Haji 2003

I assume you can read Arabic? Lots of cases of people getting tattoos in exotic languages and not realising that instead of inking 313 the artist does 'son of Saddam' or some such instead.

OK, well this came as news to me. The NYTimes is behind a paywall. But if you hit reader view (on a Mac) you can see the whole article. There's likely a PC equivalent. Not sure about the Islamic ethics of this however, so use with caution.

There seems to be a resolution. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/21/church-buys-golders-green-hippodrome-after-mosque-plan-blocked

The following video shows you where the OP can take you. It's a sad, funny and frightening conclusion. People should watch all of the video. This is not a parody. These anti-vaxxers are serving legal notices on a UK hospital. If you are patient enough to watch beyond 50 seconds you'll hear a reference to the Pope controlling all businesses ...

https://www.cnews.fr/france/2021-10-20/la-viande-halal-imposee-dans-une-cafeteria-de-sciences-po-grenoble-1140462 Translates as: In a press release published on Tuesday, October 19, the student association UNI was outraged that a cafeteria set up in the premises of Sciences Po Grenoble has now announced that it is now only selling 100% halal products. Sciences Po is an elite French university.

Tide theft is a thing https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/thieves-rolling-tide-detergent-out-of-stores-across-u-s/

For precisely that reason anyone who has a system running is unlikely to want to broadcast it in public. The following type of system is well-known, the issue is finding someone who's willing to do it with you: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp The link above has a detailed explanation as to how the system works. No matter how stringent sanctions are, it would be impossible to break hawala networks, in my opinion.

You can see why Britain is in trouble, based on the comments to the above article and the how people are liking and disliking comments. So the comment about the benefits of natural immunity gets 1048 likes, whereas the obvious counter-argument that you can get seriously ill by acquiring immunity naturally only gets 7 likes. This article is very dangerous - since it downplays the above point. And yes the vaccines have side effects, but they are way less dangerous than getting the disease.

^ so what's the take away? Do you get vaccinated or don't you? Yes you do. Do you get a booster or don't you? Yes you do. Do you help big Pharma boost their profits? Yes you do. Just the same way as you boost the profits of big banks, big auto, bid edu and so on.

Pornography for conspiracy theorists.

Some comments from Financial Times readers:

UK's Office National Statistics releases popular baby names over the last year Muhammad outside the top 10, but if you include variant spellings, it goes up much higher.

Very useful twitter thread. Argument is that: UK doing worse than rest of Europe due to larger indoor crowds and less mask wearing. Scotland worse than England due to more indoor crowds UK population had double jabs earlier than Europe and efficacy is now wearing down - more booster shots needed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/17/revealed-how-uk-spies-incited-mass-of-indonesias-communists

No one is perfect. For any individual that you follow on Twitter that app also allows you to see which of the other people you follow also follow them (if that reads correctly). I can see that a good number of the sensible scientists that I follow also follow him. These are people in senior positions at various credible institutions and also people who are quite able and willing to speak out against the UK government. I did check the profiles of some anti-vax nutjobs that I follow on twitter and no the sensible scientists don't follow them.