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A German expert has said the aquarium that exploded in Berlin’s Radisson Blu hotel was a ‘ticking time bomb’ and the accident should have been predicted.
Hermann Schuranm, former owner of Schuran Seawater Equipment, said it does not surprise him that the tank shattered on December 16.
The rupture created a tsunami in the hotel lobby at 5.50am and killed 1,500 fish but miraculously it did not seriously hurt any guests.
The shoebox-shaped device, designed to capture fingerprints and perform iris scans, was listed on eBay for $149.95. A German security researcher, Matthias Marx, successfully offered $68, and when it arrived at his home in Hamburg in August, the rugged, hand-held machine contained more than what was promised in the listing.
The device’s memory card held the names, nationalities, photographs, fingerprints and iris scans of 2,632 people.
A spur-of-the-moment decision by academic staff to take down a 1970s painting depicting male Leiden University board members smoking cigars has sparked a debate in the Netherlands over cancel culture.
The artwork on the wall of a university meeting room had been a topic of discussion for years, with some students claiming that it both endorsed patriarchy and the act of smoking.
Nostradamus predictions for 2023: An antichrist arrives, World War III and the monarchy dies
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to talk doomsday forecasts, my babies, and no one grips us with grim quite like Nostradamus.
Nostradamus, Nos if you’re nasty, was a 16th-century astrologer, plague doctor, accused heretic and bearded seer that has been credited with foretelling the Great Fire of London, Hitler’s rise to power, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic, to name a few.
Sometimes on the money but more often than not muddily missing the mark, our man’s prophecies lean towards conflagration and catastrophe.
Why would a teacher need to “protect” a 12-year-old from their parents? This is groomer talk. pic.twitter.com/pzvQVjqmmr
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 27, 2022
U.S. Representative-elect George Santos (R-NY), who recently described himself as the third Jewish Republican in the House, admitted Monday that he had faked his Jewish identity in addition to other claims about himself.
Grabien dropped a concerning video from Admiral Rachel Levine, the chief U.S. public health official on Monday. The video is of Levine, in May, speaking virtually at an event of the Federation of State Medical Boards. But it didn’t get a lot of attention at the time and in light of what we are seeing from things like the Twitter files about censorship and big tech now, it reveals another important piece about government pressure on tech companies as well as the effort to influence even state medical boards and schools.
‘It is my time of the month. I’m experiencing PMS. I’m eating a lot of chocolate, and feeling bloated, and cranky, and crying.’ pic.twitter.com/aEuskINz7s
— TroonyToons (@troonytoons) December 24, 2022
The #WomanFace hashtag is great fun.
… This video was filmed at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Brookfield WI, and features 3 White women playing Anti-Racist Jeopardy with a White man in the role of quizmaster. I love it because it features white people performing a kind of self-abasement that serves no purpose other than to elevate themselves above the hoi polloi.
Reliance on hi-tech solutions to climate crisis perpetuates racism, says UN official
The world’s reliance on hi-tech capitalist solutions to the climate and ecological crises is perpetuating racism, the outgoing UN racism rapporteur has warned.
Green solutions including electric cars, renewable energy and the rewilding of vast tracts of land are being implemented at the expense of racially and ethnically marginalised groups and Indigenous peoples, Tendayi Achiume told the Guardian in an interview.
In a last intervention before the end of her tenure, Achiume said meaningful solutions to the ecological crisis were not possible without tackling racism. But in a bleak assessment of the prospects for the future of humanity, she admitted it was “difficult to imagine” how that message could be made to resonate with people holding power.
Julie Laurin pays $161 per month for her home internet service.
She lives in Bonshaw, P.E.I., a rural community just 30 minutes outside of Charlottetown.
To have high-speed internet at her home, Laurin relies on the only company she found that provides reliable service in her area: Starlink, a United States-based satellite internet provider operated by SpaceX.
A renowned New York City Catholic priest was revealed to have had a secret son who he raised while amassing a $7million fortune.
Reverend Louis R. Gigante, well-known for both for his civic work and for being the brother of mob boss Vincent ‘The Chin’ Gigante, led a double life where took a vow of celibacy but also returned home each night to live with the son he fathered in 1990.
Gigante lived with the son, Luigino, and the boy’s mother in a the leafy New York City suburb of West Chester, and commuted into the city where he was a priest at the St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church in the Bronx.
Graphic photos and videos showing the bodies of stray dogs killed by the Turkish authorities and dumped into public landfills have been circulating online since November 24, 2022. Animal rights organisations have reported that city officials are responsible for this cruelty.
The mistreatment of stray dogs may be illegal in Turkey, but it is sadly common in this country estimated to have a population of stray dogs that numbers more than 10 million.
Buffalo has been plunged into chaos as brazen looters wreak havoc on storefronts amid a historic blizzard that dumped six feet of snow on the northern New York city.
It has become the deadliest storm to hit the western part of the state in 50 years, with at least 27 people reported dead as scores of others remain trapped in their houses and cars.
Roads in the city remain impassable under several feet of heavy snow, as first responders struggle to reach those who remain trapped days after the storm hit.
🚨#BREAKING: Looting breaks out after a major blizzard hits
Watch as video shows dozens of people looting stores and shops after a major blizzard hit parts of Buffalo causing people to be stranded with no supplies people can be seen walking out with items pic.twitter.com/tE0D9ssSFO
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 26, 2022
#Buffalo #buffaloblizzard #BuffaloNY #looting @GovKathyHochul #NewYork
Why isn't the looting throughout Buffalo a story? pic.twitter.com/pZzxYM9qDY— Blue Line Defense LLC (@BLDefense22) December 26, 2022
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried who is potentially facing 115 years in prison has been offered lockup survival tips from ‘Pharma Bro’ and ex-con Martin Shkreli.
In an interview with crypto journalist Laura Shin on her podcast, Unchained, Shkreli describes Bankman-Fried as ‘effeminate’ and worries for the embattled financier.
Shkreli, who drew widespread scorn for drastically hiking prices on his company’s drugs, was convicted of securities fraud in 2017 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
It doesn’t get any better than Martin Shkreli outlining prison survival advice for SBF lmao pic.twitter.com/ld2F8HxHrb
— Kenny Lay (Parody) (@EnronChairman) December 26, 2022
