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39 minutes ago, Kim said:
Jessica's uncanny BELLA HADID eyes are complimented nicely by the MJ nose and MADGE lips. Worra stunner!
She has better nose than Madame Paedophile!
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Queen Jessica needs to fix her nose!
Her chin looks deflated
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So dangerous to go out to in USA... You'll never know when you'll be killed or shoot by some random locals
Las Vegas shooting: '11 Minutes' docuseries details events of deadliest US shooting in history
Audrey Conklin·2 min readParamount Plus has released a four-part documentary series titled "11 Minutes" detailing the events of the deadliest shooting in U.S. history five years after the tragedy left 58 people dead in a single evening.
Two additional victims of the October 2017 shooting into a massive crowd of people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas have died since that day, making officials' total death count 60 people, on top of the some 800 other victims who were injured in the shooting.
"As a storyteller, I have often felt disappointed in how that night was shared. It felt like the narrative that was often explored was that of the worst person there and that the story faded fast into the next hard headline," survivor Ashley Hoff, one of the subjects of the docuseries, wrote in a Sept. 13 Facebook post about the series. "As the yearly markers passed, it felt more and more that the world stopped remembering the night 22,000 of us will never forget. I got to thinking - maybe that’s why I was there. Because I'm a storyteller and I could share what I remembered."
Hoff added that as she ran out of the field where the country concert was being held as the shooter opened fire on thousands of attendees, she "got to bear witness to some of the most beautiful moments of humanity" as people rushed to help one another.
"THAT is the story I wanted to tell and the one - that with the help of an amazing team, the trust of every person who shared," she wrote.
SWAT ARRESTS CALIFORNIA MAN FOR PLOTTING ‘LAS VEGAS-STYLE’ MASS SHOOTING
The docuseries aims to tell first-person stories of the heroism that unfolded that night alongside one of the most horrific massacres in American history.
"In one instance, viewers accompany heavily armed officers on their step-by-step assault of the shooter’s hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay," a description of the series on the Paramount Plus website reads.
Paddock had opened fire on concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas Strip before killing himself.
https://news.yahoo.com/las-vegas-shooting-apos-11-233924083.html
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On 9/27/2022 at 8:20 PM, promise to try said:
so what´s happening with the North stream pipelines now? a sabotage?
Whoever gains the most....
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So dangerous to travel to Australia... You'll never know when you'll be punched by some random locals
'I don't know if he was drunk or on drugs': 2 SIA crew members punched in the face near Melbourne hotel
OCTOBER 04, 2022 | By CLAUDIA TAN
A supper run to a nearby McDonald's turned into quite a nightmare for two Singapore Airlines (SIA) crew members who became victims of an unprovoked attack in Australia last Sunday (Oct 2).
One of them posted two Instagram stories recounting the incident. The posts have since been taken down and his account is no longer accessible.
In his Instagram stories, this cabin crew said they were only a mere 15m away from Rendezvous Hotel Melbourne — where they were staying — when the attacker approached them.
"One dude (with two other friends) gave a huge nudge on my shoulder, then jab[ed] me on my right face," he wrote in his post.
After recovering from the impact of the blow, he noticed that his colleague was "on the floor".
The cabin crew member said he tried to defend himself but was stopped by the assailant's friends or a passerby.
He said that the police and paramedics arrived on scene shortly after the attack, and the perpetrator was arrested.
At the end of his post, this victim also clarified that he was not intoxicated during the incident, and did not get into a fight.
"It was a random assault that unfortunately happened to me and my colleague. And [I don't know] if the assailant was drunk or on drugs."
He also uploaded a selfie where he was being treated by paramedics. The timestamp of the photo shows 3.34am.
News of the attack also circulated via WhatsApp messages seen by AsiaOne, urging crew members to be careful and to "go out in a group" when overseas, especially at night.
Responding to AsiaOne's queries, SIA confirmed that two of their cabin crew were assaulted.
The airline said that the pair returned to Singapore on the same day, and are currently resting.
SIA added that they would "provide all necessary support to the crew members during this time".
