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In that case I admire the atavism of the masses.
Carpe Felis with a surprised looking cat needs to be on Trump's coat of arms.
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In the Peel region of Ontario about a few days ago an Amber Alert (missing child) was issued to every phone and tv channels at 11pm. People called 911 to complain that the amber alert woke them up and that it was too loud.
The child was later found deceased, killed by her father on her birthday
Good job Ontario
The child was later found deceased, killed by her father on her birthday
Good job Ontario
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47279252
Google searches for "best toilet paper in the world" appear to have been manipulated to return images of the Pakistan national flag.
The results are believed to be the work of protesters acting in response to an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that left at least 40 soldiers dead.
It is the deadliest militant attack on Indian forces in Kashmir since the insurgency against Indian rule began.
Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammad said it was behind the attack.
The flag-toilet paper connection emerged soon after the 14 February attack in a few blogs commenting on the attack and became a trending topic on social media over the weekend. The number of people searching for the connection may have also influenced how Google returns results.
Now a Google search returns news stories about the link but anyone searching images for the "best toilet paper in the world" gets a page dominated by the green and white flag. Many of the images are from news stories about the connection. Others are screenshots of the critical social media posts that linked the flag to toilet paper.
Google has not yet commented on how this could have happened.
This is not the first time that a search via Google has returned curious results. Heads of state including US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have both been linked to searches for derogatory phrases.
Google searches for "best toilet paper in the world" appear to have been manipulated to return images of the Pakistan national flag.
The results are believed to be the work of protesters acting in response to an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that left at least 40 soldiers dead.
It is the deadliest militant attack on Indian forces in Kashmir since the insurgency against Indian rule began.
Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammad said it was behind the attack.
The flag-toilet paper connection emerged soon after the 14 February attack in a few blogs commenting on the attack and became a trending topic on social media over the weekend. The number of people searching for the connection may have also influenced how Google returns results.
Now a Google search returns news stories about the link but anyone searching images for the "best toilet paper in the world" gets a page dominated by the green and white flag. Many of the images are from news stories about the connection. Others are screenshots of the critical social media posts that linked the flag to toilet paper.
Google has not yet commented on how this could have happened.
This is not the first time that a search via Google has returned curious results. Heads of state including US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have both been linked to searches for derogatory phrases.
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The Indians can't be behind this - they don't know what toilet paper is.
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That story had its own thread a couple of days back.
Caster Semenya case ontop 'man blood' dey start Monday
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That news might desserve its own thread, some journalists break ranks. https://www.mediaite.com/online/cbs...interview-im-committing-professional-suicide/
Timcast posted a vlog about this.
Timcast posted a vlog about this.
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Masked Protesters 'Occupy' Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Deface Fallen Agent Memorial
https://pjmedia.com/trending/masked...seum-in-el-paso-deface-fallen-agent-memorial/
Dozens of protesters reportedly “occupied and reclaimed” the privately owned U.S. Border Patrol Museum near El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, harassing employees and visitors and defacing the museum's fallen agent memorial.
Yesterday, masked protestors “occupied & reclaimed” (whatever that means) the #BorderPatrol museum (non-profit entity run by volunteers) & defaced our fallen agent memorial (a very sacred monument).
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about the hypocrisy of their actions...?? pic.twitter.com/VUmMmwAIqO
— Jason Owens, Chief Patrol Agent (@JOwensUSBP) February 17, 2019
Protesters take over U.S. Border Patrol museum in Texas and deface pictures of fallen agents https://t.co/NVTz4TBVDp pic.twitter.com/uHzzPYsnGt
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) February 18, 2019
Museum director David Ham told the Washington Examiner that his staff and guests worried for their safety when "about 50 rowdy protesters entered the facility, defaced property, and refused to leave the grounds."
Protesters from the group Tornillo: The Occupation, assembled Saturday afternoon in the museum's parking lot, where many of them proceeded to cover their faces with bandannas and masks. Then, holding signs and banners, they started singing and marching into the museum, which is a nonprofit run by volunteers.
"You guys need to leave, the cops are on their way," a flustered museum employee told the group.
The agitators proceeded to place over 100 posters and stickers on exhibits throughout the museum while the museum's staff and visitors were ushered into the gift shop for safe refuge until the police came.
