A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison by a UK court after being found guilty of violating Chinese coronavirus lockdown rules by selling mince pies at a shooting club and attempting to destroy evidence afterwards.
h/t Osumashi
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KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion
KFC has apologised after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken.
The message, heavily criticised for its insensitivity, was later blamed on “an error in our system”.
The system was just following orders!
How many private jets were at COP27?
How many private jets went to Sharm el-Sheikh?
Data from FlightRadar24 shows 36 private jets landed at Sharm el-Sheikh between 4 and 6 November, the start of the summit.
A further 64 flew into Cairo, 24 of which had come from Sharm el-Sheikh.
Drowning death of crypto ‘visionary’ Nikolai Mushegian fuels conspiracy theories
A person who knew Mushegian very well for years until they had a falling-out two years ago said that the developer was “very very smart” but also suffered from extreme bouts of paranoia.
“He had mental problems,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “He saw a psychiatrist at times. He smoked a lot of pot. A tremendous amount.”
France to require all large car parks to be covered by solar panels
All large car parks in France will be covered by solar panels under new legislation approved as part of president Emmanuel Macron’s renewable energy drive.
Legislation approved by the French Senate this week requires existing and new car parks with space for at least 80 vehicles to be covered by solar panels.
The owners of car parks with between 80 and 400 spaces have five years to comply with the measures, while operators of those with more than 400 will have just three years. At least half of the area of the larger sites must be covered by solar panels.
Report Distributed by Former Ottawa Police Chief Says Freedom Convoy a ‘Right Wing Christian’ Movement
A report authored by a police consultant and distributed by the former Ottawa Police Service (OPS) chief says the Freedom Convoy protests were a “movement by right wing Christians” who wished to attract followers.
“It’s a movement by right wing Christians who used mandates as a pretense to gain a following and privileged access as ‘protesters,’” wrote Erin Kelly, CEO of the contracted market research firm Advanced Symbolics Inc., in an email to Ottawa Police officials on Feb. 6, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
OPS chief at the time, Peter Sloly, urged in a subsequent email that the consultant’s report be widely distributed among OPS officials, saying that it provides “really important insights.”
You can just see the thought process here… Hmmm gotta justify my invoice… I know!! Demonize Christians!! The Trudeau government loves that!!
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Virginia teacher is upset that new rules say she needs to involve parents to affirm a student’s gender change pic.twitter.com/nVizjfiO6p
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 8, 2022
Using the word ‘blacklist’ is not racist, rules employment tribunal
Using the word “blacklist” is not racist, an employment tribunal has found, after an Asian engineer working for IBM alleged the word had been used to attack him.
Taiyyib Azam accused his co-worker of bigotry when they used the word during a team call in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in the United States. However, the tribunal found the use of the word was “entirely innocuous”.
The cyber security expert made various allegations of racism against colleagues in a bid to support “his views that every individual he interacted with was racist”, the tribunal heard.
He also alleged that his managers were using “black magic” and “voodoo” against him.
Trudeau told Ford police didn’t need more powers to clear protesters, who weren’t ‘very smart people’
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was frustrated with Freedom Convoy protests in Windsor and Ottawa during a call with Ontario Premier Doug Ford during last winter’s protest, saying police needed to “do their job” and that they should not need more legal tools to clear protesters.
Degenerate
Justin Trudeau to appear on ‘Canada’s Drag Race’ spinoff series
Justin Trudeau is swinging by the “werkroom” on an upcoming spinoff of “Canada’s Drag Race.”
Producers of the drag queen competition series say the Prime Minister will make a special appearance on “Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.”
He’s the first world leader to visit the RuPaul-founded competition series, which has more than a dozen global spinoffs in countries including Sweden, Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom
h/t DM
Cops arrest legally blind Florida man after mistaking folded cane for gun
A pair of Florida sheriff’s deputies are being investigated for arresting a legally blind man after mistaking the folded cane in his back pocket for a firearm.
James Hodges, 61, was detained by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Oct. 31 as he walked on a sidewalk on his way home from the courthouse, First Coast News reported.
“Hi there. What’s this in your back pocket? I just saw you walking,” a female deputy says in the bodycam footage.
WTF?
Transgender activists use TikTok to target youth and their guardians with false information about “gender affirming care.”
This activist claims puberty blockers are completely reversible and minors aren’t receiving sex change surgeries. pic.twitter.com/SOCgjTO9BA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2022
Students Mistook an East German Uniform For a Nazi Costume, so the Principal Was Fired for Explaining the Truth
It’s an Idiocracy world, and we’re just living in it.
Students at Jones College Prep in downtown Chicago conducted a sit-in on Monday after their Principal Joseph Powers was fired by the Chicago Public Schools. They were protesting Mr. Powers’ response to a student wearing a Halloween costume to school that the ignorant children mistook for a Nazi uniform but was, as Mr. Powers vainly tried to explain to the kids, a uniform worn by an East German border guard, probably from the 1980s.
‘Defeating Israel means defeating the US,’ Canada, EU -Palestinian activists
Defeating Israel is part of a process to defeating the United States of America, the European Union and Canada, the leader of a Palestinian protest in Brussels declared in new footage released on Thursday by the NGO Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
TikTok stars say they may head to U.S. or spoof an American location to avoid form filling over ‘Canadian content’ rules
Canadian TikTok and YouTube stars say they don’t want to have to fill in forms to prove they are producing Canadian content when Bill C-11 becomes law, with some saying they would be prepared to move to the United States or spoof an online location there to avoid extra bureaucracy.
They say having to certify their work is Canadian to satisfy a regulator after the online streaming bill passes through Parliament could dampen the spontaneity of their craft.
TikTok stars should worry about their data being sent to China.