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Car TalkRe: Car Logo Game: Tell Us The Names Of These Car Brands Using Their Logos Only by edward1984(m): 9:27pm On Mar 30, 2018
[quote author=Donald3d post=66297012]Where is Innoson
I dey come , I dey type my answer
1.Infinity
2.Mercedes
3.Mitsubishi
4.Buick
5.Toyota
6.Mazda
7.Jaguar
8.RAM
9.Chevrolet
10.Escalade/Cadillac
11.Audi
12.Volvo
13.Opel
14.Honda
15.Porsche
16.VolksWagen
17. Its very popular I dont know why my mind is skipping it(Hunger is a bad thing )
18.Subaru
19.
20.Hyundai
21.Lambo
22.Acura
23.Peugeot
24.Lexus
25.Maseratti
26.
27.BMW
28.SAAB
29.Suzuki
30.
31.
32.
33.Chrysler
34.Ferrari
35. Nissan
36.
37.Bentley
38.Daewoo
39.Alfa Romeo
40.
41.Aston Martin
42. SEAT
CrimeSex Act On Court Defendant In Dock 'while Judge Retired To Consider Verdict' by edward1984(op): 3:23pm On Mar 30, 2018
A woman was caught on CCTV performing a sex act on a court defendant while a judge reportedly retired to consider his verdict.

Footage from Sovetsky District Court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia shows the unnamed pair sat on chairs next to one another engaged in lewd behaviour.


The video shows the woman leans over to perform a sex act on the man, who is said to be the defendant in the case being heard.

The sexual activity was reportedly performed by the shameless couple in front of at least three witnesses before a court official stopped them.

No one else apart from the official can be seen on camera.

Russian media reported the presiding judge had retired to a separate room to consider his verdict.

The nature of the charge was not reported as was if the man received any punishment

But the defendant was charged with contempt of court, it was reported.

The punishment can lead to a fine of up to 80,000 RUB (£990) or a four-month jail term.

It was not clear whether she too would face charges.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-caught-performing-sex-act-12273733.amp

HealthUK Man Contracts World's First Super-strength Gonorrhoea by edward1984(op): 6:38am On Mar 29, 2018
A man in the UK has contracted a super-strength strand of gonorrhoea believed to be the first case globally to resist the main antibiotic treatment.

Public Health England (PHE) said the patient had a regular female partner in the UK, but contracted the infection from a sexual encounter with a woman in south-east Asia. He visited a health clinic for treatment in early 2018.

Attempts to get rid of the sexually transmitted infection with the recommended treatment – a combination of antibiotics azithromycin and ceftriaxone – have failed.

“We are investigating a case who has gonorrhoea which was acquired abroad and is very resistant to the recommended first line treatment,” Dr Gwenda Hughes, the head of PHE’s STI section said.


“This is the first time a case has displayed such high-level resistance to both of these drugs and to most other commonly used antibiotics.”

An analysis of the case for PHE notes it is the “first global report” of the infection resisting both antibiotics.

Gonorrhoea can lead to infertility if left untreated and is known to cause symptoms including unusual discharge from the sexual organ and inflammation.

Fears of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea spreading in the UK has prompted health officials to trace the man’s sexual partners to try to contain the spread.

The man’s UK partner tested negative for the infection, the PHE report said.

Dr Hughes added: “PHE actively monitors, and acts on, the spread of antibiotic resistance in gonorrhoea and potential treatment failures, and has introduced enhanced surveillance to identify and manage resistant strains of infection promptly to help reduce further spread.”

PetsRe: Pls Pls Pls Someone Dash Me A Dog by edward1984(m): 9:20am On Mar 28, 2018
Bnenzzy101:
If u don't have money to buy a dog, how the f..k do u intend to feed the dog
Very good question, it's not an easy task caring for a dog
SportsUEFA Announce Drastic New Champions League Rule Changes Ahead Of Next Season - I by edward1984(op): 2:22pm On Mar 27, 2018
The Champions League have announced a fourth substitute will be permitted from the 2018/19 season amongst a number of rule changes.

In knock-out games, only in extra-time, teams will be permitted to make one additional change - which will not affect the other three substitutions.