A woman holding a bullhorn bellowed that the facility was celebrating the genocide of migrant families, "and that's not okay!"
"We have a right to be here and share our own stories," the woman said before handing the bullhorn over to another activist. Later, the woman said, "A lot of the Border Patrol agents are murderers. That's what they are."
As they were leaving the facility, the agitators chanted, "Say it loud, say it clear, Border Patrol kills!" and "f*ck your walls, f*ck your borders, we won't take your f*cking orders!"
"We reclaimed their false narrative," one of the protesters explained once outside the facility. "There shouldn't be a museum for genocide."
"That was really intimidating to our staff, plus their kind of aggressive attitude," a museum official who is a 31-year veteran of the Border Patrol told the Examiner.
Ham, who was not at the museum at the time of the incident, said he got a call from an "upset" staff member.
"We have cameras, and we saw them gathering in the parking lot. We saw them come in the museum, and she had called 911. I was able to watch the cameras on my cellphone. They came in after putting masks on," Ham told the Examiner in a phone call Monday.
"They proceeded to set up a bunch of signs and just went all over the museum. They of course had an agenda, they were chanting and singing songs, and then a couple of them got on a bullhorn," Ham said. "We had visitors in the museum. They started talking and kind of harassing them. Of course the staff was asking them to leave, and they wouldn’t leave."
Ham said his staff led non-protesting visitors to the back of the gift shop, so they could hide until police arrived on the scene.
According to the group's Facebook page, the goal of the occupation was to expose "the true violence of borders and border patrol" following the deaths of two Guatemalan children who died after being taken into custody by federal agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in December.
Protesters plastered dozens of images on pictures, glass, painted walls, mannequins, and vehicles throughout the building. They also posted the pictures on the faces of Border Patrol agents who died in the line of duty.
The pictures showed three children, including Jakelin Caal. The 7-year-old died hours after illegally entering the United States near Antelope Wells, N.M., and an autopsy cited sepsis, a blood condition she would have had prior to being taken into custody, as the reason for her death.
Ham said the pictures had an adhesive on the back of them that was stronger than normal tape.
"It’s very hard to remove. They [staff] tried to remove some and they tear off. We’ve got antique cars, old Border Patrol vehicles, and an aircraft. We’re kind of worried it’s going to peel the paint off," said Ham. "I know it’s peeled the paint off some of our walls."
Ham said police are investigating the incident and an insurance adjuster will visit the museum Monday to estimate the amount of damage the group caused.
Military police from Fort Bliss ended up responding to the staff's 911 calls because of the remoteness of the museum's location. They detained all of the protesters once they had left the museum, and took down their information, according to the Examiner.
"BREAKING: Military police have blockaded our people at the Border Patrol Museum after our Nonviolent action to tell the true story of violence behind borders and those who patrol them. ... After demanding everyone's IDs, collecting personal information, and looking for warrants and immigration status, the military police have let our people go from the Border Patrol Museum parking lot," a group member wrote on Facebook.
In a Facebook post later on Saturday, Ham vowed to go after the protesters.
"Today a group of protesters invaded the Border Patrol Museum and defaced all of our exhibits including our sacred Memorial Room. Efforts to prosecute them will be pursued once damage is assessed. This angers me greatly," the museum director wrote.
One of the protest organizers, Elizabeth Vega, was previously involved in demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.
Vega told El Paso television station KVIA that the museum protest "was an act of civil disobedience done because we believe there is a humanitarian crisis and human rights violations being perpetuated by a corrupt and broken immigration system."
She denied vandalism accusations but admitted the group did plaster sticky pictures of Caal and other children on various items inside the Border Patrol museum.
BREAKING: Over 100 posters and stickers have been placed by a party of 50 protesters at exhibits inside El Paso’s border patrol museum. The pro immigration imaging & messaging has badly damaged the museums memorial wall of fallen officers & other exhibits. @abc7breaking pic.twitter.com/LfliW1QL2b
— Michael Gordon KVIA ABC-7 (@MichaelGordonTV) February 18, 2019
A U.S. Border Patrol Museum employee who confronted the unwelcome group estimates there were about to 50 people. The employee, who has asked not to be identified for her protection, said she feels the invasion and vandalism were politically motivated.
"The Border Patrol Museum has been here for a long time,” El Pasoan Luie Saldanha told KFOX 14. "Everyone should respect the place,” added Maria Saldanha.
One of the museum's employees told News4SA that the protesters seemed to "come out of nowhere" and took over the facility quickly.
"They were everywhere,” said the employee. "You couldn't see their faces, they had a lot of posters. They were marching, they were singing, they were being loud."
This employee said the protest lasted about 30 minutes: "We weren't physically assaulted, but we were just verbally assaulted and harassed,” she said.
"The visitors saw it and they took cover in our gift shop in the very, very back,” said the employee. She added that the harassment left her and others "feeling threatened and afraid."
"The museum is there to educate them,” said the employee. “We have nothing to do with what's going on out there."
https://pjmedia.com/trending/masked...seum-in-el-paso-deface-fallen-agent-memorial/
Dozens of protesters reportedly “occupied and reclaimed” the privately owned U.S. Border Patrol Museum near El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, harassing employees and visitors and defacing the museum's fallen agent memorial.
Yesterday, masked protestors “occupied & reclaimed” (whatever that means) the #BorderPatrol museum (non-profit entity run by volunteers) & defaced our fallen agent memorial (a very sacred monument).
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about the hypocrisy of their actions...?? pic.twitter.com/VUmMmwAIqO
— Jason Owens, Chief Patrol Agent (@JOwensUSBP) February 17, 2019
Protesters take over U.S. Border Patrol museum in Texas and deface pictures of fallen agents https://t.co/NVTz4TBVDp pic.twitter.com/uHzzPYsnGt
— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) February 18, 2019
Museum director David Ham told the Washington Examiner that his staff and guests worried for their safety when "about 50 rowdy protesters entered the facility, defaced property, and refused to leave the grounds."
Protesters from the group Tornillo: The Occupation, assembled Saturday afternoon in the museum's parking lot, where many of them proceeded to cover their faces with bandannas and masks. Then, holding signs and banners, they started singing and marching into the museum, which is a nonprofit run by volunteers.
"You guys need to leave, the cops are on their way," a flustered museum employee told the group.
The agitators proceeded to place over 100 posters and stickers on exhibits throughout the museum while the museum's staff and visitors were ushered into the gift shop for safe refuge until the police came.
A woman holding a bullhorn bellowed that the facility was celebrating the genocide of migrant families, "and that's not okay!"
"We have a right to be here and share our own stories," the woman said before handing the bullhorn over to another activist. Later, the woman said, "A lot of the Border Patrol agents are murderers. That's what they are."
As they were leaving the facility, the agitators chanted, "Say it loud, say it clear, Border Patrol kills!" and "f*ck your walls, f*ck your borders, we won't take your f*cking orders!"
"We reclaimed their false narrative," one of the protesters explained once outside the facility. "There shouldn't be a museum for genocide."
"That was really intimidating to our staff, plus their kind of aggressive attitude," a museum official who is a 31-year veteran of the Border Patrol told the Examiner.
Ham, who was not at the museum at the time of the incident, said he got a call from an "upset" staff member.
"We have cameras, and we saw them gathering in the parking lot. We saw them come in the museum, and she had called 911. I was able to watch the cameras on my cellphone. They came in after putting masks on," Ham told the Examiner in a phone call Monday.
"They proceeded to set up a bunch of signs and just went all over the museum. They of course had an agenda, they were chanting and singing songs, and then a couple of them got on a bullhorn," Ham said. "We had visitors in the museum. They started talking and kind of harassing them. Of course the staff was asking them to leave, and they wouldn’t leave."
Ham said his staff led non-protesting visitors to the back of the gift shop, so they could hide until police arrived on the scene.
According to the group's Facebook page, the goal of the occupation was to expose "the true violence of borders and border patrol" following the deaths of two Guatemalan children who died after being taken into custody by federal agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in December.
Protesters plastered dozens of images on pictures, glass, painted walls, mannequins, and vehicles throughout the building. They also posted the pictures on the faces of Border Patrol agents who died in the line of duty.
