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       Re: EU
   DIR By: BedBugs
       Date: October 3, 2023, 1:00 pm
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       France: Bedbugs send shivers through Paris | DW News
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       > A widespread bedbug outbreak has caused an alarming situation
       in Paris. The French authorities vowed to act as blood-sucking
       insects infested Paris, which is preparing to host next year's
       summer Olympics.
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HVR3v8Ypk
       In Paris, bed bugs appear to be everywhere!
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       > A bed bug outbreak is taking over Paris less than a year
       before the kickoff of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPPG9LNcOWE
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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 24, 2024, 1:56 pm
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  HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/2024-paris-olympics-where-are-the-russians-085705992.html
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       > For the fourth consecutive Olympics — two summer, two winter —
       Russia is officially banned from participation by the
       International Olympic Committee. It’s just this time, the
       penalty has actual teeth.
       >
       > Just 15 Russian athletes — none of them artistic gymnasts —
       are expected to compete in these Games, a precipitous drop from
       the 335 in Tokyo.
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       Still 15 too many, but a great improvement nonetheless.
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       > The IOC has sanctioned Russia since 2018 for operating a
       sophisticated state-run doping operation during the 2014 Winter
       Games in Sochi. However, Russian athletes were able to compete
       under ostensibly the same circumstances — the “Russian Olympic
       Committee,” for example, in Tokyo.
       >
       > It was a distinction with little difference. In Tokyo, the
       “ROC” won 71 medals, including 20 golds. It was good enough for
       the third-most total medals and fifth-most golds.
       >
       > In response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, however, the
       IOC required Russian and Belarusian athletes to apply to compete
       not for any national organization, but as so-called “Individual
       Neutral Athletes.” Just 16 Belarusians are expected at the
       Games.
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       Now we have a precedent. Next, why not apply the same principle
       to Israel?
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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 26, 2024, 4:16 pm
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       It's OK for swimmers to be "white":
  HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/team-usa-swimmers-reveal-one-162630082.html
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       > Water levels in the La Défense Arena may be rising slightly
       higher over the coming weeks as several Olympians made this
       stark admission: they always pee in the pool.
       >
       > The athletes gave several excuses as to why they elect to do
       their business underwater rather than hop out to the bathroom
       when nature calls.
       >
       > Zach Harting, who competed for the US at the Tokyo Olympics,
       told the Wall Street Journal that it was the tightness of his
       polyester bottoms that first made him turn to the aqua loo.
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  HTML https://themadisonrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Zach-Harting-Olympian-2.jpg
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       > Another Tokyo Olympian Jack Mitchell attributed it to drinking
       so much fluids – and what goes in, must come out.
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       [img width=1280
       height=1280]
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       > “It sounds so gross to outsiders, but because there is so much
       chlorine you don’t even think about it,” two-time Olympian Katie
       Hoff told the outlet.
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       > While two-time Olympic gold medalist Lilly King says she pees
       in “every single pool I’ve swam in”. “That’s just how it goes,”
       she added.
       >
       > King also revealed she has something of a special gift. “I can
       actually pee as I’m swimming,” she said of her multitasking
       abilities.
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       Bonus picture:
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       #Post#: 27196--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 27, 2024, 6:04 pm
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       What I was saying earlier:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/palestine-makes-statement-paris-olympic-221500643.html
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       > crowds in Paris' public viewing spaces booed Israel's Olympic
       delegation as it took its spot in the Olympic parade spotlight.
       >
       > Protesters unfurled banners and hung posters around the city,
       calling for Israel's exclusion from the games. One poster,
       featuring the image of an Olympic podium covered in blood,
       bombs, and the Israeli flag, read: "When it comes to killing for
       sport, there's no competition."
       >
       > Many activists have called for a boycott of the 33rd Olympic
       games following its inclusion of Israel's team. And there's
       precedent for IOC action that admonishes the actions of
       countries: Russian athletes, banned from competing as a national
       team in the 2024 games, were screened for public, pro-military
       stances following the country's invasion of Ukraine.
       --- End Quote ---
       [img]
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       Meanwhile, rightists complain not about the inclusion of Israel
       in the games, but about the inclusion of drag performers in the
       opening ceremony:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-calls-195411252.html
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       > Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker Calls Drag Queen Performance at
       Paris Olympics ‘Crazy’
       > ...
