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maximumwobblerbanditdonut · 5 months ago

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Modern Pentathlon Individual at Olympic Games in Paris 2024 🇫🇷

Emotions and high performances, what a day in Versailles!

Emotions et performances, quelle journée à Versailles !

The modern pentathlon, from military tradition, has its last ride at the 2024 Summer Olympics Games in Paris. A sad moment for modern Pentathlon, Horses make their final Olympic appearance at the Paris Games 🐎

The modern pentathlon is the successor to the ancient pentathlon, which comprised running, jumping, javelin, discus and wrestling. The modern pentathlon is an Olympic multisport that has been a core part of the Olympic Games for more than 100 years, that currently consists of fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, laser pistol shooting, and cross-country running.

Just as running and javelin throwing and wrestling would serve a warrior of old, the command of a horse and accuracy of a sidearm would serve a modern, turn-of-the-20th-century soldier. A clear reason why, after 18 years of Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s activism, it was the 1912 Games where the modern pentathlon was first contested.

It was believed that this event, above all others, "tested a man's moral qualities as much as his physical resources and skills, producing there by the ideal, complete athlete". The growing popularity of this sport resulted in the foundation of an international federation, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), in 1848. It currently has over 120 member nations.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ancient Games. Coubertin created the contest of the modern pentathlon to simulate the experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldier behind enemy lines: to ride an unfamiliar horse, fight enemies with pistol and sword, swim, and run to return to his own soldiers. He proposed a similar competition that would test the strengths of a “complete” athlete, but involve more modern disciplines, and he introduced the modern pentathlon in the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912.

Those disciplines appeared attractive to a large part of influential sportsmen, as they were in preparation for a possible war. They were supporting skills and competencies in men that might support the duties of war. Two years later, the Great War began. And during the interwar years, still-simmering tensions kept the sport on the map.

It wasn’t until the 1952 Helsinki Olympics that a civilian, a Swedish carpenter named Lars Hall, won gold, which was a huge deal. Up to that point, the sport was mainly practised — and dominated by — military personnel. (General George Patton - United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II competed in the 1912, Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden finished 20th in a field of 32 athletes)

Modern pentathlon is made up of four events combining five sports:

Riding, with a show jumping course on an unfamiliar horse that the athlete is allocated in a draw just 20 minutes before they compete.

Fencing, which is split into two rounds: a ranking round where each athlete competes against each other athlete in a bout lasting one minute or until the first hit, and a second round based on the results of the first round. The format of the second round is single elimination, with each bout lasting 45 seconds. Points are scored for winning each bout.

Swimming, with a 200m freestyle event.

Running and Shooting, with a laser-run where athletes alternate between running and shooting at five targets from a distance of 10m.

The women’s event was introduced at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Modern pentathlon, was plunged into a scandal at the Tokyo Games in 2021 when a German coach struck a horse that refused to jump a fence.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped the sport from its initial list for the 2028 Los Angeles Games but approved its inclusion after the global governing body, of the (UIPM) replaced horse riding with obstacle racing.

However, the sport has changed quite a bit in its long Olympic history. For starters, laser guns eventually replaced handguns. Show jumping replaced cross-country riding in 1988, and 2000 saw the first women’s event. In 2012, organisers combined the foot race and shooting portions, and in 2016 introduced the concept of a bonus fencing round. Still, this recent change is the first time a discipline will be dropped completely.

It's a sad moment to witness, especially for those who have grown up riding horses. The feeling after Sunday's final was not so much one of sadness, but more of being part of something unique. This certainly won't be the last time they will be riding horses, as the athletes are looking forward to the challenge of obstacles. They cherish what will soon become a memory, recognising the elegant nature of the sport. It will be sad to see horses, your teammates with whom you must get to develop a quick relationship go into history in the Modern Pentathlon.

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Posted 11th August 2024

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justinspoliticalcorner · 5 months ago

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Umar Lee:

Before Mike Brown

Growing up in North St. Louis County, I remember a vibrant community full of churches, bars, VFW halls, Knights of Columbus, shopping malls, movie theatres, and all of the amenities working, and middle-class post-war Americans desired. To be a kid who loved sports, like me, North County offered Khoury League baseball, JFL football, little league wrestling, boxing gyms, soccer clubs, hockey clubs, basketball leagues, and much more. I played plenty of sports growing up in organized leagues (wrestling, baseball, and football); but I played more with kids in the street. When I wasn’t playing sports, I was listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon call Cardinals games on KMOX radio, sneaking up late at night to watch pro wrestling, reading wrestling and boxing magazines in the store because I couldn’t afford to buy them, also reading the St. Louis-based The Sporting News to keep track of stats, admiring the photos and articles in Sports Illustrated, of course reading the sports section in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch daily, and watching whatever sports were aired TV on the weekend for households without cable, topped off by sports news coverage from the likes of Jay Randolph, Ron Jacober, and Art Holliday on Channel 5.

Yet, while all of this was going on, which has left me with a life of fond memories, the North County, and my personal story, isn’t complete without looking at other events. The sports sections of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discussed Whiteyball, our loss of Big Red football, almost losing the Blues to Canada, and the Steamers; but the news and businesses pages were far bleaker. St. Louis had then, and has now, one of the highest rates of violent crime in America, political dysfunction and corruption, and countless municipal fiefdoms. These pages also contained news of factory closings and job losses. Like Michigan, Pennsylvania, northeast Ohio, and other parts of the Rust Belt; working-class St. Louisans were reeling from job losses. North County was built up and populated by factory workers and those in the building trades, the small houses were built for guys like my dad who left high school and walked right onto an assembly line, and when those factories close, and the builders stop building, the economic conditions that underpin the health of families and communities erode. When Combustion Engineering in North St. Louis laid off my dad, uncle, and other relatives in the 80s, it hit like a micro version of the Great Depression. The saving grace would come years later when my dad joined my grandpa at GM, which had moved from North City to St. Charles County, skipping North County in the process, and my uncle getting rewarded for his service loading dead and wounded American bodies into helicopters in Vietnam by getting hired at the federal records center in Overland.

Beneath the changing economic conditions was the issue that defines St. Louis, and in particular, North County. Race. North County was largely farmland before World War II with a sprinkling of small towns mixed in. Old Town Florissant and Sacred Heart Parish in an example of historic North County which was a community of French and German Catholics who later welcomed and embraced Irish and Italian Catholics. Like south St. Louis City, places like Ferguson and Florissant, bonded together at church, in labor unions, and in neighborhoods. The problem is that these tended to be nearly exclusively white, and as the Black population of North City spilled into North County in large numbers beginning in the 1970s, this began to create tension. As a reference point, my dad graduated from Riverview Gardens in 1970 when the first Black student enrolled, today the school is virtually 100% Black. After splitting with my dad, my mother, who lived in North City and North County with us as small kids, took my biracial younger half-siblings to be raised in the Shaw and Dutchtown neighborhoods of South City, because she deemed the Riverview Gardens schools to be too white and racist. I stayed in Black Jack and then Florissant along with my older sisters, dad, stepmom, and grandparents.

As economic conditions became unstable in North County, white families began moving out to St. Charles County, and Black families began settling in areas that had previously been all-white, the existing white establishment relied on police departments, most of them either all-white or close to it, to act as a buffer zone. This frequently was manifested in traffic stops with places like Jennings being the worst. White residents of North County feared crime rates would soon mirror those in north city, and these fears were only heightened after high-profile crimes such as the 1982 kidnapping and murders of Gary and Donna Decker in Bellefontaine Neighbors, the stabbing death of McCluer North student and football player Dan Mckeon (brother of two professional soccer players) at a 1987 party in Florissant, the rape and murders of the Kerry sisters in 1991 at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, and the rape and murder of freshman student Christine Smetzer by a fellow student in a McCluer North bathroom in 1995.

