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Australia's uncomfortable truth about home grown terror starts small 8 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Blair Cottrell, a neo-Nazi Australian who terrorist Brenton Tarrant had idolised. Photo / Getty Images news.com.au By: Rohan Smith At a fruit and vegetable market in Melbourne's southeast, a pony-tailed man brazenly strolled through the stalls wearing an armband featuring the unmistakable hate symbol of Nazi Germany – the swastika. The man, whose image has been shared with Victoria Police, has not been tracked down. There is a temptation to assume the Hitler-sympathiser is a fringe-dw...

Culture 2 months While most of the world was ravaged by the pandemic and struggling to pick up pieces of the economy, a tiny province in Thailand experienced a boom. As the pandemic hit and caused borders to close, Thailand's GDP took a hard hit. Sooner or later, word spread to locals that a spirit of an 18th-century statue, the 'Egg Boy' had provided people with prosperity through lottery numbers. Almost immediately, the Wat Chedi temple in southern Thailand saw droves of visitors praying for prosperity, hope, and wealth. The 'Egg Boy', also known as Ai Khai, worked a miracle for the touris...

Photograph by Amanda Mustard, National Geographic Yet it’s hard to imagine that Por and his fellow monks aren’t at the very least overwhelmed by the estimated 8,000 visitors the temple is thought to receive on an average weekday. The parking lot that can now accommodate as many as 6,000 cars, and the ceaseless expansion of the temple grounds leaves much of Wat Chedi feeling like a vast construction site. Despite the boomtown feel, this isn’t the first time that Nakhon Si Thammarat has found itself in Thailand’s spiritual spotlight. Hinduism is thought to have reached the area as early...

How Thailand’s ‘Egg Boy’ statue became a tourism phenomenon Austin Bush © Photograph by Amanda Mustard, National Geographic Visitors to Wat Chedi, a temple in southern Thailand, have donated countless chicken figures to honor Ai Khai (or Egg Boy), a statue housing the spirit of a boy said to bring good luck. When the coronavirus pandemic closed borders, Thailand’s massive tourism industry—more than 20 percent of its GDP, by some calculations—ground to a halt. Within months, word spread that the spirit of an 18th-century statue in southern Thailand, known as the E...

>> laura: as you can see, the politician stupidly took a swipe or swing at the kid and the video of incident went viral pure and he was filming in. that's when the praise from celebs start coming in. actor army hammer in an interview today said, "i love that guy. i hope he inspires copycats. everyone should be like egg boy. everyone." ed boyd should get together with pajama boy -- that would be fun. i was thinking about this but think about the covington catholic kid nick sandmann. he stood still. and the elites like army hammer accused that kid of being a racist and a provocateur. but in the ...