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Jennifer Riordan, 26, from Leeds, said: “Does it mean women have to walk on one side and men walk on the other?

“I have gay and LGBT friends and they’re not my ‘gay’ friends, they are just my friends.

"They are reinforcing this stigma by doing these lights. Don’t draw attention to different gender choices, just let people be who they want.”

TONY SAPIANO

Tfl said the changes had been made on a temporary basis but the lights are still in place
TfL said the symbols were installed on June 19. At the time it was said the changes had been made on a temporary basis but the lights are still in place nearly three months later.

When the lights were installed new London mayor Sadiq Khan said: “I am very proud of our LGBT community here and I am looking forward to working closely with them.”

One critic claimed the changes violate the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals which calls for simple images of pedestrians only.

But last night Dana Skelley, director of asset management at Transport for London, said: “A full road safety audit was carried out to ensure there was no risk to the public.”


Other lights feature pairs of female and male gender symbols, or a transgender symbol which combines elements of both sexes.

Father-of-two Anthony Smith said he didn’t know what to do when he saw two female symbols on the green traffic light.

Mr Smith, of Preston, Lancashire, said: “When the light went green I saw the two female symbols and I thought, ‘Oh right, so my missus can cross with my little girl but what do me and the boy do?’

“This wouldn’t work up north. If you introduced this in Preston people wouldn’t know what you were going on about. I think it’s just a London thing really.”

>>70618
>Hussein violates Geneva Convention
>UN coalition invades his country
>London violates Vienna Convention
>Signs stay up for three months and nothing happens
Racist much?

how do they know the "green man" identified as male?

All these ching chong gook economies are leveling out just like japan did. China may even start to break apart due to rampant poverty and backwardness

>>71266
They will level out, though Hanjin's woes are due to the global markets not South Korea's persay.

>>71274
OK buddy

Fucking birds.

The Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA16PNZ8-2g

Perhaps the locals could try killing and eating them

just a thought

>>70960
The Kremlin’s intent may not be to sway the election in one direction or another, officials said, but to cause chaos and provide propaganda fodder to attack U.S. democracy-building policies around the world, particularly in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

U.S. intelligence officials described the covert influence campaign here as “ambitious” and said it is also designed to counter U.S. leadership and influence in international affairs.

Their comments came just before President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked privately about cyberspying and other matters on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks in China. After their meeting Monday, Obama acknowledged tensions over digital espionage and said the United States had strong capability in this area. “Our goal is not to suddenly, in the cyber arena, duplicate the cycle of escalation we saw when it comes to other arms races in the past,” Obama said.

One congressional official, who has been briefed recently on the matter, said “Russian ‘active measures’ or covert influence or manipulation efforts, whether it’s in Eastern Europe or in the United States,” are worrisome.

It “seems to be a global campaign,” the aide said. As a result, the issue has “moved up as a priority” for the intelligence agencies, which include the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security as well as the CIA and the National Security Agency.

Some congressional leaders briefed recently by the intelligence agencies on Russian influence operations in Europe, and how they may serve as a template for activities in the United States, were disturbed by what they heard.

After Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) ended a secure 30-minute phone briefing given by a top intelligence official recently, he was “deeply shaken,” according to an aide who was with Reid when he left the secure room at the FBI’s Las Vegas office.

>>70961
The Russian government hack of the Democratic National Committee, disclosed by the DNC in June but not yet officially ascribed by the U.S. government to Russia, and the subsequent release of 20,000 hacked DNC emails by WikiLeaks, shocked officials. Cyber analysts traced its digital markings to known Russian government hacking groups.

“We’ve seen an unprecedented intrusion and an attempt to influence or disrupt our political process,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, speaking about the DNC hack and the WikiLeaks release on the eve of the Democratic convention. The disclosures, which included a number of embarrassing internal emails, forced the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Members of both parties are urging the president to take the Russians to task publicly.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) in a statement urged Obama to publicly name Russia as responsible for the DNC hack and apparent meddling in the electoral process. “Free and legitimate elections are non-negotiable. It’s clear that Russia thinks the reward outweighs any consequences,” he wrote. “That calculation must be changed. ... This is going to take a cross-domain response — diplomatic, political and economic — that turns the screws on Putin and his cronies.”

Another Republican, Sen. Daniel Coats of Indiana, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that if Moscow is indeed trying to influence the U.S. election, “such actions would be an outrageous violation of international rules of behavior and cannot be tolerated.”

Administration officials said they are still weighing their response.