The pictures showed three children, including Jakelin Caal. The 7-year-old died hours after illegally entering the United States near Antelope Wells, N.M., and an autopsy cited sepsis, a blood condition she would have had prior to being taken into custody, as the reason for her death.
Ham said the pictures had an adhesive on the back of them that was stronger than normal tape.
"It’s very hard to remove. They [staff] tried to remove some and they tear off. We’ve got antique cars, old Border Patrol vehicles, and an aircraft. We’re kind of worried it’s going to peel the paint off," said Ham. "I know it’s peeled the paint off some of our walls."
Ham said police are investigating the incident and an insurance adjuster will visit the museum Monday to estimate the amount of damage the group caused.
Military police from Fort Bliss ended up responding to the staff's 911 calls because of the remoteness of the museum's location. They detained all of the protesters once they had left the museum, and took down their information, according to the Examiner.
"BREAKING: Military police have blockaded our people at the Border Patrol Museum after our Nonviolent action to tell the true story of violence behind borders and those who patrol them. ... After demanding everyone's IDs, collecting personal information, and looking for warrants and immigration status, the military police have let our people go from the Border Patrol Museum parking lot," a group member wrote on Facebook.
In a Facebook post later on Saturday, Ham vowed to go after the protesters.
"Today a group of protesters invaded the Border Patrol Museum and defaced all of our exhibits including our sacred Memorial Room. Efforts to prosecute them will be pursued once damage is assessed. This angers me greatly," the museum director wrote.
One of the protest organizers, Elizabeth Vega, was previously involved in demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.
Vega told El Paso television station KVIA that the museum protest "was an act of civil disobedience done because we believe there is a humanitarian crisis and human rights violations being perpetuated by a corrupt and broken immigration system."
She denied vandalism accusations but admitted the group did plaster sticky pictures of Caal and other children on various items inside the Border Patrol museum.
BREAKING: Over 100 posters and stickers have been placed by a party of 50 protesters at exhibits inside El Paso’s border patrol museum. The pro immigration imaging & messaging has badly damaged the museums memorial wall of fallen officers & other exhibits. @abc7breaking pic.twitter.com/LfliW1QL2b
— Michael Gordon KVIA ABC-7 (@MichaelGordonTV) February 18, 2019
A U.S. Border Patrol Museum employee who confronted the unwelcome group estimates there were about to 50 people. The employee, who has asked not to be identified for her protection, said she feels the invasion and vandalism were politically motivated.
"The Border Patrol Museum has been here for a long time,” El Pasoan Luie Saldanha told KFOX 14. "Everyone should respect the place,” added Maria Saldanha.
One of the museum's employees told News4SA that the protesters seemed to "come out of nowhere" and took over the facility quickly.
"They were everywhere,” said the employee. "You couldn't see their faces, they had a lot of posters. They were marching, they were singing, they were being loud."
This employee said the protest lasted about 30 minutes: "We weren't physically assaulted, but we were just verbally assaulted and harassed,” she said.
"The visitors saw it and they took cover in our gift shop in the very, very back,” said the employee. She added that the harassment left her and others "feeling threatened and afraid."
"The museum is there to educate them,” said the employee. “We have nothing to do with what's going on out there."
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The photos of the assholes who perpetrated that crime are hilariously typical:
Protester found guilty of assault after wiping pepper spray on St. Louis police chief
Look at that smug, narcissistic, vacuous face: she's looks like the hispanic Nathaniel Phillips.
"BREAKING: Military police have blockaded our people at the Border Patrol Museum after our Nonviolent action to tell the true story of violence behind borders and those who patrol them."
Of course they are the victims here. Hardcore NPCs, for sure.
Texas boy called 'little Hitler' for raising money for border wall, mom says
sourceA 7-year-old boy is going viral in a community northwest of Austin, Texas after he set up a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Jennifer Stevens said it all began when her son, Benton, watched Trump’s State of the Union Address on Feb. 5.
“He wanted to know about the wall so we explained what it was about and he was like, ‘I want to raise money for the wall,’” she said.
Both she and her husband, Shane, are politically active members of the Republican National Convention, she said, and they like to keep their children aware of their political stance.
“People think he’s brainwashed,” she said. “Well, of course, he supports Trump because we do and he hears how we talk, and this and that. Call that brainwashing but I call it parenting because we instill our values in him.”