       > The NFL player's commentary on the Paris Olympics moment comes
       two months after he made headlines for the controversial remarks
       he made during his graduation speech at Benedictine College in
       May.
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       Previous Butker coverage:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-and-sexism/msg26556/#msg26556
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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 28, 2024, 6:24 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBEMEHhXDtg
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       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: acc9
       Date: July 28, 2024, 11:25 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q20V7wzjQLw
       Congratulations to Hong Kong fencing queen Vivian Kong on her
       Olympic 2024 gold medal in epee fencing! An adorable young lady
       loved by many in Hong Kong, I'm quite thrilled to know that
       she's actually also a veggie Buddhist meditation practitioner as
       revealed in this interview three years ago in which she talks
       about how the veggie diet and meditative practice do contribute
       to strengthening her in body and mind.
       #Post#: 27227--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 29, 2024, 5:38 pm
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       The rightist narrative that the opening ceremony was parodying
       the Last Supper:
  HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2024/07/last-supper-tableau-at-olympics-inclusive-opening-ceremony-draw-criticism/
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       > prominent far-right politician Marion Maréchal denounced the
       performance on social media.
       >
       > “To all the Christians of the world who are watching the Paris
       2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the
       Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a
       left-wing minority ready for any provocation,” she posted on the
       social platform X, a sentiment that was echoed by religious
       conservatives internationally.
       --- End Quote ---
       is so ignorant that even their own more educated commenters are
       debunking it:
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       > The depiction was of The Feast of the Gods, of which many
       paintings were made from the 17th century on as the Ancient
       Greek and Romantic Revival unfolded after the Renaissance. The
       drag queen with the halo/crown is Helios, the Greek Sun God,
       whose daughter was Sequana, the goddess of the River Seine. All
       this skit in bad taste proved is how Christians love being
       triggered as well as their ignorance of European culture that
       used to be mainstream knowledge even among Americans before WW2,
       at least.
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       > The blue figure is Dionysus, the god of revelry, fertility,
       and festivity. His daughter was Sequana, the goddess of the
       River Seine, which flows through Paris (do I have to tell you
       where that cities' name comes from?). The cultural ignorance of
       those who would save Western Civilization and Culture is
       staggering.
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       #Post#: 27250--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 31, 2024, 5:58 pm
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  HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13688623/Amy-Wilson-Hardy-withdraws-medical-grounds-investigate-Team-GB-rugby-sevens-racist-message.html
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       > Team GB rugby sevens player Amy Wilson-Hardy has withdrawn
       from the Olympic Games amid an investigation into an alleged
       racist message.
       > ...
       > there is a picture of the 32-year-old, who looks like she is
       wearing a dark-coloured facemask.
       >
       > The third party writes underneath: ‘genuine chocolate face’,
       which prompts the response: ‘Thought I’d have a better chance
       with the blacks’.
       --- End Quote ---
       Wilson-Hardy also looks like what we would expect:
  HTML https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/29/21/87910063-13675837-Wilson_Hardy_who_made_her_England_debut_in_2013_-a-7_1722286406853.jpg
       #Post#: 27271--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 2, 2024, 7:23 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfdXZKeNrN8
       For the record:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Paul
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       > He claims Irish, Welsh, Jewish, French and German
       ancestry.[17][18]
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  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Paul
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       > Paul has Irish, Welsh, Jewish, French and German
       ancestry.[148][149]
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       Full match:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHCYCmF4wXs
       Woke comments:
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       > A white girl cried foul that a non-white girl beat her
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       > She's a cop, she's probably not used to fighting without
       weapons against anyone who can fight back.
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       > That Italian girl made up her mind not to fight from the
       start.She was just there to cause controversy.
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       > Looks like she tried to quit right before but her coach told
       her to at least get punched one time so they could say they have
       never felt that type of power.
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       > I feel bad for Khelif. She's being dragged thru mud because a
       weak boxer couldn't take some heat.
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       #Post#: 27278--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Olympics
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 2, 2024, 9:41 pm
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       Guess who started it:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QxpioMU5xM
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/duginism/
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