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Tommy Robinson, a far right activist who is anti immigration and has been accused of racism, was arrested earlier in the week for immigration offences in Canada.

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Hertfordshire memorial to 'hero' police dog Finn venue chosen

A permanent memorial to a police dog that saved his handler will be installed near his home.
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View attachment 976705Gold medal winner found sleeping in park after complaining about 'bad' Olympic village conditions​


The Olympic Village is taking some serious heat after a gold medalist was found sleeping beside a park bench.

You would believe that living in quarters specifically designed to host the best of the best Olympians in the world would be something all of the athletes would be excited about.

But not one of them.

Instead, gold medalist Thomas Ceccon has had some harsh words about the conditions he was living in at the village.

Ceccon complained about his environment, even though he went on to pick up two medals this week.

Calling it ‘subpar’, the Italian swimmer must have decided that sleeping outdoors was far better conditions than a place with a cardboard bed and had a quick kip on the ground.

In a picture taken of him, you can see a white towel spread out on the grass under a tree and next to a bench with the swimmer curled up asleep.

It was a Saudi rower called Husein Alireza who caught Ceccom napping and posted it on his Instagram account, tagging the location as the Olympic Village grounds.

The 23-year-old has been vocal about his accommodations since his loss during the 200m backstroke final on Wednesday July 31.

He said to reporters: "There is no air conditioning in the village, it's hot, the food is bad.

"Many athletes move for this reason: it's not an alibi or excuse, it's the reality of what perhaps not everyone knows.

"I'm disappointed that I didn't make the final, but I was too tired. It's hard to sleep both at night and in the afternoon.

"Usually, when I'm at home, I always sleep in the afternoon: here I really struggle between the heat and the noise."

The Italian swimming federation FIN has even been forced to clarify that the video of Ceccon asleep is unrelated to his earlier comments about the Olympic Village.

However, Ceccon is not the only athlete to slate the conditions at the Olympic Village.

Team USA Coco Gauff shared that one of her female tennis teammates quit the village after finding the quarters were ‘too cramped.’

French swimmer Assia Touati recently said: "We had no AC in the bedroom but they installed it anyway because it was getting too hot."

Australian water polo player Matilda Kearns also came out to say that she ‘already had a massage to undo the damage’ from sleeping on the mattress at the Olympic Village.



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A dog has accidentally caused a house fire

Colorado Springs Fire Department has released video footage of the moment a curious dog started a house fire by accidentally switching on a stovetop.

The fire was extinguished by the homeowner before crews arrived after being alerted by their HomePod device which sent them a "High Heat" notice.

The homeowner was treated for smoke inhalation, but no other injuries to people or pets were reported.

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Watch: Dog accidentally turns on stove and sets fire to home

The moment the pet started the fire was captured by the homeowner’s security camera.
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Another dog caused a house fire
An indoor monitoring camera shows the moment a dog unintentionally caused a house fire after chewing on a portable lithium-ion battery power bank.
In the video released by Tulsa Fire Department in Oklahoma, two dogs and a cat can be seen in the living room before a spark started the fire that spread within minutes.
Tulsa Fire Department public information officer Andy Little said the pets escaped through a dog door, and according to local media the family was also evacuated safely.
"Had there not been a dog door, they very well could have passed away," he told CBS affiliate KOTV.

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Moment dog sets house on fire after chewing power bank in Oklahoma

The blaze started with a spark caused by a portable lithium-ion battery cable.
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A tortoise miraculously managed to escape its home and climb on to train tracks, sparking delays for commuters.

After issues in the morning caused havoc for many trying to travel on Britain's trains on Friday morning, more delays were reported between Ascot and Bagshot later that evening.

South Western Railway told Sky News a train driver spotted the culprit - a tortoise named Solomon - on the track near Ascot station just after 6pm.

The reptile was moving "at pace" towards Bagshot, they jokingly added.

Engineers carried Solomon off the tracks - and staff "moved the tortoise to a position of safety on the platform at Ascot, which included a short ride on the train itself".
 
Seven horses not seen in Kazakhstan for 200 years made their way by plane and truck to 2,700 square miles of grassland and wetlands in the Altyn Dala region.

“It is quite important to have these horses,” said Albert Salemgareyev, lead specialist for the Association for the Conversation of Biodiversity in Kazakhstan.
 
The Olympics is finally over in Paris France 2024. Back to Los Angeles California 2028. Congratulations 👏 🎉 🥳 🎉 USA won the most medals.
But USA and China got each 40 gold medals that's a tied with the gold medals only. 🥇
USA got more slivers and bronze medals. 🥈 🥉
With all these metals USA got first place in the categories.
Yahoo USA great Job and a great year 2024 in Paris France.

Also on another note one USA gymnastics gal had a bronze medal and they took it away from her and gave it to another gal from Romanian. So one remaining in gymnastics girl took the Bronze metal. Because I guess she had a little bit more points than they USA gal and gymnastics. Oh that's so sad that you get a medal and then you get it taken away. Oops some judge or somebody did wrong about that situation.

This is world news tonight. 🌎 🌍 Congratulations to everybody that won any kind of metal gold, silver, or bronze metals well done. All around the globe. I'm so happy for them all. They work so hard many hours, many days, many weeks, many years. That is awesome. Way to go. Champs! 🏆 🏅 Good luck to the folks that are going to go to the Olympics in 4 years when it comes to Los Angeles California. I wish them all nothing but the best from all over the world. God bless our world 🌎 🌍 today and forever. 👏👍😁🙂
 
serious for a moment please 🙏🏼 time for some of those thoughts and prayers fr

laat night at around 6pm local time the mother of a 10 year old girl very close to where i live slit her daughters throat.

still only finding out by the chinese community where i live. they r friends of friends and this is so very sad to hear. i dont pray very much but i pray to any good entity out there in the universe that sophies dad is ok aftter finding his daughter like he did. i pray whatever horrible thing that makes a mum do this to her own kid is fixed or replace the negative chi with positive.

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Tams said:
serious for a moment please 🙏🏼 time for some of those thoughts and prayers fr

laat night at around 6pm local time the mother of a 10 year old girl very close to where i live slit her daughters throat.

still only finding out by the chinese community where i live. they r friends of friends and this is so very sad to hear. i dont pray very much but i pray to any good entity out there in the universe that sophies dad is ok aftter finding his daughter like he did. i pray whatever horrible thing that makes a mum do this to her own kid is fixed or replace the negative chi with positive.

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You’re kinder than me. I would like to think this child survived this but such a barbaric act, I’m inclined to think not. 😔
 
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You’re kinder than me. I would like to think this child survived this but such a barbaric act, I’m inclined to think not. 😔
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we were right. she was off her meds and started saying her daughter was possessed by satan and was telling her to do bad things.

they said the cry of her dad when he found her was bone chilling and heart breaking💔

i knew about the family but didnt know them myself just thru friends and her school is close to mine. the whole chinese community here is just shook up.
 
As courts across England continue to deal with the onslaught of cases related to recent disorder in the UK, here's a rundown of various charges and sentences that've come through today:

A short while ago, two men were jailed for their roles in what a judge called "12 hours of racist, hate-fuelled mob violence" in Hull

John Honey, 25, was given four years and eight months, and 48-year-old David Wilkinson six years - the longest sentences to be handed out since the violence that erupted following a stabbing attack in Southport last month

The first adult in England was charged earlier with the more serious offence of riot, while further violent disorder sentences have been handed out in Bristol, Sheffield, Sunderland, Blackpool, Liverpool and Plymouth

Roger Haywood, who a judge earlier said played a "leading" role in the Blackpool disorder, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison

New Ministry of Justice data shows 460 have so far been arrested in connection with the unrest - and at least 99 have been sentenced

Meanwhile, the National Police Chiefs' Council gave us an update earlier to say 277 police officers have been injured responding to the unrest
 
A cluster of Scottish islands could help solve one of our planet's greatest mysteries, scientists say.