Meanwhile, Black families arriving in north county for better schools, safer communities, and more amenities, after generations of legalized housing segregation in St. Louis City and County, often faced the brunt force of aggressive north county policing. Instead of harassing criminals and reducing crime, police departments in north county were often harassing students and law-abiding citizens coming home from work, church, or a night out. Before body cameras and smart phones these police interactions often included profane and racially abusive language and frequently beatings. This created a climate of distrust and anger in the Black community in North County. Crime was going up, but police were harassing law-abiding citizens instead of stopping criminals, and Black residents were also disproportionately victims of crimes that received far less media attention. As the racial composition of North County municipalities changed to majority-Black, voter turnout remained higher among longtime and typically older white residents. This meant that the numerous city halls and police departments in places like Ferguson remained nearly all-white even as whites became a minority in those communities.

In 2014, North County was a powder keg waiting to erupt. All it needed was a spark. That’s why I began writing about north county in my Evening-Whirl column and for the Huffington Post. No one was talking about North County and it was ready to explode. Local media focused on stories about bike lanes, hipster neighborhoods, and business as usual. Months before August 9th, I told Paul Fehler, of the Pruitt-Igoe Myth and political fame, that if there was a riot and civil unrest in St. Louis it would be in North County. A week before August 9th, with future mayoral candidate Cara Spencer watching, I had a heated argument with legislative aide Michael Powers at The Royale because he said I talked about problems in North County too much. Everything in the County is fine, I was told, all focus must be on the city.

Then it happened. Mike Brown Jr., a recent graduate of Normandy High School, walked to an immigrant-owned and ran store with a friend (most such stores in the Black communities of St. Louis are owned by Palestinian Muslims), there was an altercation, but nothing out of the ordinary for a St. Louis hood store, and as he walked through the apartments and onto Canfield at the edge of Ferguson, he met up with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The encounter was fatal and almost certainly avoidable. Ferguson immediately handled the situation in a reckless and insensitive manner. Allowing the dead body of Mike Brown to lay in the streets for hours, and bringing out police dogs to intimidate family members, neighbors, friends, and those brought out by social media posts and discussions on Black radio. What happened that day, we’ll probably never know the entire truth. What we do know is what happened on August 9th of 2014 permanently changed St. Louis and America.

My Time in Ferguson

People have to remember that what became known as the Ferguson Uprising was not something that was instigated by academics, leftist political organizations and organizers, out of town celebrity activists, intersectional dogmatists, or people with college degrees. The anger at the death of Mike Brown came from the neighborhood. A neighborhood ranging from lower middle-class to generational poverty. People struggling and hustling just to stay above water. The community came out August 9th, but the uprising began August 10th and that was a day when an older generation of pastors, community leaders, and politicians were largely pushed aside, by a younger generation seeking an immediate redress to their grievances. It was leaderless and often without direction. Purely organic and there was a beautiful sense of community in the early days. Elders such as Anthony Bell attempted to provide direction (Bell setting up voter registration tables); but the situation was too fluid and beyond the capabilities of individual organizers.

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From the beginning, I sought to use whatever platform I had to highlight the history of North County and attempt to tell a story of how we arrived at this moment. Having said that, like everyone else, I was caught up in the drama and passion of the Ferguson moment. I made videos, wrote some articles, cowrote a few pieces with Sarah Kendzior, and appeared on many local, national, and international news outlets (Al Jazeera links aren’t working). I was also arrested twice in Ferguson, threatened with arrest many more times, received numerous and graphic death threats, sparred with police supporters, lost my cool, provoked, was provoked, and finally lost my job and shortly thereafter my apartment (and in the middle of all of this, my grandma died and I was in a messy relationship). If you look at photos I didn't have grey hair before Ferguson. A few months later I was buying Just For Men.

I found a way to piss off police supporters and get under their skin, as did guys like Bassem Masri. In my estimation, the reasons for that are twofold. Firstly, we both grew-up in north county, so many of the people responsible for targeting and doxxing us were those we either grew-up with or went to school with. I saw lifelong friendships created in the Ferguson-Florissant School District end over Facebook posts during the Ferguson Unrest. This was mostly along racial lines. Secondly, unlike most activists, or those you see on Ivy League campuses today, we didn't talk and sound like spoiled brats, smart alecky rich kids who'd have to go to therapy for decades after one physical altercation. We'd been in plenty of fistfights, street brawls, and I'd been shot at and stabbed. Twitter trolls, insults, and radio talkshow hosts like Mark Reardon and Bob Romanik weren't gonna hurt my feelings.

