Don’t They Know That Crickets Fart Too?

Hey! Greenies! Taking good care of yourselves? Watching your diet? Exercising? Taking those probiotics to strengthen your gut biome and digestion? Well, cut it out! You’re part of the problem here.

Among the critters that metabolically produce CO2 are bacteria. As far as I can find out, every creature on Earth that has a mouth has a gut. And nearly every gut’s biome contains bacteria, some more densely populated or more varied than others. Those bacteria give off CO2 as part of simply living. That CO2 escapes the bacteria’s host’s body during the process of elimination, usually through an anal orifice.

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More Churches Burned and Christians Killed in Egypt — and the Government Is to Blame

Yet another Coptic Christian church has been set aflame; and yet more Christians have been killed in Egypt.

On Sunday, August 14, 2022, the Church of Abu Seifein—named after Saint Mercurius of Caesarea, revered by the Copts—caught fire as it was packed with over two hundred worshippers celebrating morning mass.  At least 41 Christians—18 of whom were children—were either burned alive, killed by asphyxiation, or during the subsequent stampede.  Along with the officiating priest, 5-year-old triplets, their mother, grandmother, and an aunt were among those killed.

What caused this church fire?

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The Deacon and the Dog

Fifty years later, a former FBI agent looks back on the bizarre bank robbery that inspired an iconic New York film.

The memory that sticks out to Jim Murphy from the screwiest bank robbery in New York City’s history is not the slow drive down a dark road at JFK Airport, with a shotgun leveled inches from his head, or the scrum of onlookers hooting and hollering every time hostage-taker John Wojtowicz stood toe-to-toe with negotiators. It’s not the salacious details of Wojtowicz’s backstory—man robs bank to pay for his “wife’s” sex-change operation in attempt to woo him/her back—or the pop of Murphy’s revolver as he shot Sal Naturale during a struggle for control of Naturale’s shotgun. It isn’t the kiss on the cheek from the hostage he had just saved, or the night, a few years later, that he saw Lance Henriksen play a grim-faced caricature of him in Dog Day Afternoon, the Sidney Lumet film based on the 1972 robbery, while seated in a theater packed with an audibly pro–Al Pacino (playing “Sonny Wortzik,” the fictionalized version of Wojtowicz) and anti-Henriksen audience.

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Sam Harris, religious fundamentalist

Harris’s scorched-earth anti-Trumpism is as mad as any religious cult.

For years Sam Harris carved out an image of himself as a godless warrior for reason. He’s one of the West’s best-known atheists. He rarely misses an opportunity to diss religion and to insist that cool, rational, ideally scientific inquiry is alway preferable to dogmatic belief. Now he seems to have changed his mind. No, he hasn’t been baptised into the Christian faith or sworn allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad. But he has come out as a member of a modern-day cult that is every bit as cranky as any religious sect. Meet the new Sam Harris, devotee of the fundamentalist doctrine of all-out anti-Trumpism.

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Ben & Jerry’s loses bid to halt sales in West Bank

A US judge on Monday rejected Ben & Jerry’s attempt to stop its parent Unilever Plc ULVR.L from allowing its ice cream to be sold in the West Bank, which Ben & Jerry’s said undermined its values.

US District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan said Ben & Jerry’s did not deserve an injunction to halt ice cream sales and marketing because it did not show it would suffer irreparable harm, or that customers would be confused.

h/t MP

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China in Charge at U.S. Lab

Fauci-funded officials allowed China to destroy files, materials and equipment, without backups.

The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), part of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), focuses on “dangerous pathogens” with the “potential to be used as weapons around the world.”

This same GNL signed agreements with three Chinese labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that gave China the power to destroy “secret files, materials and equipment, without any backups. “The agreements applied to “all cooperation and exchange documents, data, details and materials,” were renewable every five years, and the confidentiality terms remaining in force even after termination.

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In California’s largest race bias cases, Latino workers are accused of abusing Black colleagues

Nearly every day, the onetime Ontario warehouse employee said, he was stunned to hear racist slurs from Latino co-workers.

“They said it in English — they said it in Spanish all the time,” recalled Leon Simmons, a Black father of four with a deep voice and gentle manner. “When they look you right in the eye and call you the N-word to your face, that’s dehumanizing.”

Thirty-two miles away at a Moreno Valley warehouse, it was the same story. Another Black laborer, Benjamin Watkins, described how a Latina co-worker called to him: “‘Hey, monkey! Yeah, you!’ and waved a banana in her hand. A group of women burst out laughing.”

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Giorgia Meloni criticised for sharing video of ‘attempted rape by asylum seeker’

The video clip shows an asylum seeker allegedly raping a woman on the streets of Piacenza

Italy’s probable next prime minister has been accused of trying to score political points after sharing a video on social media of an African asylum seeker allegedly raping a white woman early on Sunday morning.

Giorgia Meloni, a far-right nativist politician from Rome who is tipped to become Italy’s first female premier next month, had made “horrendous propaganda” out of the alleged assault, her opponents said.

The migrant, from Guinea, allegedly attacked the 55-year-old Ukrainian woman as she walked along a street in the northern city of Piacenza at around 6am on Sunday.

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Gary Busey, 78, is seen sitting in a public park in California with his pants down

Actor Gary Busey was caught in shocking photos with his pants down in the middle of the day at a public California park as he appeared to perform a lewd act and then lit up a cigar a day after being charged with groping three woman at a New Jersey horror movie convention.

Busey, 78, was spotted getting down and dirty at Point Dume Park in Malibu on Saturday afternoon.

Gary has brain damage.

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Ottawa axes funding for racist “anti-racism” project over ‘vile’ tweets by consultant

Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has cut funding to an anti-racism project over “reprehensible and vile” tweets by a senior consultant involved in the strategy.

Hussen says the project helmed by the Community Media Advocacy Centre – which received $133,000 from the Heritage Department – has been suspended.

This is bullshit. Marouf was hired because he is a racist.

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An Update On Our Friend, Frau Katze

Frau Katze is at home recovering, but her mobility is limited for a while. She wants to return to posting evening photos ASAP but her condition just won’t allow it, and there’s no point in taking chances. We’ve been chatting because we share some similar knowledge and experiences  – please keep her in your thoughts.

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Berkeley’s House of Color Shines Red Light at Whites

A sure way to create racial tensions on the University of California system’s flagship campus.

The university students at University of California Berkeley’s Person of Color (POC) Theme House love their rules. And they’re not pretty.

As Friday’s Daily Mail and Saturday’s Fox & Friends reported, this residence’s directives include this: “Many POC members moved here to be able to avoid white violence and presence, so respect their decision of avoidance if you bring white guests.”

Another instruction states, “Always announce guests in the [house’s] Guest Chat if they will be in common spaces with you and if they are white.”

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