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‘We spit in your beer’ – inside Europe’s grassroots fight against overtourism

Europeans are taking matters into their own hands with bogus posters, hostile graffiti and misleading signposts

For years now, governments and city authorities have introduced measures to control tourism – from regulating cruise ships to clamping down on short-term lets – but now, it seems, locals are taking matters into their own hands.

All across Europe fingers are pressing down on spray-paint nozzles, bogus posters are being plastered onto walls, banners unfurling outside historic buildings.

We spoke to our experts in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Greece, Croatia and Venice to shed light on the grassroots campaigns against overtourism, and how things stepped up a notch in 2023.

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Russian Official Fears Men Licking Ice Cream Has Gay Undertone

An official in Siberia has said that a promotional image of two men in summer clothing enjoying ice cream in sub-zero temperatures should not be displayed because it was connected to “non-traditional relationships.”

In November 2022, Russia’s parliament passed a law banning “LGBT propaganda,” which criminalizes any act regarded as an attempt to promote what Russia calls “non-traditional sexual relations” in film, online, advertising or in public.

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Philadelphia fights crime by banning ski masks

Plan on being cold this winter if you live in Philadelphia.

Dumb Donald hardest hit.

Why? Because the Philadelphia City Council passed a ban on ski masks, and the reason for that is that it covers the face of potential criminals.

So once again, law-abiding citizens have to pay the price of criminals because leftist politicians won’t address the actual problem. It’s the same type of thinking that people follow with gun bans. Because a gun, or in this case, a ski mask, can be used by a person to commit a crime, we’ll ban it.

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Climate change could be avenue for adversaries to harm Canada, spy service warns

Mr. Freeze – biding his time.

OTTAWA – Canada’s spy service warns that dramatic shifts caused by climate change and the ensuing fractious upheaval around the world could leave Canada vulnerable, imperilling its food and water supplies, energy security and Arctic sovereignty.

Global warming will threaten security as countries and other actors seek to either bolster their economic positions or exploit their adversaries’ climate change-related weaknesses, says a newly released Canadian Security Intelligence Service analysis.

“Climate change will almost certainly heighten competition between nations, contribute to instability, strain capabilities and become the source of international tensions,” the CSIS analysis says.

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Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay more than $148M to Georgia poll workers he defamed

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was ordered by a federal jury Friday to pay more than $148 million to two Atlanta election workers he was found to have slandered by alleging they worked to cheat former President Donald Trump out of the 2020 election.

The DC panel awarded $75 million in punitive damages to Andrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, as well as $20 million to each woman for emotional distress after deliberating for parts of two days.

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Satanic Temple condemns vandalism of its statue by Christian military veteran

The leader of an organization whose satanic altar at Iowa’s state capitol was torn down by a Christian military veteran on Thursday has dismissed the vandalism as “a real act of cowardice”.

“There’s a certain point at which we need some adults in the room to tell people what … liberal, democratic values are; what their value is; why we uphold them; what they’re good for; and they need to stand up for these values or we are going to further degenerate in our polarism towards autocracy,” the co-founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, told CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday.

What a world.

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Senate Staffer Caught Filming Gay Sex Tape In Senate Hearing Room

Staffer ID’d

h/t XC & Mauser

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