#Amnesty WA

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please go to a protest for Land Day tomorrow (March 30th) if you can

AUSTRALIA – Hobart / Nipaluna. 1PM Every Saturday @ Davey St. (Grand Chancellor).

CANADA – Antigonish, NS. 1PM Every Saturday @ Antigonish Town Hall. Antigonish 4 Gaza.

CANADA – Montreal. 2PM Land Day Tatreez Workshop @ Refugee Center. PYM Montreal.

CANADA – Ottawa. 2PM Land Day @ Human Rights Monument.

CANADA – Toronto. 2PM Land Day @ Yonge & Dundas. PYM Toronto.

ENGLAND – Halifax. 1PM Every Saturday @ Wilkos on Southgate.

ENGLAND – Hebden Bridge. 3PM Every Saturday @ Holme Street. 4PM @ St George’s Square. West Yorkshire for Palestine.

ENGLAND – London. 11AM @ 7 Tavistock Square. PYM Britain.

ENGLAND – London. 12PM @ Central London. STW UK.

NETHERLANDS – Amsterdam. 7PM Every Night @ Dam Square.

PORTUGAL – Porto. 10PM Every Night Vigil @ Camara Municipal.

SCOTLAND – Orkney. 1PM Every Saturday @ St Magnus Cathedral Steps. Amnesty Orkney.

AZ – Phoenix. 1MP Land Day @ Civic Space Park. PSL Phoenix AZ.

CA – Los Angeles. 1PM Land Day March @ LA City Hall. PYM LA/OC/IE.

CA – Petaluma. 12:30PM Every Saturday @ Petaluma & E Washington. Occupy Pelatuma.

CA – Ventura. 12:30PM @ 181 E Santa Clara St. ANSWER Coalition.

CO – Fort Collins. 3PM Every Saturday @ Old Town Square. NOCO Liberation Coalition.

DC – Washington DC. 4PM @ DuPont Circle. ANSWER Coalition.

FL – Gainesville. 11AM @ Depot Park. ANSWER Coalition.

FL – Orlando. City Hall. TBA. ANSWER Coalition.

FL – Pensacola. PM @ Main & Reus (Blue Wahoos). PSL CGC. 

GA – Atlanta. 2PM @ Consulate of Israel. PYM.

ID – Pocatello. 12PM Every Saturday @ Bannock County Courthouse. Pocatello for Palestine.

IL – Chicago. 1PM @ TBA. USPCN + Chicago SJP.

LA – New Orleans. 3:30PM @ 701 N Rampart St.

MA – Springfield. 2PM @ 36 Court St. ANSWER Coalition.

ME – Portland. 1PM @ Monument Square. PSL Maine.

MI – Detroit. 1:30PM @ Beacon Park. USPCN.

MI – Detroit. 10AM Land Day @ Rouge Park. PYM.

MN – Minneapolis. 2PM @ 2707 West Lake St. ANSWER Coalition.

MT – Kalispell. 12PM Every Saturday @ Main & Center. MT 4 Palestine.

NC – Asheville. 4PM @ 1 N Pack Square. ANSWER Coalition.

NC – Charlotte. 4PM @ Wilmore Centennial Park. CLT 4 Palestine + PSL Carolinas.

NC – Raleigh. 3PM Land Day @ Moore Square. PSL Carolinas.

NC, Charlotte. 4PM @ Wilmore Centennial Park. Land Day. CLT 4 Pali + PSL Carolinas.

NM – Albuquerque. 4PM @ UNM Book Store. ANSWER Coalition.

NY – New York. 12PM @ City Hall Park. Within Our Lifetime.

NY – New York. 12PM Vigil Every Saturday @ 5th & 44th in Brooklyn. Sunset Park Elders.

NY – New York. 5PM @ Times Square. PYM.

NY – Rochester. 1:30PM @ MLK Park. End Apartheid ROC + SJP UR.

OH – Cincinnati. 3PM @ 801 Plum St. ANSWER Coalition.

OH – Cleveland. 2PM Land Day @ Edgewater Upper Pavillion. USCPN.

OH – Columbus. 4PM @ 120 W Goodale St. ANSWER Coalition.

OH – Dayton. 5PM @ 2680 Ridge Ave. ANSWER Coalition.

OH – Wooster. 11AM @ 538 N Market St. ANSWER Coalition.

OR – Bend. 12PM Saturdays @ Peace Corner. Central Oregon 4 Socialism.

OR – Portland. 12PM @ Desert Island Studios. Letters for Palestine PDX.

PA – Philadelphia. 5PM @ 7th & Walnut. ANSWER Coalition.

PA – Pittsburgh. 3:30PM @ 4100 Forbes Ave. ANSWER Coalition.

RI – Providence. 5PM @ Prospect Terr. ANSWER Coalition.

TX – Houston. 1PM @ Waterwall Park. PYM Houston.

TX – San Antonio. 12PM @ 301 E Travis ST. ANSWER Coalition.

VT – Burlington. 1PM @ City Hall. ANSWER Coalition.

WA – Seattle. 2PM Land Day @ Lake Union Park. PYM.

WI – Milwaukee. 1:30PM @ Sijan Park. PSL Milwaukee.

WI – Viroqua. 11AM Vigil Every Saturday @ Main & Decker. Driftless Solidarity / Wolves PSC.

WV – Martinsburg. 12PM Land Day @ Martinsburg Town Square. PSL WV.

