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Members of 4chan's /pol/ board, the hotbed of the alt-right, are pretty active in Britain, as the conspiracy theories around Grenfell Tower fire and the terror attack at Ariana Grande concert show.

But this time they have stepped up their game.

Hackers from /pol/ claimed responsibility on 4chan for breaking into a billboard in the heart of Cardiff's busy shopping district and using it to broadcast swastikas, images about Islam, a Big Brother message from George Orwell's 1984 and a photo of Donald Trump as alt-right meme Pepe the Frog.

Members of the channel boasted about the op in several posts, saying they'd be "broadcasting images of your choice" and inviting people to "post memes you want to be on the big screen in the thread".

As you can see, a fake declaration that the area was under Sharia Law ended up on the billboard:

South Wales Police said they received a number of calls related to the incident. "We alerted the city council and will investigate any crimes which may have been committed," a spokesman said.

The council then reached out to BlowUP Media, the company that runs the billboard, and it has since been turned off.

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The Lionesses pose with their third place winners medals after returning from the 2015 World Cup (Steve Parsons/PA) (PA Archive)

England Women reached a World Cup semi-final for the first time on this day in 2015 after holding on to beat tournament hosts Canada 2-1 in Vancouver.

Early first-half goals from Jodie Taylor and Lucy Bronze set the Lionesses up for a historic win, but they were forced to dig deep after Christine Sinclair pulled one back for Canada just before half-time.

It was the first time a senior England side men or women had reached the World Cups last four since 1990.

The Lionesses had won a World Cup knockout game for the first time by defeating Norway 2-1 in the round of 16 and followed it up against the Canadians in front of a crowd of 54,027 at BC Place.

Taylor gave England an 11th-minute lead when she pounced on Canada skipper Lauren Sesselmanns slip and raced on to drill a low angled finish into the bottom corner.

The Lionesses extended their lead three minutes later. Fara Williams diagonal free-kick into the penalty area picked out Bronze and the full-backs header bounced down over the goal-line after hitting the crossbar.

Canada lifted the home support by reducing the deficit three minutes before the interval when England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley failed to hold on to Ashley Lawrences cross and Sinclair turned home the rebound.

Taylor was denied a second goal after the restart as her goal-bound curling effort forced a brilliant save from Canada goalkeeper Erin McLeod.

Englands World Cup dream was halted in agonising fashion in their semi-final however, as defender Laura Bassetts stoppage-time own goal clinched a 2-1 win for Japan, who went on to lose 5-2 to the USA in the final.

The Lionesses secured a third-place finish after beating fellow semi-final losers Germany 1-0 after extra time in their play-off, thanks to Williams 108th-minute penalty.

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Indian cricket has been on the rise since the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008. The IPL is a true cricketing spectacle for fans all around the globe and has blessed the Indian National Cricket Team with the finest of cricketers for over a decade, including Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, and Ravindra Jadeja, to name a few. Indian cricket team has gone from strength to strength over the years, and more than ever now, when there is enough in the tank to send two sets of players to different parts of the world to compete in different formats. It truly is incredible the amount of talent the country is producing. Currently, the Indian team is competing in the shortest form of the game, Twenty20 against Ireland, whereas another star-studded squad is gearing up to face England in a rescheduled Test match beginning on July 1. However, India has failed to win any major ICC tournament since 2013, when they defeated England in their backyard to lift the ICC Champions Trophy.

Going into every tournament with arguably the strongest squad and as favourites, India has still failed to capitalise on it. What do we think the reason behind this is? Is it over-reliance on some players, is it captaincy, is it the pressure of winning a major tournament, is it over-exhaustion, or is it the management failing to realise their best XI on the given day due to the amount of talent at their disposal?

There is no doubt that over-exhaustion is a part of whatever the reason is, the team is failing to perform at the highest level. Team India plays the maximum number of fixtures in a calendar year solely because they generate the most revenue for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the International Cricket Council (ICC). In 2021, as per various reports, BCCI made a whopping Rs 3730 crores in the Covid era, which is a clear indication that the cricketing boards are ready to exploit the players to generate more profit, much like the European Super League just that this is going on in cricket for several years now. It has become even more challenging in recent years due to the bio-bubble where players are isolated from their families and the outside world for an extended period until the event concludes or they are eliminated.

The BCCI will continue to receive staggering sums of money from sponsors and broadcasters, so the number of fixtures the team plays is unlikely to go down soon. Despite this, do we think the team management is missing a trick in picking their best XI for a game?

More often than not, it has been a case of one bad match in ICC events for the team. It boils down to the brilliance of former skipper Virat Kohli and current captain Rohit Sharma in white-ball cricket. The pair has been exceptional, but if India loses a few quick wickets in a knockout game all of a sudden, the middle order is exposed and cannot deal with that pressure as this is an unfamiliar situation for them. Team India needs to have a plan B as it is clear that the team lacks a clear idea whenever they lose quick wickets at the top of the order.

Also, you cannot go into a world cup not knowing who your number four batter is (2019 50-over world cup) or neglect your most successful bowler in T20 world cups like India did with Ravi Ashwin in the last edition of the T20 world cup. The team failed to read the pitches in the UAE despite playing two back-to-back IPL in these conditions. There were several other critical factors if we look back at the selections made in the last years T20 world cup, be it the exclusion of Yuzvendra Chahal or overlooking an in-form Deepak Chahar for not a fully fit Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Leg spinners like Wanindu Hasaranga, Adam Zampa, Adil Rashid and Ish Sodhi dominated the tournament, and an Indian bowling attack without Chahal lacked the X-factor. This is just one example from the recent past where the management failed to realize their best XI and paid the price for it with an early elimination from the tournament. Is this a clear-cut case of too much talent that has been thrown at the selectors and the management because of the IPL, or are we looking beyond the obvious, and this has just been a case of over-exhaustion?

