew by more than 12 percentage points to 83%, according to the most recent data available from Cetic.br, an information technology organization.

Pirates are plundering equipment and infrastructure, too, much of it re-purposed for their makeshift networks, authorities and telecom executives said. Theft and destruction of telecommunications gear rose 34% in 2020 from 2019, representing about 1 billion reais ($194 million) in direct annual losses, according to Feninfra, an industry group whose members include installers and repair workers. It said that figure rose another 16% in the first half of 2021.

THE ALLEGED SCHEME

Brazil's telecom industry is not alone in its struggles. Crime groups for years have controlled distribution of cooking gas, jugs of drinking water and other basics in many low-income urban neighborhoods.

But by building their own broadband networks, Brazil's criminals are raising their sophistication, according to more than 20 technicians, industry representatives and law enforcement officials interviewed by Reuters. They said the scheme typically works like this:

First, thieves steal or vandalize equipment belonging to traditional broadband operators. When repair teams arrive, they are menaced by armed men who warn them not to come back. Last year in Rio alone, no-go zones rose to 105 locations for Oi SA (OIBR4.SA), one of Brazil's largest internet providers. That figure has quadrupled since 2019, according to data supplied by the company.

Shortly after service is interrupted, telecom companies associated with organized crime groups set up their own networks, piggybacking on existing infrastructure. In some cases, these outfits are run directly by members of drug trafficking gangs including the Red Command or the Pure Third Command, one of its main rivals. Others are run by militias – a type of criminal outfit composed of retired and off-duty cops. In other cases, they are operated by businessmen who pay kickbacks to gangsters to clear out the competition.

Often the interlopers receive help from crooked employees of major providers who sell them expertise and pilfered gear, according to Rio state prosecutor Antonio Pessanha. He told Reuters he's investigating criminal activity in the telecom sector in and around Rio city, the state's capital.

In one recent case, an employee of Claro, the local unit of Mexico's America Movil SAB de CV (AMXL.MX), offered to sell company equipment to organized crime associates, according to a recorded phone call that Pessanha said his office obtained through a court-approved wiretap. He did not specify what criminal organization the people in the call were allegedly affiliated with, nor did he identify the Claro employee or the other participants. The investigation is ongoing, and Reuters was not provided access to the recording.

Claro declined to comment on the alleged incident.

NEW PLAYER IN ANT HILL

In Morro da Formiga, detective Ferrando said he began receiving anonymous tips from some of its roughly 5,000 residents in the first half of 2021 who said broadband services provided by major operators had stopped working.

One company dominates there now, Ferrando said, a firm named JPConnect Servicos de Telecomunicacoes. It was established in 2019, according to corporate registration documents filed with the Rio government and seen by Reuters.

Those records show that until late last year JPConnect was part-owned by an individual named Paulo Cesar Souza dos Santos Jr., whom authorities allege is a member of Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, Rio's largest organized criminal group. In 2011, Rio state prosecutors indicted dos Santos for drug and weapons trafficking, according to court records viewed by Reuters. He was later acquitted.

Dos Santos transferred his 50% stake in JPConnect in September 2021 to another investor, Alexandre Rodrigues de Almeida, according to the registration documents.

In January, police officers searched JPConnect's headquarters in Morro da Formiga, according to Ferrando. He said the cops found equipment belonging to TIM, Oi, Claro and Telefonica Brasil SA (VIVT3.SA), the local unit of Spain's Telefonica SA (TEF.MC). All of those companies declined to comment on Ferrando's allegations.

The JPConnect investigation hasn't been previously reported. Authorities haven't filed charges in the case. Reuters could not reach officials at JPConnect. The company's registered telephone number is not functioning.

Dos Santos and Almeida declined to comment through their lawyer. Their attorney, Eberthe Vieira de Souza Gomes, said JPConnect operates legally and had gained market share by offering a quality product. He said dos Santos has no connection to any criminal organization, pointing out that his client was acquitted of all charges related to his 2011 indictment. Reuters confirmed dos Santos' acquittal via Rio state court documents. Those documents did not specify the year of his acquittal.

TIM, Oi, Claro and Telefonica Brasil referred questions to Conexis, the telecom trade association. In an interview, Marcos Ferrari, the group's president, described a litany of woes facing Brazil's industry generally, including vandalism, theft, threats to employees and hijacking of service areas by players with suspected ties to the underworld.

Authorities must "inhibit this type of criminal action," Ferrari said.

In greater Rio there are several other broadband operators under investigation for allegedly rough tactics and links to purported criminals, authorities said.

Among them is Net&Com, which made headlines in March 2021 when Rio police raided its downtown headquarters as part of a broader probe into an alleged drug ring. Police have publicly stated that they are investigating the firm for allegedly paying criminals associated with the Red Command to help them take over the telecoms market in poor neighborhoods throughout metropolitan Rio.

More than three dozen people, including purported members of the Red Command, last year were charged with drug and weapons trafficking and conspiracy, according to court documents filed by Rio prosecutors and viewed by Reuters. They are currently on trial and have maintained their innocence.

In documents laying out the government's case, authorities alleged the ring also profited by accepting kickbacks from Net&Com to chase telecom competitors out of neighborhoods where the company now operates. Net&Com and its executives have not been charged.

Pedro Santiago, a lawyer for Net&Com, said the company was an upstanding operator that had been the "victim of a witch hunt." Santiago said he had reviewed many hours of police wiretaps and that these showed no link between the firm and any criminal elements.

Police dispute that characterization in court documents seen by Reuters, citing as evidence allegedly stolen equipment and conversations among co-conspirators mentioning the alleged role of Net&Com.

Pessanha, the Rio state prosecutor, said the investigation continues.

"The new gold for the criminal underworld," he said, "is the internet."
murder
Member
Wed Mar 30 07:20:23

I'll never understand why governments allow organized crime syndicates to operate freely.

1. Round up everyone known to be associated with the criminal organization.

2. Put one bullet in the back of the head of each and every one of them.

3. Hold a trial to publicly exonerate anyone who may have been innocent.

In that order. Problem solved.

OsamaIsDaWorstPresid
Member
Thu Mar 31 19:28:16
rofl

http://www...ocks-blm-throws-candles-video/

A woman dubbed a “Karen” has gone viral on social media after damaging $200 worth of candles at a Walmart in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Feb. 28.

Magdalena Ciechanowski was caught on video throwing candles. The 42-year-old woman yelled “Black Lives Matter, my pussy matters” repeatedly as she threw about 13 candles down the store’s aisles.
murder
Member
Thu Mar 31 21:03:20

People are wild.

And mental.

Habebe
Member
Fri Apr 01 23:25:45
Sarah Palin is running to replace the recently deceased Alaskan Congressman.Deoicted here nailin.

http://www...eo.php?viewkey=ph5c901c00e721f

Rugian
Member
Wed Apr 06 08:46:44
Politico wrote an article about Ron Paul. Its as biased and low quality as you would expect.

http://www...04/05/ron-paul-crypto-00022354

God Politico is worthless trash.
swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Thu Apr 07 15:28:52
Dude got his ass whooped for abusing a dog that allegedly disrespected him.

http://twi...06050?cxt=HHwWhMCspd2zkfopAAAA
swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Fri Apr 08 08:05:25
An Irish barista has said that she landed herself in hospital - because she refused to fart around her boyfriend for two years.

http://twi...35555?cxt=HHwWhsC9odapivkpAAAA
Habebe
Member
Thu Apr 14 23:18:52
http://www...re-dupont-sentenced-2022-4?amp

An 83 yr old man got 3.5 years for defrauding people to donate to politicians and pocketing the money.

I get It, its a serious crime. But he is 83, if I was a jury member, I couldnt send a man to prison for what's likley hisnlast years of life over some money, he wasnt out raping or murdering people.
murder
Member
Fri Apr 15 19:57:28

"An 83 yr old man got 3.5 years for defrauding people to donate to politicians and pocketing the money."

Donald Trump isn't 83, right?

swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Wed Apr 20 14:08:43
Exclusive: Ex-CIA analyst says she ‘got bloodied’ in tangled U.S. war on Al Qaeda


Ex-CIA analyst Alfreda Scheuer is shown in a screenshot of her beauty and life coaching website YBeU Beauty Personal Coaching. YBeU Beauty via REUTERS

http://www...ed-us-war-al-qaeda-2022-04-20/
Habebe
Member
Thu Apr 21 06:22:08
I almost did a guess the race or a meanwhile in India post...I really don't know what to do with this

Four men 'gang-rape, kill and eat' monitor lizard in India
Men are in their 20s and 30s, and they appear to have done it for fun, says local official

http://www...onitor-lizard-in-india%3famp=1

"So, what is there to do for fun around here?" "Uh, you know, the usual"
Paramount
Member
Thu Apr 21 09:03:46
Four men 'gang-rape, kill and eat' monitor lizard in India

Read more: Pregnant cow raped in India

Also read: New low: 60-year-old British diplomat ‘sexually harassed’ in India

- -

So in a news article about sex with animals, they also link to more articles about sex with a cow and with a Brit. The sex with a Brit is apparently also ”a new low”.

