::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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This is the 1 out of 10 cases in which the missing child is found alive and well, thanks to the timely assistance from the public and the police.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/officials-look-missing-4-old-girl-south-carolina-160509851.html
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LeonardoDicaprio-lookalike murderer claims 'self-defense', he says that during sex with the woman victim, she viciously elbowed him away which angered him, and so he 'defended' himself, drawing his dagger and stabbing her multiple times until she died, purely self-defence leh.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/e8693fdc-5297-3725-8fb9-a4ea7f9e99bd/ss_murder-suspect-admits-he.html
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In terms of civilian deaths by gun violence, guess which country is ranked safest in the world?
http://www.scpr.org/news/2018/02/15/80811/deaths-from-gun-violence-how-the-us-compares-to-th/
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1 year old toddler girl beaten to death by gangster boyfriend of the mother, who did nothing to help.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mother-boyfriend-charged-walking-arkansas-004901632.html
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PR fiasco that was fully to be expected (given today's viral spreading on social media and internet) yet the China side foolishly didn't think it was worth giving a damn over.
China's CCTV Lunar New Year TV Gala Showcase 'Racist Blackface' African Sketch, which although wasn't intended to be racially offensive (watch the sketch for yourself), has already drawn offence from billions of people online (not just Africans or black people, but also social justice warriors from all races worldwide), because the China performance involved a Chinese woman in painted blackface (with fake fats padding the body, including exaggeratedly huge buttocks and breasts) pretending to be an African woman to declare ‘I love China’, while an actual African black person portrayed the woman's pet monkey.
The backlash against China (and unfortunately, all Chinese in general as well, eg. online hate messages against all Chinese people) will be far more severe than when Donald Trump described African countries as "shithole countries".
Personal comments : The performance is actually not almost as racist as it sounds, because dozens of actual African black people were performing in the play as well, and they do appear to be enjoying themselves, performing their African music & dance. The scriptwriters simply needed a veteran China actress in blackface as she was the main talent (and of course, fluent in Mandarin) for the play and thus given a major role as the African black mother. Furthermore, as some YouTubers pointed out to give a balanced perspective, it was the white people of America and Europe, and not China, who enslaved the African black people for centuries. And some high EQ African YouTubers pointed out, "Personally as an African black person, I don't find the play offensive."
https://mothership.sg/2018/02/china-blackface-spring-festival-gala-cctv/
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[Malaysia] - NameWee has just released a video statement, after some people accused his recent 2018 CNY Dog video of being allegedly anti-Islam and anti-Muslim. In his statement, NameWee laments his frustration and anger, saying that while he has always regarded himself as a patriotic Malaysian who routinely defends his Malay Muslim friends and Islam against hate messages from others online, yet time and time again (the latest being his 2018 CNY Dog video), he keeps getting accused of his videos being allegedly anti-Islam and anti-Muslim. While he recognizes that it's all about manipulative politics, ie. manipulative Malaysian politicians (eg. UMNO) whipping up the race card again (and again every year) to gain more votes, spreading fear-mongering lies such as, "If the evil Chinese win the elections, they will victimize us good Malay Muslims!", but NameWee says he's nonetheless getting increasingly tired, frustrated and angry at being a victim of manipulative politics and bearing the brunt of angry Malay Muslims accusing him of being anti-Islam. Watch the video for yourself, in which NameWee speaks only in Malay, with Chinese subtitles (no English subtitles or statement). Btw, next year 2019 is the year of the Pig.
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[Biological Evolution] - Octopus kena attack by a shark, uses both MMA (sticking it's tentacles into the shark's gills to suffocate it, machiam an on-the-ground BJJ choke) and even picks up nearby large seashells to form a body armor (see animated gif below) against the predator shark.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/blue-planet-ii-octopus-outsmarts-shark-221002525.html
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[Singapore] - American ang moh man sees Singaporean Muslims conducting their Friday prayers just next to Singaporean Chinese celebrating Chinese New Year, in peaceful harmony (ie. without racist taunts, threats of violence or rioting from either side), and praises Singapore for racial harmony and is ashamed of his own country America, in this regard.
https://mothership.sg/2018/02/muslims-friday-prayers-chinese-new-year/
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Would you dare fight a legal war against Google (which has hundreds of billions of dollars in its war chest)? This is what a British couple did, when Google abused its search engine monopoly to promote its own online comparison service – Google Product Search – at the expense of smaller price comparison websites, including the British couple's FoundEm website. "Fuck Google, we're going to war!"
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A slice of life in America...
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A low-cost Dutch airlines plane flying from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing in Vienna after a fight broke out mid-air, forcing the crew to intervene. According to multiple media reports, the reason for the fight was a passenger who wouldn't stop farting.
The Daily Mail, quoting local newspaper De Telegraaf, reports that a Transavia Airlines flight made the unscheduled stop in Austria after two Dutch men objected to a flatulent co-passenger. Despite their pleas and complaints to the plane's crew, the man reportedly continued to fart. It's unclear whether the passenger had a medical condition that caused the flatulence. When he allegedly refused to stop, a fight broke out.
That's when the pilot decided to land in Vienna, reporting "passengers on the rampage." Austrian police entered the cabin on landing and escorted four passengers off the plane.
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Airline employee saves teenage girls from being sex slaves for the rest of their lives
https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-agent-saves-2-153552330.html
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A Pennsylvania couple has pleaded guilty in a case in which prosecutors say three young children, aged between 4 and 6 years old, were so starved for food by their cruel parents, that they peeled paint off the walls to eat to survive.
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[Singapore] - Anti-LGBTs are upset that Ho Ching appears to support Pink Dot.
http://www.theindependent.sg/ho-ching-appears-to-support-pink-dot-with-new-facebook-post/
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[Singapore] - Violence between students in a local Secondary School.
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Gangster Family (sounds like a Royal Family) of 23 members kicked off cruise ship for terrorizing other passengers, including beating them up and threatening to kill them.
A 21-year-old female passenger said a friend was “subjected to a large violent outburst� by the group after he accidentally brushed past a member of the family.
“He was essentially thrown to the ground, it was completely unprovoked," she told The Age. “They had him by the neck and they were punching and kicking him for a long time.�
Another passenger, Kellie Peterson, said the group were “looking for trouble from the minute they got on the ship�.
“My husband told them to take it (ie. their violent troublemaking) away, because there’s kids here, and five of them immediately surrounded my husband to intimidate him,� she said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-family-kicked-off-apos-111622764.html
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TLDR : the 'average' income of the 'average' Singaporean is biasedly skewed because of the ultra-rich (remember, the richest 1% of the human population owns 99% of the entire planet's wealth ; the 'average' CEO's monthly income is 100,000 x the monthly income of the 'average' employee, when bonuses are included). That's why the majority of people seeing such statistics wonder why they're always below average.
See visitor comments on Facebook reproduced in the Mothership article :
https://mothership.sg/2018/02/economist-donald-low-five-figure-income-family/
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Malaysian family who abused their Indonesian maid to death, did not pay her salary for 3 years.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/dead-indo-maid-not-paid-034525075.html
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[Singapore] - Mixed reactions about carbon tax on households
http://www.theindependent.sg/mixed-reactions-about-carbon-tax-on-households/
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Clamour for Cryptocurrency Regulation Grows Louder
http://www.theindependent.sg/clamour-for-cryptocurrency-regulation-grows-louder/
