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Virtuous paedophile community of “MAPs” create support network on social media https://cbjstar.co.uk/2019/03/22/virtuous-paedophile-community-of-maps-create-support-network-on-social-media/#:~:text=A%20community%20of%20non-offending,to%20find%20each%20other%20online. Have you heard of the term MAP? Charlie Wolfe talks to people who are sexually attracted to children and admit it openly on their social media profiles. A community of non-offending paedophiles who describe themselves as “MAPs” or “NOMAPs” are using social media as an online support group. /\ Do You Know What A MAP Is? I Just Found Out And Now I’m Warning Friends https://phaylen.medium.com/do-you-know-what-a-map-is-i-just-found-out-and-now-im-warning-friends-dfd48f0ffded Just when you think you’re an enlightened, modern individual with your finger on the pulse of social matters, something comes out of...

Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to "be more entrepreneurial" and work with "more hunger" in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news outlets reported. Citing the "uncertain global economic outlook," the CEO said Google would slow its hiring pace for the second half of 2022. Google brought on a whopping 10,000 workers during the second quarter, per Pichai. The chief Googler went on to say the company would consolidate "where investments overlap" and streamline its processes. Effectively, Google is calling on its staff to work harder, or else. Tech companies of all...

Crypto lender Celsius Network has initiated bankruptcy proceedings, the company said Wednesday night, marking the third high-profile crypto firm to do so in the last two weeks. The New Jersey-based firm filed bankruptcy under Chapter 11 with the Southern District of New York, stating it has $167 million in assets on hand to fund operations during restructuring. “I am confident that when we look back at the history of Celsius, we will see this as a defining moment,” Alex Mashinsky, Celsius' co-founder and CEO, said in a release. After the collapse of Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin UST, crypto lending and brokerage...

Prosecutors said a Minnesota man faked a politically motivated attack in an insurance scam. They said Dennis Molla sprayed pro-Biden and BLM graffiti on his garage then set it on fire. He sought a $300,000 insurance payout plus GoFundMe donations, an indictment said. A Trump supporter falsely claimed his garage was burned by left-wing extremists in a $300,000 insurance-scam attempt, federal prosecutors say. Dennis Molla, of Minnesota, set his own garage on fire after scrawling it with graffiti of an anarchy symbol, BLM, and Biden 2020 during the last presidential election campaign, according to an indictment reviewed by Insider....

VIDEO There is nothing funny about inflation. However, the reactions to June's CPI rise to 9.1% can be very funny. Here are a couple of those funny reactions. One from Jim Cramer the self-proclaimed "Stock Whisperer" who is always good for laughs and the other from financial analyst Kevin who goes into shock when he first sees the new inflation rate while livestreaming from a German beach.

White House adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra are warning of the latest COVID-19 variant, but are declining to specify key facts about the newest iteration of the virus, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Fox News on Tuesday. Paul, an ophthalmologist, told "Jesse Watters Primetime" that amid warnings and renewed pressure on Americans to submit to another round of injections, the administration is noticeably mum on the severity of the new variant, or other key characteristics like transmissibility and potential for hospitalization. In recent remarks, Fauci called for the virus to still be "taken...

The most advanced category of mass-produced semiconductors — used in smartphones, military technology and much more — is known as 5 nm. A single company in Taiwan, known as TSMC, makes about 90 percent of them. U.S. factories make none. The U.S.’s struggles to keep pace in semiconductor manufacturing have already had economic downsides: Many jobs in the industry pay more than $100,000 a year, and the U.S. has lost out on them. Longer term, the situation also has the potential to cause a national security crisis: If China were to invade Taiwan and cut off exports of semiconductors, the...

NEW YORK, July 13 (Reuters) - A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks from the spy agency, in one of the biggest such thefts in CIA history.

The U.K. climate group whose members deflated tires on an estimated 40 vehicles in New York City last month recently announced similar actions in cities nationwide. The Tyre Extinguishers, which encourages activists to deflate tires of parked sports utility vehicles (SUV) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said it has already spread to Chicago and the San Francisco area this month. Individuals affiliated with the group have deflated the tires of 20 SUVs in Chicago, another 20 SUVs in Scranton, Pa., and 12 SUVs near San Francisco this month, according to the group.

I asked over the weekend if there has ever been an administration with a less impressive cabinet than President Biden’s and posited that Michael Barone might be able to come up with one. It occurred to me to ask him. For background he cites his column on the Harding administration here (September 2, 2015). Mr. Barone writes:Here’s my take, based in part on a recent visit to the Warren G. Harding Museum and Home in Marion, Ohio. Harding is often rated one of the poorest presidents — quite wrongly in my view, as I have written on other occasions.He did...

MSNBC contributor and Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump’s radicalization of Americans with propaganda is the “exact same” way groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS build their following.Atkins Stohr said, “I don’t know what the Justice Department will do. As an attorney, I feel like there is so much basis for an investigation if not moving forward with chargers, but I do know that Merrick Garland is meticulous and careful and thoughtful, so these things will move more slowly than we want.”She added, “One thing that I’ve really come away with...

To begin with, I would like to encourage everyone to read Megan’s update on the story she’s been writing about and follow that up with Paula’s deep dive on why work like this is important. They both handle it better than any synopsis I’d give you here.One of the more remarkable things that we’ve witnessed in American politics in recent years is the shift in party preference among Latino voters, a constituency that the Democrats long took for granted.From Kevin’s latest:If you think the line of Hispanic people crossing the southern border is huge, you should see the mob of...

A dental trend known as 'Turkey teeth' that involves travelling abroad to get drastic cut-price treatment is leaving thousands of Britons facing painful complications. The latest cosmetic fad, made popular by stars like Katie Price and Love Island's Jack Fincham, involves filing down teeth to pegs then replacing them with crowns or veneers.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's coalition government risked collapse on Thursday after the 5-Star Movement, one of its members, failed to support a parliamentary confidence vote including measures to offset the cost of living crisis.The confidence vote has become a focal point for tensions within Draghi's broad coalition as its parties prepare to fight each other in a national election due by early 2023.The risks of a collapse of a Draghi government rippled through financial markets where Italian bond yields rose sharply, indicating investors demanding a higher premium to hold its debt, and shares fell.

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Former President Donald Trump plans to return to Washington, D.C., for the first time since leaving office in January 2021, according to Axios.Trump is scheduled to headline a July 26 event for the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Axios reported Thursday.The former president is slated to deliver the keynote address at 3 p.m. ET on the second day of the AFPI's two-day, invitation-only policy summit. The event will be streamed live and open to the press.Two new GOP primary polls show Trump with a commanding lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the race for the party's 2024 presidential nomination.The...

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed “Radical Left Democrats” for rising inflation after Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index in June rose to 9.1% from one year ago."Inflation just hit ANOTHER 40-year high of 9.1%, which is terrible for our Country," Trump said in a message released by his political action committee, Save America."Fuel prices up 60%, Airfare up 34%, Eggs up 33% — how can people survive this? How can businesses survive this? Our Country is so weak right now because the Radical Left Democrats have no clue what they are doing."All...

The US Dollar keeps strengthening as inflation skyrockets. Good news? Bear in mind that a strong dollar is a two-edged sword. The US Dollar Index has risen 16% year-over-year, presenting a big hurdle for US firms with business overseas. That strength of the greenback will rise until the Fed makes a dovish policy pivot. And that pivot is forecast to occur at the Feb ’23 FOMC meeting. But will The Fed pivot? The Biden Cocktail.

Pope Francis questioned President Biden's conscience on Tuesday in an interview during which he described the commander-in-chief's religious identity and views on abortion as incoherent."A month after conception, the DNA of the fetus is already there and the organs are aligned. There is human life," the pontiff said in the interview with Spanish-language outlet Univision.Asked about Biden — a self-professed "devout Catholic" who supports blanket legalization of abortion on the federal level — the pope dismissed the president as incomprehensible.

Rising prices for packaged chicken breasts, thighs and wings can leave a consumer squawking: Enough is enough. Egged on by the high cost of chicken parts, Simon Kirsch, a 33-year-old tech worker from Portland, Ore., decided to spring for the whole bird and take it apart himself. Whole bird “I couldn’t justify spending that money,” he says. Before inflation, he says, “I wasn’t, like, making soup on the weekends.” As of last week, the price for a whole chicken, on average, was $1.56 a pound, according to the Agriculture Department, up from $1.09 a year ago. Boneless, skinless chicken breast...