Does this mean that it is worse to have sex with a Brit than with a cow or a lizzard?
murder
Member
Thu Apr 21 10:14:17

"I really don't know what to do with this"

http://c.tenor.com/8A-3gTABmRoAAAAC/burning-burn-it-down.gif

swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Sun Apr 24 07:38:55

Genius IQ test:

fi yuo cna raed tihs yuo hvae a graet mnid too. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt. Yuo’er a gneius too.

Lvoe yuo, Kim

http://twi...84320?cxt=HHwWgIDRncPm0ZEqAAAA
Habebe
Member
Sun Apr 24 11:57:27
Para/Murder, Nothing is worse than raping a lizard. Im still not sure how that even works, like WTF, do better India, do better, cause Im not sure you could do worse, but I dont want you to try.

Swordtail, Looks like my posts, maybe my sausage fingers are really genius fingers, sounds dirty! Atleast their arent any large lizards around.
Rugian
Member
Sun Apr 24 12:06:12
How it even "works?" A hole is a hole, habebe.
Paramount
Member
Tue Apr 26 11:20:13
Some crazy shit yo. Is America a safe country?

http://twi...?s=21&t=6ml7KkOfDxAiQGIE9MPXqA

The last thing I expected to see in this video was that ”Spiderman guy” with a hole in the crotch on his pants.
Habebe
Member
Tue Apr 26 13:34:12
Rugian, How does one maintain an erection while fucking a lizard with your freinds snapping photos?

I don't think I could do it.
swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Thu Apr 28 16:38:23
The youngest detainee at Guantánamo Bay, a Yemeni man who has been held since 2002 without charge, has been cleared for release, the Pentagon said. But he now must wait for the Biden administration to find a country willing to offer him rehabilitation.

http://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1519138048524668936
murder
Member
Thu Apr 28 17:48:22

Send him back to Yemen. I'm sure things will turn out fine.

Daemon
Member
Fri Apr 29 03:42:36
http://www...islands-premier-arrested-miami

British Virgin Islands premier arrested on cocaine charges in US sting operation



Andrew Fahie is charged with conspiring to import drug into the US and money laundering by the Drug Enforcement Agency


The premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested in a sting operation in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and money laundering.


The BVI governor, John Rankin, confirmed in a statement that Andrew Fahie had been arrested on Thursday morning, saying: “I realise this will be shocking news for people in the territory. And I would call for calm at this time.”

Oleanvine Maynard, the manager director of the Caribbean territory’s port authority, and her son Kadeem were also detained in the operation.

Court papers filed in Florida alleged Fahie, who was also referred to as “head coach”, was involved in conspiracy to import at least 5kg of cocaine and money laundering between 16 October last year and 28 April 2022.

DEA agents allege in the documents that Oleanvine and Kadeem Maynard agreed with undercover agents – who were posing as members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel – to set up a meeting between Lebanese Hezbollah operatives and Fahie in order to establish a place to store thousands of kilograms of drugs arriving from Colombia.

The plan offered by the agents was to store the drug, bundled inside 5kg buckets of paint, in the BVI for one or two days before shipment to Miami or New York, the papers said.

Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard were arrested at a Miami airport after being invited by undercover agents to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash that BVI officials expected to receive for their part in the alleged plot, the court papers alleged.

Liz Truss, the British foreign secretary, said she was “appalled” by the arrest.

Truss said: “This afternoon, the premier of the British Virgin Islands, Andrew Fahie, was arrested in the United States on charges related to drugs trafficking and money laundering.

“I am appalled by these serious allegations.”

She said she had held talks with Rankin and stressed the importance of the recent inquiry into corruption on the Caribbean archipelago.

Last year, the UK set up a commission of inquiry into mis-governance in the British overseas territory, which has heard allegations of systemic corruption, cronyism, jury intimidation and misuse of public funds.

In his statement, Rankin said Fahie’s arrest was the result of a US operation led by the US Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) and was not linked to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report.