DISCLAIMER: I didn't make this list and it's not comprehensive. If you don't see a protest near you, look up what your local orgs are doing, and if you still can't find anything, take autonomous action

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Personally, I don't want to live in a world where little boys playing with dolls and little girls who don't like wearing pink are subjected to lifelong medical intervention because lunatics think these kids are in the wrong body. If that's the right side of history, then history can go f**k itself." - Graham Linehan

Stretched out on a hospital trolley after a surgeon had removed my cancer-riddled testicle, waiting for a doctor to give me the all-clear to go home, I lazily opened Twitter.

This was five years ago and, at this point, I had not quite nailed my colours to the gender-critical mast. I had defended women being smeared with the slur 'Terf' (for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist') and was being monitored by trans activists as a result. This made me nervous, though I wasn't quite sure why.

I'd had an inkling of what I was up against when my wife Helen and I played a small part in repealing Ireland's draconian abortion laws. Working with Amnesty International, we appeared in a video in which Helen spoke of terminating a pregnancy because the foetus she was carrying had an abnormality which would have resulted in death moments after birth.

We tried to attend every protest and, at one event, I remember some strange person with a bullhorn bellowing out this nonsense: 'We want the state to pay for abortions!' [general cheering] '...and surgeries for trans people' [puzzled mumbling].

I felt uneasy. Sure, let's talk about trans rights, but first things first. We hadn't yet won the fight on abortion.

In retrospect, this was the first sign I had of the sleight of hand that would allow a sinister movement to attach itself to progressive causes and wrap itself in their stolen banners.

Then, when Ireland voted to overturn the abortion ban, Amnesty Ireland tweeted that this was a victory for 'pregnant people'. I was enraged.

My wife wasn't a 'pregnant person'. She was a woman, and a mother.

But these were only the first ripples of a gathering tsunami of madness. Online, people had started to go dangerously insane. It was such a slow process that I didn't notice it at first, but now, as I lay in hospital, I was collecting my thoughts on the subject.

I knew my positions were thought-through and sound, and I was sure that once people saw I was arguing in good faith, they'd see the problems with gender ideology and we could have a sensible, grown-up conversation about it.

I also told myself that, as co-writer of well-loved television sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd, I had an audience out there who would listen to me. So I sent a few tweets carefully outlining my argument.

Meanwhile, I was in intense pain from the wound under my bandage and, when I was finally told I could go home, I couldn't stand up. A bed was found for me and I lay there, enjoying a bit of peace until the morphine wore off.

The visitors had gone and all was quiet. I decided to have a look at Twitter (now X).

My careful explanation of my position had certainly had an impact.

A trans activist and journalist called Parker Molloy, who identifies as a woman and is enraged if anyone disagrees, had sent me a number of increasingly frenzied direct messages.

After the third or fourth time telling Molloy I was in hospital, I ended the conversation. Meanwhile, another tweeter hopped into my replies to say, 'I wish the cancer had won'.

My ordeal had begun. Cast adrift, I was about to lose everything — my career, my marriage, my reputation.

A little bit after my brush with cancer, I brushed with something almost worse. A biological male, now going by the name Stephanie Hayden, was determined to wreck the life of anyone who flouted trans dogma.

A woman was arrested at home in front of her two young children and put in a prison cell for seven hours after she referred to Hayden on Twitter as a man.

When I made a public accusation about Hayden on X, Hayden didn't challenge it.

Instead, I was accused of breaking confidentiality by publicising Hayden's former male identities.

Hayden reported me to the police. The Guardian, whose editors seemed to have given up any pretence of being even-handed on this issue, published an article headlined 'Graham Linehan given police warning after complaint by transgender activist'.

It claimed I had been given a 'verbal harassment warning' by police acting on Hayden's complaint. This was untrue. I'd been phoned by a policeman who seemed confused when I told him that I'd blocked Hayden on Twitter months ago, so could hardly be accused of harassment.

The policeman then said something like 'stay away from her, awright?' and rang off.

For a national newspaper to headline this as a 'harassment warning' — a formal document that needs to be delivered in writing — was disgraceful, but typical of how many journalists liked to frame things that involved feminists and their allies.

After seven months of wrangling, the paper eventually removed the word 'harassment', which was too little, too late.

By then, the 'police warning' had morphed on social media into 'police caution' — which is issued where a crime has been committed and requires an admission of guilt, neither of which had happened. The false claim that I received a police caution for transphobia is constantly repeated to friends and colleagues to justify my cancellation. It was even presented to my publisher as a reason not to publish this book from which you are reading an extract. I found it grimly funny that the police and media were acting as reputation managers for a character like Hayden, but my wife Helen was terrified at being targeted in this way.

Hayden and Adrian Harrop, a Liverpool-based GP who was temporarily suspended from practising medicine as punishment for his aggression towards women on Twitter, trolled a Catholic journalist called Caroline Farrow, live-tweeting a visit to her home in a way that seemed designed to frighten and intimidate her.

She was about to travel to the U.S., but her visa was withdrawn. Harrop tweeted that he'd just visited the U.S. embassy in London: 'Consular staff very efficient at dealing with my important diplomatic business,' he wrote, with a wink emoji.

In a tweet, I called Harrop 'Doctor Do-Much-Harm'. The next morning, the police turned up at my door. I told them I wouldn't be changing my online behaviour one iota, and that Harrop bullied women online.

The policeman nodded, said something about free speech, and left. However, that visit wore heavily on my wife.

But the likes of Hayden and Harrop could not have had such success without accomplices in the police and the Press. It was surreal how swiftly they gained such power over society.

