Pure innocence!!! Certainly not a little kitty who was destroying Penguins tree!!!
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#25 Rabid (1977)
I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of Cronenberg, especially the later era, but The Brood and Videodrome are two of my favorites. Even by those standards, this one is weird: an experimental skin graft causes a woman to develop a vampire armpit stinger that infects victims with super-rabies. I can't find anything that says Cronenberg was inspired by Typhoid Mary, but there's a lot of her story in Marilyn Chambers' unsettling performance, as she alternates between instinctive predation and blank innocence.
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I’m going to mail Felipe Cárdenas my shoe cooked into a fine stew for him to eat
Not about to hurt an innocent crow
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RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6yrpknzx7zqsvzfxrljm3q3b/post/3mydv7m3d3k2q
Jake Broe lists all of the #WarCrimes the dotard is "comfortable with" Russia committing against innocent Ukrainian civilians
& in extension, all of those who have supported the commission of such #CrimesAgainstHumanity
the people who support this fascist regime are implicitly fine with them, too
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"Just unfortunate people whom they decided were our agents" and then hanged, says former Mossad chief David Barnea, right after saying that Mossad was counting on Iran to arrest tens of thousands of innocent Iranians because the Mossad wanted to protect sources
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The graphic below speaks of the "Puzzle of Obedience" to tyranny.📜 In Gaza, we live the real-world consequence of how global systems tolerate injustice, leaving innocent families to suffer.🌧️
As we strive to survive, your solidarity is our hope to overcome this hardship and secure basic human dignity💔
✨ Kindly visit our link below to support or share our story. Your kindness means the world to us
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1272872/ Lauren The Insider (@laurentheinsider): “Meghan, 2026: “the safety and protection of innocent children.” Meghan, 2025: front row at Balenciaga, by her own request. In 2022, Balenciaga published a campaign showing toddlers holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear, while a second campaign released alongside it featu…” #BritishRoyalFamily #DuchessOfSussex #DukeOfSussex #Harry #Meghan #MeghanMarkle #PrinceHarry #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #UKRoyalFamily
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Is collective punishment still a human rights violation or a war crime?https://youtu.be/LGJu4APrcEI?is=zefkLFQtHlDAR4Fr
#Israel #war #westbank #palestineThis is the normal day that Palestinians live through if a terrorist commits an act ALL must pay innocent or not. #UN #collective_punishment #hebron
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⭕ Please help Sharif @sharifgaza
save his infant son Ahmed's life‼️ Ahmed needs urgent surgery because he has 2 holes in his heart‼️https://whydonate.com/fundraising/donate-to-save-my-innocent-children-please-
https://gaza-verified.org/people/@shar[email protected]/
#refugees #Palestinians #baby #gazafamily #savelives #GazaMutualAid #fedihelp #fediforgaza #humanrights #humanity #boost #boost4reach
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New MRR Radio, a Misfits-free safe space this week before Halloween: https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/radio_show/mrr-radio-1996
Intro
STIGMA – 金属バットToo Many Fish in the Sea
DEUTSCHER KAISER – Halli Galli Tanzt Für Sie
MARY & THE IMMACULATES – Trip to Jonestown
BUSH TETRAS – Fess Up
MAGIC JOHNSON – Las MalasSacrifice With Style
MAD TEA PARTY – Hide & Seek
G2G – Half an Hour Cocktail Hour
DAY AFTER – Political Games
LÍNEA VIENESA – Te Vas A Morir
THE WRECKS – SBSAre We So Innocent of Struggle?
BOOTS FOR DANCING – Hold Up Half the Sky
GRASS WIDOW – Advice
TAME O’MEARAS – Sweat & Babble
SLEEPING DOGS – (I Got My Tan in) El Salvador
FLYING TIGERS – No ReplyMake It Happen
KING ALFRED, MAN OF LEISURE – The Curse
THE FRUMPIES – You’ll See
FAMOUS MAMMALS – In Any Case
ORANGE JUICE – Breakfast TimeOutro
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Those Who Are Loved, by Victoria Hislop: #BookReview.
Set in Greece during a period beginning in the 1930s, this novel looks at the political, social, and military history of this popular holiday destination through the eyes of an extraordinary Greek woman called Themis.
We begin shortly after her birth and follow her through life as she learns about family, love, politics, and the brutality of fanatics on both sides of the political divide.
