[-] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago

Continuing their state-protected tour of violence, dozens of Israeli fans beat a french fan in the stands of the France v Israel match the other night. Some media has framed it as 'booing and clashes' but more and more videos from the game have been appearing since then.

Police and security did little to nothing to stop the violence as fans further down the stands looked on helplessly, but arrested French fans trying to get others out of the mob of Israeli hooligans. After the match an Israeli fan in an IDF tee shirt was interviewed by the French media grinning and saying the level of security was "wonderful, magnificent, maybe too much even" before pointing out that they had a "small incident in Block K" which they dealt with "directly". There's also video of French fans showing police and security, with video evidence on their phones, that the Israel fans were the aggressors. Of course they were ignored.

Macron and other French ministers were at the match to "show their support for fighting anti-semitism" after Amsterdam. They didn't mention or condemn the Israeli violence against French fans afterward from what I can see.

When the leaders of European states repeatedly and reflexively defend Israeli violence against and above their own citizens as victims - in countries that are already sliding ever-rightward - they're pouring fuel on the kindling of actual antisemitism. It's going to end very badly indeed.

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Look, we all get lost sometimes.

No more so that the pseuds who decided to debate whether this was actually as song about an alien or not for years.

Desert highways all look the same.

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Perhaps the best indie rock tune about about the UFO conspiracy ever recorded. They put it in a (really good) episode of the X Files to throw us off the scent.

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You can't put a cover on the sky

Remember the 90s? Remember when people rightly identified MIC projects? But then also built a weird (but rad) secular ideology around it.

Music was better when aliens existed.

[-] [email protected] 102 points 9 months ago

france-cool France has raided the home of and arrested Imane Maarifi, a French nurse who returned from working in Gaza and has been speaking out at protests and the media about the situation there. She's supposedly charged with the crime of making public insults in relation to an Israeli investment and real estate fair being held in Paris this weekend.

[-] [email protected] 104 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

UK anti-terror police & intelligence services detained journalist Richard Medhurst recently and have now arrested Palestine activist and Gaza linked journalist on terrorism charges.

She gave the details of her impossible to abide by bail conditions in an interview someone else had to set up as she's forbidden from travelling, touching any electronic device.

I've had to remove the link entirely. The female journalist in question Sarah Wilkinson. Her Twitter account seems to be being run by a friend or her son now and you can search out the couple of interviews she's given so far

~~Sorry for the rubbish links. Xcancel just 403s for me and none of the four Hexbear recommended YouTube link alternatives work. All either don't work at all or are not allowing new users / posts. If the links are too tricky or you don't have time to watch the 30-45min interview here's the key points.~~

  • First thing in the morning her home was raised by anti-terror police who wouldn't identify themselves, some even wearing balaclavas to hide their identities
  • They claimed a warrant exists but would not show it or tell her what was contained in it as anti-terror legislation says they don't have to
  • She wasn't allowed to dress, call anyone, or get her medication (she suffers from Crohn's disease).
  • The tightness of the cuffs caused injuries to her hands but weren't loosened
  • They ransacked her house and physically restrained her son, including throwing him up against the wall.
  • They confiscated any and all electronic items, phones, and computers, as well as files, address books and more. These are the items that were on the official itemized list they provided her.
  • They also stole money, personal items, and her passport, taking them without listing them.
  • Taking her passport without itemising it guarantees she cannot meet the terms of her bail as she is required to turn it in on a future date. Her bail conditions also stop her applying for a replacement. The penalty for not being able to hand it in is likely to be 5 years in prison without a trial or legal representation.
  • She also cannot travel, including buying any form of train or bus ticket despite living in a rural village, seeming including to her required 'check ins' on future dates.
  • They deliberately desecrated her parents' ashes, spreading them so she couldn't retrieve them all, and damaged the urn.
  • They loaded her into an unmarked black van, cuffed but unsecured and gave her a rough ride.
  • They deliberately drove 45 minutes in the wrong direction, away from the police station they said they were taking her to. At this point she seriously considered that she might be being kidnapped as they still hadn't shown her a warrant or verifiable ID and were hiding their identities.
  • While being held, they denied her any medication meaning that she also couldn't eat, essentially denying her food or drink.
  • They eventually brought her a cup of tea and said she could have her meds as soon as she'd drank it. When she did, they then denied her meds again in an apparent attempt to make her ill.
  • When she demanded to see a doctor they eventually sent in someone they claimed was a nurse. However, she seemed to have little to no medical knowledge, didn't seem to actually know anything about Crohn's disease despoite claiming to and couldn't even spell it when asked to. She did not appear to be a qualified medical professional and wouldn't give any details of her qualifications.
  • They tried to deny her access to a lawyer, claiming she didn't have that right until she repeatedly demonstrated that she knew she did under Section 12 of the law. They eventually relented for the interrogation.
  • She gave a no comment interview, but the questions they asked over several hours were apparently very interesting. They were riddled with racist comments and questions that implied Palestinian's weren't human, they repeatedly asked her "why she would value Palestinians over people like us" which she took to mean white and/or Zionist.
  • She also says that her interrogators frequently used talking points, language, and tactics that organisations like the IDF and Shin-Bet do.
  • Most notable was their interrogation and demand that she give details of the people in Gaza that she works with via a charity that digs wells and provides water. They wanted names, locations, contact details, phone numbers etc. Naturally she refused as she suspects they would be then given to Israel to use for targeting purposes.
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Unfortunately American / British rock and roll influnence in (bad) Korea did help produce a few bangers inlcuding this fuzz soaked bit of psychadelic pop rock perfection.