As for my career as a successful television scriptwriter, that proved to be over before the stitches from my cancer operation had healed.

Around this time, I received a letter from Sonia Friedman, one of the biggest theatre producers in London's West End, about me writing a new companion piece for the late Peter Shaffer's classic one-act farce Black Comedy.

I was apparently 'top of our dream list' to pen it.

Black Comedy is possibly the most ingenious farce ever written. I'd seen it years before with David Tennant in the lead and it left me giddy and envious. Now, going from lowly sitcom writer to being considered worthy of pairing with Shaffer had me floating.

Not for long, though. Only a few days later, Shaffer's estate decided on the late playwright's behalf that they 'didn't want to get involved' by 'taking one side or the other'.

More jobs began to fall away. A tour to Australia to teach comedy was cancelled because the company claimed it 'wouldn't be able to afford the security'. I discovered later this was a standard excuse given to those of us declared unclean by the new sacred class.

I'm also the person who worked with comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short for the shortest period of time. Five minutes, I think it was. A producer invited me to develop a comedy-drama TV series in which both would star. I had a flat-out offer and then, within minutes, an email from the same producer rescinding it, I suspect after a Twitter user in his office told him I was a bigot.

Even what I thought would be my pension was taken away from me. There were plans to make a musical of Father Ted, written and directed by me, which I was certain would be a huge hit, perhaps even make my fortune if I could get it right.

I hadn't reckoned how resolute the forces against me actually were, and how quiet my colleagues would be in the face of their onslaught. Sonia Friedman, the producer, told me I was 'on the wrong side of history' and advised me to 'stop talking'.

I suddenly found myself in a raging argument with this powerful woman who held my musical in her hands. But hearing one of these copy-and-pasted, thought-terminating clichés from the mouth of a colleague was more than I could bear.

Personally, I don't want to live in a world where little boys playing with dolls and little girls who don't like wearing pink are subjected to lifelong medical intervention because lunatics think these kids are in the wrong body. If that's the right side of history, then history can go f**k itself.

The meeting ended with each of us trying not to catch the other's eye in case it kicked off again.

I thought at least that Jimmy Mulville, the head of Hat Trick Productions, was on my side.

As the original producer of Father Ted, the company had a big stake in this new venture. But now the Hat Trick people began to go the other way.

I had another meeting around the supposed problem of my defending women and girls, in which, as always, no one could locate the flaw in my analysis as I explained over and over again: 'Children are being hurt. Women are losing their sports, their language, their privacy.'

Finally, I referred to the violent, terroristic nature of trans rights activism. Casually, off-handedly, Jimmy said: 'Well, there's bad behaviour on both sides.'

'Both sides' is a poisonous smear. No one on my side of the argument insists that people should be shunned by polite society. No one on our side wears T-shirts with slogans such as 'Kill all Terfs' and 'Die Terf Scum'.

I was told by one acquaintance: 'Some of the things you've done have been questionable.' 'Give me an example,' I replied. Long pause. 'All right, well maybe not.'

The final act was a meeting in the Hat Trick offices in which Jimmy told me I was to remove my name from Father Ted The Musical or he would not make the show — my show, which I had been tending, rewriting and refining for the best part of half a decade.

Once again, I asked what I was being accused of.

Jimmy rolled his eyes, as if it was self- evident. Desperately, I tried to explain what was happening to women's rights, and to the young girls mutilating themselves because of — 'I DON'T CARE!' Jimmy shouted. I left.

Later, I heard from my agent that in return for declaring me an unperson, Hat Trick was suggesting an up-front payment of £200,000 as an advance on my royalties. Initially, I agreed to go along with it, because I needed the money. But then I changed my mind.

I saw an interview with the mother of one of the women competitors who found themselves up against the trans swimmer Lia Thomas.

Lia was still physically intact and all the girls worked out how many towels to take into the locker room to cover themselves up completely as they changed.

'I asked my daughter what she would do if Lia was changing in there,' said the mother. 'And she said resignedly, 'I'm not sure I'd have a choice.' I still can't believe I had to tell my adult-age daughter that you always have a choice about whether you undress in front of a man.'

What messages have these girls been receiving?

My heart was ripped apart. I closed the door for ever on making any kind of deal with Hat Trick. I was prepared to betray myself for £200,000, but I couldn't abandon my daughter.

BEFORE the gender hoopla, I only knew people in the media. Now I had been so effectively cancelled that virtually no one in the media would return my calls. But I began to count as friends social workers, police officers, solicitors, barristers, doctors, nurses and academics who sided with me or shared my experience.

One of the few people I still know in the creative arts is the choreographer Rosie Kay.

At a party at her home in Birmingham for her company of young dancers — some of whom went by 'preferred' pronouns — the conversation turned to her plan for an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending Orlando.

The discussion turned heated as she explained that she strongly believed in the reality of sex because she and her son had both almost died while she was in labour.

During that ordeal, her womanhood was literally a matter of life and death for her.

Her husband would never know that experience, and that difference between them meant something.

To the little sparrows of the Church of Gender, this was all high heresy, and could not be tolerated. The dancers harangued Rosie to such an extent that she hid in her own bathroom, then they formally complained about her to the company chiefs.

'They cancelled Orlando and then were making efforts to re-educate me, to stop me from centring women's rights in my future work,' Rosie told me. 'I had to resign from the company I founded.'

Then there's the children's author Rachel Rooney, who wrote a picture book called My Body Is Me. Its message was that children should be happy with their body.