New kick-off times will be introduced too: including a new slot at 20:00 GMT in the Champions League, with two games on Tuesday and two games on Wednesday kicking off at 17:55 GMT.

Clubs will now have more flexibility to alter their destiny follow the January transfer window.


Champions League rule changes for 2018/19 season

Fourth substitute permitted in knock-out stages in extra-time

23 players, rather than usual 18, will be permitted for the match sheet in the UEFA Champions League final, UEFA Europa League final and UEFA Super Cup

New kick-off times in Champions League: 20:00 GMT - with two games every Tuesday and Wednesday starting at 17:55 GMT.

Teams who have won the UEFA Europa League (or UEFA Cup) three consecutive times or at least five times will be permitted to wear a special multiple-winner badge on the shirt sleeve. Sevilla are the only side eligible for next season.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/uefa-announce-announce-drastic-new-12258170.amp

CelebritiesElon Musk's Father Has Baby With Step-daughter He Has Known Since She Was Four S by edward1984(op): 8:45am On Mar 26, 2018
The father of Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, says it was “God’s plan” for him to have a baby with his own stepdaughter.

Errol Musk, 72, described the 10-month-old baby boy he had with Jana Bezuidenhout, 30, as “exquisite”.

He married her mother Heide when Jana was four but told The Sunday Times he did not consider her to be his stepdaughter because she had been raised away from the family for long periods of time.


He had two children with Ms Bezuidenhout’s mother before divorcing after 18 years of marriage.

He said Jana had contacted him last year after splitting up with a boyfriend.

“We were lonely, lost people,” he said from his home in South Africa. “One thing led to another — you can call it God’s plan or nature’s plan.”

Two months later Jana told him she was pregnant. After assuming the father was her ex-boyfriend, Mr Musk demanded a paternity test only to discover it was his baby.

“Jana is a delightful girl and a wonderful mother. She said I had changed her life,” he added.


His story may explain months of hostility between father and son, who have reportedly not spoken in more than a year.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Elon Musk – who is though to be worth about $20 billion – described his father as a “terrible human being” but stopped short of talking about specific examples.


“You have no idea about how bad,” he said. “Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.”

Mr Musk senior, who is a millionaire and made his fortune through engineering, disputed that characterisation but has admitted shooting dead three intruders in his home in South Africa. He was charged with manslaughter but said he was acting in self-defence and was acquitted.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/elon-musks-father-has-baby-step-daughter-has-known-since-four/amp/

CrimeRe: Viewer Discretion Is Adviced-see the Way Fulanis Killed This Man In Nigeria by edward1984(m): 2:37pm On Mar 22, 2018
docadams:
Hmmmmmmmm

OP this is the type of fate that will befall you and your generation for posting false information.

And for the mods who allowed this barbatc act unto this forum, your fate lies with God.


accidently watch video of mexican police officer and son being skinned alive by cartel members

http://www.bestgore.com/beheading/police-torture-beheading-son-flay-alive-guerrerho-mexico/
Yeah it happened in south America, they were speaking Spanish, don't know where the op got his info from
CrimeIsraeli Chief Rabbi Calls Black People 'monkeys' by edward1984(op): 10:33am On Mar 22, 2018
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's comments denounced as 'racially charged' and 'utterly unacceptable' by Anti-Defamation League


One of Israel’s chief rabbis called black people “monkeys” during his weekly sermon.

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s comments were denounced as ”racially charged” and “utterly unacceptable” by the Anti-Defamation League, a New York City-based organisation devoted to battling anti-Semitism and racism.

During his weekly sermon, the rabbi used a derogatory Hebrew term for a black person, before going on to call a black person a “monkey,” according to footage published by the Ynet news site.


His office said he was citing a passage from the Talmud - the book of Jewish law.

Mr Yosef represents Israel’s Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent.

He has previously courted controversy for suggesting secular women behave like animals because they dress immodestly.