The Garvellach islands off the west coast of Scotland are the best record of Earth entering its biggest ever ice age around 720 million years ago, researchers have discovered.
The big freeze, which covered nearly all the globe in two phases for 80 million years, is known as "Snowball Earth", after which the first animal life emerged.

Clues hidden in rocks about the freeze have been wiped out everywhere - except in the Garvellachs. Researchers hope the islands will tell us why Earth went into such an extreme icy state for so long and why it was necessary for complex life to emerge.


Layers of rock can be thought of as pages of a history book – with each layer containing details of the Earth’s condition in the distant past.

But the critical period leading up to Snowball Earth was thought to be missing because the rock layers were eroded by the big freeze.
Now a new study by researchers at University College, London, has revealed that the Garvellachs somehow escaped unscathed. It may be the only place on Earth to have a detailed record of how the Earth entered one of the most catastrophic periods in its history – as well as what happened when the first animal life emerged when the snowball thawed hundreds of millions of years ago.

Back then Scotland was in a completely different place because the continents have moved over time. It was south of the Earth’s equator and had a tropical climate, until it and the rest of the planet became engulfed in ice.

“We capture that moment of entering an ice age in Scotland that is missing in all other localities in the world,” Prof Graham Shields of University College London, who led the research, told BBC News.

“Millions of critical years are missing in other places because of glacial erosion – but it is all there in the layers of rock in the Garvellachs.”
The islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland are uninhabited, apart from a team of scientists working out of the main island's solitary building, although there are also the ruins of a 6th Century Celtic monastery.

The breakthrough was made by Prof Shield’s PhD student, Elias Rugen, whose results have been published in the Journal of the Geological Society of London. Elias is the first to date the rock layers and identify them as from the critical period that is missing from all other rock formations in all other parts of the world.

His discovery puts the Garvellachs in line for one of the biggest accolades in science: the golden spike hammered in at locations identified as the best record of planet-changing geological moments – though to ward off thieves the spike is not actually made of gold.

Elias has taken many of the judges of the golden spike, formally known as members of the “Cryogenian sub-commission”, several times to the rock faces to press his case.

The next stage is to allow the wider geological community to voice any objections or to come up with a better candidate. If there are none, then the spike could be hammered in next year.

The prize would raise the scientific profile of the location and attract further research funding.

If it does earn the prize it would delight the man who first identified the significance of the formation as a young researcher 60 years ago, Dr Tony Spencer.

“There are about fifty places in where we could choose for this golden spike,"he told BBC News, "but this is the one where the rocks are thickest and the sedimentation is the most continuous.

"So it appears to preserve the very earliest point in time when there is a record of this particular ice age.”
 
TIME and TIME for Kids revealed the 2024 Kid of the Year, recognizing one exceptional young person—and five honorees—giving hope for the future.

This year’s recipient is 15-year-old scientist - Heman Bekele - from Fairfax, Virginia. He is recognized for developing an affordable compound-based bar of soap that could in the future be a new and more accessible way to deliver medication to treat skin cancers, including melanoma.

🖕Cancer!
 

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism in the UK under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK's counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.
The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.

Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism "both online and on our streets" that "frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy".

The review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs which fit into broader categories, such as violence.

It will also look at the causes and conduct of the radicalisation of young people.

Ms Cooper said the strategy will "map and monitor extremist trends" to work out how to disrupt and divert people away from them.
It will also "identify any gaps in existing policy which need to be addressed to crack down on those pushing harmful and hateful beliefs and violence", she said.
 
Dozens of workers from around the world may have been trafficked into the UK to work for a small family-owned Scottish fishing firm, a BBC investigation has revealed.

Thirty-five men from the Philippines, Ghana, India and Sri Lanka were recognised as victims of modern slavery by the Home Office after being referred to it between 2012 and 2020.