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Trump and The 2020 Sham

For the sake of time, and if anyone is still here, I'll fast forward to 2020. I've already previously stated, and Sarah Kendzior noted this in her book discussing St. Louis, that I believe Ferguson is partially responsible for electing Donald Trump as president. As in 1968, when Richard Nixon promised law and order, I knew conditions were ripe for a populist right-wing politician promising to restore law and order. No one saw COVID-19 coming, the shutdowns, the summer of massive protests after the murder of George Floyd, and the crazy presidential election. Four years later, I think we're still all trying to make sense of it.

While I fully embraced vaccines, and I'm happy I'm vaxxed, and I supported shutdowns at the time, I think it's pretty clear they did more harm than good. Most harmed were our children- particularly poor and working-class kids, who fell behind due to the virtual learning sham, and never caught up. I was at the Dallas campaign event where Biden was endorsed by multiple presidential candidates, thus virtually sealing the nomination. The South Side Ballroom was so packed, that I could barely move or breath, and couldn't get in a position to take a good photo, despite being relatively close to Biden. The next week it was too dangerous to publicly campaign, Biden stayed at home, and we elected an elderly man who was not up to the job but has generally been good in office both for American workers and our international allies. Mainstream media, so eager to defeat Trump, played along. Oh, the viable Democratic alternative was another elderly gentleman who honeymooned in the Soviet Union. It was not a year of good choices, but Biden was the best in my estimation.

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The Aftermath: Where We Stand

Where are we today? A decade later, are we in a better place? North County is still in a state of serious decline and seems to be getting worse each year, North City is doing even worse, the population of both St. Louis City and County is declining, and many are opting for more prosperous communities, most notably Texas and Georgia suburbs (both reddish states). Violent crime spiked for a period, the decline in traffic enforcement has made driving and walking our streets far less safe and often deadly, and area police have essentially stopped policing. They don't want to be stars in a viral video or become a hashtag. For many cops, if they couldn't do things the old school way, they aren’t gonna do it at all. This has made our communities more dangerous, less livable for the most vulnerable, and places few people want to live in. This is a negative consequence from the lack of a strategic plan after Ferguson and failures on both the parts of law-enforcement and the community to hear one another.

The good news is that St. Louis now has better prosecutors (Wesley Bell and Gabe Gore) who are committed to public safety, holding those accountable who harm our community, and enacting diversion programs and other positive post-Ferguson reforms. St. Louis has a mayor in Tishaura Jones who wasn't created in a lab by white progressives; but is a genuine leader, reared and educated locally. Without Ferguson, I'm doubtful Mayor Jones would've been elected, nor a new generation of leaders such as Adam Layne and Marty Murray.

So, it must be recognized, that while there have been some unintended negative consequences from Ferguson, there are also positive developments. These aren't just political. What inspires me isn't politics. I'm inspired by faith leaders in our community who took the Ferguson moment and began having serious conversations with their congregations. Fathers and mothers who began having difficult conversations at home with their sons and daughters. Teachers who began listening to their students. Old classmates who reached out to one another to have a beer and talk across the racial divide. Our increased racially diverse families and suburbs who are defying our political discourse on both sides as progressives have adopted a rigid and dogmatic Race Science and MAGA is doubling down on Nativism and Majoritarian racial grievances. By our faithful and intact immigrant families providing needed life to a region desperately in need.

@Umar Lee wrote a solid perspective on the 10-year anniversary of the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson and North County from a North County POV. #Ferguson

Read the full story at Umar Lee's Substack.

#Ferguson #Ferguson Uprising #Ferguson Protests #Ferguson Missouri #Mike Brown #Darren Wilson #Murder of Mike Brown #St. Louis County Missouri #Missouri #Black Lives Matter #Umar Lee

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mariacallous · 1 year ago

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The Free State of Bavaria has always thought of itself as different, before Germany became one in 1871 and before it became one (again) in 1990. The stiff upper lip of the Protestant north is not for the Bavarians; instead, they indulge themselves proudly in folkloric dress, exuberant beer drinking, and a defiant traditionalism.