Police investigations are ongoing.
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Truss Backs Kwarteng Even After Humiliating U-Turn on UK Tax Cut
- Chancellor Kwarteng says proposal had become a ‘distraction’
- Decision to scrap 45% tax rate had contributed to market rout
By Alex Morales and Kitty Donaldson | October 3, 2022
Liz Truss is standing by her Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng after the threat of a rebellion in the ruling party forced them into a humiliating reversal on a plan to cut taxes for the top earners in the UK.
Kwarteng announced the decision in a tweet early Monday, saying “we get it, and we have listened.” He said the plan announced just 10 days ago to scrap the 45% rate of income tax had become a “distraction.”
The pound jumped as much as 1% before giving up some of those gains, trading 0.4% higher against the dollar at 12:05 p.m. in London.
The U-turn is a major embarrassment for Truss and Kwarteng. They’ve spent days defending the chancellor’s Sept. 23 fiscal statement, with Truss saying on Sunday that she was committed to the package. Kwarteng was due to say his party should “stay the course” and that the plan was “the right one” in his speech to the Tory Party’s annual conference in Birmingham on Monday.
Truss’s spokesman, Max Blain, told reporters on Monday that the premier retains confidence in her chancellor, who’s scheduled to give what will now have to be a different speech shortly after 4 p.m.
Even so, the reversal on such a major policy just a month into their tenure will inevitably spark speculation about both Truss’s and Kwarteng’s future. While the chancellor told the BBC he hadn’t considered resigning over the issue, the tax cut was a signature part of their economic approach. Within the Tory party, the pair are viewed as a political double-act who have spent years calling for deregulation and low taxes and were preparing to put that into practice.
Yet the market and political fallout last week was dramatic, and already talk in the party is about whether Truss and Kwarteng can hold on. Former cabinet minister Grant Shapps, sacked by Truss when she formed her top team, told the broadcaster: “I want the PM to survive.”
Backing Down
Other Conservatives, including Tobias Ellwood and Andrew Bowie, took to Twitter to welcome the reversal. In an interview with Times Radio, former cabinet minister Michael Gove -- who had become an unofficial recruiting sergeant for unhappy Tories -- indicated he would back the overall package now that the tax cut for top earners had been removed.Kwarteng’s package, dubbed the government’s “growth plan,” represented the biggest set of unfunded tax cuts in half a century. It sparked a market rout, sending the pound to an all-time low against the dollar and forcing the Bank of England into a dramatic intervention to stave off a gilt market crash.
In a round of broadcast interviews on Monday, Kwarteng sought to deflect the blame for the UK market reactions onto global forces, and in particular rising US interest rates. He pushed back against the idea that his policies had led to a “Kwarteng premium” on mortgages.
Blaming Others
“High interest rates have been driven by the Fed all year,” Kwarteng said. “What that has meant is that there’s a strong dollar and also other banks are putting up interest rates to follow.”With the tax cut representing just a small percentage of the tax cuts announced by Kwarteng, questions still remain as to how he’ll pay for them. Ministers have been hinting at potential cuts to welfare payments.
Kwarteng is due to make a medium-term fiscal statement on Nov. 23, alongside publishing a set of economic forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
The scrapping of the 45% rate for the highest earners had been the least popular measure, coming at a time when ordinary Britons are struggling in a cost-of-living crisis that’s seen inflation surge to 40-year highs.
Unfair
That -- alongside the scrapping of a cap on bankers’ bonuses -- had fueled the perception that the Tories were looking after the interests of the rich. It had also sent the party plummeting in the polls, a record 33 points behind Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.Rumblings of discontent had also been growing within the Tories, with Gove telling the BBC that removing the top rate of income tax for the highest earners was the wrong decision and indicated he would not support it.
Much of the Tory opposition stemmed from two fears: that the tax cuts will be funded by borrowing at a time the government is already increasing debt levels to help Britons with soaring energy bills; and that the reduction in the top rate of income tax looks like the government is prioritizing the wealthiest earners over those on lower incomes.