Shin Joong-Hyun wasn't exactly a radical, but after the General's coup he was comissioned to write a song about the the glory of General Park Chung Hee. Instead he wrote a tune about the glory of Korea's natural beauty. He was arrested and had all his equipment confiscated.

Later he was impisoned again for selling weed, tortured, and sent to a 'psychiactic facility' where he remained imprisoned for years and banned for performing in (bad) Korea.

Unfortunately I've never known much apart from some other credits from liner notes about Lee Jung Hwa, who provides the song-making vocal.

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A bunch of people stole a SWAT vehicle and were riding it around a parking lot. Someone add the Teriyaki Boyz track from Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

It's important I find it to prove my word, because what else do we have?

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Because it's chefs-kiss

It makes me dare to dream. bloomer

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I'm about 80% of the way through it and it's been not just a welcome distraction from a stressful couple of weeks, but one of my favourite things I've played in a long time.

Pretty chill, but still with some challenge on higher difficulties. Wonderful art style and satisfying fold-in on themselves level design. The writing is good and succinct with what could be just another cozy game unfolding into something more varied in tone and having genuine things to say about regional identity, tourism, and commerce at the expense of locals.

What really (pleasantly) surprised me was what a love letter it was to all sorts of great past video games. Sometimes via a specific mechanic, sometimes a themed level or ability. Persona, Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Ico, SSX Tricky, Fez, classic RPGs, you name it.

Anyway, I think it's pretty neat.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 11 months ago

NYT on Crooks' motive...

"When the F.B.I. was able to finally access Mr. Crooks’s cellphones and other electronic devices, agents could see that he had searched for images of Mr. Trump as well as President Biden, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and even F.B.I. Director Christopher A. Wray.

Mr. Crooks also had at typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for dates and places for appearances for both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.

One of Mr. Trump’s planned appearances happened to be about 50 miles from Mr. Crooks’s house in Bethel Park, Pa."

Motive might have just been that Trump was a shorter drive than Biden or others.

Extremely American.

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If a harcore band sings in mostly German, old fucks are wearing black and red pins by the bar, and I tell you (in English) at the bar that you're likely to get your arse kicked as American tourists, you probably shouldn't jump in with the regulars and then be all surprised-pika-messed-up when you catch a stray to the shouldershoulder to the chest.

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"The threat of nuclear confrontation in South Africa escalated today when the ruling white military government of that besieged city-state unveiled a French-made neutron bomb and affirmed its willingness to use the three-megaton device as the city's last line of defense."

This is the news report in the actual first minute of RoboCop. Apartheid had fallen, the last retreat of capital is considering nuclear annihilation with the help of Europe. Reminder, RoboCop was made in '87, written before. If anyone has read some of the shadier history of apartheid SA at the time (bio-weapons, UK/western involvement etc) this is more of an oversimplification than something actually far-fetched.

Paul Verhoeven gets a lot of praise for big, bold, anti-capitalist and anti-fash themes. He should get more praise for the details.