And yet, as Germany’s largest state (by area) goes to the polls on Oct. 8, it presents a political picture that is both distinctive from the rest of the country and also similar. Bavarians are wrestling with the rise of the radical right and fretting about the same issues that the rest of Europe is grappling with—migration, climate, economic malaise, and wider issues of identity.

Throw into the mix a recent controversy over the state’s deputy premier and the discovery of his musings about Nazi concentration camps when he was a teenager, and you have a combustible mix.

Scroll back a few decades. The Christian Social Union (CSU) was founded, along with the other three people’s parties, shortly after Germany’s surrender to the Allies. The CSU exists only in this one state, the junior partner to the bigger Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which has run Germany for much of the postwar era. The Americans, who occupied and ran the southern sector of the country in the immediate Cold War years, accepted Bavarians’ desire for a more a more socially conservative party, but one they insisted would adhere strictly to the new democratic norms.

Since then, Bavarian politics has been dominated by the CSU, and much of that time by one man: Franz Josef Strauss. A major player across German politics, in 1956, Strauss declared: “No legitimate political party can be to the right of the CSU.” This had a double meaning: Germany cannot countenance extremism, and the CSU (and the CDU) must do whatever it takes to absorb those who might contemplate voting for the fringes.

Now, in Bavaria and all over Germany, this has been shattered. A number of groups to the right of the established parties (and one on the left) are threatening the consensus on which the Federal Republic was built. The danger is most acute in the former communist East Germany, where the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is running rampant. Elections scheduled in three of the eastern Länder (regions) in a year’s time could see the AfD emerge as the largest party there. This wider trend is likely to be amplified across the continent before that during the June 2024 elections to the European Parliament, which are expected to see a surge in extremist parties.

The first elections in this cycle are in Bavaria (and also in the western region of Hessen). With a population of 13 million, Bavaria would rank as a not-insignificant European state. In terms of gross domestic product, it would have around the sixth- or seventh-strongest economy in the EU. It is a remarkable success story, a once rural and relatively poor region transformed by the postwar economic miracle and the headquarters to some of the world’s most important industrial and automotive companies.

And yet the mood is sour. When leading figures from Berlin visited Bavaria in recent weeks to campaign for their respective parties, they received a reception more hostile than the usual cut-and-thrust of electioneering. The Greens, meanwhile, have been portrayed some of their political opponents as the enemy within—not language that German politics is used to.

The Greens are struggling to recover their standing nationally after a row during the summer over a parliamentary bill to replace oil and gas heaters with models that run on at least 65 percent renewable energy. A watered-down version of the proposal was eventually passed, but the issue, which on one level might sound technical, has become totemic. “Why don’t you deal with migration rather than my boiler room?” is a frequent refrain of protesters.

Bavaria’s incumbent premier, Markus Söder, has used the dispute to put distance between the CSU and the three-party “traffic light” coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens, and the liberal Free Democrats.

The Greens’ unpopularity marks a big change from the last elections in 2018, when some commentators were talking of them as part of the next Bavarian government. (They currently are the senior party in the neighboring state, the equally prosperous Baden-Württemberg, which they run with the CDU.)

Last time around in Bavaria, the Greens recorded a respectable 18 percent of the vote. The CSU dropped to 37 percent, low by the party’s standards, and were required to form a coalition. Instead of opting for the Greens, Söder chose to partner with the Freie Wähler (FW), or Free Voters, a motley right-wing group that found its niche in Bavaria, nearby Saxony, and other parts of the former East Germany. In so doing, Söder was breaking Strauss’s long-held taboo: The FW are not quite AfD, which all the parties refuse to deal with, but it is AfD-lite.

Fast forward to now, and the situation has sharpened further. Latest opinion polls have the CSU dipping yet further to as low as 36 percent, a record low, with the FW forging ahead of the Greens into second place and the Social Democrats languishing behind.