But trans rights activists dislike any mention of being happy with your body as it undermines their message that being trans is a thrilling and transformative lifestyle choice.

Tweets called the book terrorist propaganda and likened Rachel to a white supremacist.

The author's 'trade union', the Society of Authors, declined to offer support. So devastating was the experience that Rachel stopped writing books for children and has now taken on a part-time care job.

But what did Rachel do to deserve cancellation? She wrote a beautiful, kind, responsible book for children, and she got the same treatment I received: they tried to destroy her life. Trans activists mostly target women for disagreeing with them, but I'm not the only man to have suffered. Some 30 years after we'd first worked together, I crossed paths once more with the comic actor James Dreyfus (Constable Kevin in The Thin Blue Line).

I persuaded him to sign a letter asking Stonewall, the former lesbian and gay rights charity which has altered its remit and done more than any other institution in the UK to promote extreme gender ideology, to reconsider its stance.

James agreed without hesitation. The letter argued that Stonewall was 'seeking to prevent public debate of these issues by branding as transphobic anyone who questions [its] current trans policies'. It asked the charity to 'commit to fostering an atmosphere of respectful debate'.

Stonewall refused. Even asking the question was painted as a moral failing. Five years later, James is still being hounded by trans rights activists and he has had difficulty finding work.

In 2021, the company Big Finish released Masterful, a celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who's arch-enemy, The Master, who James had played on its audio productions.

The credits featured every living actor who had taken the iconic role… except James. When the history of these years is written, it's not only the extremist activists who will be recalled with revulsion, but also the spineless corporate figures who never made an attempt to resist them. Their inaction contributed to the ruin of James's livelihood.

A brilliant comic actor, a gay man, was abandoned by the very people who should have had his back, because the celebrity class is more interested in looking like they're doing the right thing than actually doing it.

Meanwhile, a chasm was opening up between me and my wife as she watched me lose jobs and opportunities.

Helen was looking for normality, and I was perpetually dismayed and angry. She asked me to cease operations, which she was perfectly within her rights to do to protect our family.

But I couldn't do it. I knew what everyone who's in this fight knows — the Gender Stasi never forgive.

I could never be confident of a having a job again until the entire gender ideology movement, which has caused so much misery, was burnt to ashes.

Even if I had been prepared to recant or keep my mouth shut, it wouldn't do any good because my heresy was out there and would never be forgiven.

I could never be confident of a having a job again until the entire gender ideology movement, which has caused so much misery, was burnt to ashes.

Even if I had been prepared to recant or keep my mouth shut, it wouldn't do any good because my heresy was out there and would never be forgiven.

I was fighting for women and children, sure, but also for my reputation and my ability to make a living.

With my marriage now over, I left the family home and moved into a modest flat. It had a nursing home for old people to one side and an overgrown, neglected graveyard behind it — which is a little too symbolic of my situation for comfort.

Adapted from Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan (Eye Books, £19.99) to be published October 12. © Graham Linehan 2023. To order a copy for £17.99 (offer valid to 15/10/2023; UK P&P free on orders over £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

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UNETHICAL EXECUTION IN GEORGIA: MARCH 20TH

Willie James Pie is set to be executed in Georgia on March 20th despite that fact that he is intellectually disabled, making this execution unconstitutional.

Links to Take Action:

links specifically for Georgia residents:

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This day in history

There's only one week left in the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon's Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

#15yrsago Countering the FUD about the “Orphan Works” copyright bill (that doesn’t exist) https://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

#10yrsago Ordered list of credible fictions https://www.wired.com/2013/04/design-fiction-the-design-fiction-slider-bar-of-disbelief/

#10yrsago WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall https://jeffreifman.com/2013/04/12/seattle-dance-clubs-fundraise-to-pay-microsofts-tax-bill/

#5yrsago Parkland teacher who was open to the idea of arming teachers forgets his loaded Glock in a public bathroom https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43733755

#5yrsago Zuck to Congress: “I’ll get back to you” (42 times) https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-will-follow-up/

#5yrsago Peak Zuck: “What’s a shadow profile?” https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/

#5yrsago American banks’ secret subprime exposure stretches into the billions https://wolfstreet.com/2018/04/11/how-much-are-banks-exposed-to-subprime-more-than-we-think/

#5yrsago Wisconsin clears the way for Foxconn by bulldozing working peoples’ homes and paying them pennies on the dollar https://beltmag.com/blighted-by-foxconn/

#1yrago Daniel Pinkwater’s “Crazy in Poughkeepsie” https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/12/klong-you-are-a-pickle/#who-you-calling-weird

Back the Red Team Blues kickstarter here!

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File: Antlers

SCP#: ABS

Code Name: Heart of the Wendigo

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: The current host of SCP-ABS is restrained by thaumaturgic enchanted chains that are connected to hooks stabbed into his body. the enchanted chains being created by the Department of Technology, Alchemy, Science, Magic and Warfare for the purpose of forcing SCP-ABS to remain trapped within its host so it can’t seek a new one. SCP-ABS's host is to not be feed or released form captivity no matter how much he screams or begs. The host of SCP-ABS is kept in an 8x8 containment cell within Site-AK. The containment cell is both engraved symbols and talisman placed on the walls to prevent SCP-ABS form leaving its current host and finding a new one. The cave where SCP-ABS was created has been caved in by explosives as an added precaution. 

