Kuwait arrests man for complaining about the weather

 

Police in Kuwait have arrested a resident - an Egyptian man - for posting a video online in which he rants about bad weather and dust storms, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

Kuwait's Ministry of Interior said Sunday the person behind the “offensive” video was arrested and referred to authorities, which would “take the necessary legal action against him.”

In a dashboard camera video posted on the social media app TikTok, the man can be heard complaining about the blinding sandstorm that has engulfed Kuwait for the past few days.

“I'm inside a dust storm right now, I literally can't see anything in front of me,” the man is heard saying, showing the dust coating the highway like a thick fog.

“Fine, Kuwait, fine,” he adds, with an expletive in Arabic. The clip went viral on Twitter, racking up tens of thousands of views.

The arrest of the man underscored the country's restrictions on expression and drew criticism on social media Monday over his detention, according to AP.

Kuwait stands out for its outspoken parliament and relatively vibrant civic life but authorities routinely use the cybercrime law to police criticism and prosecute dissidents.

In 2016, a Kuwait University professor was charged with "blasphemy" after stating that the Kuwaiti constitution holds legal dominance over the Koran.

In 2013, individuals in Kuwait were accused of offending the emir, with a former MP being handed a jail term for insulting the Gulf state's ruler.

Meet the beloved ‘Bitcoin Rabbi’ of Twitter

 

Many of Twitter’s cryptocurrency zealots are often notorious trolls, but one particular thought leader stands out from the rest. He happens to be a rabbi.

“Twitter people either use it to scream at each other and not be nice, which I don’t like,” says micro-influencer Rabbi Michael Caras, also known as @thebitcoinrabbi. ”I enjoy connecting with my two communities through Twitter, both Jewish Twitter and Bitcoin Twitter.”

Caras, a rabbi associated with the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, is fascinated by the way that Bitcoin, both the network and the asset, relates to halacha (Jewish law). And since he’s quite vocal about it online, Caras says that strangers slide into his Twitter messages each week to ask for advice and spiritual guidance on the topic.

Before serving as a public bridge between the two worlds, he studied at Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim in Israel and now teaches both Judaism and technology classes at Maimonides Hebrew Day School in New York. Caras has been interested in Bitcoin since 2017, and in 2019 he published a children’s book about it that has sold more than 10,000 copies. 

The book, a secular introduction to basic economics for kids, tells a tale of children learning about how to use Bitcoin as money by running a lemonade stand in a town called Bitville. 

NYC mayoral primary race thrown into chaos

 

The Democratic primary race for mayor was thrown into chaos Tuesday as the city Board of Elections appeared to have botched the count amid the city’s first ranked-choice election — adding 135,000 pre-election “test” ballots that hadn’t been cleared from a computer.

According to a BOE statement Tuesday night, “it has determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the Election Management System . . .

“The Board apologizes for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up to date results are reported.”

Preliminary results released earlier in the day showed a total of 941,832 ballots cast for mayor, an increase of more than 140,000 from the 799,827 that were counted on June 22, the day of the primary.

The glaring discrepancy at first went unnoticed until it was flagged by front-runner Eric Adams.

“The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,” an Adams spokesman said.

California Bans Its State Employees From Traveling to Florida .....

I'm sure Floridians are shaking in their boots....  

Florida will never recover https://t.co/uUEbZJqbWT

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Are you old enough to remember this New York Times Headline in 1995 ?

 

So how did that go down? 

The New York Times predicted in Sept 18, 1995 that most beaches on the East Coast, like New York would be gone.

The photo below shows the Coney Island beach on June 8, 2021

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Man accused of threatening to blow up McDonald’s over missing dipping sauce

 

I'm glad he doesn't dine in Kosher Restaurants ...when did you guys ever get a take out order that wasn't missing anything ?

An Iowa man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening to blow up a McDonald’s because workers forgot to add dipping sauce to his order, a report said.

Robert Golwitzer Jr., 42, is accused of calling in the explosive threat early Saturday night after he ordered chicken McNuggets from the fast-foot restaurant in Ankeny, police told WHO 13.

In addition to the bomb threat, Golwitzer also allegedly said over the phone that he would punch a worker, the report said.