On Monday, Kwarteng told the BBC that the abolition of the 45% rate “was drowning out the elements of an excellent plan.”
But pressure points in the plans still remain, with Truss’s spokesman confirming that the government is going ahead with scrapping the cap on bankers’ bonuses. Ministers have also spent days hinting that benefits would no longer rise in inflation -- a promise made by Boris Johnson’s administration -- as the government looks for savings to pay for its plans.
That threatens another major political row. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith said no decision has been taken.
“The Tories have destroyed their economic credibility and damaged trust in the British economy,” Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said in a statement. “This is not over -- it’s not just some distraction. The Tories need to reverse their whole economic, discredited trickle-down strategy.”
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Snowden later issued a message, essentially an updated version of a November 2020 tweet, saying he wanted his family to remain together and asking for privacy.
"After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our SONS," the tweet read.
"After two years of waiting and nearly ten years of exile, a little stability will make a difference for my family. I pray for privacy for them - and for us all."
The new tweet made no reference to the Kremlin leader's decree, but it was attached to a 2020 Twitter thread in which Snowden said he and his family were applying for dual US-Russian citizenship.
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Putin grants Russian citizenship to former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden
Sep 26 2022 | Amanda Macias
- Putin granted citizenship on Monday to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
- Snowden, 39, fled to Russia to evade federal prosecution after leaking classified documents to journalists.
- He was granted asylum in Russia in 2013 and later permanent residency. He has remained in Russia ever since.
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Snowden’s name appears as one of approximately 70 foreign nationals listed in a decree and approved by Putin for Russian citizenship.
The former NSA intelligence officer turned U.S. government whistleblower, fled to Hong Kong and later to Russia in to evade federal prosecution after leaking classified documents to journalists. He was granted asylum in Russia in 2013 and later permanent residency. Snowden, 39, has remained in Russia ever since.
Putin’s decision to grant Snowden citizenship comes just days after ordering approximately 300,000 people to join the fight in Ukraine.
The subsequent news reports from more than 7,000 classified documents revealed the inner workings of a colossal U.S. government surveillance operation. Intelligence officials have previously said that Snowden may have taken 1.7 million classified files.
Stories published in The Guardian and The Washington Post exposed a vast government-run spy program that monitored communications of criminals, potential terrorists and law-abiding citizens alike. Other accounts documented how Washington also secretly monitored some of America’s closest allies, like then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Snowden was charged with theft of U.S. government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence. The charges carry a prison sentence of up to 30 years.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that Washington’s position on the former U.S. intelligence contractor has not changed. He added that he was not aware of any change to Snowden’s American citizenship status.
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Time to buy stuff from Amazon UK lol
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1 GBP = 1.069 USD
1 Euro = 0.96 USD
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On 9/20/2022 at 6:29 AM, Kim said:
I just can't with the sheer ridiculousness of this converstion. I wasn't brought up to kowtow to my 'betters' or talk about kings and queens outwith fairytale books so i just look at that reply in disbelief. I await old jug ears "reforms" with baited breath. In the meantime, here he is fucking up yet again... draw yer own conclusions...
Wow, just wow.
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4 hours ago, Flip The Switch said:
Good to see M back in Sao Paulo!
M can only wish she has hair like Jessica!
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Jessica back in São Paulo!
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36 minutes ago, jonski43 said:
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18 hours ago, Kim said:
What's politics got to do with it? He could have been overcome with grief, he may have wanted to get closer to Liz, he may be mentally ill.
But there has to be something wrong with you to wait in line for 19hrs to gawk at an empty coffin anyway, so....
WHAT?!
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9 hours ago, karbatal said:
Sure
Can you elaborate why you use 2018 data instead of 2021?
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On 9/16/2022 at 3:57 AM, karbatal said:
According to statistics crimes have not increased in Sweden either. So that party used big fat lies to win
Crime in Sweden is defined by the Swedish Penal Code (Swedish: Brottsbalken) and in other Swedish laws and statutory instruments.[2][3]
Number of reported crimes per 100 thousand inhabitants in Sweden, 1975-2018[1][non-primary source needed]Over the past decades, the number of reported crimes in Sweden has increased slightly. This fact is due to several different factors such as a significant increase in the Swedish population, which naturally results in more crime and convicted criminals, as well as people in general being more likely to report crimes in general to the authorities. Over the last 10 years the number of crimes per 100,000 inhabitant remained relatively stable.[4]
Till 2018? Wasn't that when the ex-ruling party just started(2018-2022)?