The workers were employed by TN Trawlers and its sister companies, owned by the Nicholson family, based in the small town of Annan on the southern coast of Scotland.

The TN Group denied any allegation of modern slavery or human trafficking and said its workers were well treated and well paid.
The company was the focus of two long-running criminal investigations but no cases of human trafficking or modern slavery have come to trial, although some of the men waited years to give evidence.

While TN Trawlers’ lead director, Thomas Nicholson, was under active investigation, TN Group companies continued recruiting new employees from across the world.

Experienced fisherman Joel Quince was 28 when he landed at Heathrow Airport in 2012, thrilled to have secured a job as a deckhand with TN trawlers.

Joel had a young family back home in the Philippines, thousands of miles away. He had been expecting to earn a good income working in the UK. He was to be paid $1,012 (£660) a month for a 48-hour week.

He caught a bus from London to Carlisle, where, he says, he was picked up by the owner’s son, Tom Nicholson Jr.

“On our way to go to the boat he told us: 'You have to give me your documents' - so without hesitation I gave all my documents to them,” he said.

Joel says he was then taken straight to the fishing ground to start working.

But he was surprised to find that his boat was the Philomena rather than the Mattanja, which was the only vessel he was authorised to work on under the terms of his visa. “This was already something fishy for me,” he said

He claims that instead of the 48-hour week he had been told about, he was working 18 hours a day, seven days a week while the Philomena was out fishing.

On his monthly wage of £660, it meant Joel was earning less than the UK minimum wage – although at that time there was no legal requirement to pay it to fishermen like him.


Joel was one of about 30 seafarers who arrived in the UK to join TN Trawlers between 2011 and 2013, mostly from the Philippines. They joined dredgers trawling for scallops along the UK coastline.

These dredgers, built in the 1970s and 80s, work by towing metal nets along the seabed. They scrape up shellfish, as well as stones and bycatch – the other marine life which gets caught in the nets. Deckhands throw back the stones and pack the scallops in ice below deck.

Several of the men the BBC spoke to had little or no fishing experience. All describe working shift patterns as gruelling as Joel’s or worse.

Joel said he struggled to get up to go to work because he was so exhausted – but he didn’t complain because his colleagues were also suffering.

“If I stop working, there’s three people suffering, not getting their rest, because the operation keeps continuing. They won’t stop.”

He said there was not enough drinking water on board the vessels, and the crew were reduced to eating tomatoes from the stores to wet their throats. He also said that on one occasion a skipper threw an empty Coke can at the crew.

All the men the BBC spoke to described shortages of proper clothing, food and water.

aype Rubi was a young Filipino when he worked on board the TN dredger Sea Lady in 2012.

“Picking up and throwing out rocks is really tiring,” he said.

“The boat had CCTV, so the skipper could watch us. If we stop, he'd pull down the window and say: ‘Why are you resting’?”

Jaype said it was “super cold” and there was not enough food.

When he spoke to his mum on the phone, he started crying. “I said: 'I want to go home because it's a nightmare working on that boat'.”

Jaype said he was subjected to verbal abuse and was treated “like a slave".

Other men said that, despite arriving in the UK on 48-hour transit visa, they were told to work onshore in the TN yard at Annan, in breach of their visa entitlement.

One man, Jovito Abiero, told the BBC he was sometimes sent to the home of the company owner Tom Nicholson to do gardening.

On 22 August 2012, Joel was aboard the Philomena off the coast of Northern Ireland during rough weather.

He was fixing a broken link in the metal nets when the towing bar swung up. He leapt out of the way - but fell and hit his head on the deck.

His crew mates estimated he was unconscious for up to 15 minutes.

When Joel woke up with a bandage on his head, he asked his skipper - Tom Nicholson Jr – if they were going to hospital.

“He said: 'No, we're not going to the hospital. We continue fishing',” said Joel.

