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Riiiiighttttttttttttt to some degree… I have not listened to early Burzum in a long time, but it is the case, as far as I remember, that Varg’s early work never explicitly advocates Nazism. Even in his later, post-jail work, after he had become transparent about his views, he isn’t focusing on espousing specifically any racial theory in his music…
For instance, “Belus” was originally going to be called ‘The White God’ because that is how one of these ancient deities was literally referred to by the worshipers, but this was not actually racial in nature… It was how a bunch of pagans who didn’t know much of anything about different races referred to their god, and there was no motive, and he wanted to avoid confusion over this so he renamed the album to Belus…
Of course, Varg is anti-Semitic and a racist, and he has written extensively about this sort of thing… Yet, I would emphasize that the music itself does not tend to convey that…
But yeah, it is what it is.
I think… NSBM is more explicitly Nazi, though, so like… I hesitate to say Varg’s work is conventionally NSBM.
But I also do not want to look like a Nazi apologist or some anal retentive guy policing what people call NSBM. For all intents and purposes, I think it is safe to call Varg a Nazi musician and say that his earliest work can also be regarded as that, but since it is so seminal in black metal music and is not explicitly lyrically Nazi, I think it’s excusable for people to listen to this stuff - particularly considering you are probably downloading it and he isn’t making a dime.
Senator Alex Padilla characterized the protests as “peaceful” and “passionate”. “The vast majority of protesters and demonstrators are peaceful. … When you come into a community like Los Angeles, the way the Trump administration has, you need to expect to be countered with people who are passionate about defending fundamental rights.”
This stuff is really tiresome.
You could also literally say this about the infamous J6, but it would not matter a lick. You would be called dishonest for saying it was peaceful because the majority are peaceful, but it’s standard policy to drag out this line when it is a left wing cause.
1·8 days agoThis is kind of interesting.
… If I give a ride as an Uber driver to someone who just walked off with $500 they stole and have no knowledge that they did so, I do not think I can be charged with a crime… However, if I was the getaway driver for someone who just walked off with $500 they stole, and I am in on the plan, I am an accomplice…
I think there is also some precedent for this - as in, it is a practice for people to be facilitating undocumented immigration without ever crossing boundaries and just moving people within the state.
I recollected this from another case:
A deputy noted in his report that he pulled over a black van on April 29 at 5:21 a.m. in the Eagle Pass area. He learned that Avshalom Cohen was the driver. While searching the vehicle, the deputy found eight undocumented migrants, a smoke bomb, a loaded gun, a 9mm 50-round drum, and a police badge.
According to the incident report, Avshalom Cohen told the deputy that he did not know the people he was transporting were undocumented. The deputy searched his phone and found messages “with an unknown subject instructing him to pick up at said location and to drop off in other locations.”
A woman in Brazil is currently under police investigation for “transphobia” after she posted a joke online about archaeologists being able to discern a person’s sex by observing differences in bone structure. Speaking at a women’s rights protest in Rio de Janeiro in April, Karen Mizuno revealed that she was notified by police that she was facing possible criminal charges because she had mocked a trans activist who had stated that “archaeologists are transphobic.”
Mizuno explained that her ordeal began after an article was circulated about Lucy, a well-known fossil of a female human ancestor which dates back approximately 3.2 million years.
“The situation was, there was an article going around about the bones belonging to the fossil of Lucy, and how the archaeologists found out that she was a woman, because of the pelvic bone,” Mizuno said. “Trans activists were saying that attesting that Lucy was a woman, because of her female pelvic bone, was transphobia. In other words, they said she could be a trans man. They really think that someone who lived three million years ago had a ‘gender identity.’ It’s an unreasonable argument, an anachronism.”
She continued: “I took screen shots of the tweet with these accusations of alleged ‘transphobia’ by the archaeologists, which said exactly the following: ‘This tweet reminds me of something I never see people talking about. Archaeologists are indeed transphobic. That so-called Lucy, for example, are they inferring she was a woman based on the bones alone? Does that mean that if I die, in 500 or 5000 years someone might disrespect my gender because of that?”
Mizuno took a screen shot of the comment and posted it with her own commentary, writing: “With each passing day, human extinction ceases to become a fear and becomes something to hope for.” Mizuno explains that it was intended to be a light-hearted joke.
“I said nothing about ‘trans,’ there was no hateful speech, I only suggested that the question in the post was ridiculous, and clamored for the extinction of the planet.”
