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[BeBMan]

Peru: Police conduct drugs raid dressed as Santa Claus and elf

A police drugs-squad in Peru have raided a house dressed as Santa Claus and an elf, detaining a suspected drug dealer.

A police spokesman said the man was accused of selling drugs outside his house, near a school.

Officers, wearing flak jackets under their costumes, arrived in an undercover van before breaking into the house where they discovered a bag that appeared to contain drugs, balaclavas and a gun.

The country's police have used disguises during raids for some time and say the method is an effective tactic.

They have been known to dress up as homeless people and street sweepers in the past.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-la...erica-55327903

Next yr they'll confuse them criminals by dressing up as police

[BeBMan]

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers


More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer's mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969.

Dubbed the "340 cipher," the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers -- David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician.

Decoding the cipher revealed the following message. It was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and included the misspelling of paradise:


"I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me

That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me

I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner

Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death

I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death."


The TV show the message refers to is "The Jim Dunbar Show," a Bay Area television talk show. The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.

(snipsnap)

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/11/u...rnd/index.html

I love how he wrote "paradice". If there had been an intarweb back then he may have dropped his msg as a poast.

[pchang]

Russia is clearly not worried about a nuclear attack.

[Ted Striker]

Bruh this is the "in other news" thread. Take that junk to one of the other 9,000 political threads

[Dinner]

Imagine that. Meth mouth likely broke laws.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-investigtation/index.html

[Meticulous Man]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2299641002

mystere et suspens

[BeBMan]

The Iranian nuke guy was apparently killed by Skynet

A satellite-controlled machine-gun with "artificial intelligence" was used to kill Iran's top nuclear scientist, a Revolutionary Guards commander says.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was shot dead in a convoy outside Tehran on 27 November.

Brig-Gen Ali Fadavi told local media that the weapon, mounted in a pick-up truck, was able to fire at Fakhrizadeh without hitting his wife beside him. The claim could not be verified.

Iran has blamed Israel and an exiled opposition group for the attack.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility.

(...)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55214359

[BlackCat]

Maybe this could be used in a James Bond movie

[Broken_Erika]

Daca: Judge orders Trump to restore undocumented immigrants scheme


A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate a scheme that protects immigrants brought to the country illegally as children from being deported.

The administration had moved to close the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme to new applicants earlier this year.

But District Judge Nicholas Garaufis on Friday ruled against the restrictions.

He told the administration to announce the full resumption of Daca by Monday.

The Daca programme was introduced by former Democratic President Barack Obama in 2012.

He set it up to help some of the more than 10 million immigrants who as young people entered the US illegally or overstayed a visa.

• Trump: 'I have great love' for Daca Dreamers
• 'Daca means continuing to live the American dream'

Most of the children protected by the Daca programme are from Mexico and other Latin American countries. These migrants are known as "Dreamers".

The scheme protected an estimated 700,000 people, offering temporary permits for work and study.

But as part of his efforts to curb immigration, US President Donald Trump sought to end the programme in 2017, calling it unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court took up the case after lower courts ruled the administration did not adequately explain why it was ending the programme, criticising the White House's "capricious" explanations.

In June this year, the Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings that found Mr Trump's move to rescind Daca was "unlawful".

Despite this ruling, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf issued a memo to limit the programme to those who were already enrolled.

Now Judge Garaufis of the US District Court in Brooklyn has ruled that Mr Wolf was not acting within his legal authority and that the scheme should resume.


The Center for American Progress, a think tank, said more than 300,000 new applicants could now be eligible for Daca.

"This is a really big day for Daca recipients and immigrant young people," Karen Tumlin, director of the Justice Action Center, told AFP news agency.

Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has said he plans to revitalise Daca.

His campaign said he will try to legislate to give a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the US, although such a move would need to be approved by Congress.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55200208

[Proteus_MST]

Ale also can help with the growth of your boobs

https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/central-ingredient-in-beer-makes-your-breasts-bigger/

[N35t0r]

TBF, some english ales are more nourishing than a couple fast food menus...

[Ming]

Pub landlord renames ale in cheeky bid to get around new Covid restrictions

A pub landlord has jokingly renamed an ale 'Substantial Meal' in a cheeky bid to get around new Covid-19 restrictions.
Brett Mendoza, 40, who owns the Caxton Arms in Brighton, East Sussex, came up with the idea while discussing what constitutes a substantial meal with another landlord after the latest measures were announced last week.
An image of the spoof beer pump clip, which is from the 'made up brewery' and described as 'hearty, filling and flavoursome', was posted to social media last Wednesday, captioned: 'Bring on Tier 2'.
It comes ahead of Brighton and Hove being placed under Tier 2 restrictions tomorrow, meaning diners in England are not allowed to linger or order more booze after their food is finished.
Tier 2 pubs can only serve alcohol if bought with a 'substantial meal', leaving drink-led pubs weighing up whether it was even commercially viable to trade.

[BeBMan]

Ppl who are gaming religiously use both GoG and MaGoG. /silly

[Broken_Erika]

Steam is evil. EVIL!
GoG is vastly superior.

[pchang]

He’s just cheesed he never got the last chapter of Half Life.