Joel was given paracetamol by the skipper and his head was bandaged. The Philomena didn’t turn around and head for the port of Troon in Ayrshire until 11 hours after the accident.

Joel got off the Philomena, never to return. He found support at the Fishermen’s Mission, a harbourside charity that supports seafarers.

At that time the mission was run by two sisters, Paula Daly and Karen Burston, who helped Joel get medical help. They had been hearing rumours about TN boats for some time.

“In 2012, it became really quite abundantly clear that we were getting the same message from quite a few different crew,” said Paula.

“There were so many things that were so wrong,” added Karen.

Operation Alto
Police forces on several UK coasts had long been aware of allegations about TN Trawlers.

The company had been prosecuted in 2007 for illegal catches worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Tom Nicholson and TN Trawlers were ordered to pay £473,000 under proceeds of crime laws.

They were also ordered to pay almost £150,000 in fines and costs after the Maritime and Coastguard Agency found a string of defects and safety breaches on vessels between 2009 and 2011.

A 2012 police briefing, seen by the BBC, also noted six Filipino fishermen swam ashore from TN boats and complained of mistreatment.

That year, police in Dumfries and Galloway launched Operation Alto, an investigation into human trafficking and labour abuse at TN Trawlers.

Eighteen former TN Trawlers employees – including Joel – passed into the Home Office’s National Referral Mechanism, a system which identifies and supports victims of human trafficking.
 
Several people have been injured after a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival in eastern Germany.

Video showed two carriages on the wheel alight with smoke billowing into the air near the city of Leipzig.

More than a dozen people were taken to hospital including one person who was injured in a fall and four with burns.

The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
 
Scientists baffled by a mysterious object travelling at over 1 million mph across our galaxy. Currently over 400 light years from earth, the object known as CWISE J1249 is very unlikely to be a probe due to it's large size.around 30,000 times bigger than earth. CWISE J1249 is 8 per cent of the sun's mass.

This unusual size puts J1249 somewhere between a star and a planet Dr Darren Baskill, astronomy lecturer at the university of Sussex told bbc science focus. 'I can't describe the level of excitement ' said Baskill
Source , Science forums. c0m
 
Squirrels were struggling in a heat wave so she made them a ‘Squirrel Spa’

Breyana Elwell never liked rodents, but after it became clear the neighboring squirrels were suffering from the heat, she began to warm to them.
Living in New Braunfels, Texas, she maintains a sort of “squirrel resort” where the arboreal rodents can stop by, cool down, grab a bite, and lounge until the heat of the day passes.
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Building little tables and attaching them to the side of trees, squirrels can now stay outside Elwell’s house and bask in the breeze of the fans while munching on nuts, corn, and fruit frozen in ice cubes—a must in the over 100°F heat.
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In general, one should never feed or care for wild animals. As soon as they learn that easier pickings are available adjacent to humans, they will abandon their wild lifestyle and instincts, largely to their own detriment. However, hundreds of thousands of squirrels around the country already negotiate human civilization on a daily basis.
 
Øli said:
Squirrels were struggling in a heat wave so she made them a ‘Squirrel Spa’

Breyana Elwell never liked rodents, but after it became clear the neighboring squirrels were suffering from the heat, she began to warm to them.
Living in New Braunfels, Texas, she maintains a sort of “squirrel resort” where the arboreal rodents can stop by, cool down, grab a bite, and lounge until the heat of the day passes.
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Building little tables and attaching them to the side of trees, squirrels can now stay outside Elwell’s house and bask in the breeze of the fans while munching on nuts, corn, and fruit frozen in ice cubes—a must in the over 100°F heat.
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In general, one should never feed or care for wild animals. As soon as they learn that easier pickings are available adjacent to humans, they will abandon their wild lifestyle and instincts, largely to their own detriment. However, hundreds of thousands of squirrels around the country already negotiate human civilization on a daily basis.
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@ThatRita what do you think about this?
 
Tommy called 911!