The wait for Indian cricket fans has been agonizingly long, but with a new era on the rise with Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma at the helm, it will be interesting to see what tricks team India pull out to end their nine-year drought to lift an ICC trophy when they take part in the latest edition of the T20 world cup later this year in Australia.

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The more a congressional investigation reveals about the Jan. 6 insurrection, the more outrageous it is that anyone would try to compare it to the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation after George Floyd was murdered.

Its not even apples and oranges. Its apples and tractor trailer parts.

And the fact that an American football coach could still be employed after trivializing the violent assault on our government as nothing more than a dust-up says so much about whats wrong with our country right now.

In the days before the Jan. 6 hearings started, Jack Del Rio, the defensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders, weighed in with a controversial tweet.

Would love to understand the whole story about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is ??? the coach wrote.

Then he doubled down in remarks to reporters after a team practice.

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Peoples livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down no problem, Del Rio said. And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down and were gonna make that a major deal?

Del Rios specialty is defense, but he sounded more like the offensive coordinator.

Del Rio apologized, was fined $100,000 and deleted his Twitter account, straight out of the lack of accountability playbook.

But the damage was already done.

Add Del Rio to the growing list of big mouths who wrongly assume that exercising their First Amendment right to free speech means saying anything they want without consequences.

Dust-up, he said. Nothing burned down.

Because the one revisited last week by the congressional committee shows an angry lynch mob hellbent on literally hanging Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States, whose fuse-burning boss did all but tie the noose.

Maybe our supporters have the right idea, then-President Donald Trump told staffers at the time, according to U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the vice chair of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6.

What insurrection did Del Rio see?

Because the one revealed in new, behind-the-scenes footage during the hearings showed frenzied rioters and traitors relentlessly assaulting police officers, threatening elected leaders and storming the venerable halls of government.

Shots were fired in the Capitol, where elected officials were huddled under their desks. Insurgents were walking door to door shouting, Where the f--- are they, and Trump won that election.

It was carnage. It was chaos, Cheney said. It was just hours of hand-to-hand combat, hours of dealing with things that were way beyond any law enforcement officer has ever trained for.

At least the Black Lives Matters demonstrators were protesting something real, not some voter fraud lie concocted by the Contriver-in-Chief.

George Floyd died, with a police officers knee in his neck. He was on the ground in handcuffs. Everybody saw it.

Donald Trump lost an election. Nobody stole it from him. He sicced a mob on America, and everybody saw it.

We will never give up, Trump said that day. We will never concede. It doesnt happen. If you dont fight like hell youre not going to have a country anymore.

Apples and oranges. Its more like apples and costume jewelry designs.

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The month of June has become an insufferable time for normal people as corporations, schools, governments, the media, and leftists push Gay Pride Month into everyones face.

Over the past 50 years, Boston (like hundreds of other cities) has endured an increasingly massive and perverse Gay Pride Parade ending with a Gay Pride Festival at Boston City Hall Plaza. Its frightened summer tourists, scared away families, and destroyed the aura of a once beautiful city.

For a dozen years, MassResistance documented the depraved event, sharing photos and videos and exposing the participating corporations, schools, and politicians.

But this year there was no parade, no festival, and no plans for any in the future. The Board of Directors of the Boston Pride Committee, which planned, funded, and organized it, voted to permanently disband the whole organization. The streets of downtown Boston are (relatively) safe and sane again!

What happened? You cant make this up! According to multiple news reports, the gays who run the event were being accused of racism by Black Lives Matter (BLM). BLM also accused them of snubbing some of the weirder transgender groups, and not supporting the entire gay community.

The bizarre complaints from Black Lives Matter began back in 2015 but were pretty much brushed aside. However, the big eruption came during 2020 and 2021 while the event was postponed due to COVID. Black Lives Matter aligned with a gaggle of local fringe LGBT groups and targeted Boston Prides all-white (and gentrified) Board of Directors with a list of complaints and demands. This wacky list of complaints (which itself reflects a racist attitude) included:

The BLM coalition also persuaded most of the Pride volunteers to resign. Then they began organizing a boycott of the upcoming (June 2021) Pride event.

The June 2021 Pride event was postponed because of COVID. But that didnt quiet anything down. In July 2021, the BLM coalition publicly demanded that the Pride Board resign. A week later the Pride Board reacted by voting to disband the organization completely.

This whole thing isnt really surprising. By 2020, the City of Boston had become ultra-pro-LGBT, so there was basically nothing left for them to fight for. But left-wing, revolutionary organizations are made up of obsessive, dysfunctional, and irrational people. Without a pressing cause, these radical groups invariably turn on each other. This is typical for leftist revolutionary movements going back to the French Revolution and the Lenin-Stalin era in the Soviet Union. The revolutionaries eventually eat their own.

Since theres no 2022 Boston Pride Parade and accompanying festival to remind everyone what the LGBT movement is about, we are presenting below just a few highlights from our past reports to show everyone in Boston what theyre missing!

Editors note: To avoid highlighting vile, graphic images, The Stream is not reprinting this part of the article.

We never thought wed ever find ourselves cheering for Black Lives Matter! Lets hope that this conflict spreads across the country.

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