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@EdwardMC222 @ZiXia85915 Yes, striking appearance. I wonder which part of China she is from.

@ZiXia85915 她真是令人难以置信，艺术的公主，拥有令人心醉的迷人微笑。

This Chinese female guardian of intangible heritage preserves ancient art, turning simple sheets into masterpieces. Watch till the end—her final piece is truly amazing. That's the power of women keeping traditions alive! #PaperCutting #IntangibleHeritage #ChineseCulture

@udlane @deangarber @Jeremybtc @grok He's got a Wikipedia page. Doesn't look like it.

@deangarber @Jeremybtc @grok Is Abagdale a Jew?

A man invented a $2.5 MILLION crime spree, sold it to Hollywood and charged $30,000 per speech to explain how he did it. It was all lies. > Frank Abagnale claimed he spent 5 years as a teenage fugitive. > Impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a Harvard trained doctor and a Louisiana attorney general while forging $2.5 MILLION in bad checks across 26 countries. > Steven Spielberg turned it into a 2002 blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. > It became one of the highest grossing films of that year. > Broadway turned it into a musical. > The FBI hired him as a consultant. > AARP named him their official Fraud Watch Ambassador. > He charged between $20,000 and $30,000 per speaking engagement for decades telling audiences how he pulled it all off. > For 40 years nobody seriously questioned any of it. > Then in 2020 a journalist named Alan Logan spent three years pulling every public record prison document newspaper archive and court file he could find. > Pan Am's own security department told a journalist as early as 1978 "This never happened. You don't forget $2.5 MILLION in bad checks." > Prison records showed Abagnale was behind bars for most of the years he claimed to be a fugitive. > The Georgia hospital had no record of him. > The Louisiana attorney general's office had no record of him. > His only confirmed crime was check fraud totalling less than $1,500. > Logan's conclusion the entire story was not embellished but fabricated. > Abagnale had not committed the con by impersonating pilots and doctors. > He committed it by convincing Hollywood, the FBI and the entire world that he had. The most valuable skill Frank Abagnale ever had was the ability to make people so entertained by a story that they forgot to verify it. That skill made him MILLIONS legally.

🇸🇪🔴Sweden just released tough new rules to obtain citizenship — a major reversal of the country's history of open borders. 🔴Foreigners must now reside in Sweden for 8 years instead of 5. 🗣️They must speak Swedish. 💶They must be able to support themselves without unemployment benefits or subsidized employment. ✅They must fit in with Swedish culture, including an "honest and orderly lifestyle." These rules take effect on June 6, says Migration Minister Johan Forssell.

The Daily Worker, New York, May 4, 1927

Paris is no longer the City of Romance. It is the city of North African men dragging young women into toilets and raping them. Late on Saturday night, a young woman was walking in the 18th district of Paris after having a few drinks with friends. She was unaware that she was being stalked by a man until he grabbed her and pushed her into the public toilets. A police patrol had been watching him follow her. When they got to the toilets they found him with his trousers pulled down committing a sexual assault. The man was from Morocco. It is unknown if he was legally in France or not.

@TomHulme79 @richmondie Indeed. This is modern curatorship. Galleries & museums would ideally like to lecture visitors about oppression & intersectionality & say nothing at all about the exhibits.

@richmondie It’s real. theguardian.com/culture/2024/m…

I’m utterly baffled by every word of this. What makes European countries especially imaginary? What makes their royalty so particularly fictitious? How has colonialism hurt so many people if empires only exist inside people’s heads? And what has any of this got to do with crabs?

@DaveKent101 The UK is small, weak & poor. It needs to pull back, give up useless foreign bases & concentrate our armed force in the British Isles, defending our borders & defending the British people. Since we are NOT under threat of invasion this would be enough.

So the frigate HMS Iron Duke is to be retired after a £105 million refit because there is no money left to keep her going. Absolutely pathetic. Leaves the navy with 5 frigates only... Labour and the Tories have criminally weakened our defences.😡

This country is an actual joke lol

@theXman_2 @captive_dreamer Please don't ask reasonable questions.

@captive_dreamer What point are you making here? Is. Candace Owens a 'leftist'?

Man I wonder who was boosting people like Candace Owens and Ian Carroll. It's a huge mystery. (Oh, it was you.)

@danielaconte Nuts. Almost as if they're trying to brainwash the visitors. If you like this sort of thing have a look at the London Postal Museum, Phoenix Pl, London WC1X 0DA. They have a big section on slavery for some unknown reason, claiming White Europeans invented it.

At least I learned that crabs are terfs.

It's not just Hamas who radicalise their children.

@JohnSmi50037377 @MorgothsReview I'm sure the OP will reply but that it is how the post reads to me. It's the issue of finding the best route through gradualist electoral politics. Leftists (Trotsky) described something similar as "transitional demands". Farage's statement will be v popular.

@MorgothsReview Are you saying that you're with farage on this one?

It cannot be a thing that Becky from Barnsley who votes Reform is expected to endure asylum seekers so some libtard Green voter is protected from their own stupidity If a remote island is an option then fine, but you can’t backstab the only sane people in the country.

Starmer flew to Armenia days before a local election-and committed £2 billion of our money to an EU scheme with zero mandate. He stood in front of European leaders in Armenia and admitted the UK economy is worse than forecast. Then committed Britain to a £2 billion EU loan scheme - no vote, no debate, no mandate. He didn't say it would hurt families. He said it would play out with the electorate. Not people. The electorate. Days before local elections, a politically wounded Prime Minister is making generational financial commitments on our behalf. The entry fee alone Is £2 billion. Total interest across the scheme could hit £17 billion. 🤬

@Glinner British people have nothing to gain from either of these babblers. "Fake" economists & "real" economists aren't useful labels. UK financial institutions obviously don't benefit the nation & aren't intended. Investment needs to be directed by the State.

What happens when a vibes economist meets the real thing.

@KieraDiss Sorry. local.gov.uk/publications/g…

@KieraDiss The disqualification criteria are here.

"...imaginary European countries led by fictitious royal families..." thus spoke the Crab Museum. Who wrote this?

Forget Blacks, Muslims, Jews, Aboriginals, Chinese: The liberal woke/capitalist dynamic has added what may possibly be the most nationalistic, aggressive, nepotistic, ethnocentric, and soon-to-be powerful immigrant group ever: Indians.

But GB News, Daily Mail, Hartley-Brewer, Adam Brooks, Alison Pearson etc will say Hermer is a 'leftie' and that's his ideology. Why don't they say what he actually says?

Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise. 👉Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel declassifieduk.org/minister-misle…