I started to read this book whilst holidaying in Crete. It was one of a number of books left by guests at the hotel in which I stayed. I’d finished the three books I’d taken to read and left those there. It felt like a fair swap for me to bring this one home with me: at 480 pages, it was a long read!
I’d read ‘The Island’ by Victoria Hislop some years ago. A book set on Crete, dealing with the history of the Leper Colony established on the small island of Spinalonga, just off the northeast coast of Mirabello Bay in the east of Crete. That book was well written, persuading me the one I’d acquired would be worth reading.
It was!
This is not an easy or comfortable read. It looks at the conflict between the Greek Communists and their Fascistic right-wing opponents and at the military juntas who took over the country for a while. None of these rulers comes out with credit. The author’s research has informed her of the excesses, the violence, the prejudices, the extremes posed by all these rulers on a land that was born into and invented democracy and was then almost destroyed by its lack.
Themis is initially an innocent, naïve and bullied by her older sister and wishing to be friends with both her right-wing and her left-wing brothers. The youngest child in the family, and a girl, she is rarely taken seriously in her early years, other than by the grandmother who takes care of the family when the mother is institutionalised and the sailor father is mostly absent.
I won’t tell you the rest of the story. But Themis illustrates the very real difficulties faced by anyone who is honest and caring when they live under those different forms of dictatorship. Her life is rarely easy and, at times, her subjugation to terror and cruelty is difficult to bear for the reader. But her courage and determination to do what is right forces the reader to continue her story through to the very end, which is, I’m pleased to record, a positive one.
You will find so much love here, so much fear, so much bullying by so-called leaders, so much cruelty caused by a mixture of ignorance, intolerance, and simple fear of reprisals.
I stopped reading it before bedtime, as much of the story could lead to nightmares. But I’m very pleased I read the book. I’ve learned a good deal about the role of superstition, tradition, ignorance, and the abuse of power on a people who simply want to live normal lives of love and family. And I now feel I understand much about the history of Greece during the period covered by the narrative.
It’s a very well written account, full of insight, understanding and compassion from a writer who manages to occupy the minds and hearts of all her various protagonists and antagonists. If you get the chance, read it. You will leave the book all the better able to understand much about Greece and its extraordinary people.Rate This
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Taxpayers Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG): “We Will Not be Intimidated!”
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | October 25, 2026
[Editor’s note: The non-responses of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to this significant international law development have been widely described by veteran world affairs observers as being akin to deer-in-headlights. Please share the article far and wide. Please feel free to respond in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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We Beat The Trump Administration In Court
October 24, 2026
Tariq Ra’ouf, Mondoweiss.
Now we’re going to the ICC to hold the U.S. accountable for the Gaza genocide.
A recent lawsuit successfully challenged the Trump administration’s assault on the International Criminal Court. Now, families like mine, whose relatives have been killed with U.S.-supplied weapons in Gaza, might finally have a chance at justice.
Over the course of the last three years, my family has lost 49 family members in Gaza. Their bodies were torn apart by shrapnel, crushed by falling buildings, and mutilated by bullets and munitions made and provided by the United States of America. Now, the U.S. is trying to dismantle the International Criminal Court, the only international court that can criminally prosecute U.S. officials for aiding and enabling genocide, by sanctioning the Court and attempting to intimidate anyone, including U.S. citizens, from working with them. So, in response, I joined others to sue this administration in order to take them to the very court they’re trying to destroy.
I’m a Palestinian-American organizer, and I helped establish Taxpayers Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG), which recently partnered with Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) to sue the Trump administration so we can continue much-needed legal and advocacy work. Over the course of over a year, TAAG worked with an international legal team to prepare evidence against top U.S. officials for aiding and enabling the genocide of my people, but up until now, we haven’t been able to submit our evidence to the ICC because of this administration’s attacks and sanctions on the court and its judges.
Thankfully, that will now change after we successfully challenged the Trump administration in court. On October 13 we won a preliminary injunction that blocks this administration from being able to target our groups for working with sanctioned parties, clearing the way for us to proceed to the ICC. For the first time since the genocide started, I am beginning to see a glimmer of hope that justice will be found for the dozens of family members I have lost in Gaza.