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Gary was told about the benefits of owning a cat and that a feline companion could help him deal with high blood pressure, he decided to adopt Tommy, a very bright and loving ginger cat.What Gary didn’t know is that the cat would end up saving his life in the way he did.
When police received a 911 call followed by silence they decided to call back but could not get in touch so the department sent a police officer to investigate the matter.Upon entering the house he saw Tommy the cat by the phone leading him to believe that it was the feline who made the call.“I know it sounds kind of weird, but the cat literally called for help!” the officer said.
Gary was on the floor, unable to reach out for help. He reported that he did try to train Tommy to call 911 in case of emergency, but was never sure if the kitty had actually learned.
Thanks to Tommy’s call, Gary was found just in time and taken to the hospital where the doctors could save his life.
 
Ezz said:
Something racist is expected, but let us not forget that almost the entire West is under the control of global Zionism, which controls who rules America, Canada, Britain, etc.
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Welcome to WEPN ! Not sure if you know, but in this thread you can link news articles etc that you find interesting, or want to engage others with. if its on the news or current event you can post it to give readers a point of reference. also feel free to comment on other posters articles and things this thread seems more interesting with the different topics.

( its a clean thread so nothing to vulgar etc)
 
H.R. PufnStuf said:
Welcome to WEPN ! Not sure if you know, but in this thread you can link news articles etc that you find interesting, or want to engage others with. if its on the news or current event you can post it to give readers a point of reference. also feel free to comment on other posters articles and things this thread seems more interesting with the different topics.

( its a clean thread so nothing to vulgar etc)
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Yes, I read the rules and the instructions, but I found the only comment that is worth commenting on because it is humane, is your comment, because it talks about something that affects humanity and is not trivial news, such as a player who slept in a garden, and it is a genocide of children and women being carried out by a terrorist Zionist and with Western participation, support, support and protection. It is enough to see, for example, the news of the killing of 20 children in a school in one strike, and you find America saying in its comment that Israel has the right to defend itself. As if killing children is self-defense, as if the Muslim children of Palestine are not human beings .
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@Ezz banned? That’s hardly newsworthy.

Now, Pinky back? That’s a big thing. Thanks to the fabulous @H.R. PufnStuf for giving this stupid kid a second chance.

Now, as for world news:

Major update after baby burned with coffee in Brisbane park​

The mother of a baby boy burned by hot coffee in an alleged attack at a city park has revealed a major update.

A baby boy who endured multiple surgeries after being scalded by hot coffee in a bizarre alleged daytime attack at a Brisbane park has finally been released from hospital.

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Nine-month-old Luka (no relation to @-Luka) was with his mother and a friend at Hanlon Park on August 27 when he was allegedly attacked by a man who poured a thermos of coffee over him.

After more than a week in hospital and multiple rounds of critical surgeries, the boy’s mother revealed on Wednesday afternoon the infant was home after leaving hospital.

Source: Newswire, September 4, 2024 - 7:57PM
 
Here’s an excerpt of a story from Rolling Stone magazine that makes me wonder just what America might be in for with Trump at the helm.

The excerpt is from a story entitled “What if Trump Wins?”

Trump’s enemy list continues to grow, including prosecutors who’ve brought criminal and civil charges against him. Indeed, lawyers close to Trump and his inner circle have spent more than a year researching obscure elements of the criminal code, seeking novel ways to criminally charge such officials in retaliation.

There’s no nemesis too small. The tally even includes late-night comics who’ve pissed him off. As president, Trump briefly attempted to get Justice officials to twist campaign finance laws and the federal equal-time rule to declare that anti-Trump material broadcast by Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others was somehow illegal. During his 2024 campaign, according to a source with direct knowledge, Trump has raised this topic again, venting about the need to punish late-night comedians for giving “illegal” campaign contributions to the Democratic Party — in the form of jokes and on-air satire.

Source: Rolling Stone magazine, September 9, 2024 by Tim Dickson and Asawin Suebsaeng.
 
