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Church leaders, with support from police, victims, and psychiatrists, penned an open letter to the government, arguing that domestic knives should be redesigned with rounded tips to reduce the number of life-threatening stabbing injuries. They reportedly argue that pointed blades aren't even needed in this day and age, given that we have forks to eat with.
The absurdity of banning a common kitchen implement was pointed out by bemused netizens, particularly as the proposal comes after police recently announced that they will no longer post images of seized knives "to help reduce the fear of knives," and as the Home Office uses takeaway packaging to basically tell people that stabbing is bad.
The money comes from a $50m financial assistance fund, which Boeing announced in July.
The fund has started accepting claims, which must be submitted before 2020.
Lawyers for the victims' families, many of whom are pursuing the company in court, have dismissed the fund as a publicity stunt.
In an interview with CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour that will air Wednesday, Khosrowshahi defended Uber's business model, which involves the company investing heavily in promotions to entice customers to its on-demand ride and meal-delivery offerings.
"The model is absolutely sustainable," Khosrowshahi said. "The business, for example, is still growing 30-plus percent on a global basis. And anytime you have a business that has the kind of market size of trillions of dollars in terms of transportation and food and global commerce, it makes sense for a company to invest."
Uber lost $5.2 billion in the three months ending in June, its largest quarterly loss ever . Stock-based compensation related to its initial public offering accounted for $3.9 billion, but the remaining $1.3 billion in losses were still 50% higher than the year before.
The ex-super middleweight champion bruiser says the entire planet has been sold a lie.
And he refuses to believe proof from the US space agency NASA or space entrepreneur Elon Musk because they are in the "little clique" hiding the truth.
Comment: Though boxing legend Carl Froch has likely sustained many injurious blows to the head, there are many others who have no such excuse for such a ridiculous idea:
- We're doomed: One third of millennials believe the earth is flat
- England's cricket legend Flintoff claims Earth is flat or turnip shaped
- Flat earther thinks the Earth is actually shaped like a doughnut
- Flat-earth rapper B.o.B. seeking funding to launch mini-satellite to test theory
- 'The Earth is flat' LOL: RT's 'Space 360' leads to age old conspiracy accusations
- The real conspiracy: Flat earth is a psyop
In a speech at the UN Climate Action Summit on Monday, the 16-year-old Thunberg delivered a breathless sermon, chastising the adults in the room for stealing her "dreams" and her "childhood" by failing to take aggressive enough action against climate change.
"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" she thundered, voice on the edge of tears.

"Women's Walkout" at Google in protest over alleged sexual misconduct at the company in Mountain View, California, U.S. November 1, 2018.
Apparently a product of the company's campaign to uncover cases of retaliation, the document is a cache of personal accounts submitted by Google employees to an internal company forum.
The document was first revealed by Recode earlier this month, but Motherboard published it in full.
Comment: Google left their "Don't be evil" motto behind long ago.
- Employee files lawsuit against Google over 'spying'
- Ex-employee alleges: 'Google fired me for not rejecting white & Asian job applicants'
- Google's parent company facing lawsuit for alleged mishandling of 'explosive' sexual misconduct case
- UsToo! Google staff stage worldwide walkouts over sexual harassment, forced arbitration, mistreatment of female employees
- Google employees confess all the things they hated most about working at Google
- Google censors video exposing Google
Perhaps a worse sin than his purposeful omission of Assange's pertinent case, though, is Sulzberger's utterly disingenuous claim that before Donald Trump came along, the US government was "the world's greatest champion of the free press."
Readers who make it to the end of the piece would be none the wiser as to the fact that Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, waged a war on whistleblowers, prosecuting more of them than all previous US administrations combined and paving the way for Trump's further attacks.
Facebook on September 23 announced the initiative at the United Nations, where French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern led a meeting concerning online extremist risks.
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube in 2017 formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, an informal alliance to deal with the most dangerous material on social media.
But tech companies came under increased scrutiny since a white supremacist in March killed worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooter live-streamed the deadly rampage and posted an online manifesto filled with racist conspiracy theories.
Comment: You'll be forgiven for being skeptical. For years these very companies have been facilitating groups like ISIS, Antifa, and alt-right ethnostate promoters in their online propaganda, while banning and blocking moderate voices who simply criticize war criminals like the Israeli state, or pro-censorship SJWs. Facebook's "expanded definition" of terrorist organizations is unlikely to be any better than their previous definitions.
"I don't have much to say about higher audit institutions, but as for international organizations like the IMF, they must die," Gref said on Wednesday as he addressed the 23rd Congress of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).
"I think that the IMF is absolutely dead," Gref added.
Comment: Yet another way that Russia has bucked the West's systems of control - that seeks to subjugate and diminish the wealth and life's blood of sovereign nations.
See also: Russia refuses to comply with IMF's demands to put surplus money into other countries' financial systems
And there is yet another international group, the "Extinction Rebellion" (ER). They all are against the use of hydrocarbons as a major energy resource. Me too. But what's the alternative? Do they promote and push for active research in, for example, solar energy? Not that I have heard of. There is no viable revolution without a viable alternative that has ever been successful.
The worldwide spill-over is apparently enormous. On Saturday some youth groups met with UN Secretary General, António Guterres, telling him that Climate Change is the world's political issue number ONE. Mr. Guterres did not contradict, yes, it was a key problem and had to be addressed and world leaders needed to commit to take actions. The UN General assembly will further dedicate part of its program to Climate Change.














Comment: Considering the corruption and collusion that has been exposed at Boeing, and all in league with the US government, this compensation doesn't really reflect just how culpable they both are for the tragedies that occurred: