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Iniquitous

#7075
October 04, 2017, 04:59:17 PM
In a move that has me scratching my head...

The IRS has hired Equifax to provide fraud protection services.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?!

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353712-irs-gives-equifax-multimillion-dollar-contract-to-prevent-fraud
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gaggedLouise

#7076
October 04, 2017, 05:14:33 PM
With Theresa May set to deliver an important keynote speech at the Tory party conference, and reassert herself as leader, everything went miserably wrong. May coughed hard and lost her voice on repeat, letters fell off the tagline next to her speaking lectern as she finished the speech - and worst of all, a stand-up comic played a prank on her and handed her a P45 form, on camera, as she was getting into the reading. This form, in the UK, effectively means "Your job position is ending - please send us info on your economic istuation". ;) With May in a shaky position, that really pierced her (and put a big question mark at the security of the venue - the man came within handshake distance to her, Boris Johnson and two more of the key cabinet people: what if he had been a terrorist?)

I just wish someone had played that stunt ("U R Fired!") on Trump instead. :D

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/04/theresa-may-british-dream-cap-on-energy-bills-housing-tory-conference-speech


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Lilias

#7077
October 05, 2017, 06:25:20 AM
Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/05/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature
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Valerian

#7078
October 05, 2017, 07:41:31 AM
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE
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DominantPoet

#7079
October 05, 2017, 08:39:36 AM
http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/41508759

Cam Newton decided it was "funny" to hear a female reporter using common football terminology.  :-\

Lustful Bride

#7080
October 05, 2017, 09:42:21 AM

Trigon

#7081
October 05, 2017, 10:53:20 AM
It would seem that the USA is not any more enlightened than Saudi Arabia, for they have decided to oppose a UN resolution which aimed to prevent the death penalty being used against the LGBTQ community (together with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, etc.): https://www.truthdig.com/articles/u-s-opposes-u-n-resolution-death-penalty-lgbt-people/

Lustful Bride

#7082
October 05, 2017, 12:06:53 PM
Quote from: Trevino on October 05, 2017, 10:53:20 AM
It would seem that the USA is not any more enlightened than Saudi Arabia, for they have decided to oppose a UN resolution which aimed to prevent the death penalty being used against the LGBTQ community (together with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, etc.): https://www.truthdig.com/articles/u-s-opposes-u-n-resolution-death-penalty-lgbt-people/

Further information.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/following-backlash-us-clarifies-un-vote-on-death-penalty-for-gays/ar-AAsUup0?ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

Still I feel this could have been handled better.

Lustful Bride

#7083
October 05, 2017, 04:16:49 PM

Sara Nilsson

#7084
October 05, 2017, 05:17:52 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41516615

QuoteA Canadian province is tabling legislation that would make it illegal to protest outside abortion clinics.

Good, feel free to protest but seriously these women are in most cases not doing this lightly and don't need your shit. Especially when the protesters spit and throws things. That is just fucking disgusting and not uncommon.
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gaggedLouise

#7085
October 05, 2017, 05:23:22 PM Last Edit: October 05, 2017, 11:43:05 PM by gaggedLouise
Thirty years after Chernobyl, Sweden and Germany have firmly radioactive wild boars (so do Ukraine and Russia, no doubt, but there are no published statistics from those countries). There was a flurry of articles in the Swedish media today about how radiation fallout had been lodged in the forest soils of northern and central Sweden and ends up in high concentrations in those boars digging into the earth all the time.This country was straight in the wind direction of the radicoactive wave spreading from the doomed reactor at Chernobyl in 1986, indeed the first public alarms that something strange was afoot came from observations near a nuclear plant in Sweden. It was soon clear that the origin of the wave was somewhere in then Soviet territory.

The major radiation scare eventually passed but the remains are still in the soil. So, some boars have up to ten times the limit value of radiation of meat that would be fit for human consumption. (Wild berries, mushroom etc are not dangerous - they are set too low on the nutrition/predation ladder).

Can't find any pieces in English about this recent Swedish alert, here's one from Germany though, where the same problem was noted three years ago:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/radioactive-wild-boars-roam-german-forests-50-years-1463583

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#7086
October 05, 2017, 05:31:59 PM
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#7088
October 05, 2017, 11:13:26 PM

RedRose

#7089
October 06, 2017, 05:49:41 AM
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LisztesFerenc

#7090
October 06, 2017, 05:56:02 AM
  It happened in Israel? Maybe Palestinians trying to raise awareness to their suffering? I know during the Ice Bucket Challenge, people in Palastine tried to launch the rubble bucket challenge in an attempt to raise awareness to the destruction of their settlements had endured, so maybe this something similar. Though the article doesn't mention the perpetrators race, which you'd think they would if they weren't Jewish.

gaggedLouise

#7091
October 06, 2017, 06:05:34 AM

Good girl but bad  -- Proud sister of the amazing, blackberry-sweet Violet Girl

Sometimes bound and cuntrolled, sometimes free and easy 

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Come up to my kitchen, I'll show you my best recipes"

RedRose

#7092
October 06, 2017, 07:34:45 AM
Quote from: LisztesFerenc on October 06, 2017, 05:56:02 AM
  It happened in Israel? Maybe Palestinians trying to raise awareness to their suffering? I know during the Ice Bucket Challenge, people in Palastine tried to launch the rubble bucket challenge in an attempt to raise awareness to the destruction of their settlements had endured, so maybe this something similar. Though the article doesn't mention the perpetrators race, which you'd think they would if they weren't Jewish.

Those who committed the Bataclan in France claimed it was (also) about what the French were doing in Syria and Africa. But people will not be listening if you shoot civilians, or target children.
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#7093
October 06, 2017, 08:38:04 PM

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#7094
October 06, 2017, 10:20:38 PM

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#7095
October 07, 2017, 09:26:43 AM

Sara Nilsson

#7096
October 07, 2017, 02:22:17 PM
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#7097
October 07, 2017, 05:05:25 PM
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#7098
October 07, 2017, 05:08:04 PM
Quote from: Mithlomwen on October 07, 2017, 05:05:25 PM
In the absolute height of hypocrisy news:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti-abortion-rep-tim-murphy-asked-mistress-terminate/story?id=50274843

Hahaa they should never be allowed to forget it. It should be rubbed in their face constantly. I have no pity for hypocrites.

Also in other news 66 protesters arrested in Anti Putin protests in Russia.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-police-detain-66-anti-putin-protesters-monitors/ar-AAt1NFG?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

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#7099
October 08, 2017, 11:40:54 AM
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