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This should be in the British news thread as it's peak Britain really.
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Sounds like if they ever did have a trademark on the very concept of a cake shaped like a caterpillar, they allowed it to become a generic thing and how can it specifically identify M&S if there were already at least four similar competing products?
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CDWLTY
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Did anyone see the "Zulu Prince" who got shot after beating some cops unconscious when they arrived on scene to a panicked woman? Supposedly, him stalking a whyte gurl and sneaking in her house was totally just a cultural misunderstanding because he took his shoes off!
See? Definitely not predatory rape from an african prince accustomed to living a life of no consequences. It was the police's fault for not educating themselves on Zulu cultural mores.
See? Definitely not predatory rape from an african prince accustomed to living a life of no consequences. It was the police's fault for not educating themselves on Zulu cultural mores.
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Police on lookout for Big Bird costume stolen from Adelaide Sesame Street Circus Spectacular
ABC Radio Adelaide[ original | archive ]
A 213cm-tall Big Bird costume reportedly worth $160,000 and made of ostrich feathers has been stolen from a circus in Adelaide.
Key points:
- A Big Bird costume was stolen from an Adelaide circus
- Yellow feathers were found on nearby Port Road
- The costume came from New York and there is no spare for the show
Circus director Keith Brown said a trail of feathers on a nearby road could help catch the culprit.
"He's left a couple of feathers down Port Road for us, so maybe some of those cameras on Port Road will help us," Mr Brown told ABC Radio Adelaide's Afternoons show.
"He's lost a couple of feathers as he's gone down the road."
Mr Brown said boltcutters had likely been used to access the costume from where it was stored on site.
"We all live on-site, it's a travelling touring show. It's the first time Sesame Street has joined the circus — we have to remember this is an international circus show," he said.
"They come specially from New York. We have a lot of cameras around the area so we hope something will come up on the footage."
The costume is the only one of its kind in the show, but organisers said it was only being used to meet guest during the interval.
A $4,000 furry lion costume was stolen from a Woodville South home, leaving its owner "absolutely devastated" in 2019.
Two arrests were also made over the theft of the ABC's Bananas in Pyjamas costumes from the ABC building at Collinswood in 2011.
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Elon take the wheel.
Two killed in fiery Tesla crash without anyone in the driver’s seat
HOUSTON (AP) — Two people were killed in Texas in the fiery crash of a Tesla and authorities say there was no one in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash, although it’s not clear whether the car’s driver-assist system was being used.
A Harris County constable told television stations in Houston that there was a person in the front passenger seat and another in a rear passenger seat after the wreck Saturday night in the Houston suburb of Spring.
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said authorities are certain that no one was driving the car at the time of the crash.
“They feel very confident just with the positioning of the bodies after the impact that there was no one driving that vehicle,” Herman told KHOU-TV.
Deputies said the car was traveling fast and failed to navigate a turn before running off the road, hitting a tree, and bursting into flames. The identity of the victims had not been released by Sunday afternoon. KHOU reported that one was 69 and the other was 59.
Tesla did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
Federal traffic-safety officials are investigating several Tesla crashes in which the vehicle’s Autopilot function may have been used, including crashes in which cars drove under tractor-trailers.
The company warns customers that its driver-assist system, called Autopilot, is not an autonomous-driving program and that they must pay attention and be ready to take control of the vehicle. However, the National Transportation Safety Board said last year that the design of the system allows drivers to avoid paying attention and fails to limit where Autopilot can be used.
KPRC-TV reported that a brother-in-law of one of the victims said it took four hours to extinguish the blaze. Authorities said the vehicle’s batteries repeatedly reignited, and Herman said that deputies called Tesla to ask how to put out the fire. Tesla publishes information for first responders, including the location of high-voltage lines.
Two killed in fiery Tesla crash without anyone in the driver’s seat
HOUSTON (AP) — Two people were killed in Texas in the fiery crash of a Tesla and authorities say there was no one in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash, although it’s not clear whether the car’s driver-assist system was being used.
A Harris County constable told television stations in Houston that there was a person in the front passenger seat and another in a rear passenger seat after the wreck Saturday night in the Houston suburb of Spring.
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said authorities are certain that no one was driving the car at the time of the crash.
“They feel very confident just with the positioning of the bodies after the impact that there was no one driving that vehicle,” Herman told KHOU-TV.
Deputies said the car was traveling fast and failed to navigate a turn before running off the road, hitting a tree, and bursting into flames. The identity of the victims had not been released by Sunday afternoon. KHOU reported that one was 69 and the other was 59.
Tesla did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
Federal traffic-safety officials are investigating several Tesla crashes in which the vehicle’s Autopilot function may have been used, including crashes in which cars drove under tractor-trailers.
The company warns customers that its driver-assist system, called Autopilot, is not an autonomous-driving program and that they must pay attention and be ready to take control of the vehicle. However, the National Transportation Safety Board said last year that the design of the system allows drivers to avoid paying attention and fails to limit where Autopilot can be used.
KPRC-TV reported that a brother-in-law of one of the victims said it took four hours to extinguish the blaze. Authorities said the vehicle’s batteries repeatedly reignited, and Herman said that deputies called Tesla to ask how to put out the fire. Tesla publishes information for first responders, including the location of high-voltage lines.
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Fidel's little brother Raul Castro step down. How long before he kicks the bucket and we'll sing "Ding-dong the witch is dead"? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cubas-raul-castro-confirms-stepping-head-communist-party-rcna689 ( https://archive.ph/3munD )
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Weird, I thought he stood down years ago and that Cuba was run by some EU looking guy now.
Schizo take: beat two people to death. Put them in a Tesla and RC them into a tree.
Not my take, not yet.
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Israel to buy millions of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses
Israel to buy millions of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel signed a deal to buy millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc through 2022, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. The new vaccinations will be suitable to protect people against different variants of the coronavirus, Netanyahu said in a...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel signed a deal to buy millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc through 2022, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
The new vaccinations will be suitable to protect people against different variants of the coronavirus, Netanyahu said in a statement.
He said he hopes to sign a similar deal to purchase the Moderna Inc vaccine.
"This means that very soon we will have more than enough vaccines, both for adults and children," he said.
Late on Monday, Israel's Walla news website reported that Israel signed a deal with Moderna as well, although officials were not immediately reachable to confirm the report.
With about 81% of citizens or residents over 16 - the age group eligible for the Pfizer/BioNTech <22UAy.DE> vaccine in Israel - having received both doses, infections and hospitalisations are down sharply.
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Joshua Zitser
Apr 18, 2021, 8:10 AM
A march in memory of Sarah Halimi in April 2017 in Paris, France.
Fred VIELCANET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Kobili Traoré admitted to murdering his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, in 2017. He shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, and "I killed the devil," shortly before throwing her off the balcony of her third-floor Paris apartment, The New York Times said.
On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation — France's final court of appeal — affirmed two prior judgments that ruled that Traoré could not be held criminally responsible for his actions because he was in a state of drug-induced psychosis.
Traoré, a drug dealer, smoked pot every day for 13 years and had up to 15 joints a day, Israel Hayom reported. Toxicological analysis revealed the presence of cannabis in his blood on the day he was arrested, the French newspaper Libération said.
Read more: People were offended when Clubhouse hosted an anti-Semitic discussion on the holiest day of the year for Jews
The court noted that "a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control," The Times said.
Traoré will be held in mental health institutions until doctors deem him fit to return to society, according to reports.
In December 2019, President Emmanuel Macron made a rare intervention by criticizing the Paris appeals court for saying that Traore was unfit for trial.
"Even if, in the end, the judge decided that there was no criminal responsibility, there is a need for a trial," Macron said in 2020.
The country's top magistrates then criticized Macron for impacting the "independence of the justice system," The Times of Israel reported.
The ruling has angered French politicians and France's Jewish community, the largest in Europe.
Dozens of French senators have reacted by proposing a revision to the law that exonerates a crime due to a drug-induced psychosis, The New York Times said.
Neighbor who tossed an elderly Jewish woman off a balcony while yelling 'Allahu Akbar' avoids trial because he smoked weed
Joshua Zitser
Apr 18, 2021, 8:10 AM
A march in memory of Sarah Halimi in April 2017 in Paris, France.
Fred VIELCANET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
- Kobili Traoré killed an Orthodox Jewish woman in 2018 by throwing her off her balcony in Paris.
- France's top court has ruled that he will not go on trial because he was in a drug-induced psychosis.
- Cannabis was found in Traoré's blood after he was taken into custody for the killing.
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Kobili Traoré admitted to murdering his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, in 2017. He shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, and "I killed the devil," shortly before throwing her off the balcony of her third-floor Paris apartment, The New York Times said.
On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation — France's final court of appeal — affirmed two prior judgments that ruled that Traoré could not be held criminally responsible for his actions because he was in a state of drug-induced psychosis.
Traoré, a drug dealer, smoked pot every day for 13 years and had up to 15 joints a day, Israel Hayom reported. Toxicological analysis revealed the presence of cannabis in his blood on the day he was arrested, the French newspaper Libération said.
Read more: People were offended when Clubhouse hosted an anti-Semitic discussion on the holiest day of the year for Jews
The court noted that "a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control," The Times said.
Traoré will be held in mental health institutions until doctors deem him fit to return to society, according to reports.
In December 2019, President Emmanuel Macron made a rare intervention by criticizing the Paris appeals court for saying that Traore was unfit for trial.