Yeah, the topic is back. My favorite subject ever and that got me kicked in the ass a lot in the lesbian room.

Love of my life, you've hurt me
You've broken my heart, and now you leave me
Love of my life, can't you see?
Bring it back, bring it back… 😌❤🎼🎼

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Yeah, the topic is back. My favorite subject ever and that got me kicked in the ass a lot in the lesbian room.

Love of my life, you've hurt me
You've broken my heart, and now you leave me
Love of my life, can't you see?
Bring it back, bring it back… 😌❤🎼🎼

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Freddie Mercury - one of the greatest poets, artists, writers and musicians of the 60s, 70s and 80s (I think?). His flamboyance and passion for his beliefs opened up the world to alternate lifestyles and brought the ugliness of the terrible disease HIV/AIDS into the mainstream.

I sometimes wish I had been alive in the times of music greats: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bach, Liszt, Chopin Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Barber, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Beatles, Queen … all legendary musicians.

I admire people like @MrBlunt and @Finn2.0 who were alive to see most of these.
 
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Freddie Mercury - one of the greatest poets, artists, writers and musicians of the 60s, 70s and 80s (I think?). His flamboyance and passion for his beliefs opened up the world to alternate lifestyles and brought the ugliness of the terrible disease HIV/AIDS into the mainstream.

I sometimes wish I had been alive in the times of music greats: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bach, Liszt, Chopin Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Barber, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Beatles, Queen … all legendary musicians.

I admire people like @MrBlunt and @Finn2.0 who were alive to see most of these.
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I agree with you, somehow the best of art (music, film, poetry, paintings, etc.) is in the past.
 
Pinky said:
Freddie Mercury - one of the greatest poets, artists, writers and musicians of the 60s, 70s and 80s (I think?). His flamboyance and passion for his beliefs opened up the world to alternate lifestyles and brought the ugliness of the terrible disease HIV/AIDS into the mainstream.

I sometimes wish I had been alive in the times of music greats: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bach, Liszt, Chopin Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Barber, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Beatles, Queen … all legendary musicians.

I admire people like @MrBlunt and @Finn2.0 who were alive to see most of these.
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I agree FM rocked dude was spot on with QUEEN
 
A woman discovered her house had been broken into by a burglar who hung out her washing, put her shopping away and cooked a meal on her stove. Damian Wojnilowicz, 36, was jailed for 22 months at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday for carrying out the unusual burglary in Monmouthshire on 16 July. The victim said items had been moved in the garden and her recycling bin had been emptied. The burglar left her a note saying: "Don't worry, be happy, eat up and scratch."

The court also heard the bird feeders had been refilled and plant pots had been moved. Inside the house, a pair of shoes had been removed from packaging, which was placed in the recycling bin. Shopping had been taken from a bag and placed in the fridge, which had been rearranged. Kitchen utensils had been placed in the bin, and new ones from the shopping bag had been laid out.

Toothbrush heads had been replaced on toothbrushes, an empty bottle of wine had been placed in a rack having been drunk, and the floor had been cleaned with a mop and bucket left out.🤔

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Burglar hung out victim's washing and unpacked shopping

The victim returned home to find her house broken into and a note left saying "be happy, eat up".
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A woman discovered her house had been broken into by a burglar who hung out her washing, put her shopping away and cooked a meal on her stove. Damian Wojnilowicz, 36, was jailed for 22 months at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday for carrying out the unusual burglary in Monmouthshire on 16 July. The victim said items had been moved in the garden and her recycling bin had been emptied. The burglar left her a note saying: "Don't worry, be happy, eat up and scratch."

The court also heard the bird feeders had been refilled and plant pots had been moved. Inside the house, a pair of shoes had been removed from packaging, which was placed in the recycling bin. Shopping had been taken from a bag and placed in the fridge, which had been rearranged. Kitchen utensils had been placed in the bin, and new ones from the shopping bag had been laid out.