Description: SCP-ABS is a wendigo monster, similar to the one told by native American folk lore. Though, unlike normal wendigo's, SCP-ABS is not created through cannibalism; instead, SCP-ABS is created when someone enters its area of slumber allowing it to be released and possess the closest human being in the area. When SCP-ABS possesses someone, they become feral and physically weaker and unhealthy. They are also filled with an insatiable hunger for meat, specifically human meat. It has been confirmed that eating other forms of raw meat suppress the hunger, but unfortunately just delays the inevitable. Though SCP-ABS can only possess one person at a time, it is able to curse other people with the hunger, these cursed victims also act as back-ups should SCP-ABS ever lose its current host.

SCP-ABS slumbers inside its host until they eat human flesh, should the host eat human flesh then SCP-ABS will activate. Upon activation SCP-ABS will start growing its true body within its host, slowly burning and ripping apart the host from the inside out. SCP-ABS's true body is humanoid but also infused with dear and predator like characteristics. It has double jointed legs similar to a deer's but has three claw toes and a hind claw instead of hooves. SCP-ABS also has elongated arms that have a crimson texture skin. Its chest is grotesquely skeletal with seemingly two ribcages stacked on top of one another. SCP-ABS's face has no eyes and despite having antlers has a facial structure of a wolf with its head being a bare skull with no flesh, the only sensory organ is the nose holes of the skull. its antlers aren't normal either with them sprouting out of its head like tree branches and having anywhere between 12 to 16 different antlers, all of different sizes but similar crimson texture.

SCP-ABS's true body is able to regenerate form any wound rather quickly and unlike normal wendigos is immune to fire. The only way to kill the current host of SCP-ABS is to quickly cut into its chest, pull out its burning heart and crush or stab it. However, all this does is kill the physical body as the spirit of SCP-ABS still exists and will possess the last person it cursed. Because only one SCP-ABS has been seen, it has been theorized that only one SCP-ABS instance existed in the cave it originated from, but the Foundation caved it in regardless.

SCP-ABS was discovered on October 11, 2021, when the small town of [data expunged], Oregon reported several animal attacks and the police force nearly being wiped out. However, by the time Foundation forces got to the town SCP-ABS's true body was already dead. Due to her contribution [data expunged] was asked if she would be willing to join the SCP Foundation but she refused and was instead amnestied so that she could continue to be the foster mom of [data expunged]. Unfortunately, her brother [data expunged] was found to be infected with SCP-ABS's curse. The Foundation agents found this out just as they were about to leave, they quickly noticed him showing side effects of SCP-ABS infection. As such, they lied to him telling him they would take him to the hospital. In reality he was knocked out and transported to Site-AK to limit SCP-ABS's contact with humans thus preventing it from spreading the curse. The current Host of SCP-ABS has not been fed since containment but has not died due to being under the curse of SCP-ABS. The cover story for [data expunged]’s disappearance is that he died in a car crash that severely mangled and burned his body leading to a closed casket at his funeral. As an added precaution an AFA-3 designed from his DNA was created to suffer the crash and be buried at his funeral.

"I know people think we're cruel for doing this to this man without helping him first but frankly the only way to help him is to kill him, and to do that will allow SCP-ABS to find a new host even with all the spells and talisman in place. Besides we've done worse to much more people for much less dangerous reasons. Yes, our Foundation's motto is we die in the dark so you can live in the light. But it's not our only motto... what's one life compared to a hundred? Sometimes one must suffer for the good of the many." - Site Director Doven

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SCP: Horror Movie Files Hub

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Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines online Today, What are the top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines for Today?  Staying updated on the latest developments in Nigeria is essential, especially in today's fast-paced world. Here are the top 10 Nigerian newspaper headlines for September 10, 2024, that capture the most significant news across the country.   From breaking stories to in-depth analyses, these headlines reflect the top news in Nigeria this morning. Whether you're interested in politics, business, or social issues, these latest Nigerian newspaper headlines will keep you informed. Dive into the top stories in Nigeria today and stay ahead with the latest updates.   The latest Nigerian Newspaper headlines for August.  Here are the 10 Nigerian newspaper headlines for September 10, 2024:   1. DSS Releases Ajaero, Seizes Passport The Department of State Services (DSS) has released Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), after detaining him for about 15 hours. Ajaero was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja while on his way to the United Kingdom for a Trade Union Congress (TUC) event. Although he has been released, his travel passport has been seized by the DSS².   Ajaero was reportedly questioned over alleged terrorism financing involving a British national and his involvement in the #EndBadGovernance protests².     2. Ajaero: Tinubu Setting New Record Of Impunity, Says Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned the arrest of Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), by the Department of State Services (DSS). The organization stated that President Bola Tinubu's government is setting a new record of impunity with this action. Amnesty International's Director, Isa Sanusi, highlighted that the arbitrary arrest of Ajaero represents an escalating crackdown on human rights and restrictions on civic space in Nigeria².   Sanusi emphasized that the government has been persistently attacking and undermining the operations of the NLC through fabricated allegations, raids on NLC headquarters, and other forms of harassment and intimidation². Amnesty International has called for Ajaero's immediate and unconditional release, asserting that his arrest violates international human rights standards².     3. DSS Releases NLC President Ajaero Before Midnight Ultimatum: The Department of State Services (DSS) released Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), just hours before a midnight ultimatum issued by the labour union. This follows the union's threat to escalate nationwide protests if Ajaero was not freed. His arrest was linked to ongoing labour disputes concerning fuel subsidy removal.   4. Attorney General Warns Against Arrests Without Thorough Investigations: Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, has advised anti-corruption agencies to avoid arresting suspects prematurely. He emphasized the need for comprehensive investigations before apprehending individuals to avoid damaging reputations without evidence. This was discussed during a roundtable with state attorneys in Abuja, urging reforms to Nigeria’s legal processes.   5. President Tinubu Denies Claims of VAT Increase Amid Economic Concerns: Amid rumors of an impending increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5% to 10%, President Bola Tinubu's administration has refuted the claims, assuring Nigerians that no such economic policy is in place. The government reiterated its commitment to stabilizing the economy while rejecting false reports.   6. Four-Hour Erection Can Lead to Permanent Dysfunction – Expert Warns: A medical expert has warned that experiencing an erection lasting more than four hours can lead to permanent erectile dysfunction. This warning came after increasing reports of men abusing drugs for erectile enhancement, raising health concerns about long-term consequences.   7. 100 CNG-Powered Buses to Be Released in Ogun State to Combat Fare

Exploitation: Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has announced the release of 100 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered buses to mitigate fare exploitation by transport operators. This initiative is part of efforts to provide more affordable public transport amid the rising cost of living.   8. APC Plans Nationwide Rallies to Mark Tinubu's 500 Days in Office: The All Progressives Congress (APC) has unveiled plans to hold nationwide rallies to celebrate President Tinubu's 500 days in office. The party highlights the administration’s achievements, including infrastructural development and economic reforms, as reasons for the celebration.   9. Russia Shoots Down 144 Ukrainian Drones Overnight: Defence Ministry. Russia's Defence Ministry has reported that it intercepted and destroyed 144 Ukrainian drones overnight, marking one of the largest drone attacks of the war. The drones were shot down over various regions, including Moscow, Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, and Belgorod². This significant escalation comes amid ongoing intense fighting in eastern Ukraine and the border regions.   10. Fuel landing cost rises, marketers fear high Dangote petrol price.   Oil marketers in Nigeria are expressing concerns over the rising landing cost of petrol, which has now reached approximately N1,120 per litre. This increase is causing apprehension about the potential high price of petrol from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.   The delay in announcing the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from the Dangote refinery has led marketers to consider importing petrol if the refinery's prices are too high. The landing cost is the price at which the commodity arrives at Nigeria’s shores, and with the current pump prices ranging between N855 and N897 per litre, some independent dealers have already hiked their prices above N1,000 per litre. The National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Abubakar Maigandi, mentioned that they are in discussions with foreign partners to potentially import petrol if it proves to be more cost-effective than purchasing from the Dangote refinery.     That is all for today on Nigerian Newspaper Headlines. Click here more Naija News. [caption id="attachment_141833" align="alignnone" width="650"] Nigerian Newspaper Headlines photo file[/caption]

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🍂🍁🍂 Sunday Dua 🍂🍁🍂

O Allah, (please do) send blessings to Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad so many blessings that please them,O my Lord, from the evil suggestions of the devils.

I seek protection in Your sovereignty from the injustice of the sovereigns.

So, (please) accept my past prayers and fasting, make my morrow and what is after it better than my present hour and my day, exalt me in my clan and people, and protect me in my waking and sleep, for You are Allah, the Best Guardian, and You are the most Merciful of all those who show mercy.

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O Allah, I repudiate, before You on this day of mine and on all Sundays that follow it, polytheism and atheism. I devote my supplication sincerely to You, addressing myself to Your response.

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🍂🍁🍂 Sunday Dua 🍂🍁🍂

O Allah! Send Blessing on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful.

In the name of Allah, I do not ask for but His generosity, I do not fear but His justice, I do not count on but His words, I do not cling and hold to but His rope (love and friendship of Muhammad and Ali (children of) Muhammad). Unto Thee I draw near, O Owner of amnesty and approval! (away) from oppression and hostility, from the ups and downs, and the chronic pains and sorrows, from the "course of events (life) coming to an end" before "provisions" (for the Hereafter) are put in order and readiness. Thee (alone) I ask for guidance unto that which is good, set right and put in order, Thee (alone) I ask for help while I make efforts to become better, and get what I want. Unto Thee (alone) I turn to for health and welfare, and its completion, together with peace and security, and its continuity. I take refuge with Thee, O Lord, from "playing into the hands of" trick devils. and with the help of Thy authority and power keep clear of fascism and reign of terror. Accept my prayers and fasts I had, so far, given effect to, and let my tomorrow, and that which comes after it be better than the hours and the time I am in today, let my family, friends and community look up to me, and love me dearly, and keep me safe whether I am awake or asleep, (for) Thou art Allah, the Best Guardian, and Thou art the Most Merciful!

O my Allah, today I stand before Thee free from the guilt of "giving an associate to Allah" or defection and desertion, and shall be in the same position day after day hence after, and act with faithfulness and sincerity towards Thee, and pray, hopeful of getting a favorable answer, stay obedient in Thy service, looking forward to obtain just rewards. Send blessing on Muhammad Thy best creation, (who) invited (mankind) unto Thy Religion (Islam), and keep me for Thy self in honor and glory in the name of Thy Majesty and Might, which neither decline nor lose power, and protect me through Thy "vision" (Divination) which rest not, nor is ever inattentive, bring to fullness and maturity every work I undertake by giving my self entirely up to Thy will and pleasure, and keep me alive (till death) under Thy amnesty, Verily Thou art Forgiving, Merciful

O Allah! Send blessing on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad

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Russian journalist and member of the Presidential Human Rights Council Eva Merkacheva has told RIA Novosti that convicts recruited by the Wagner Group for the war in Ukraine had been pardoned prior to leaving the penal colony — not six months later, as stated by the military company’s founder Evgeny Prigozhin. Citing Merkacheva, RIA Novosti reports that their pardon was legalized by a classified decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.

