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>>47435
>Toilets
>Indians

haha

>>47435
>toilets at a monastary
They're worshipping them?

damn right they are
shitting streets are actually shit god temples

>>47499
Germany's history is so tarred that its citizens are probably pretty used to apologizing for it at this point. I feel Germany really didn't have a choice in the matter.

Anyway, no one wants to go that shithole called Turkey. They should be happy they're getting migrants, keep the degenerates with the degenerates.

>Angela "Not very brave" Merkel
This is why you dont elect a woman. Easily blackmailed by the Spying USA, changes her opinions over the years to whatever has the most support, wont actually vote on anything important and risky like recognizing Turkroaches for the genocidal scum they are, etc etc

>>47595
tell it to berlusconni

>>46793
Looks like a couple of people were injured. The suspect shot dead. Just a typical day in the ghetto. Not news.

>>46797
I'm hearing about a third shooter that scattered somewhere, it's like something from CSI

>>46797
Except this didn't happen in the ghetto. The Memorial Drive area where this happened is known for being filled with middle-upper-class neighborhoods that don't normally get this kind of criminal activity. So it is actually news.

>>45495
Sounds great! Guy should have been carrying a gun for moments like this, though.

>>45500
Canada gun pick one

>>45495
>The female bear was euthanized by animal officials,
For what? It was just defending her cubs for fucks sake.

>>47199
dude you should live in miami theres tons of shit the gov covers up down here.

>>47199
Looks fake tbh

>>47200
[Citation Needed]

>>47321
Good I hope the FBI roasts this cunt

>>47321
She can cackle in prison

>>47321
Wasn't this debunked? Like someone accidentally leaked one of those articles that were written to be published at a moment's notice?

It could well be legit, just don't want to get hopes up.

>>47226
Does 'cot' not mean anything....

It must be for women with prams

>>47226
>help women
SEXIST
>don't help women
MISOGINY

>>47253
>oh look a free spot finally
> fuck, it's women only, I can't park there
counts as sexism

>>47436
It's just some companies, they have a legal right to do this. Freedom of speech doesn't extend to private enterprise.

>>47441
while that may be true, it is the EU legislation they are conforming to. the water begins to boil.

>>47441
A libertarian paradise!

>In Eastern Europe, for instance—where Bram Stoker drew inspiration for Dracula—there have been numerous discoveries of corpses that have been “staked.” Bulgaria has had multiple cases of 700-year-old skeletons with ploughshares—the hefty blade of a plough—thrust through them into the ground. Recent Polish excavations unearthed skeletons with sickles placed around their waists or the necks. Other techniques—such as “stoning” (weighing the corpse down with heavy objects)—have been found all over the world, from 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burials pinned down with huge rocks, to graves from Ancient Greece weighted down with amphora fragments, to medieval English skeletons buried under grinding stones. The approach of ramming something firmly in a corpse’s open jaw has been observed both in 8th-century Irish “zombie burials” and the grave of the “Vampire of Venice,” a 16th-century skeleton disinterred from a plague cemetery with a large sized brick wedged between the teeth.

>Abundant media coverage has followed these discoveries, which has fueled public fascination, but often frustrated archaeologists, because many of the stories are based on unpublished findings that have yet to be thoroughly scrutinized. When further Polish excavations found decapitated skeletons with skulls placed neatly between the feet, for instance, tabloids screamed “vampire burials.” But the local Polish press pointed out that there were medieval gallows nearby, which suggested that the bodies simply were executed prisoners. Some scientists worry that media biases could be influencing archaeology itself. Simona Minozzi—a paleopathologist at the University of Pisa—argued that the media hype surrounding the Vampire of Venice was backed up by only a single publication that lacked “adequate scientific evidence.” It “cannot be excluded that the brick slid accidentally into the mouth,” she wrote.
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>To actually get to the bottom of these strange practices and resist misdirection, archaeologists have begun to develop new systematic approaches by collating deviant burials into datasets. The most comprehensive analysis was performed by Andrew Reynolds, a medieval archaeologist at University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, for a book he published in 2009. He tracked down obscure references from the musty basements of university libraries, eventually compiling practically every known burial from Anglo-Saxon Britain: a staggering 25,000 burials. Reynolds plugged the data into a vast spreadsheet, which allowed him to organize the information into categories like “position of decapitated heads” (most commonly “missing”).

