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Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2017

With Love from Hitler; Still Some Religious Protection; 3D Printing Funds; Zircon 2017; Metal Prediction; A Human Touch; and Two-Legged Delivery

Anti-Semitism

A Hitler Valentine’s Day card was handed out on campus. University officials want to know why. washingtonpost

The card was in a bag that was handed to the students Wednesday night by a member of the College Republicans at Central Michigan, which immediately apologized while distancing itself from the incident. The card, which the group called “very inappropriate,” shows Adolf Hitler alongside the words “my love 4 u burns like 6,000 jews,” according to Central Michigan Life, a student newspaper.

Friday, August 5, 2016

Athletic Spies; Robot Reporter; Greased Turkey; The Chinese Quad; Cool Clothes; and Bible Drone

Olympics

More Than 1,000 U.S. Spies in Brazil Protecting Rio Olympics nbcnews

In addition, more than a dozen highly trained Navy and Marine Corps commandos from the U.S. Special Operations Command are in Brazil, working with the Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian Navy, according to senior military officials.

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Rio Trouble; Easing Greece; Doctors w/o Borders Snub EU; Syria's Tourism Ministry; NATO Warmongering; KA-52; and The Lonely Diodes Club

Economy

Financial calamity declared in Rio weeks before Olympics, but Games will go on washingtonpost

In an official decree published Friday afternoon by acting governor Francisco Dornelles, the state government said the crisis could cause a “total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management.”