Merkacheva concluded this based on her own conversations with the Wagner recruits’ family members, who told her they had official documents confirming their relatives’ discharge from the penal system.

“I don’t have access to the decrees themselves,” Merkacheva said, “but I spoke with the people who are close to those who had been freed. They all assure me they have documents signed July 5.” The convicts, Merkacheva points out, had been removed from penitentiaries on the same day or the day after. “Accordingly, these people had been freed on the fifth.” “I’m talking,” she explained, “about the first group of people who’d been pardoned.”

When recruiting convicts for the Wagner PMC, Prigozhin was on record promising them pardon after a six-month tour of duty in Ukraine. Mediazona pointed out that neither the Attorney General, nor the Kremlin, nor the federal penitentiary system (“FSIN”) had ever explained how they would legalize the pardons for convicts going to war as part of the Wagner Group.

On January 5, Prigozhin announced that the first group of Wagner recruits had been granted amnesty, having completed a six-month tour of duty. Journalists identified several of the ex-inmates who had been pardoned. The group, it turned out, included people convicted of murder, armed robbery, organized crime, and manufacturing drugs.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (originally James Thiong'o Ngugi, born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan writer and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright, has been translated into 90 languages from around the world. He embarked upon a novel form of theatre in his native Kenya that sought to liberate the theatrical process from what he held to be "the general bourgeois education system", by encouraging spontaneity and audience participation in the performances. His project sought to "demystify" the theatrical process, and to avoid the "process of alienation produces a gallery of active stars and an undifferentiated mass of grateful admirers" which, according to him, encourages passivity in "ordinary people". Although his landmark play, Ngaahika Ndeenda, co-written with Ngugi wa Mirii, was a commercial success, it was shut down by the authoritarian Kenyan regime six weeks after its opening. He was imprisoned for over a year. Adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, the artist was released from prison and fled Kenya. In the US, he taught at Yale University for some years, and has since taught at NYU, with a dual professorship in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, and at UC Irvine. He has been regarded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Four of his children are published authors: Tee Ngũgĩ, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, Nducu wa Ngũgĩ, and Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnCJbT9r6Tb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Equality for Indigenous Australians

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first National Sorry Day, held on May 26 1998. On this day, then Prime Minister John Howard acknowledged the pain and suffering caused by the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families during the time of the Stolen Generation. 

The Bringing Them Home report, tabled in 1997, highlighted the grief and loss experienced by the Indigenous community, and the disrespect of their culture, and of their human rights. It was found that one in three Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and families under government assimilation policies. Sorry Day was created as a step towards reconciliation with Indigenous Australians, and its development was among 54 recommendations in the report. 

On 13 February 2008, Prime Minister of the time Kevin Rudd gave an apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the past policies which "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these, our fellow Australians". This was an important step in the acknowledgment of Indigenous mistreatment, and a movement towards reconciling the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities of Australia as one. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) also contributed $4.6 billion in this year to address health and economic development. The creation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been a huge moment in the advancement of International Indigenous Rights, and whilst Australia did originally vote against it, the Declaration was endorsed in 2009. So why is it, that there remains such a gap in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians? Statistically, the national imprisonment rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults is around 15 times that of their non-Indigenous counterparts, and for Indigenous children in detention, the rate is around 23 times higher. Additionally, the rate of unemployment for Indigenous Australians is over double that of the non-Indigenous. The Australian Human Rights Commission reported in 2013 that 20% of Aboriginal women experienced physical violence within the 12 months prior, and that Indigenous women were at least three times more likely to experience sexual violence than non-Indigenous women. The Human Rights Watch reported last year that over half of Indigenous prison populations were living with a disability, of a physical, psychosocial or intellectual nature. Whilst there have been calls for an independent watchdog to be introduced in every state and territory to monitor the improvement of outcomes for these people, this has yet to be enforced. It is also unlikely that changes such as these will be able to come about, with the federal coalition government cutting $534 million from the budget for Commonwealth-funded Indigenous programs. Even now, Amnesty International is working with Indigenous juveniles in detention who have been held in prolonged solitary confinement and are experiencing treatment which can be described under International Human Rights conventions are torture. The 2018 Closing the Gap report shows that targets to improve life expectancy for Indigenous people by 2031 is not on track to be met. This cannot be achieved until the Australian government begins to deal with the leading causes of Indigenous child death, such as birth and pregnancy complications, foetal development disorders, and other cardiovascular and respiratory disorders. In fact, only one of seven of the targets from the Closing the Gap report is on target to be met, which is halving the gap in completing high school by 2020. The cycle of these inequalities need to end so Indigenous Australians have the same basic human rights as their non-Indigenous counterparts. The matter of "reconciliation" faces its biggest hurdle in its definition. As Patrick Donson writes in his State of Reconciliation report, reconciliation has come to mean "improved services and economic participation for Indigenous people", which is reconciliation on settler Australian terms. The forced closure of Aboriginal communities and failure to recognise Native Title claims is a failure from the Australian government to acknowledge Aboriginal connection to the land, and is a lack of respect to Indigenous culture. Whilst the improvement of Indigenous health, education access, and life expectancy is seen as a priority to the Australian government and remains of upmost importance, Indigenous culture needs to be recognised as an important part of Australia's history and current society in order to truly integrate the Indigenous community. Words by Rachel Cowcher

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Rights groups are calling on Kenyan authorities to investigate the murder of a non-binary lesbian, which has sparked the trending hashtag #JusticeForSheila.