Police called up Golwitzer and he allegedly admitted over the phone — and later at the precinct — to making the threats.

He is charged with false report of explosive or incendiary device.

Golwitzer was jailed Saturday and was out on bond by Sunday.

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IDF Uses tech that makes soldiers virtually 'invisible' to the human eye

 

Israel's Polaris Solutions, a survival product manufacturer, has unveiled a redesigned camouflage net that claims to make soldiers virtually 'undetectable.'

Developed in partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Kit 300 sheet is made of thermal visual concealment (TVC) material that combines microfibers, metals and polymers to make soldiers harder to see with the human eye and thermal cameras.

The sheet weighs just 1.1 pounds, allowing soldiers to easily roll it up and carry it while trekking through dangerous war zones.

Soldiers wrap it around themselves when on the move and join their sheets together to build a barrier that resembles rock when they set up a position.

'Someone staring at them with binoculars from afar will not see soldiers,' Gal Harari, the head of the detectors and imaging technology branch of the MoD's research and development unit, said in a statement.

The Kit 300 aims to reinvent the traditional camouflage gear that has gone nearly unchanged.

Camouflage nets haven't changed too much in the past 50 years,' Yonatan Pinkas, director of marketing at Polaris Solutions, told The Media Line. 'We wanted to bring in a new type of material,' he added. 'So TVC was born.'

The Kit 300 is double sided, each with its own colorization to blend into the battlefield.

One side is to be used when in dense vegetation and the other is designed for more desert-like areas.

However, the company will customize patterns and coloring based on need.

The Kit 300 is also waterproof and can provide military personnel with shelter. that can stand like a small tent. 

Although the material is lightweight, it is sturdy enough to mold into three-dimensional shapes and can be used as a stretcher to carry wounded soldiers.   

Pinkas told The Media Line Kit 300 is capable of carrying up to 500 pounds, can be used as a splint and a hypothermia blanket.

The inspiration for Kit 200 came during the Second Lebanon War in 2016, while Picciotto was in a special Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit.

He saw a desperate need for better ground cover for soldiers, who were exposed to thermal cameras and night-vision equipment.

'You have to be better than the enemy and we understood that there were big gaps in the survivability part,' Picciotto recalled. 

'Our product is being tested by several units, which I can't name, and we have some joint operations there.'

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Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines may provide LIFETIME protection against the virus, study finds

 

Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines may provide lifetime protection against COVID-19, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that people who received either of the two-dose shots, which use new messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, had strong and 'persistent' immune responses.

What's more, the vaccines produced high levels of neutralizing antibodies against two variants of the virus.

This could mean that Pfizer and Moderna recipients could have long-lasting immunity - for years or potentially the rest of their lives - and may not even need boosters, reported first by The New York Times.

'It's a good sign for how durable our immunity is from this vaccine,' lead author Dr Ali Ellebedy, an immunologist at Washington University in St Louis told the newspaper

For the study, published on Monday in the journal Nature, the team recruited 14 people who received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Among them, eight people had previously has been infected with COVID-19.

Researchers looked at lymph nodes, which produce a type of immune system cell known as a memory B cell.

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Trump Will Not Be Charged In DA Indictment

 Donald Trump won't be personally charged in the Manhattan district attorney's case against the former president's business organization when the first indictment comes down, his attorney claimed. 

Trump, in a lengthy and rambling statement issued on Monday, called the DA's investigation 'a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time' and claimed prosecutors 'failed' to find a crime even as 'millions of dollars of taxpayer funds wasted.' 

His words came as an indictment against the business that made his fame and fortune, The Trump Organization, grows closer.  

Ronald Fischetti, a New York attorney who represents Trump, told Politico that, at a meeting with Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance on Monday, he was told the DA's office will not bring charges against Trump himself when the first indictment arrives, which could be as soon as this week.

'They just said, 'When this indictment comes down, he won't be charged. Our investigation is ongoing,' he said.

Trump railed against the prosecution in his response. 

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Who Elects these Dummies?

 

Democrat Rep. Cori Bush will introduce a bill to replace police officers with "community-led first responders" as crime surges across the nation. https://t.co/1EHSSuA1P7

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 28, 2021

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