Russia has denied that it carried out any cyber-intrusions in the United States. Putin called the accusations against Russia by U.S. officials and politicians an attempt to “distract the public’s attention.”

>>70962
“It doesn’t really matter who hacked this data from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign headquarters,” Putin said in an interview with Bloomberg News, referring to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “The important thing is the content was given to the public.”

The Department of Homeland Security has offered local and state election officials help to prevent or deal with Election Day cyber disruptions, including vulnerability scans, regular actionable information and alerts, and access to other tools for improving cybersecurity at the local level. It will also have a cyber team ready at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to alert jurisdictions if attacks are detected.

Last month, the FBI issued an unprecedented warning to state election officials urging them to be on the lookout for intrusions into their election systems and to take steps to upgrade security measures across the voting process, including voter registration, voter rolls and election-related websites. The confidential “flash” alert said investigators had detected attempts to penetrate election systems in several states.

Arizona, Illinois and both the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as the DNC, have been the victims of either attempted or successful cyberattacks that FBI agents with expertise in Russian government hacking are investigating.

Federal law enforcement and local election officials say the decentralized nature of the voting process, which is run by states and counties, makes it impossible to ensure a high level of security in each district.

“I have a lot of concern” about this year’s election, said Ion Sancho, the longtime supervisor of elections in Leon County, Fla. “America doesn’t have its act together.” Sancho, who has authorized red-team attacks on his voting system to identify its vulnerabilities, added: “We need a plan.”

He is dating a (((Rothschild))) so they won't arrest him

this guy seriously releases a song every 5 years and is still doing shows, how's that for black privilege

>>70875
not really privilege. if anything good for him, *as an artist*.

>>71280
I love Greenland, but that article is stupid.
For example:
>62% of women in Greenland have been exposed to violence at some point
Yes, the vast majority of people have been in fights. Even I have.
And tons of other SJW drivel.
Fucking garbage that needs to be kept out of based Greenland.

>>71286
she still visited it though.

>Chelsea weighs 45kg and more active than Baron.

>“Baron eats a lot, he has meat and biscuits for brekkie, chicken necks for a midday snack and meat and biscuits for dinner with extra vitamins and oils, some pilchard or sardines, egg, pumpkin and veggies.

>“He also gets brown rice or pasta and dog food company looking for a star, we have one for them.”

>Mr York, a champion angler here and overseas and a torch bearer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, said they have been trying to get Baron officially recognised for his size in Australia without luck.

>“He is a very laid back dog, gets on with everyone and other animals,” Mr York said.

>Baron, who is available for stud duties, won best junior dog award at the Royal Melbourne and first place at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

>Baron’s measurements are impressive: In horse terms, he is 9.5 hands tall but when he stands on his rear legs is a towering 201cm (6 foot 6 inches).

>The dog, visits a chiropractor regularly, has a 127cm chest (50 inches) and a 86.36cm neck (34 inches).

>And according to his owner, his already massive head could grow even bigger.

>But Mr York says Baron is a gentle giant and has already passed his assessment to be a therapy dog, calling into schools and hospitals.

>For Mr York and his family, this is the fifth English mastiff they have looked after.

>“Our previous biggest do, Zaac weighed 110kg and lived till he was 11 years,” Mr York said.

>Baron, who along with Chelsea is a big snorer.

>The English mastiffs are one of the oldest breeds of dog dating back to before the Romans,’ Mr York said.

>“He has been assessed for becoming a therapy dog, calling into schools and hospitals and passed with flying colours,” Mr York said.

>“He will start his training soon. He is a very laid back dog, gets on with everyone and all kinds of other animals.

>“He is my constant companion when I go fishing.”

>And as celebrities do, Baron also has his own Facebook page: Baron the olde English Mastiff.
https://www.friendbooj.com/Baron-the-olde-English-Mastiff-243508256012683/?fref=ts

>>71021
That's a big doggo.

I had one of the liberal TV networks on for background noise yesterday and I heard something about the FOX News sex scandal with the anchorwomen. I wondered for a second how Greta was doing seeing as she had been on the network so long.

Then I come on here today and see this. It's strange when the news comes around full-circle like that.

Well, seeing as the effects of climate change are already incredibly obvious, and follow very closely what was predicted half a century ago, and seeing as only fossil fuel shills deny it, fuck off.

Gentrification is accelerating as wealth gets transferred to the 1%. It must suck to be in the 11th percentile for net worth/wealth only to see all your assets slowly get drained toward the top.

>>70299

I am sure the 1% arent tops, if they love black people so much, they surely must be bottoms, get it? XD

>>70211
San Francisco, UK edition.

They do this shit every time we do exercises. I live on an AF base in Korea, this shit is a joke.

>>63542
North Korea is a joke anon. Unless they actually hurt someone, there's no point in taking then serious

North Korea declares war on everyone, It's a national pastime. They say hello to each other by declaring war.

>>71123
I like how he's supposedly blind now. He deserves an Oscar nomination.

>>71133
He blacked a lot of white bitches

>>70985
yeah they were bringing attention to how climate change in sub saharan africa is extreme compared to most of the rest of the world, even though the uk is doing the most damage per-capita and isn't getting hit very hard at all

also that particular airport has usually wealthy passengers though its surrounded by slums

>>70987
I repeat
>Protesters reportedly swam across a dock to reach the runway
Meaning they weren't black

After playing so much FFXI I always see BLM and think Black Mage

>Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the campus-carry bill into law in June 2015, extending the right of gun owners to carry concealed handguns on campus. The law went into effect on August 1 of this year. While the bill affects colleges across the state, the date is especially meaningful for the University of Texas. August 1 marked the 50th anniversary of the University of Texas Tower massacre, when Charles Whitman, a former Marine, shot 49 people from the bell tower, killing 17.

>Campus carry has opened a deep political fault on campus. One dean and at least three faculty members (at Texas and other colleges) have resigned over the law. (This writer, a University of Texas alum, knows one prospective hire who declined a faculty position at the school due to the campus-carry ordinance.) Gun-owners’-rights groups, meanwhile, staged a fake mass shooting in Austin in December to demonstrate their belief that so-called “gun-free zones” are the problem making mass shootings so lethal. Faculty members also sued to block the law, which has inspired numerous protests at the Texas state capitol.

>The campus-carry law changed very little about where students can actually bear firearms. According to the university FAQ page (campuscarry.utexas.edu), students have had the right to carry concealed firearms on campus, but not inside buildings, for 20 years. Fewer than 1 percent of students at the university are licensed to carry firearms; only students over 21 are even eligible to be licensed, and fewer than 500 students of age live in on-campus dorms (where concealed firearms are now permitted).

...

>Yet a simple count of the number of students enabled by the law does not convey its total impact in Austin. Jin, an alum who graduated from the university two years ago, says that a small but vocal minority of students has persistently harassed and threatened her and other demonstrators. She says she has received thousands of emails and posts on the group’s event page expressing misogynist, hateful, and racist messages. One group even published her home address.

>“There’s a lot of people openly expressing that they would take joy if we were assaulted or raped with our protest devices,” Jin says. “They’re like, ‘We can’t wait to see them get raped by their own toys, because they’d be inviting sexual assault, and then they’ll wish they had a gun.’”

>Wherever individual students might stand on the Second Amendment—or on First Amendment rights to protest a state law—the campus-carry argument has divided college students into familiar camps. Women, people of color, and members of the LGBT community on campus make up the majority of the more than 10,000 people who have expressed support for the Cocks Not Glocks protest by RSVPing for the event.

>At present, Jin has 4,500 dildos to pass out, most of them donations from sex-toy distributors far and wide. The majority, in fact, are shapeless vibrators from Singapore. Hustler Hollywood and local artists have also contributed to the cause. While Jin was previously housing the devices in a sympathetic faculty member’s attic, she is now storing the sex toys in a warehouse maintained by a local sex shop, Dreamers.
...

>Jin characterizes the students who are most aggressive about their rights to carry firearms on campus as cisgender straight white men. They are anecdotally the same men who face off opposite against women, people of color, and the queer community in the culture wars over rape culture, internet speech, and transgender rights. Campus carry has introduced more firearms, however few in total, into a culture war already brimming with violent rhetoric.

>“These are the same people who call themselves level-headed, law-abiding gun owners, yet they’re wishing violence on other people,” Jin says. “They can’t even take a joke.”

>Jin courts this cultural confrontation directly by twisting a motto favored by gun owners. Instead of “Come and Take It”—the very don’t-tread-on-me logo supported by open-carry activists, usually appearing over an image of an assault rifle—the Cocks Not Glocks campaign marches under the slogan, “Take It and Come.”

>“There have been, obviously, straight and heterosexual men who are part of our team,” Jin says. “But the people who are running forward, dildo flags flying, are mainly not them.”

>>69595
Honestly they should have just kicked her off the beach. Forcing her to remover her clothes on the spot just makes parallels them to radical Islamic culture.

>>69595
stop being frenchaphobic its their culture

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