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- What is seriously wrong with the cops?utopian
- Being in Texas while black.********
- He was a teenager. Delivery of trauma at a young age. Hero Copsjmckinno
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- WTFSimonFFM
- thanks for sharing Juliabrt44
- wowww lol. that correction.sarahfailin
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"Brandishing the pandemic as a pretext, authorities in some countries have taken tough security measures and emergency measures to suppress dissonant voices, abolish most fundamental freedoms, silence independent media and hamper the work of non-profit organizations. governmental, “regretted the UN chief in his annual speech to the Human Rights Council (CHR)."
- utopian1
More than 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar amid the nation's preparation to host the 2022 World Cup, The Guardian reports.
The report cites government data from the home nations of migrant workers, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The data have been compiled since Qatar was awarded the World Cup in 2010, working out to an average of 12 deaths per week, according to the report.
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Biden administration puts a price on carbon.
The results of his first environment executive orders are coming in.
- GuyFawkes6
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
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Bowl bought at yard sale for $35 is authentic rare Ming dynasty and actually worth $300-500k
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-u…
I always find these to be dick moves, hopefully the “antiques hunter” who bought it actually compensates old Agnes with a $100k or something.
- ya, these stories bug me too. A teacher I had at art school found a tom thompson painting at garage sale for $10Gnash
- He didn't compensate the people and I never looked at him the same way againGnash
- fyi - it wasn't one of his finished paintings, it was one of the 1000's of studies he painted on site. on a board that fit in his caseGnash
- https://www.gallery.…Gnash
- it was painted both sidesGnash
- nice find but yeah, it says a lot about a person's character._niko
- it all depends on if they can actually sell it for that amount. It's worth that, but who would buy it?jmckinno
- ^uhm most certainly other similar Ming pieces that sold for that kind of money?grafician
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Warning: This is a very sad and disturbing video. These are kids and they fall to their death. If that is content you don't want to see do not watch this video.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2…
“From this accident, seven have died and five are in a critical state, some of them stabilised” in hospitals in the city of El Alto, near La Paz, Health Minister Jayson Auza said.
Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo had earlier reported five deaths and three injuries related to the incident, but the total was revised after the Health Ministry reviewed the case details.The injured and deceased were between the ages of 20 and 24.
Del Castillo said he had ordered an investigation into the accident.
- Albeit tragic, how does this effect the common person?
If we try to absorb the bad news of the world, how can we deal day to day?ideaist - Are you Bolivian? How does this affect you beyond a human-to-human experience?
How does sharing it on QBN benefit anyone?ideaist - I will let the adults here make the decision to view a fatal design failure at their discretion.********
- God damnGuyFawkes
- Just like that.GuyFawkes
- Good ol south of the border construction.GuyFawkes
- Sad trombone********
- having spent time in bolivia, this is very tragic... but construction over there was very questionable.shapesalad
- Personally O thin this footage should be removed, those involved wouldn't want to see this. Just leave it for investigators to see.shapesalad
- Albeit tragic, how does this effect the common person?
- neverscared5
Anti-virus mogul John McAfee charged with fraud over crypto promotion
McAfee indicted in federal court over schemes that promoted cryptocurrency offerings on social media- Elon, take note.NBQ00
- ^Krassy
- ^^ I was thinking that, too.Continuity
- Sentenced to eating his own huevosfuturefood
- ^ lolKrassy
- Did he get a Free 30-Day trial?Gandalf
- I still can't get over the fact that he would sit under a hammock and let a girl shit on his face. Maybe he can find someone to do that for him in prison.dbloc
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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news…
Video of a robot dog patrolling the area of a SpaceX rocket's wreckage site has gone viral after viewers compared it to an eerily familiar scene in Black Mirror.
The four-legged mechanic dog, manufactured by Boston Dynamics, was named Zeus by workers at SpaceX.
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- this is old, not newshans_glib
- great news selection bluejam.sarahfailin
- Krassy3
- Garvey details how from 1979 to 1981 he lived in an empty concession stand inside the Vet which he secretly refurbished into an apartment in his very ow...sted
- I'm not buying his storyutopian
- probably didnt get laid much if at all.********
- yeah right. not a single photo. Nothing to see here, move along. We have a con artist.dbloc
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