There is still much to play for, and in the German voting system even a small variation between poll predictions and actual results can make a big difference in the final makeup of governing coalitions. Yet whatever the final outcome, this campaign will be remembered as synonymous with one politician, a man few people outside Bavaria had previously heard of, and the scandal that was—and wasn’t.

At the end of August, one of Germany’s biggest newspapers, the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, published a dramatic investigation entitled “The Auschwitz Pamphlet.” It alleged that a typewritten note found in a school satchel more than thirty years ago declared a competition to find “traitors to the fatherland,” with the winner receiving a shot in the neck or a “free flight through the chimneys of Auschwitz.”

The 17-year-old pupil said to have written the pamphlet was none other than Hubert Aiwanger, Bavaria’s deputy premier and economy minister, and the leader of the FW.

Aiwanger tried initially to brush off the accusations, with his brother coming to his aid and saying that he had been the culprit. When that didn’t wash, Aiwanger himself admitted to it, while dismissing the incident as youthful indiscretion. Then, taking a leaf out of the playbook of former U.S. President Donald Trump, he played up the controversy, presenting himself as the target of an organized media campaign by the “liberal elite.”

He is by no means the first German politician to be found out with a dubious past. What is new in this affair is Aiwanger’s defiance, his refusal to show contrition, and the public’s response. Just as Trump’s ratings seem to rise every time he is indicted by the U.S. courts, Aiwanger and his party have only seen their popularity grow.

This posed an acute dilemma for Söder. For the CSU and CDU, this could not have come at a worse time. The CDU may be the highest performing party nationally, but given the problems facing Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his coalition, it should be faring considerably better.

With thoughts starting to turn to the next general election, expected to be held in October 2025 at the latest, the CDU is beginning to wonder if it has the right person at the helm. Friedrich Merz, a longtime sharp operator, finally achieved his goal when he succeeded at taking the helm of the party following Angela Merkel’s retirement in 2021. He is respected rather than liked and has a tendency to shoot from the hip, but he will be hard to dislodge.

If the CDU does make a change and moves back more toward the center, it could opt for the younger and—at the national level—relatively untried Hendrick Wüst, the premier of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. The other big beast in the mix is Söder himself, who is not one to hold back if he sniffs a chance.

These forthcoming elections in Bavaria will be a midterm test for him, for his party, and for the resilience of the politics of the mainstream, which is facing one of its sternest tests since the advent of the Federal Republic.

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"Spiral":

Masterminds Dispatched:

NSA Admin: Lincoln Chaffey.

"Max".

The molestation of minors as bit for radio pranks, for NEC Comics; the Rhode Island PD's mechanism for refusing officers having matched a print villain, however "The Tick" is the writer's staff, a male pedophile in cause of found to have beaten his wife with physical knuckles of the rear of hand.

UMass-Amherst CI: Scott Peterson.

"Batman Begins".

The attempt at fraud of United States election through MI-6 NSA HUMINT in refusal of potluck, police; the Irish Provisionals, the United States civil services. The found nominal as having promoted an Amish marriage, for transition of ICBM stocks, outside of MI-6 Gentile stock into American Judaism, to betray Britain for Canadian independence in Parliament and an end to the Orange Order of Zulus and their Friendkin.

Air National: John McCain.

"Sons of Anarchy".

The funding to the Church of Satan as an officially registered denomination of domination, mandatory for all Romalians to join, under auspice of leadership of Brian Warner, alias Marilyn Manson, and an end to the refusal of the gay precipice of claim, from that provoked of agency of Romalian.

Homeland Security: Queen Elizabeth II.

"SPECTRE".

The Boston terror bombings, to hide involvement of her grandson, Crown Prince William, prior the office held by Charles III, to prevent amnesty being removed for all Latinos, Africans, or Romalians; the turning of national benevolence, of Saudi Arabia, into ire, at the framing of Chechnyan national allies of Saudi Arabians into a pro-Israeli position unwanted and against Saudi-Jewish identity.

DC Comics: Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Gotham".