Mizuno told Reduxx that months later, two police officers came to her home to notify her that a criminal investigation had been opened into her comments.
“I was notified on November 19, 2024. The police came to my house but I wasn’t at home. They told my mother if I didn’t go to the police station on the scheduled date they would arrest me,” she said. “In other words, I could literally be arrested for agreeing with the archaeologists that a 3 million year-old fossil, which had a female pelvis, had been a woman.”
Brazil is really becoming a tyrannical place.
I think Bolsonaro and Glenn Greenwald got more people in the anglosphere paying attention to Brazil, and I find myself increasingly horrified by what I see.
Yes, and it is also available on Rumble. But I think X is where he primarily goes.
The use of fentanyl and even George Floyd’s BMI are both factors in his death, but since Floyd had a high tolerance for Fentanyl, it was a non-lethal dose.
It’s also the case that Derek Chauvin and the other police who had experience and who had been educated on how to handle drug addicts and the arrests of those resisting should have had the know-how to handle this. In fact, they did, they were just grossly negligent resulting in a dereliction of duty.
The big issue is that Floyd was handcuffed and no longer posed a threat, but he kept him in this position for something like two minutes after he lost consciousness, when he had known that this hold could potentially cause positional asphyxia…
I would even speculate that had Chauvin done everything the same but taken his knee off Floyd shortly after he stopped struggling and tried to render medical aid with Floyd still dying, this would not have been a national news story, and Chauvin would have faced far lesser charges concerning Floyd’s death. So, the real focal point for me was the callous disregard for the health of Floyd…
Now, one thing in your favor, I think, is that Minnesota law classified this all as Second Degree Murder instead of some form of manslaughter, which I think better describes the circumstances. Call me autistic, call me crazy, call me whatever you will, but these sorts of classifications of crime are important to me. How we call a thing is what we know it by, after all.
1·29 days agoThat’s great - we can be alike in many ways in terms of our goals.
It is a bit of a political football, isn’t it.
I think the interest comes from trying to frame transgenderism as a co-morbidity of other, often more severe, mental health issues.
Of course, but long before the Ukraine war started, I posted stuff from RT, or Xinhua, or whatever it was, because I felt that some of the best news stories are those that come from sources critical of Western interests that do not fall cleanly into our own left/right dichotomies due to their divergent interests.
I will read a story from any source, even those that are not super credible, partly because I have found so much error by omission or distortion in “credible” sources.
This is where I consistently find myself more radical than even the most die-hard revolutionary leftists – I am just as open to narratives offered by foreign news sources hostile to Western oligarchs as I am to establishment news stories. You would think this would be something that would endear me to the far left who, once upon a time, looked with enormous skepticism towards rags like the NY Times that previously functioned as mouthpieces for the CIA, but…
Times have changed.
My instance (hilarious chaos) is perfect. But yes, thank you.
Thanks for the concern! And yes, that is good advice.
MOre background:
Karol-Chik and two other men were 18 when they threw rocks at several cars on the night of April 19, 2023. They ultimately killed Bartell when one of the teens threw a 9.3-pound rock through her windshield as she drove on Indiana Street near the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The rock struck Bartell in the head.
More:
Jurors had to consider shifting and competing versions of the truth offered by Koenig’s former co-defendants during the two-week trial.
No one disputed that a 9-pound (4-kilogram) landscaping rock taken from a Walmart parking lot crashed through Bartell’s windshield, killing her instantly. The issue was who threw it. The only DNA found on the rock was Bartell’s, making the testimony from the other two, Zachary Kwak and Nicholas Karol-Chik, key to the prosecution.
Lawyers for Koenig said Kwak threw the rock that killed Bartell. But Kwak and Karol-Chik, whose plea agreements on lesser charges could lead to shorter prison sentences, said Koenig threw it. Although Karol-Chik said they each threw about 10 rocks that night, Kwak testified that he did not throw any.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Katharine Decker told jurors the damage to Bartell’s car was consistent with Koenig — who is left-handed and was driving — throwing the rock, shotput-style, out the driver’s-side window, as Karol-Chik testified. Even if jurors were unconvinced that Koenig threw it, she told them, they should still find him guilty of first-degree murder as a conspirator.
Koenig’s attorneys said he did not know anyone had been hurt until Bartell’s car went off the road. They also argued that he had borderline personality disorder, affecting his impulse control and judgment.