"Even if, in the end, the judge decided that there was no criminal responsibility, there is a need for a trial," Macron said in 2020.
The country's top magistrates then criticized Macron for impacting the "independence of the justice system," The Times of Israel reported.
The ruling has angered French politicians and France's Jewish community, the largest in Europe.
Dozens of French senators have reacted by proposing a revision to the law that exonerates a crime due to a drug-induced psychosis, The New York Times said.
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I think he just chose the guy a couple years ago and kept a ceremonial position while new guy more-or-less (but not completely yet) was made new leader
That's just going off of memory from when I heard about it, though
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Fuck this bullshit. Not only do we need our usual stickers back, we need a Jewish Content sticker too.Israel to buy millions of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses
Israel to buy millions of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel signed a deal to buy millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc through 2022, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. The new vaccinations will be suitable to protect people against different variants of the coronavirus, Netanyahu said in a...news.yahoo.com
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel signed a deal to buy millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc through 2022, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
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Would a Kosher sticker be +1 or -1?
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I know a guy who graduated two classes below me in high school. He was a bit of a cow in that he was into tacticool shit and would talk about how he wanted to be in the military or a cop so he could shoot people. Massive red flag in retrospect, but there’s a lot of edgy teens so it wasn’t something that stood out to me.
What did stand out is that he had an infamous temper and was slightly mentally ill in some way ie it wouldn’t surprise me if he was a narcissist or had a personality disorder. I’m not sure, not a psychiatrist, but he didn’t do well with rejection, he could pretend to be nice for like a short period of time, was a bit of a control freak, a manlet, and was really really funny to poke because he had a massive ego: Specifically, he would get butt hurt on sports teams and vastly overestimated his skill. He was a very annoying underclassman who was very easy to troll because he was convinced he’d be the next Chris Kyle, Tiger Woods, or Randy Moss. Not sure what happened with the marine/navy seal career he envisioned, but at some point in time he dropped it in favor of being a cop.
Later in life, I followed him as a personal cow: He could never hold down a job and he’s been divorced at least twice - if he’s to be believed, it’s never his fault though. He also would constantly announce on social media that he was attempting to be a cop in x, y, or z place*, but ultimately it wouldn’t work out... Until recently. Unfortunately, with all the heat police are getting they’re scrapping the bottom of the barrel. He got in somehow, and I highly doubt he would have if it weren’t for all the anti-police saber rattling. It wouldn’t surprise me if he ended up on the news one day for shooting someone.
*it was funny as hell because it was very cyclical and it pissed him off when it didn’t work out. I’m a bit horrified his persistence paid off.
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Apparently a lot of current and former cops are quitting, not renewing contracts, refusing job offers, etc. these days.
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Finally, the first platform from a political party that has any hope of reforming our kiked broken system.
nationaljusticeparty.com
The Platform of The National Justice Party
Download PDF The United States of America will be declared an outpost of Western civilization and a state dedicated to its European-heritage population and their posterity. It will be the policy of the state to set immigration and natal policy that will ensure a permanent European majority. The righ
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I'd like to see it applied to banks, hollywood, lawyers, med school, college admissions, deep state positions, and Congress to start.
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Stolen Big Bird costume returned to circus in Adelaide with apology note
[ original | archive ]A stolen Big Bird costume worth $160,000 has been returned after being taken from a circus in Adelaide by self-proclaimed "Big Bird Bandits".
Key points:
- The Big Bird costume was stolen from a circus in the Adelaide suburbs earlier this week
- The costume is made from ostrich feathers and is worth $160,000
- An apology note returned with the costume said "no harm" had come to "Mr Bird"
SAPOL said the costume was dumped near the south-western end of the circus, by an electricity box, and that the two males — who were both wearing dark clothing — ran away across Port Road.
Patrols converged on the area, securing the stolen costume, which SAPOL said contained a "letter of apology" in the beak.
The note, signed off by the "Big Bird Bandits" contained an apology for taking the costume, and said "we had no idea what we were doing, or what our actions would cause".
"We were just having a rough time and were trying to cheer ourselves up," said the note, which also apologised for being "such a big birden".
"We had a great time with Mr Bird, he's a great guy and no harm came to our friend."
Dog patrols searched the area, but the two men were not located.
The 213cm-tall bright yellow costume is made from ostrich feathers and was flown from New York to take part in the circus.
SAPOL said in a statement that the costume appeared to be intact.
The police investigation into the theft, which occurred between Sunday afternoon, April 18 and Monday morning, April 19, continues.
If found, the suspects could face theft charges.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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So it was probably a PR stunt.
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So the good cops with the in-demand skillset are fucking off from urban to regional, and the headcount-starved urban PD’s are accepting anyone with a chest to pin a badge on? I have only one thing to say to niggers in general and BLM in particular: