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Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media said Sunday. Women-led protests, labelled "riots" by the authorities, have swept Iran since the 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin died in custody on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran. Demonstrators have burned their mandatory hijab head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans, and since Amini's death, a growing number of women have failed to wear the hijab, particularly in parts of Tehran. "Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary and have been abolished", Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked "why the morality police were being shut down", the report said. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew Iran's US-backed monarchy, there has been some kind of official monitoring of the strict dress code for both men and women. But under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the morality police -- known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or "Guidance Patrol" -- was established to "spread the culture of modesty and hijab".
 
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Oxford Dictionaries names 'goblin mode' its word of the year​


LONDON (AP) — Asked to sum up 2022 in a word, the public has chosen a phrase.

Oxford Dictionaries said Monday that “goblin mode” has been selected by online vote as its word of the year.

It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.”

First seen on Twitter in 2009, “goblin mode” gained popularity in 2022 as people around the world emerged uncertainly from pandemic lockdowns.
(more of a "phrase" init?)

“Given the year we’ve just experienced, ‘goblin mode’ resonates with all of us who are feeling a little overwhelmed at this point,” said Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl.

The word of the year is intended to reflect “the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past twelve months.” For the first time this year’s winning phrase was chosen by public vote, from among three finalists selected by Oxford Languages lexicographers: goblin mode, metaverse and the hashtag IStandWith.

Despite being relatively unknown offline, goblin mode was the overwhelming favorite, winning 93% of the more than 340,000 votes cast.

The choice is more evidence of a world unsettled after years of pandemic turmoil, and by the huge changes in behavior and politics brought by social media.

Last week Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year is “gaslighting” — psychological manipulation intended to make a person question the validity of their own thoughts.

In 2021 the Oxford word of the year was “vax” and Merriam-Webster’s was “vaccine.”
 
We've swapped "The Merchant of Death" for a women's basketball player.

The deal also leaves behind another American, Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russian prison for nearly four years.

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Brittney Griner freed in prisoner swap for ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout

WNBA star Brittney Griner, detained for months in a Russian prison on drug charges, was released Thursday in a prisoner exchange for international arms dealer Viktor Bout.
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Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner. She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home.

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jpd said:
We've swapped "The Merchant of Death" for a women's basketball player.

The deal also leaves behind another American, Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russian prison for nearly four years.

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Brittney Griner freed in prisoner swap for ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout

WNBA star Brittney Griner, detained for months in a Russian prison on drug charges, was released Thursday in a prisoner exchange for international arms dealer Viktor Bout.
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Are you really surprised. She hates this country and those that got her out do too.
To trade an arms dealer that was specifically selling them to kill Americans for a drug user. A FUCKING DEAL we can all die for.
 
Thomas Valva sentenced to 25 years to life for the death of his 8 year old helpless son??

Hopefully the inmates of whatever jail he ends up in give him the treatment a cop that kills his own son deserves?
 
cany said:
Couldnt agree more getting her out before and leaving another behind idiots
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Paul Whelan was discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2008 for bad conduct. The former Canadian-born U.S. Marine was court-martialed for his crimes of larceny, identity theft, writing checks without having sufficient funds in his account for payment, false statements, and three specifications of dereliction of duty,

Paul Whelan was born in Ottawa, Canada and maintains citizenship in FOUR nations: Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the U.S.A. WHY is it all up to the U.S. to secure his release from Russia? WHY doesn't Canada, the UK or Ireland negotiate his release from the Russians? And WHAT was Paul Whelan REALLY doing in Russia, considering the very many trips he had made to Russia prior to his arrest by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for spying on December 28, 2018 in the Moscow area?
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And from all I've read the U.S. did try to include Whelan in the deal but in addition to Victor Bout - the Russians wanted Russian spy Colonel Vadim Krasikov wjho is currently serving a sentence of life in prison in Germany for the murder of a man from the republic of Georgia. A murder that took place in broad daylight in Berlin in 2019.

The state department inquired with its German counterpart as far as the feasibility of arranging the release of Kasikov - but the German government declined. The U.S. then offered other Russians in U.S. prisons, but again, the Russians rejected the deal.
 
wader said:
Paul Whelan was discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2008 for bad conduct. The former Canadian-born U.S. Marine was court-martialed for his crimes of larceny, identity theft, writing checks without having sufficient funds in his account for payment, false statements, and three specifications of dereliction of duty,

Paul Whelan was born in Ottawa, Canada and maintains citizenship in FOUR nations: Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the U.S.A. WHY is it all up to the U.S. to secure his release from Russia? WHY doesn't Canada, the UK or Ireland negotiate his release from the Russians? And WHAT was Paul Whelan REALLY doing in Russia, considering the very many trips he had made to Russia prior to his arrest by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for spying on December 28, 2018 in the Moscow area?
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And from all I've read the U.S. did try to include Whelan in the deal but in addition to Victor Bout - the Russians wanted Russian spy Colonel Vadim Krasikov wjho is currently serving a sentence of life in prison in Germany for the murder of a man from the republic of Georgia. A murder that took place in broad daylight in Berlin in 2019.

The state department inquired with its German counterpart as far as the feasibility of arranging the release of Kasikov - but the German government declined. The U.S. then offered other Russians in U.S. prisons, but again, the Russians rejected the deal.
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Still left behind for A Flag kneeling unknown basketball player
 
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