Defense lawyer Martin Stuart asked jurors to instead find Koenig guilty of manslaughter, the least serious charge he faced, saying he did not knowingly try to kill her. Jurors also had the option of finding him guilty of manslaughter as a conspirator.
After seeing Bartell’s car leave the road, the three friends circled back a few times to look again, according to testimony. Kwak took a photo as a memento, but no one checked on the driver or called for help, according to their testimony.
Bartell’s body would not be discovered until her girlfriend, Jenna Griggs, who was on a call with her when it abruptly cut out, tracked her phone to the field, she testified.
Thanks! Your post was absolutely what I needed… Just a reminder that someone else is out there with a positive perspective. ^^
It is Firday, anyway, and I do a bit of a digital detox every weekend… and this is a LONG weekend, going to spend it with the family and already have a lot of fun stuff planned. Another family may be coming over, and their dad is a punk rocker from back in the day with more tattoos than me (and I got sleeves…!), and I already told him that we might just sit in the living room listening to a bunch of old punk while the kids play… Plus the other good family friends we have just returned from their vacation…
It’s going to be a lovely, long Spring weekend with the tastes of early summer.
So, I will just enjoy the day and have a good, nice detox this weekend, lol. I do not even feel like stepping away right now. ^^
They aren’t lying, though:
IRISH JOURNALIST and RT correspondent Chay Bowes has reportedly been arrested in Romania.
RT, formerly Russia Today, is reporting that Bowes had travelled to Romania ahead of its presidential election on Sunday.
The upcoming election is a rerun after November elections were cancelled amid allegations of Russian interference in favour of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who is barred from the new vote.
RT has reported that Bowes was “detained” in Bucharest after landing there to cover the election.
Speaking on RT, Afshin Rattansi said he understands that Bowes is “being released on his way to Istanbul”.
From a France24 article on the complexity of this:
The electrical grid is a backbone with complex branches consisting of thousands of interconnected components.
“The grid operators must carefully analyse massive amounts of real-time data like frequency shifts, line failures, generator statuses and protection system actions to trace the sequence of events without jumping to conclusions,” Pratheeksha Ramdas, senior new energies analyst at Rystad Energy, told AFP.
Outages are often caused by a sudden shutdown of a source of production like a power plant due to a technical fault or a fuel shortage supplying thermal power plants.
In recent years, natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, forest fires, extreme heat or cold sometimes intensified by global warming have damaged infrastructure or created peaks of demand for heating or air conditioning.
Other possible causes include overloads on high-voltage power lines, which force excess electricity to move to other lines, and cyberattacks, which the Spanish and Portuguese governments have ruled out, but which are an increasingly mentioned threat as networks become more digitised.
In Spain on Monday evening, grid operator REE mentioned a “strong fluctuation in power flows, accompanied by a very significant loss of production”.
In Europe, the electrical frequency on the network is calibrated to a standard of 50 hertz (Hz).
A frequency below that level means not enough electricity is being produced to meet demand.
In contrast, a frequency above 50 Hz means that less electricity needs to be made.
Operators have to order power plants in real time to produce more or less electricity according to demand to keep a frequency of 50 Hz.
“Maintaining that frequency is a matter of balance,” said Michael Hogan, senior advisor at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an NGO.
If the frequency moves away from 50Hz, automated protection systems kick in to cut off parts of the grid to prevent damage to equipment in a domino effect.
“Once power stations begin to shut themselves down for protection the situation can quickly get out of control,” Hogan told AFP.
“But… it’s very rare for that to reach the state it did in Iberia yesterday (Monday).”
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How Monday’s problem all started is difficult to determine.
“One of the factors that most likely contributed to the instability is the weak interconnection between the peninsula and the rest of the western European grid, which meant that there wasn’t much inertia in that part of the network to dampen the oscillations on the Spanish side of the interconnection,” said Hogan.
But that is likely only a contributory factor and not the root cause.
“It will probably be the failure of one or two major transmissions facilities, which then cascaded to other connected parts of the network,” said Hogan.
“But what would have caused that initial transmission failure remains to be learned.”
The Tata Group-owned airline is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar turnaround after a period of government ownership, and growth is already constrained by jet delivery delays from Boeing and Airbus. It reported a net loss of $520m in fiscal 2023-2024, on sales of $4.6bn.
Lol the Tata Steel guys are really taking it on the chin the last few years eh.
Yes - I also loved it. ^^