"No one deserves such cruel treatment. Sheila didn't have to experience all this pain," Amnesty Kenya tweeted.

Sheila Lumumba's body was found several days ago, according to LGBTQ groups.

The killing has started an online debate about LGBTQ rights in Kenya - a country where gay sex is illegal.

Members of the country's LGBTQ community routinely face discrimination and stigma, and efforts to decriminalise gay sex have been thwarted.

It is not definitively clear what happened to Lumumba in the central Nyeri county, but there are reports that they were raped.

Lumumba's body was discovered days after going missing when their colleagues at a hospitality business noticed their absence, according to news site K24 TV.

LGBTQ and LGBTQ-supporting Kenyans have taken to social media to highlight the discrimination the group faces.

Human rights activist Njeri wa Migwi said she had spoken to Lumumba's best friend on Thursday: "We cried together," she posted on Facebook.

"Your life mattered Sheila," Ms Migwa continued.

"Sheila and I are both 25 and lesbians. I can't rest because I am one statistic away from being this," one person tweeted.

Police have not yet determined the motivation behind Lumumba's killing.

Kenya's National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) says what happened to Lumumba is not a one-off.

"It bears mentioning that unfortunately these are not isolated incidences [sic] and are part of a pattern of attacks and violence against LGBTIQ+persons in the country," it tweeted.

In 2021 the hashtags #JusticeForErica and #JusticeForJoash were trending following the murder of trans-woman activist Erica Chandra and LGBTQ activist Joash Mosoti.

In 2019, Kenya's High Court ruled against campaigners seeking to overturn a law banning gay sex, which is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Right's groups like NGLHRC have historically warned that it gives rise to a climate of homophobia.

The law is specific to men but activists say that lesbian, bi, trans and non-binary voices are also affected.

A vigil will be held for Lumumba on Saturday, according to the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya.

[humanrightsupdates]

Responding to the news that Russian authorities have detained an editor-in-chief and a founder of local newspaper from the Russian Republics of Altay and Khakassia after they published content critical of the war in Ukraine, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: 

“The Russian authorities’ crackdown on independent media is escalating at breakneck speed. Evidently unsatisfied with merely blocking critical news sites or forcing reporters into exile, the Kremlin now seeks to incarcerate journalists who report on anti-war protests or Russian soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine.  

“Mikhail Afanasiev and Sergei Mikhaylov, along with all others arrested merely for reporting on the Russian army, must be immediately and unconditionally released. We call on the Russian authorities to repeal the notorious Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code and end their crackdown on freedom of expression and press freedom.” 

[othersociologist]

Policing the Quarantine

Heavy-handed policing was deployed in response to the Covid-19 outbreak in the nine tower blocks in Melbourne where residents are mainly Black, Brown and Asian. Fines have been administered more in suburbs where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and/or migrant population is higher. But, the same logics of colonial policing used for over 200 years are also affecting other groups at a time when a policing, rather than a public-health oriented, response to the pandemic is being rolled-out by state governments with the use of fines, lockdowns, curfews, and even prison sentences against those who are seen as failing to comply with Covid orders. 

Panellists 

Roxanne Moore is a Noongar woman and human rights lawyer from Margaret River in Western Australia. She is the Executive Officer for the National Peak body on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS ). Previously, Roxanne was an Indigenous Rights Campaigner with Amnesty International Australia and Principal Advisor to Change the Record Coalition. Roxanne has worked for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, as Principal Associate to the Hon Chief Justice Wayne Martin AC QC; as a commercial litigator; and has international experience with UNHCR Jordan and New York University’s Global Justice Clinic. Roxanne studied law at the University of WA, and completed an LLM (International Legal Studies) at NYU, specialising in human rights law, as a 2013 Fulbright Western Australian Scholar. Professor 

Megan Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW. She is Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court and was recently appointed the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law. Professor Davis currently serves as a United Nations expert with the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the rights of Indigenous peoples based in UN Geneva. Megan is an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Professor Davis is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. She is a member of the NSW Sentencing Council and an Australian Rugby League Commissioner. Professor Davis was Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW Law from 2006-2016. Professor Davis is formerly Chair and expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016). As UNPFII expert she was the focal point for UN Women and UN AIDS. During this period of UN service, Megan was the Rapporteur of the UN EGM on an Optional Protocol to the UNDRIP in 2015, the Rapporteur of the UN EGM on Combating violence against Indigenous women and girls in 2011 and the UN Rapporteur for the International EGM on Indigenous Youth in 2012. Megan has extensive experience as an international lawyer at the UN and participated in the drafting of the UNDRIP from 1999-2004 and is a former UN Fellow of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. 

Dr Vicki Sentas is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UNSW. She researches processes of criminalisation and racialisation in law and policing. She teaches in criminal law, criminology and policing and coordinates the Police Powers Clinic, an experiential learning course, in partnership with Redfern Legal Centre. Her recent and current research projects examine: the effects of counter-terrorism practices on criminal justice and racialised peoples; the criminalisation of armed conflicts, self-determination and diasporas through the use of security lists; police powers and their relationship to diverse forms of regulation including pre-emption and prosecution; police accountability and criminal justice reform.