Saudis crack down on camel beauty pageant contestants for using Botox
40 dromedaries disqualified from annual $66 million competition for ‘deception in the beautification of camels’
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| A festival official touches the lip of a camel, originally from, Saudi Arabia, during the final day of Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the United Arab Emirates |
Saudi authorities have conducted their biggest-ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday, with over 40 camels disqualified from the annual pageant.
Saudi Arabia’s popular King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, which kicked off earlier this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for some $66 million in prize money.
Botox injections, face lifts and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive are strictly prohibited. Jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the camels’ heads, necks, humps, dress and postures.
Judges at the monthlong festival in the desert northeast of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, are escalating their clampdown on artificially enhanced camels, the official news agency reported, using “specialized and advanced” technology to detect tampering.
This year, authorities discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of camels, used hormones to boost the beasts’ muscles, injected camels’ heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, inflated body parts with rubber bands and used fillers to relax their faces.
“The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels,” the SPA report said, adding organizers would “impose strict penalties on manipulators.”
The camel beauty contest is at the heart of the massive carnival, which also features camel races, sales and other festivities typically showcasing thousands of dromedaries. The extravaganza seeks to preserve the camel’s role in the kingdom’s Bedouin tradition and heritage, even as the oil-rich country plows ahead with modernizing mega-projects.
Camel breeding is a multimillion-dollar industry and similar events take place across the region.
(THIS IS A REAL STORY - BELIEVE IT OR NOT!)
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/12/09/geisinger-health-system-covid-surge-pa/
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TSC are the sons of Rabbi Mayer Beller, Menahel under Margo at Torah Temimah, and now Menahel at Yeshiva of Spring Valley.
ReplyDeleteLet's see how long it takes for Eckstein to be ordered to remove this report from Yeshiva World.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/bergen-county-company-admits-price-gouging-kn95-masks-during-covid-19-pandemic
A Bergen County, New Jersey, company today admitted its role in price gouging a chain of New Jersey grocery stores in connection with the sale of KN95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
TSC Agency LLC (TSC), a logistics and freight forwarding company based in Mahwah, New Jersey, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jessica S. Allen to an information charging it with price gouging in violation of the Defense Production Act.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
In March 2020, TSC and two partners purchased 250,000 KN95 filtering facepiece respirators from a foreign manufacturer. TSC and one of those partners then sold 100,000 masks to a chain of New Jersey grocery stores at prices in excess of prevailing market prices. TSC sold the masks at a price of $5.25 per mask, which amounted to a markup of more than 400 percent from its acquisition cost. Prior to the spread of COVID-19, TSC had no history of selling personal protective equipment.
A violation of the Defense Production Act carries a maximum fine of $200,000, or twice the gross pecuniary gain derived from the offense, or twice the gross pecuniary loss sustained by any victims of the offense, whichever is greatest. Sentencing for TSC Agency is scheduled for April 13, 2022.
Acting U.S. Attorney Honig credited special agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Peter Fitzhugh in New York, with the investigation.
Mayer Beller in Monsey may be the first yeshiva hanhalanik to have his house turned upside down & contents carted away by Federal agents since Belsky & Zelche Makkos Wolmark for the Mendel Epstein scandal.
ReplyDeleteAnd his brother Heshy Beller, also in Monsey, an executive with Louis Septimus, was senior accountant at Dreck-xel Burnham Lambert when it imploded from all their genayvos. Heshy is next door neighbor of Pechter the Fechter, the Lippy Geldwerth mechuton who is infamously known as the most shverra baal davar rosh yeshiva of this dor.
The anti-vaxx Philly rosh yeshiva made the first comment today. He is also head of the YSV Rabbinical Board who ordered Beller & company to stay open at the beginning of the pandemic when all other Monsey yeshivos had closed. YSV was open until almost the last minute before Pesach break when finally the Rockland Sheriff threatened to arrest them. This produced the outcome that 2 morahs were niftar from Covid & YSV rebbi Rabbi Wosner is in a coma. How cynical to profit off masks as part of Philly anti-vaxx hashkofa.
ReplyDeleteThe anti-vaxx Philly rosh yeshiva made the first comment today.
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What did this genius in medicine and all things science have to say?
How did this get from camels to anti-vaxxers?
ReplyDeleteIf Botox for camels isn't allowed, did they at least check if any had hump jobs done?
I should have worded that differently. I was joking based on the Shmuel K impersonation yesterday morning 11:33 am.
ReplyDeleteBut you are still asking a good question. When people ask the Kaminetzkys what their basis is for their 'pearls of wisdom' that defy all science, halacha & sechel, they tell you with serious demeanor that the little ol' Rebbitzen "did a lot of research on the internet" (!) No mention that she's spent years soaking up crackpot conspiracy sites. And they expect you to kowtow just because they are informing you, as if they are the Vatican of Medieval Europe. This comparison is very apt. They have managed to hijack the Agudah + Torah Umesorah and through their proxies at many mosdos are making mishpochos miserable if they try to protect themselves from the virus.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/cancun-tourists-scramble-as-gunmen-open-fire-at-oasis-palm-resort/
ReplyDeleteYou first heard about the danger on UOJ!
Saw a video in which the Kamenetzky method of thinking is describes as a 1D10T error.
ReplyDeleteIt's a small (& corrupt) world.
ReplyDeletePechter's rebbitzen is marketing director for the Spring Valley nursing home owned by YSV Board member Uri Koenig where they covered up being criminally negligent with covid as well as a deadly fungus.
I assume she's a 'nice' woman considering how at least THREE of her daughters / daughters in law are infamous, destructive monsters in chinuch where they don't belong.
Not done yet.
The rebbitzen's father was on the Long Beach Hanhala when they covered up the Weiss murder.
Another neighbor of Pechter & Beller is Kurtzer, the corrupt doctor arrested by the FBI for embezzlement. Pechter appointed Kurtzer medical director of his yeshiva's summer camp operation, a position Pechter didn't deem necessary until he needed someone to cover for disregarding the virus. Pechter you see halt zich talmid muvhok of Sam Kaminetzky. But about 2 days into camp the FBI had Kurtzer in handcuffs.
Shmuel Kamenetzky contracted Covid, was very ill, of course they will deny it, and was vigorously and aggressively treated at home.
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