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“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
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Sort of ties to our conversation about what can Belarusain players be expected to do.
It reminds me so much of back home. Same tactics.
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ti-amie wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:58 pm
Apparently, the group of people shot were Jehovah Witnesses.
Let's see where this end. But, for an European country, this is huge. Let's see the response by the German govt.
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ponchi101 wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:26 am
Apparently, the group of people shot were Jehovah Witnesses.
Let's see where this end. But, for an European country, this is huge. Let's see the response by the German govt.
The shooting happened at a Kingdom Hall, so yes, definitely Jehovah Witnesses.
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JazzNU wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 2:34 am
ponchi101 wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:26 am
Apparently, the group of people shot were Jehovah Witnesses.
Let's see where this end. But, for an European country, this is huge. Let's see the response by the German govt.
The shooting happened at a Kingdom Hall, so yes, definitely Jehovah Witnesses.
He was a former congregant who had an ax to grind with the church.

"Weeks before he opened fire on his former congregation at a Jehovah’s Witness hall in northern Germany, the authorities had checked on the gunman but determined that they did not have the grounds to seize his weapons, officials said on Friday.

The gunman killed six people, including a pregnant woman, before turning his weapon on himself as police stormed the building in Hamburg on Thursday in what the authorities called “the worst such mass shooting incident of this dimension” to affect the city.

In keeping with German privacy laws, the police identified the gunman only as Philip F., a 35-year-old German who, according to the authorities, had been a member of the congregation up until a year and a half ago, “but apparently did not leave on good terms,” said Thomas Radszuweit, the head of state security in Hamburg.
In January, the authorities responsible for weapons control received a letter saying that Philip F. “harbored a special rage against members of religious groups, especially the Jehovah’s Witnesses,” Mr. Radszuweit said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/worl ... esses.html
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The Guardian doesn't let you share individual pictures so here's a link to their weekly summary from around the world.

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The Ukrainian pictures remain heart wrenching.
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ti-amie wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:09 pm The Guardian doesn't let you share individual pictures so here's a link to their weekly summary from around the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... 1678483400
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The woman in the earthquake rubble really got to me.
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The photo of the Aghan weddings.
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Authorities Reinstate Alcohol Ban for Aboriginal Australians
The reaction to a rise in crime has renewed hard questions about race and control, and about the open wounds of discrimination.

Geoff Shaw cracked open a beer, savoring the simple freedom of having a drink on his porch on a sweltering Saturday morning in mid-February in Australia’s remote Northern Territory.

“For 15 years, I couldn’t buy a beer,” said Mr. Shaw, a 77-year-old Aboriginal elder in Alice Springs, the territory’s third-largest town. “I’m a Vietnam veteran, and I couldn’t even buy a beer.”

Mr. Shaw lives in what the government has deemed a “prescribed area,” an Aboriginal town camp where from 2007 until last year it was illegal to possess alcohol, part of a set of extraordinary race-based interventions into the lives of Indigenous Australians.

Last July, the Northern Territory let the alcohol ban expire for hundreds of Aboriginal communities, calling it racist. But little had been done in the intervening years to address the communities’ severe underlying disadvantage. Once alcohol flowed again, there was an explosion of crime in Alice Springs widely attributed to Aboriginal people. Local and federal politicians reinstated the ban late last month. And Mr. Shaw’s taste of freedom ended.

For those who believe that the country’s largely white leadership should not dictate the decisions of Aboriginal people, the alcohol ban’s return replicates the effects of colonialism and disempowers communities. Others argue that the benefits, like reducing domestic violence and other harms to the most vulnerable, can outweigh the discriminatory effects.

For Mr. Shaw, the restrictions are simply a distraction — another Band-Aid for communities that, to address problems at their roots, need funding and support and to be listened to.

“They had nothing to offer us,” he said. “And they had 15 years to sort this out.”

The liquor restrictions prohibit anyone who lives in Aboriginal town camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs, as well as those in more remote Indigenous communities, from buying takeaway alcohol. The town itself is not included in the ban, though Aboriginal people there often face more scrutiny in trying to buy liquor.
The roots of the 15-year alcohol ban were a national media firestorm that erupted in 2006 over a handful of graphic and highly publicized allegations of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory.

Many of the allegations were later found to be baseless. But just months before a federal election, the conservative prime minister at the time used them to justify a draconian set of race-based measures. Among them were the alcohol restrictions, along with mandatory income management for welfare recipients and restrictions on Indigenous people’s rights to manage land that they owned.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/worl ... cohol.html
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That tracks well with the Oscar gift bag story.

I will continue to give side eye to Australia.
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