“The remit of the Commission of Inquiry focused on governance and corruption, and was not a criminal investigation into the illegal drug trade. To avoid unnecessary speculation, I intend to move ahead urgently on publication of the inquiry report so the people of the BVI can see its contents and its recommendations in the areas it addressed,” he said.

Addressing the commission of inquiry last year, Fahie denied that there was any corruption in the BVI. He said: “The key to any country is its reputation, but so far, and thank God for that, there is no evidence provided in the CoI showing that the BVI is corrupt.”
Daemon
Member
Sat Apr 30 06:25:03
That's far worse than what the Brits do to Assange!!!

http://www...-in-bankruptcy-case/a-61635567

Boris Becker sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison in bankruptcy case

German tennis legend Boris Becker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison in his bankruptcy case in London. He can still appeal the sentence.


Six-time Grand Slam tennis champion Boris Becker has been sentenced to two years and six months in jail in London.

The youngest man to ever win Wimbledon at 17, Becker must serve half of his sentence before being allowed to spend the rest on parole, Judge Deborah Taylor ruled.

"I take into account what has been described as your fall from grace. You have lost your career and reputation and all of your property as a result of your bankruptcy," Taylor told him as she sentenced him at London's Southwark Crown Court.

However, she added: "It is notable you have not shown remorse or acceptance of your guilt. "While I accept the humiliation you have felt as a result of these proceedings, you have shown no humility."

Becker was immediately remanded in custody but does have 28 days to appeal the sentence.

(...)
murder
Member
Sat Apr 30 06:49:10

Boris Becker only earned an estimated $50 million playing tennis. How could he be expected to live off of that?

Daemon
Member
Sat Apr 30 07:50:30
Boris was abused during his whole life, he is innocent!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Becker#Personal_life

In February 2001, Becker acknowledged paternity of a daughter, Anna, with Russian waitress Angela Ermakova, after media reported that he had a child as a result of a sexual encounter in 1999.[69][70] The episode allegedly took place at London's Nobu restaurant.[71] He had allegedly been drinking following his loss to Pat Rafter in the fourth round of the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. Becker initially denied paternity, claiming he only had oral sex with Ermakova. His lawyers claimed that Ermakova had stolen his sperm and used it to inseminate herself after the encounter.
murder
Member
Sat Apr 30 09:16:46

There's something seriously wrong with you when living the life of a mere millionaire is so unacceptable to you that you end up in prison trying to do better.

And yes, screwing a waitress while your wife is in labor is peak douchebag behavior.

Daemon
Member
Sat Apr 30 15:57:15
http://apn...2ccc0ca6414c1d672d1586d2be8160

UK lawmaker resigns after viewing porn in House of Commons
(...)
Neil Parish, 65, stepped down after what he described as a moment of “madness.” Parish, chairman of the house’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said he was trying to look at a tractor website, but stumbled into a porn site with a similar name and watched it for “a bit.’’

“My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went in a second time,” he told the BBC. “And that was deliberate.’’
(...)
murder
Member
Sat Apr 30 17:14:44

"Parish, chairman of the house’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said he was trying to look at a tractor website, but stumbled into a porn site with a similar name and watched it for “a bit.’’"

Is that website still active? lol ;o)


"“My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went in a second time,” he told the BBC. “And that was deliberate.’’"

His biggest crime is the lie. You're a perv. Own it!


"Neil Parish, 65, stepped down after what he described as a moment of “madness.”"

Madness? Pfft! The danger of getting caught made him feel alive for the first time in decades.

Rugian
Member
Sat Apr 30 19:28:34
My hero. There's like a dozen cameras perpetually filming in the House of Commons, yet he had the balls to pull that off anyway.

This man's bravery rivals that of Leonidas.
Habebe
Member
Sat Apr 30 21:42:46
Jill Biden's book is dor sale @$26.

She sold 250 copies in her first week.
swordtail
Anarchist Prime
Thu May 12 09:40:24
INCREDIBLE MOMENT: Boynton Beach police sent this video out in the hopes to honor the people who got out of the car to help the woman who had a medical episode while driving.

https://twitter.com/WPBF25News/status/1524472782268116996
Daemon
Member
Wed May 18 06:50:24
http://www.../article/pii/S0967070X21003632


Parking violations as an economic gamble for public space




Portrays public space as a resource car owners may feel entitled to use for free.


Shows that low fines set by the federal government encourage parking violations.


Finds that fees, fines and controls are in an equilibrium.


Concludes that its economically rational to engage in parking violations.


Suggests that cities control violations and strictly interpret parking codes.
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