Toothbrush heads had been replaced on toothbrushes, an empty bottle of wine had been placed in a rack having been drunk, and the floor had been cleaned with a mop and bucket left out.🤔

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Burglar hung out victim's washing and unpacked shopping

The victim returned home to find her house broken into and a note left saying "be happy, eat up".
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Can this burglar please come do this at my house? I’d have sooooo many less chores to never do 🤣
 
King Charles and Prince William's private estates are reportedly taking millions of pounds from public bodies including the NHS, state schools and the armed forces.

An investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches and The Sunday Times examined the land and properties the two royals own through the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall.


The Duchy of Lancaster is a portfolio of land, property and assets across England and Wales held in trust for the Sovereign. It includes key urban developments, historic buildings, farm land and areas of great natural beauty, dating back to the 14th century.

The Duchy of Cornwall - valued at more than £1bn - is a similar portfolio which provides an income for the heir to the throne.

Both estates are exempt from paying corporation tax or capital gains tax.


It is claimed the Duchy of Lancaster last year agreed a deal to store a new fleet of electric ambulances, owned by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust in London, in one of the estate's warehouses at a cost of £11.4m over 15 years.

The investigation also reports the Duchy of Cornwall had charged the navy more than £1m since 2004 to build and use jetties and moor warships on the Cornish coastline.

It will also earn about £600,000 over the lifetime of six different leases agreed with local state schools, the investigation found.

It is also reported the duchy agreed a £37m deal to lease Dartmoor Prison to the Ministry of Justice and a deal with the Ministry of Defence to allow the armed forces to train on Dartmoor land.


There are further claims from the investigation, working with The Mirror newspaper, that private residential properties rented out by both duchies fail to meet minimum energy efficiency requirements.

About 14% of homes leased by the Duchy of Cornwall and 13% by the Duchy of Lancaster have a performance rating of F or G, despite it being against the law for landlords to rent out properties rated below an E since 2020, the investigation reported.

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Last year the King asked for profits from a £1bn-a-year Crown Estate wind farm deal to be used for the "wider public good".

But the investigation also found he would still make at least £28m from wind farms because of a feudal right to charge for cables crossing land belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster.

The King's annual income from the Duchy of Lancaster rose by 5% to £27.4m in 2023/24, according to accounts published by the estate in July.

The Prince of Wales received an annual private income of more than £23.6m from the Duchy of Cornwall last year, accounts showed.

Neither are legally obliged to pay income tax but both royals have offered to do so.

The income from both the duchies is separate from the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant which pays for the monarch's official duties.

Responding to the claims, a Duchy of Lancaster spokesperson said: "The Duchy of Lancaster operates as a commercial company, managing a broad range of land and property assets across England and Wales. It complies with all relevant UK legislation and regulatory standards applicable to its range of business activities.

"The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is responsible to the Sovereign for the administration of the Duchy. However, he/she delegates certain functions, particularly those regarding asset management, to the Duchy Council.

"While His Majesty The King takes a close interest in the work of the Duchy, the day-to-day management of the portfolio is the responsibility of the Council and executive team.

"The Duchy has made a number of key environmental improvements in recent years, delivering a significant increase in the number of A+, A and B EPC ratings awarded to our properties as a result of refurbishment or restoration works.

"Currently, over 87% of all Duchy let properties are rated E or above. The remainder are either awaiting scheduled improvement works or are exempted under UK legislation."

A Duchy of Cornwall spokesperson said: "The Duchy of Cornwall is a private estate with a commercial imperative which we achieve alongside our commitment to restoring the natural environment and generating positive social impact for our communities.

"Prince William became Duke of Cornwall in September 2022 and since then has committed to an expansive transformation of the duchy.

"This includes a significant investment to make the estate net zero by the end of 2032, as well as establishing targeted mental health support for our tenants and working with local partners to help tackle homelessness in Cornwall."
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TL;DR - King and Prince steal from Emergency services and charities.
 
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