>Thanks to this approach, Reynolds was able to draw broad inferences into deviant burials in Britain that up until his project could only have been guessed at. The most common deviant burial type, for instance, was a prone burial, which Reynolds says in fact was a superstitious measure “to prevent the corpse returning to haunt the living.” (“Burying people face down means they will only dig themselves deeper if they reanimate,” he points out.) Post-mortem decapitation similarly seems to have been used to lay “a suspect corpse to rest.” The dataset allowed Reynolds to probe for historical influences on mortuary practices, revealing, for example, that the introduction of Christianity led towns to exile the “dangerous dead” from the new church graveyards and bury them at the margins of society. (Distant crossroads were a particular favorite for this, as they give the “re-animated corpse lots of options in terms of direction of travel—hopefully not in your direction!” Reynolds says.)
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>Last year, a similar systematic study was published by Marco Milella, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich. His project covered the whole of Western Europe from the first to fifth centuries, confirming that deviant burials can be discovered well beyond Britain. While Milella warns that applying “concepts derived from later times and completely different cultural contexts (e.g. vampires) is a risky exercise,” his data is powerful evidence that a fear of the undead wasn’t just isolated to the “vampires” of Eastern Europe. There were some cross-cultural, systematic forces at work.

>In folkloric sources as diverse as Babylonian literature, the shroud-eating Nachzehrer of Germanic tradition, and the Chiang-Shih “hopping vampires” of Chinese legend, notions of corpses rising from the grave have long been documented. But what these new archaeological datasets reveal is that these ancient accounts weren’t just stories that our ancestors told to each other on dark and stormy nights. Many of our forefathers were genuinely scared, taking time and trouble to ensure that the dead stayed where they belong.
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Police have released a CCTV still of a man wanted in connection with an acid attack on five teenagers as they waited for a train.

He is alleged to have been part of a group that squirted corrosive liquid over the boys before jumping on a train and making his getaway.

The man is described as black, with dark hair and wearing a jet black North Face gilet.

The terrifying incident took place shortly after 12.40am on Sunday, when the man dismounted a train travelling towards Barking at Ockendon station, Essex

He approached the five victims who were waiting on the platform where he held one of his hands behind his back. After a brief dialog with them, he removed his hand from behind his back exposing a bottle. He then squirted an unknown liquid over the victims.

The man re-joined his group of roughly nine friends on the 11.44pm Southend to Barking service.

Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Gail McKemmie said: 'This was a particularly vicious and alarming assault which has left some of the victims with potentially life changing injuries.

'This was an unprovoked and violent incident and it is essential that those responsible are identified and brought to justice.

'Although our investigation is in its early stages, it would appear that this was a random and isolated incident.

'If you think you recognise the man in the CCTV image, I'd urge you to get in touch as we think he has vital information that could assist this investigation.'

The five teenage victims were all rushed to hospital with burns injuries following the attack.

It was confirmed this afternoon that two of them suffered injuries described as 'potentially life changing'.

One 17-year-old suffered burns to his eyes whilst another, also 17, was left with burns to his mouth and tongue,.

kill whitey

>>43193
this

put them in camps and burn them in ovens

>>43190
>Reports of sexual offences on the London Underground almost tripled over the past five years.

Gee, I wonder what rapidly growing ethno-religious group could be responsible for that?

>>47060

I am waiting for 4chan to tell me what to think about this.

I really don't understand the big deal about Stephen Hawking saying he doesn't understand why Trump is popular. He's a scientist, not a political annalist. His job has nothing to do with studying politics.

>>47088
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556

literally Hawking

At least he's not as bad as Nye or Tyson, and he's actually made some contributions to his field

Good.

dindu

yea be friend with a 2 digit iq black and get raped by his friends. i dont think girl was next einstein.
way to go girl, u get raped regularly with that brain.

>It is hard to say how deep the concerns run in Hong Kong society over the renaming of Pikachu and comrades, but the number of protesters was only in the dozens, according to the BBC. As Richard Bush of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., tells The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview, this represents the "views of very committed Pokémon players and collectors."

>Yet Dr. Bush, who is director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings, concedes that concerns about Hong Kong's autonomy could be "lurking in the background."