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Christmas in July.

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My local was flooded with ecstatic out of town removed earlier than scheduled. So this went on repeat as I left until the prebooked band was ready. Election day is a fucking nightmare.

Also, it's an all time depressive banger. A great late cynical era Bruce Springsteen song perfected into a dark pop dance ballad by the Pet Shop Boys.

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I'm going to the pub to watch the England match again (for some reason) so here's a warm-up tune.

It's laser focused satire of a particular kind of English footy bloke.

And for non-Brits here I imagine it'll be like trying to understand something between a magic eye and iceburg of British lad culture.

[-] [email protected] 102 points 11 months ago

In a bid to increase productivity in its economy (now mostly owned by Northern Europe after the financial crisis) and 'fill gaps in skilled work' Greece is now moving to a 6 Day Work Week in many sectors.

Congratulations European technocrats, you've managed to roll back hard won progress by almost 200 years.

eu-cool

[-] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago

Not surprising, but a revealing moment of police culture regarding the protests here.

For those that can't see the Twitter video...

Police are violently arresting protestors on the bridge. Batons out. Often five or sex different officers tackling individuals, kneeling on them, getting licks in.

One officer in a riot helmet and drawn baton is stood to one side, watching, but not wanting to get stuck in with the other five or six officers with a protester already on the ground.

A much larger superior comes over to him aggressively, getting in his face, and yells *"Let's go! Let's go! You're the police! Let's go! Don't be a fucking traitor!"

Not only is this very clearly gang shit, but the idea that he could be a 'traitor' clearly shows that the police view this as a war against the protesters.

Again, this won't be surprising to anyone. But it's laid out so perfectly in this five seconds or so of footage.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago

The Guardian has been editing out mentions of Israel in its articles without even telling the authors in question that edits were made. It was highlighted this morning by author Noreen Masud, but other authors have chimed in to say they've gone back and checked and it's been done to their articles too.

Twitter thread here and some excerpts posted below:

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the @guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out?

I did not approve these edits and I condemn the moral cowardice behind them. Name the hand behind the deaths of 15,000 children. It is Israeli violence, funded and supported by the US and the UK.

I am so so sickened by the cowardice of our media

UPDATE. No one has been in touch with me

Despite the thread blowing up and her contacting the Guardian they were ignored until, according to an email screenshot, her publisher intervened with the Guardian.

the ‘lost’ word has mysteriously been found

Another author who was asked by the Guardian to write about the conflict then chimes in with others with another particular egregious example:

(2nd Author) I noticed a similarly shocking omission in a piece I’ve just read about the horrors unfolding in Rafah.

My god - am I right in thinking that Israel is not mentioned there even once in a whole article about its violence towards Gaza’s children?

(2nd Author) Not once

Speechless

[-] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago

Reporting from the ground that one encampment member was taken out on a stretcher. Zionist attackers then threw their fireworks towards it.

Elsewhere...

At Columbia cops threw protestors down a flight of stairs, then denied access to EMS or medical help despite the fact that one was unconcious.

At Washington University St Louis, video has come out of police tackling and beating a professor for filming a police assualt. He's still in hospital multiple broken bones and in the video you can see the bicycle cop deliberately breaking his ribs while he's restrained on the ground.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago

A Gallup poll the following week revealed nearly 60 percent placed total blame on the students, while only 10 percent blamed the guardsmen (30 percent had no opinion). Means cites multiple uses of the phrase “They should have shot more of them [students]” and similar sentiments.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago

Amongst the mixture of dread and anticipation of tonight's events grumpy comedy man Dave Anthony's tweet got a laugh out me with a tweet directed at the libs on his timeline:

As i see the mushroom cloud over Los Angeles. "If Trump was president there would be two mushroom clouds."

[-] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago

David Katz is one of the best, and most accessible, especially on how the Baltic states have deliberately curated and used it to whitewash their own Nazi pasts and current far-right - mostly because he spent about 25 years living and researching it there (he now lives and teaches in Lithuania).

This a the useful overview article that I posted the other day.

He also collaborated with a number of other academics and historians to create the DefendingHistory website. Here's their archive on double genocide related stuff. There's some background links at the top, then papers by different authors, then related news articles etc.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago

Liberalism: acceptable to many, desirable to few.

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