Link : https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-cheif-rabbi-black-people-monkeys-yitzhak-yosef-talmud-sephardic-a8267666.html?amp

CrimeRe: Viewer Discretion Is Adviced-see the Way Fulanis Killed This Man In Nigeria by edward1984(m): 4:57pm On Mar 21, 2018
This did not happen in Nigeria, I did watch the video
CrimeRe: SNAKE WHISPERER DEAD Abu Zarin Hussin Dead – Firefighter Famed For Kissing Snake by edward1984(op): 11:48am On Mar 17, 2018
Olalan:
How people do very risky stuffs amazes me. He knew the consequences of snake bites yet he kept playing with them, RIP to him
Madness or passion
CrimeSNAKE WHISPERER DEAD Abu Zarin Hussin Dead – Firefighter Famed For Kissing Snake by edward1984(op): 9:54am On Mar 17, 2018
A MALAYSIAN firefighter dubbed “the Snake Whisperer” has died after he was bitten by a giant cobra he was hunting.

Abu Zarin Hussin, who has been bitten by his own pet King Cobras eight times, was 33 when he passed away in hospital.

Hussin headed the King Cobra Squad of his local fire department, teaching his colleagues how to capture the reptiles without harming them.

His luck finally ran out when he was called out to a snake catching operation in Bentong, where he was fatally biten.

Hussin rose to fame when he was pictured kissing a King Cobra, one of several 14ft snakes he claimed to play football and read bedtime stories with.

It emerged last year that Hussin had ended up in a coma twice over snake bites, yet had no intention of ever giving up his perilous pets.

The 32-year-old, from Kelantan, Malaysia, followed in the footsteps of his father and became a specialist snake handler in the fire service.

But despite the love for his work, Abu accepts that snake handling is not for the fainthearted.

He said: “The pain from a snake bite is very severe to the point that you can’t even describe it.

“The worst bite would have to be the eighth time. I did not realise that the snake was bleeding from its head.

“I tried touching the wound on its head and it bit me right away. It took ten seconds for the snake to let me go.

“On the way to the hospital, bubbles started coming out of my mouth and a few moments later I was unconscious.

“The doctor confirmed that I was not going to make it because the venom had spread to my heart.

“After being in a coma for two days I woke up. I am considered lucky to still be alive.”

As well as educating others, Abu makes sure to follow all of the safety precautions before allowing anyone to take photos or “pet” his venomous snakes: King, Chip and Cik Din.

He said: “I take my cobras to participate in training courses for taming snakes at the Fire Department Training Centre. I also lead awareness briefings on the dangers of snakes to the public.”

Last year the media reported that Abu had married his snakes, and although he denies these claims, his bond with his pets is a special one.

He added: “No human can get married to a snake. That story is definitely false and I think the story got altered and twisted to suit people of different beliefs and culture. I’m only interested in humans when it comes to marriage.”

Although his snakes have put his life on the line, the fireman has never thought of giving them up or felt afraid and instead is more motivated to learn and teach his colleagues and others how to catch and tame snakes.

He said: “Snakes are wild species and we need time to get used to them and understand their characteristics to be able to tame them.

“I don’t care if people call me crazy or stupid, I know what I’m doing. It is for the benefit of the public and the Fire Department.”



Link : https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5833315/abu-zarin-hussin-dead-firefighter-famed-for-kissing-snake-dies-after-king-cobra-bite/amp/

CrimeRe: Lion Kills A 14-Year-Old Schoolboy In Benin Republic's Private Zoo (Graphic Phot by edward1984(m): 9:44pm On Mar 16, 2018
GodsOwnFav:
africans and their backward way of life, just take a look at the lion, so satrved and farmished and you expect the lion to smile at the innocent lad. what the lion saw was FOOD! stupid africans.
And why is the boy naked? undecided undecided
SportsRe: Neymar Wants Barcelona Return by edward1984(m): 7:59pm On Mar 09, 2018

AgricultureRe: Hunter Kills An Elephant At Janiyi Camp, Idanre, Ondo State. by edward1984(m): 9:50am On Mar 08, 2018
1StopRudeness:
This is not Europe or America...pple don't have food to eat u are wailing endangered species....with the rate we are going we are the ones that will soon be endangered ....let's face reality.....pple are effing hungry
So when all these animals are extinct, and there is still hunger, then what?
EducationRe: Bayode Olawunmi Treasures Breaks Guinness World Record Longest Reading Marathon by edward1984(m): 8:28am On Mar 04, 2018
chordrylateral:
Wait ooo you mean he didn't sleep for a week?
What about pooping?? undecided undecided undecided
FamilyRe: Woman Flees Home In Owerri With Her Children Over Husband's Bad Attitude. Photos by edward1984(m): 10:26am On Feb 22, 2018
PointZerom:
grin Madam you're crying with your ear piece on, and you call people to snap you while you cry.

Hmmm..I comment my reserve till I hear from the man.
And the snot from her nose
TravelIran Plane Crash: All 66 People On Board Feared Dead by edward1984(op): 12:42pm On Feb 18, 2018
Sixty-six people are feared to have been killed in a passenger plane crash in the Zargos mountains in Iran.

The Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj, came down near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province.

The Red Crescent deployed search and rescue teams to the site. The airline retracted a statement saying definitively that all aboard were dead.

Flight EP3704 left Tehran at 04:30 GMT, and crashed about an hour later.

The aircraft came down on Dena Mountain, 22km (14 miles) from Yasuj, news channel Irinn reported.

The plane was a French-Italian-made twin-engine turboprop ATR 72-500.

Sixty passengers, two security guards, two flight attendants and the pilot and co-pilot were on board.

The airline initially said everyone had been killed, but said later: "Given the special circumstances of the region, we still have no access to the spot of the crash and therefore we cannot accurately and definitely confirm the death of all passengers of this plane."

Bad weather had hampered rescue efforts. Emergency teams had to travel to the crash site by land rather than using a helicopter.

Ageing fleet
Iran has suffered several aviation accidents in recent years and has an ageing aircraft fleet.

The country has struggled to obtain spare parts to maintain its planes in the face of international sanctions imposed to curb its nuclear programme.

Those sanctions have been mostly lifted under a 2015 deal between Iran and the US alongside several other powers.

Aseman, Iran's third largest airline, signed a contract with Boeing last year to buy 30 of its latest medium-range 737s.


https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-43103192

TravelPassenger Drops Farts So Putrid Pilot Is Forced To Make Emergency Landing by edward1984(op): 10:20am On Feb 18, 2018
A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a row caused by a passenger who refused to stop farting.

The passenger apparently kept breaking wind on board a Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol last weekend.

The two Dutchmen sitting next to him didn’t take very well to his flatulence, but the unashamed man was apparently not put off and refused to hold back.

Members of the crew on the Dutch low-cost airline were apparently less than sympathetic and refused to do anything about it.

Despite a warning from the pilot, a fight between the men then broke out, causing the flight to be diverted to Vienna Airport .

Police boarded the plane with dogs and removed two sisters and the two men after the pilot made a report about ‘passengers on the rampage’.

The women are now taking the Dutch budget airline to court after being removed from the flight, and claim they have done nothing wrong.

Nora Lacchab, 25, a law student from Rotterdam, and her unnamed sister, say being removed was ‘humiliating’ are now seeking to legal action.

The two women, who are of Dutch and Moroccan descent, were returning to Amsterdam after a week holidaying in Dubai.

Nora told De Telegraaf: ‘We had nothing to do with the whole disturbance. We distance ourselves from that.

‘Do they sometimes think that all Moroccans cause problems? That’s why we do not let it sit.

‘We had no idea who these boys were, we just had the bad luck to be in the same row and we didn’t do anything. All I will say is that the crew were really provocative and stirred things up.’

All four passengers have since been released, and were not arrested as they had not broken an Austrian laws.

However, they have all been banned from Transavia Airlines, who say that the two girls were also involved in the fight.

In a statement they said: ‘Our crew must ensure a safe flight. When passengers pose risks, they immediately intervene. Our people are trained for that.

‘They know very well where the boundaries are. Transavia is therefore square behind the cabin crew and the pilots.’


Link http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/17/passenger-drops-farts-so-putrid-pilot-is-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-7320242/amp/
RomanceRe: Tesco Manager Filmed In Sex Act With Teenage Employee by edward1984(op): 9:50am On Feb 18, 2018
Kobicove:
Who can blame him?

A 19 year old p***y surely must taste better that a 54 year old P***y undecided
cool
CrimePakistan Court Sentences Man To Death For Rape And Murder Of Girl, 7 by edward1984(op): 7:10pm On Feb 17, 2018
Imran Ali, 24, convicted over death of Zainab Ansari, has also been linked to death of seven other girls

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced a suspected serial killer to death for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, a prosecutor said.

The girl’s murder ignited nationwide protests over allegations of government inaction, and a media campaign led to his arrest after years of him being on the loose.

Police found Zainab Ansari’s body on a rubbish dump in Kasur district near the eastern city of Lahore in mid-January, four days after she was reported missing.

Residents of the area have said the murder was the 12th such incident in a year. Police investigators said later that they had matched DNA from eight girls’ bodies, including Zainab’s, with the convicted killer, Imran Ali, 24.

“The court handed down death on four counts and life imprisonment to Imran Ali in the rape and murder of the little girl, Zainab,” government prosecutor Ehtisham Qadir Shah told Reuters.

He said Ali will be tried for rest of the cases later.

Hundreds of residents protested after Zainab’s body was found, and two were killed when police fired shots to disperse them.

Police identified Ali as one of Zainab’s neighbours, and CCTV footage on the day she was abducted showed her walking off calmly with a man.

In the same district, Kasur, there have been complaints of a number of missing children since 2015 when authorities uncovered what they said was a paedophile ring linked to a prominent local family.

At least two people have been convicted in connection with that case, in which authorities say hundreds of children in the district were abused.

Nearly 10 cases of child abuse a day are reported in Pakistan, according to Sahil, an organisation that works on child protection.

Zainab’s case has triggered a debate in Pakistan over whether to teach children how to guard against sex abuse, which otherwise is a taboo subject in the Muslim majority nation.

CrimeWoman Buried Alive For 11 Days Tried To Fight Her Way Out Of Her Coffin by edward1984(op): 11:08am On Feb 17, 2018
A woman was reportedly buried alive and left to lay conscious inside her coffin for eleven days.

Her family smashed open the stone tomb after locals heard screams coming from the grave, but it was sadly too late.

By the time they had prised open the wooden casket, which had been nailed shut, Rosangela Almeida dos Santos, 37, was dead. From the state of the coffin, it appears she had desperately tried to fight her way out. A video has emerged showing the commotion in the Senhora Santana cemetery in Riachao das Neves, northeast Brazil, as some men took out the heavy coffin and removed the lid.

People shout for an ambulance as others touch her and say how warm she feels. Ms Santos was declared dead by a hospital on January 28 and was buried the next day.

People living near to the cemetery alerted her family on February 9, 11 days after she had been laid to rest. She had suffered injuries on her hands and forehead where it appeared she had tried to fight her way out. The nails around the sides of the coffin lid had also been pushed upwards, and there were scratches and blood on the inside, reports claim.

Ms Santos, who was married but didn’t have children, had been in hospital for a week after being rushed there by her family with severe fatigue. She went into cardiac arrest before dying from ‘septic shock’, according to her death certificate.

Her family buried her in a concrete tomb at the municipal cemetery in her home town of Riachao das Neves, the following day. Local resident Natalina Silva told Brazil’s G1 website that many people heard muffled screams coming from the grave. She said: ‘When I got there right in front of the tomb, I heard banging from inside it.

‘I thought the kids who play around the cemetery were playing a joke on me. Then I heard her groan twice, and after those two groans she stopped.’ Ms Santos’ mother, Germana de Almeida, 66, said: ‘She had tried to open the lid, even the nails that had been hammered in were loose.

‘Her hands were injured, like she had been trying to get out.’ The family believe she was declared dead in error. Ms Santos’ sister, Isamara Almeida, said: ‘We don’t want to accuse any doctor, we don’t want to cause any problems.

‘But we witnessed that situation, there’s just no way a person can be buried for 11 days and still be warm.’ Police chief Arnaldo Monte, who is leading the investigation, said: ‘We have today started to take statements from family members and other people. ‘If need be we will exhume Ms Santos’ body again so we can get to the bottom of what really happened.’ A spokesman for the hospital that declared her dead said they ‘will provide all necessary information requested from them to the family and authorities’.


Video on the link http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/16/woman-buried-alive-spends-11-days-trying-fight-way-coffin-7318724/
RomanceTesco Manager Filmed In Sex Act With Teenage Employee by edward1984(op): 10:20am On Feb 17, 2018
A Tesco manager and teenage employee were forced to quit their jobs this week after being caught romping in a back office.

Fresh produce manager Neville Fox, 35, and Caitlyn Kirby, 19, were filmed engaging in a sex act through the window of a staff room.

A group of men outside recorded the incident, and posted it to social media.

This resulted in both Fox and Kirby being ‘escorted’ from the premises in Norwich on Saturday.

The teenager claims the 35-year-old told her he had split from his long-term partner – a 54-year-old manager at the same branch.

However this was later found to be untrue.

Speaking to The Sun, Mr Fox, who has now left the company, said: ‘I’m not going to say anything. I’m not going to comment.

Tesco’s will comment as they see fit and that’s where we stand on it. It’s not true I’ve been sacked. I’m not going to say anything else.’

Miss Kirby, however, spoke out about the incident – saying her family have dubbed her the ‘Kim Kardashian of Norwich’.

She said she was ‘so embarrassed’ and wanted to flee to Brazil to escape the video, which has since gone viral.

She said: ‘It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, a moment of total madness. He’s quite a bit older than me so maybe he should have known better but so should I. The person I feel really awful for is Neville’s partner. She must be mortified about it all.’

Tesco said: ‘We are taking this issue very seriously and launched an immediate investigation.’


http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/16/tesco-manager-filmed-romping-staff-member-back-office-7319643/amp/

EntertainmentLunar New Year: Chinese TV Gala Includes 'racist Blackface' Sketch by edward1984(op): 2:10pm On Feb 16, 2018
A skit on China's biggest Lunar New Year TV show has sparked widespread criticism and accusations of racism.

In a comedy routine celebrating Chinese-African ties an Asian actress appears in blackface and with exaggerated buttocks.
Using make-up to lampoon black people - a practice known as blackface - is seen by many as deeply offensive.
The annual state media variety show is hugely popular, and has up to 800 million viewers.
Some observers have pointed out that this sketch would not have been intended as offensive to Africans.
However, this is not the first time Chinese entertainment shows have caused controversy with their portrayals of other ethnicities.

The controversial sketch was part of the four-hour CCTV New Year Gala - also known as the Spring Festival Gala - which aired on Thursday night. By some estimates, the show is the most watched entertainment programme on earth.
The skit begins with a routine by a group of African dancers in "tribal" attire and people dressed up as zebras, giraffes, lions and antelopes. This is followed by a comedy skit where a young black woman asks a Chinese man to pose as her husband when meeting her mother.
While the young woman is played by a black actor, her mother appears to be an Asian actor in blackface make-up, donning a traditional outfit complete with huge fake buttocks.
She walks on stage carrying a fruit plate on her head and is accompanied by what is thought to be have been a black actor in a monkey suit, carrying a basket on his back

The skit praises Chinese-African cooperation, showing how much Africans benefit from Chinese investment and how grateful they are to Beijing. At one stage, the character of the African mother exclaims how much she loves China.
China has over the past years stepped up investment into many African countries. The sketch was set around people working on the Nairobi-Mombasa railway project.


Europe's racist history

The notion of blackface being racist is linked to the history of minstrel shows in the US and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries where white actors would paint their skin black for condescending portrayals of black people.
In China, the vast majority of people have no experience of interacting with black people and are less aware of Europe's and the US' history of slavery and racism.

Nonetheless, Chinese users on the country's biggest social media website Weibo have condemned the programme.
Comments included "it's full of racism," that "it makes me feel like I'm living in the last century," and that "we are going to lose face internationally".
Putting it into a larger context beyond the specific history of blackface, one user asks "if an American white person painted yellow, says I love the USA and recites some Trump quotes while pulling his eyes, how would you feel?"
Some Chinese articles criticising the annual gala on the eve of Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday, have been blocked overnight, as have some critical comments on Chinese social media sites.
In 2016, a TV advertisement for a laundry detergent had caused widespread outrage for being racist.
The ad featured a black man with paint stains on his face who gets put into a washing machine by a young Chinese woman to later re-emerge as a fair-skinned Chinese man.

EducationRe: JAMB's Snake: Nigerian Student Disgraced Abroad by edward1984(m): 8:06pm On Feb 14, 2018
My friends here laughed and we laughed together, I can't go and kill myself,,,

It's a funny story but sad for our country

CrimePolice Officer Fired For Not Shooting Black Suspect Wins $175,000 by edward1984(op): 3:11pm On Feb 13, 2018
A former police officer who alleged he was fired for not shooting a black suspect during a standoff has settled a wrongful termination suit with his former department for $175,000.

“At the end of the day, I’m happy to put this chapter of my life to bed,” said Stephen Mader, a former officer in Weirton, West Virginia, who was also granted a pledge that his former employer would not prevent him from obtaining a new job in law enforcement elsewhere.

Mader was the first responding officer to a 2016 call involving RJ Williams, a 23-year-old black man believed to be suicidal. Mader, who is white, made the determination that Williams did not pose an immediate threat to him or fellow officers, even though he was holding a gun. Mader began trying to talk Williams down.

“He wasn’t angry,” Mader previously told the Guardian. “He wasn’t aggressive, he didn’t seem in position to want to use a gun against anybody. He never pointed it at me. I didn’t perceive him as an imminent threat.”

But amid Mader’s attempts to convince Williams to drop the weapon, two veteran officers arrived on the scene and, almost immediately, shot and killed Williams.

Mader, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran, received a termination letter 10 days later, which claimed that he failed to respond to the threat. “The unfortunate reality of police work is that making any decision is better than making no decision at all,” it read.

Mader disagreed and filed a suit alleging wrongful termination. “No police officer should ever lose their job – or have their name dragged through the mud – for choosing to talk to, rather than shoot a fellow citizen,” Mader’s attorney Timothy O’Brien said after the settlement.

After the suit was filed, the city argued that Mader was actually terminated for two other prior incidents, and not for holding fire against Williams. This claim did not square with termination letter, however, which directly and repeatedly chastised Mader for not shooting.

The city said in a statement that the decision to settle was a call made by its insurance provider, and that it stood by its decision to fire Mader.


https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/12/stephen-mader-west-virginia-police-officer-settles-lawsuit

Foreign AffairsRussian Fighter Jet Shot Down In Syria's Idlib Province by edward1984(op): 6:53pm On Feb 03, 2018
A Russian Sukhoi-25 fighter jet has been shot down in a rebel-held area in Syria's north-western province of Idlib.

The Russian defence ministry said the pilot had ejected but was killed in a ground fight.

Video posted on social media appeared to show the plane being hit, while other video showed burning wreckage on the ground, with a red star on a wing.

Russia has acted alongside its Syrian allies targeting rebels in the area.

Syrian government troops launched a major offensive around Idlib in late December, backed by Russian jets. The UN says some 100,000 civilians have been displaced .

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said there had been dozens of Russian air strikes in the area over the past 24 hours.

Russia's defence ministry said the pilot had survived the crash but was killed by "terrorists" on the ground. It said it was making all possible efforts to retrieve the body.

There are several reports that Russia has now fired cruise missiles into Idlib province from navy vessels in the Mediterranean.

It is not yet known which group shot the plane down. One social media video posting showed a body said to be that of the pilot.

However, the Russian defence ministry said the plane had come down in an area controlled by the al-Qaeda linked jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-42932616

Foreign AffairsIsrael Will Pay Civilians $9,000 To Capture African Migrants by edward1984(op): 9:40am On Jan 28, 2018
Israel is hiring civilian “immigration inspectors” to crack down on “illegal aliens and their employers,” marking a turning point in the Middle Eastern nation’s relationship with migrants and refugees.