Also:
Sweden is the only European country where fatal shootings have risen significantly since 2000, leaping from one of the lowest rates of gun violence on the continent to one of the highest in less than a decade, a report has found.
In 2021, Sweden was found to have the 2nd highest gun homicide rate (after Croatia) out of 22 European countries surveyed. Most other countries surveyed had instead experienced a decline in gun homicides.[2][15]
I guess the Swedish are worried Sweden may end up like USA.
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24 minutes ago, promise to try said:
I don´t know about class and these things...but I like her more than Kate
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9 minutes ago, horn said:
ANTM judge Nole Marin: Don't just lift your leg, my dog can do that too.
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And now Harry & Meghan are upset because their children will not get HRH titles.
Bitch, you should foresee this the moment you decided to leave the royal family, relieve from any royal duties and live like a commoner.
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"What goes around...": Kate Middleton to inherit Queen’s $110M jewelry, Meghan Markle to get ‘nothing of value’
A royal insider says Queen Elizabeth II changed her will right before she died and this was her way of sending a message to the Sussexes
By Shivam Banik | Updated On : 01:35 PST, Sep 10, 2022
LONDON, UK: Neither Meghan Markle nor Camilla, the newly crowned queen, were really favored by Queen Elizabeth II. The late Queen Elizabeth reportedly changed her will right before she died and the changes will benefit Kate Middleton.
The jewelry collection of the late king, estimated to be worth $110M, will pass on to Prince William's wife. A crucial distinction is that the 300 personal items belong to the Queen and not the Crown. As per a RadarOnline article, in July that she had been concentrating on her prized possessions and who deserved what. "The whispers are that she's made some last-minute changes to her will that'll be a shocking surprise for her heirs," sources said.
Kate Middleton will reportedly inherit all of the Queen's jewelry worth $110MAs per the article, Kate is likely to gain from the choice, which may raise some brows among the royals. The decision would probably upset Camilla, Meghan, and their partners, King Charles and Prince Harry, according to the source. "Kate is clearly the family favorite," said sources. According to reports, Camilla, who had Elizabeth's approval for her coronation as Queen Consort, has long harboured a secret enmity for Kate's relationship with the late Queen. "She'd never say it, of course but it's one of the reasons Camilla resented Kate," sources added.
Meghan Markle will reportedly get nothing that belongs to the QueenCamilla is not alone herself. Meghan and her daughter Lilibet are likely to suffer the royal axe. an insider said, "There's a very good chance the Queen won't leave either of them any jewels of value. It's not surprising, since they're not members of the royal family anymore but it would be a real slap in the face." When it comes to the Queen's jewels, we're told Kate and William are "not worried" because they knew where they stood with Elizabeth.
Queen Elizabeth II may have reportedly cut Meghan out of the will to send a message to Harry and Meghan, 'You reap what you sow'"Kate and William really don't want Lilibet to be left out, even though Kate is expected to give some of the diamonds to her daughter, Princess Charlotte. As for Meghan, she's not their concern," said a royal insider.
"If the Queen does indeed cut Meghan out some people think it won't be out of spite, but practicality. Others say it would be the Queen sending a message to Meghan and Harry: You reap what you sow," sources said.
At the age of 96, the Queen died on Thursday, September 8, at Balmoral Castle. The royal family waited for each of her children and Prince William to arrive before announcing the sad news. They didn't show Prince Harry the same courtesy. He was still travelling to Balmoral Castle when the announcement was made.
Kate Middleton to inherit Queen’s $110M jewelry, Meghan Markle gets nothing
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It happened same with Jessica Alves. Strong and opinionated, she’s getting always all plastic surgery criticism (including MNation
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