Jennifer said Benton begged her to let him set up a stand to help raise money for the border wall. His older brothers helped him make the signs and Jennifer helped him make the hot chocolate.
On Saturday, Benton set up his stand at a Steiner Ranch strip mall for an hour. Jennifer said in that time, he made $231 in sales but not everyone was appreciative of the family’s efforts.
“I guess some liberals, or whatever you want to call them, they were griping at the owner [of the store], and going in, and yelling at him and slamming him on Facebook,” she said.
Even though Jennifer said the stand wasn’t on the store's property, her husband decided to close it down that day. KXAN reached out to the owner of the store but he declined to comment.
In the hour Benton was selling hot chocolate, Jennifer said someone posted a picture of him and his stand on several Facebook pages and the issue took off.
“It seems like there are more people supporting it than against it, but the people that are against it keep going and going and going.”
While some slammed them for using their son to make political statements, others applauded them. One donor matched the money he raised on Saturday.
When the Stevens told Benton about the mixed reactions, Jennifer said it “fired him up” and so they set up the stand on Sunday as well.
Once again, the reactions were polarized.
“He was called a little Hitler yesterday,” Jennifer said. “A guy pointed at him in his car and then he said that we didn’t like brown people. I don’t understand that at all.”
Online, Jennifer said she and her husband were criticized for their actions.
"That’s the price you pay when you make a political stance.”
In total, between sales and donations that have poured in through Venmo, Jennifer said Benton raised about $1,400. So far, he seems unfazed by the negative attention he has received.
“We’re going to get it into the wall,” she said of their plans for the money. “We will 100 percent make sure it goes toward the wall.”
According to a report from Business Insider, making sure money goes directly to a certain project with the federal government can get complicated. Donations to the government go to a fund called "Gifts to the United States" but there is not a way to guarantee that money goes toward a specific project. Donating money to the Department of Homeland Security would require Congressional approval, according to a 2008 policy directive.
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https://pitchfork.com/news/diddys-madame-tussauds-wax-figure-was-decapitated/
(http://archive.li/PPJan)
Diddy’s Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Was Decapitated
Police say the suspect yelled at the inanimate Sean Combs, stomped on its head
An unidentified man has attacked a likeness of Diddy at Madame Tussauds in Times Square, New York, NBC New York reports. According to the NYPD, the suspect yelled at the Sean Combs wax figure, knocked it over, and then stomped on its head until it detached from the body. The man—who was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans—then fled Tussauds’ on foot. Diddy, who still likes to be referred to as Love, has yet to publicly address the incident.
(http://archive.li/PPJan)
Diddy’s Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Was Decapitated
Police say the suspect yelled at the inanimate Sean Combs, stomped on its head
An unidentified man has attacked a likeness of Diddy at Madame Tussauds in Times Square, New York, NBC New York reports. According to the NYPD, the suspect yelled at the Sean Combs wax figure, knocked it over, and then stomped on its head until it detached from the body. The man—who was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans—then fled Tussauds’ on foot. Diddy, who still likes to be referred to as Love, has yet to publicly address the incident.
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Lacrosse player sidelined because his head is simply too big
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lacrosse-player-sidelined-head-simply-big-234652478.html
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lacrosse-player-sidelined-head-simply-big-234652478.html
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Looks like the woke version of the Cliven Bundy fuckwads.
Plus they're fucking fat.
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Weren't like 75% of the 22 people at the duck sanctuary standoff government agents provocateur?
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Internet freaks out about John Wayne's views and beliefs after some dork unearths some 1971 Playboy interview with him.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrit...cist-homophobic-playboy-interview-resurfaces/
This has been common knowledge for years now. Also LOL.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrit...cist-homophobic-playboy-interview-resurfaces/
This has been common knowledge for years now. Also LOL.
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^I smell another game of "destroy monuments dedicated to white people," especially considering how many things are named after him in Commiefornia.
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I can't wait for people to tell John Wayne Airport to change their name.
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How the fuck is this news and who didn't know this already?
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Woke people who aren't up to date on old celebrities. People freaking out over something this old is hilarious.
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Why not build a wall around it? It's the American way!