In an advertisement this month, the Population and Immigration Authority said it would pay up to 30,000 Israeli shekels ($8,845) for civilians to carry out an “enterprise of national importance.” That included undertaking “enforcement tasks” against migrants that involved detecting, investigating, and arresting them. Candidates are expected to start in March 2018, a month before the country starts its designated “voluntary” process to return migrants to their country of origin or a third one.

The move comes a few weeks after Israel said it would help purchase tickets, obtain travel documents, and give $3,500 to African illegal migrants to leave—threatening them with arrest if they are caught after the end of March.

The United Nations refugee agency estimates that there are 27,000 Eritreans and 7,700 Sudanese in Israel, with the vast majority of them saying
they fled war, persecution, and conscription. However, Israeli officials have called them “infiltrators” and a “cancer” who are in search of economic opportunities, and who constitute a threat to Israel’s social fabric and Jewish identity. As such, only 10 Eritreans and one Sudanese have been recognized as refugees in the country since 2009, according to UNHCR. Another 200 Sudanese from Darfur have also been granted humanitarian status.

The government’s plan to return the refugees has drawn criticism from human rights advocates both in and outside the country. Nearly 500 academics and 35 prominent Israeli writers have called on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to deport the asylum seekers, saying the country has “no refugee problem and has no economic difficulty taking them in, settling them and directing them to jobs.” Hundreds of rabbis have also promised to hide refugees, campaigning under the name of Anne Frank, the Holocaust victim who hid in an attic apartment in Amsterdam with her family before she was captured and killed.

The UN has also warned that people who were returned could risk their lives by taking dangerous onward journeys to Europe. Israel was accused of making deals with African countries including Rwanda and Uganda as a place to deport the refugees—but both countries recently denied there was any deal. Rwanda’s government said that its policy towards Africans “wherever they may originate from” was to have “open doors.”

https://qz.com/1190856/israel-to-pay-civilians-to-arrest-african-migrants-and-refugees/

TravelDead Woman 'gives Birth' To Stillborn Baby 10 Days After She Died by edward1984(op): 7:24pm On Jan 19, 2018
Staff at the funeral parlour discovered the baby in the 33-year-old mother's coffin on the eve of her funeral


A woman who was nine months pregnant when she died suddenly reportedly 'gave birth' to the baby ten days later.

Staff at the funeral parlour discovered the stillborn child in the 33-year-old mother's coffin.


The baby was found next to mum-of-five Nomveliso Nomasonto Mdoyi‚ from Mthayisi village in South Africa, on the eve of her funeral.

Lindokuhle Funeral parlour owner Fundile Makalana told Times Live : "We were so shocked and frightened that we did not even have time to look at the sex of the baby.

"I have been in the business for more than 20 years and I have never heard of a dead woman giving birth."

Both the infant and the mother were buried in one big coffin on Saturday, the paper reported.

The family say the grim discovery was devastating and shocking.

Nomveliso's mum, Mandzala Mdoyi said her daughter died suddenly after having 'breathing problems'.

"I was devastated by the untimely death of my daughter and now I got the shock of my life to learn that she has given birth while she had been dead for 10 days," she said.

Medical experts told local media that it was possible that the foetus was expelled from the mum's body by a build of gases.

The deterioration of muscles after death may also have contributed, a doctor said.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dead-woman-gives-birth-stillborn-11876947.amp

RomanceRe: LumiDolls: Barcelona Brothel Replaces Women With Sex Dolls by edward1984(m): 10:53am On Jan 19, 2018
ShyCypher:
Na we still dey behind na.

People have been shaggin' sex dolls for like two years now.

I trust Naija sha, we nor dey carry last. grin
For more than 2 years, its been in existence for so many years, I don't get why we naijas are making it a big deal,
RomanceRe: Why Sex Dolls Won't Work In Nigeria by edward1984(m): 7:50pm On Jan 18, 2018
What's the big deal with this sex doll? It's been in existence for so many years, Now one Nigerian artist will release a new song with title "my sex doll"
TravelRe: Those Intending To Travel Out, Let's Meet Here by edward1984(m): 11:42am On Jan 18, 2018
legendary4luv:
Me na Europe I wan i.e Austria or Germany, when I make enough euros and pounds then I go relocate to canny I start family
Good choice

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