The doom of Jews to factory jobs and warehouse labor, at the hands of MENSA, the Mormon faith of found prostitutes having wed and in dismissal of drug and prostitution; unnecessary, already an American police position, however in refusal of African-Americans, essential parts of Washington, Madison, Johnson, Grant, Garfield, and Cleveland, as well as supported by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as housing for Germans to merge with African lines, to forgive the Holocaust of the Irish.

Army Reserve: Donald J. Trump.

"Fool's Paradise".

The sabotage of American markets to favor the Japanese intelligence services, to pay own daughter, Ivanka, for her police service, at having defaulted on loan to his very own name, due to service in the World Wrestling Federation; Vince McMahon's merger, with the World Wildlife Federation, to produce Atavan; the terrified cat's death, to produce adrenochrome, for management of grocer's unions outside of proper rearing of local town tradition, instead siding with large chains to produce law professors of improper ilk outside own honesty of origin logic. Using film, instead.

NSA HUMINT: Kim Jong-un.

"Assassin's Creed: Syndicate".

A fitting challenge, from an old friend. Webb, would you take Angus, by pale deviled moonlight?

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wrestlinghistorywithkay · 6 months ago

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Behind The Iron Claw: The Von Erich Story Part 1

TW: Drug Abuse , Car Accident , Illness , Death , Suicide

I’ve been watching wrestling ever since I was a young child. However, a family full of wrestlers stood out to me and made me want to learn more about them. That family was the legendary Von Erich family. The reason why they stood out to me was because of their accomplishments in the wrestling business , but , also the alleged ‘ curse ’ people talk about when it comes to their family tragedies. After watching ' The Iron Claw ' , I wanted to dive more into learning about the famous wrestling family and do this article , hoping that I can celebrate their legacies and help other fans learn about them. This is the true story of the Von Erich family and how they changed Professional Wrestling.

The First Generation: Fritz Von Erich

Fritz Von Erich ( Jack Adkisson ) was born on August 16, 1929 in Jewett , Texas. Fritz was a professional wrestler , and a wrestling promoter. He is the Patriarch of the legendary Von Erich family . Before becoming a professional wrestler, Adkisson was a Discus thrower and a football player at Southern Methodist University in University Park , Texas, a suburb of Dallas , Texas. It was rumored that he was a member of the Dallas Texans football team in 1952. After being cut from this team, he went on to try out as a guard for a Canadian Football League. Adkisson married Doris Smith on June 23, 1950. They would be parents of six sons, Jack Jr, Kevin , David , Kerry , Mike , and Chris. While in Canada pursuing a football career, Adkisson met Stu Hart , a wrestler , trainer , and Patriarch of another famous wrestling family , The Hart Family. Hart soon booked Adkisson and trained him in Klondike Wrestling , a promotion owned by the Hart Family. Therefore , Fritz Von Erich was born. Under this gimmick , he would be known as an evil German Nazi. He would be placed with a tag team partner , Waldo Von Erich. The team would be “ brothers ” in the ring . ( I’ll get more into the Kayfabe Von Erich family members later. ) After the tragic death of his eldest son , Jack Jr , Von Erich stopped taking bookings for shows on the East Coast and allowed his former tag team partner to carry on the Von Erich name in the Worldwide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF).

Fritz Von Erich kept wrestling after the death of Jack Jr and kept booking shows. Von Erich went on to win both versions of the AWA World Championship in 1963. This means that he was champion for the American Wrestling Association after the Minneapolis, Minnesota territory broke away from the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) in 1960. The other version of the championship is the Omaha Championship, which was created in 1957. Von Erich was the 9th AWA World Champion and the 12th Omaha Champion. The belts were unified in 1963. Von Erich would mainly be booked at the St.Louis Wrestling Club , an NWA affiliated promotion until his departure 1967. Nevertheless , he became a wrestling promoter in the Dallas , Texas area and overseeing the Houston and San Antonio , Texas territories.