>When the British Crown colony of Hong Kong became a specially administered part of China in 1997, the Basic Law enshrined political and economic autonomy for the island, with responsibility for defense and foreign affairs residing in Beijing. The agreement was supposed to last for 50 years.

>But in the years following, there have been periodic bouts of protest as Chinese actions have inflamed passions in Hong Kong, stoking fears that Beijing would interfere in a meaningful way far sooner than 2047.

>Perhaps the most significant of these confrontations arose in the form of the 2014 "Occupy Central" movement, which aimed to ensure that Hong Kongers could freely elect their leader. China, concerned about the precedent this could set for other regions on the mainland, prevaricated, insisting instead that Beijing nominate the candidates. Approved nominees are then selected by an Election Committee of about 1,200 people, a majority of whom are viewed as pro-Beijing. The Basic Law, however, stipulates that the "ultimate aim" is universal suffrage.
...

>Yet some see progress since the "Umbrella Revolution" of 2014, when protestors pushed back against Beijing's plans to have a mainland-friendly committee nominate 2017 candidates for Chief Executive, Hong Kong's top post.

>"A year ago, before [and] during the Occupy Central campaigns, the Beijing government was unequivocal and uncompromising in its approach to Hong Kong and had a 'take no hostages' approach," Dr. Brown, who is also a senior fellow at Chatham House, London, tells the Monitor in an email interview. "In the last few months, it has become far less willing to wade into local issues, even despite the visit by politburo member Zhang Dejiang to the city earlier this month."

>That visit prompted further protests in Hong Kong, as activists sought to demonstrate to the Chinese visitors that all was not well, even if the authorities were trying to paint a picture of peace and harmony.

>Hong Kong is not a hotbed of revolutionary fervor, say most observers. Rather, it is a "pluralistic" society embodying a diversity of views, with a decent proportion willing to acknowledge that "China has taken a number of steps to improve Hong Kong's economy."

>But cultural tensions remain high-pitched, with Cantonese Hong Kongers fearing that Mandarin and mainland Chinese will overwhelm their language, culture, and political autonomy.

>A large segment of the Hong Kong population does focus on political issues, says Bush. And some pro-democracy parties have proven just as uncooperative as Beijing when it comes to seeking compromise. "The more radical wing seems to be in a dominant position," he says, "so even if a reasonable compromise [with Beijing] were to emerge, it's not clear that more moderate members would feel able to vote according to their conscience."
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>Yet there is an onus on Beijing, as well, to engage more constructively with the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong. That, says Bush, is a "necessary condition" for an outcome palatable to all.

>"At the moment, both sides have proved very poor at communicating with each other," says Brown. "Beijing needs to communicate better with the people of Hong Kong. And the opposition parties in Hong Kong need to be more pragmatic, more coherent, and have a clearer sense of what they are striving for and how to get there."

>But first, Cantonese Pokémon fans have to wrestle with saying "Goodbye, 'Bei-Ka-Ciu,'" and "Hello, 'Pi-Ka-Qiu.'"

>"Pikachu has been in Hong Kong for more than 20 years," protestor Sing Leung told The Telegraph. "It is not simply a game or comic book, it is the collective memory of a generation."Yet there is an onus on Beijing, as well, to engage more constructively with the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong. That, says Bush, is a "necessary condition" for an outcome palatable to all.

>"At the moment, both sides have proved very poor at communicating with each other," says Brown. "Beijing needs to communicate better with the people of Hong Kong. And the opposition parties in Hong Kong need to be more pragmatic, more coherent, and have a clearer sense of what they are striving for and how to get there."

>But first, Cantonese Pokémon fans have to wrestle with saying "Goodbye, 'Bei-Ka-Ciu,'" and "Hello, 'Pi-Ka-Qiu.'"

>"Pikachu has been in Hong Kong for more than 20 years," protestor Sing Leung told The Telegraph. "It is not simply a game or comic book, it is the collective memory of a generation."

Other coverage:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/31/in-hong-kong-protest-over-pokemon-name-change-reflects-fear-of-chinese-encroachment/

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/pokemon-sparks-protests-hong-kong-article-1.2656333

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gjXIjmTIU

>thread theme

All violent crime is a hate crime.

PIGS are the most disgusting class traitors imaginable
Look at this bullshit