The Trump administration’s war on the ICC
Long before the Trump administration sanctioned the entirety of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on October 9, it first enacted Executive Order 14203 in February of 2025. This executive order granted administration officials the ability to sanction foreign nationals for supporting the ICC’s investigations into U.S. and Israeli parties guilty of committing war crimes and their complicity in genocide. Under this Executive Order (EO) , the Trump administration also sanctioned leading Palestinian human rights groups al-Haq, al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), as well as the UN Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights Situation on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, along with other ICC officials.
What many people don’t know is that the EO that allowed the administration to sanction these parties doesn’t only go after foreign nationals, it also makes it a federal offense — punishable by a $1 million dollar fine and/or 20 years in prison — for anyone, including American citizens, who provides or receives a “service” to or from a sanctioned party. This provision of the EO is exactly why TAAG and DAWN took this administration to court: Our lawsuit argued that the EO violates our First Amendment rights as American citizens to speak, associate, and engage in Palestine-related human rights advocacy with these parties. As a founding member of TAAG, I can tell you firsthand how these sanctions have prevented us and organizations like DAWN from being able to continue our work sharing evidence and advocacy ideas with people like Albanese and ICC officials, because the definition of “service” is so broad and undefined — the US can interpret it as being anything that confers a benefit to the recipient.
In an October 9 video of Marco Rubio announcing the actions against the ICC, he tries defending the administration’s actions by calling the ICC a “rogue court,” which the U.S. is “not subject to the jurisdiction of.” But Rubio leaves out a fundamental principle of international law: A country does not have to join the ICC for its nationals to fall within the Court’s jurisdiction.
If a country that is not a State Party to the Rome Statute commits a war crime on the lands of a country that is a state party, the perpetrator of that crime can be investigated. Given that Palestine is a State Party to the Rome Statute, and that Gaza (and the West Bank) are classified as Occupied Palestinian Territories by the United Nations, the ICC has every right to investigate and prosecute the United States and Israel for the insurmountable war crimes committed against my family members and thousands of other innocent civilians.
It is clear that the only “protections” this administration are seeking are for the citizens responsible for aiding and abetting war crimes, which after three years, we have plenty of evidence of. Anthony Aguilar, a retired US special forces officer and whistleblower who resigned from his work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centers in Gaza, has gone on record saying he saw the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shooting at crowds of Palestinians, and in an interview with the BBC says he saw Israeli and American military forces of the GHF using an “indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population.”
Rubio consistently mentions the idea of “protecting American citizens” from investigations by the ICC, but the citizens he is referring to are the ones committing the war crimes he doesn’t want investigated. What about American citizens whose families have been killed with U.S.-supplied weapons? Who protects our right to seek justice?
In sanctioning the entirety of the ICC, the Trump administration is not only trying to cripple any attempt to hold them accountable for their war crimes, but they’re also telling American citizens like myself that if you dare to seek justice for the family members you’ve lost, we’ll imprison you.
The struggle for accountability moves forward
Now that the courts sided with us in our lawsuit, we are finally able to prepare for the next steps ahead.
With the injunction in place, TAAG is now moving forward to finalize its evidence submission and plans to imminently send this to the ICC. We are also rallying support, within the US and beyond, for human rights organizations and advocates for the ICC to act responsibly upon this massive collection of evidence, in hopes that more parties take appropriate legal actions where possible. We fundamentally believe that grassroots movements like ours, and so many throughout the world, are the ones who must step up where our leadership has failed, and build the democratic, popular power capable of ensuring that legal action against genocide is taken and enforced.
We also hope that our actions inspire more American citizens to speak up against this administration and the priorities of our government. I helped found Taxpayers Alliance Against Genocide because I’m sick of our tax dollars being used against my own family in Gaza, while our communities here in the U.S. suffer from a lack of housing, education and healthcare. Those of us within TAAG recognize that we have a duty as American citizens to hold our nation accountable for the war crimes they commit, not just in Gaza but all over the world. We will not rest until we’ve exhausted every avenue to seek justice and accountability for these war crimes. We will continue collecting evidence, and pursuing every available legal avenue, moving forward with our crucial evidence work for a prospective submission to the ICC and advance our efforts to hold U.S. officials accountable for crimes against humanity.
We will not be intimidated into abandoning our work, our families, or the principle that no one is above the law.
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(Source/credit: ScheerPost.com)
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