Von Erich also went to wrestle in Japan and rebuild the sport in the country after the murder of Rikidōzan. He would be involved in storylines with Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba, lifting his career to stardom. His signature finisher , the ‘ Iron Claw ’ , would go on to be one of the most popular moves amongst Japanese wrestlers. Von Erich would also become a one time NWA International Tag Team Champion in All Japan Pro Wrestling ( AJPW), with Karl Kruppins as his partner.

Fritz Von Erich would go on to have his first retirement match against King Kong Bundy in 1982. The match took place at World Class Championship Wrestling in Dallas, Texas. Von Erich was the president of the promotion. WCCW was known for its use of entrance music , high production , and broadcast syndication. His second and final retirement match was against Abdullah The Butcher in 1986. Von Erich won by disqualification. Thus, WCCW would merge with Continental Wrestling Association, which was owned by Jerry Jarrett ,a businessman, wrestler, and promoter, and the father of Jeff Jarrett, in 1989. The two promotions became known as The United States Wrestling Association.

Fritz Von Erich passed away from Brain and Lung Cancer in 1997 at his home in Lake Dallas, Texas at the age of 68. He is buried alongside his son , Kerry , at Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.

My Final Thoughts:

Fritz Von Erich had a storied career. Learning a lot about him was very interesting. Studying a few territories was interesting as well. I’ll be getting into the Second Generation of the Von Erichs here soon and talk about their careers as well as their tragedies. I think that this whole article is going to take me on a roller coaster of emotions.

Fritz Von Erich is portrayed by Holt McCallany in the 2023 movie , ‘ The Iron Claw ’.

Love You All,

- Kay

#wrestling legend #the iron claw #von erichs #the von erichs #holt mccallany #wrestlinghistory #classic wrestling

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grave-queen-jakrabitt · 11 months ago

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Who are your favorite Indy wrestlers?

I'm looking for some recommendations but don't worry I've got a few of my favorites to recommend and where I found them (no particular order)

Kid lykos- progress wrestling

Matt McIntosh- catalyst wrestling

Fancy Ryan Clancy- beyond wrestling

Liam Slater- wcpw

Sunshine machine TK cooper and chuck mambo- progress

Balian aki- DPW (I know he's in choko pro don't kill me)

The kings of the North- OTT (watch as much of OTT as you can it just fucks)

Lucky kid/teoman- wcpw

Senza volto- German wrestling federation

Jon bad bones klinger- German GWF

Everett cross- catalyst

Edith surreal- chikara

MV young- catalyst

Calvin tankman- mlw

Daniel makabe- 321 battle

Maine event- beyond wrestling

Warhorse- plenty of places really

Bu Ku Dou- mlw

Promotions I recommend

Lucha underground.

Chikara

MLW

Catalyst

DPW

POW pro wrestling

#pro wrestling #indy wrestling

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wikiuntamed · 1 year ago

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On this day in Wikipedia: Sunday, 13th August

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vertigoambrosia · 7 years ago

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GWF Three Count Roster (pt. 1)

#german wrestling federation #gwf #senza volto #cash money erkan #martin guerrero #chis colen #dover #lucky kid #tarkan aslan #orlando silver #this is a lot of effort for a promotion i only started watching #idk what happened #also idk: the glitch in the lucky kid gif

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Let’s talk about Austria for a second

I swear to god if Austrian news were available in English would have an absolute field about what the fuck is going down in that country.

I don’t even know where to start.

Absolute madness.

And a laptop in a baby stroller is involved.

And it has been going on for some time now.

One could dismiss it as a farce, wavering in one's assessment of whether this is a comedy or a tragedy. The most accurate description is probably soap opera: almost every day, chat transcripts are published in Austria that give insight into the actions of the highest representatives of the Republic.

The messages exchanged by the chancellor, the minister of the chancellery and a top official show how politics is done. "You get everything you want anyway," writes Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to his adlatus Thomas Schmid, who managed to carve out a "Schmid AG" for himself - from the Ministry of Finance, Schmid was promoted to head Öbag, which manages the federal government's multi-billion-dollar holdings.

Women were sought for the supervisory board in order to meet the "fucking quota". And these women were supposed to be "controllable". "I love my chancellor," Schmid wrote after being assigned the job. If that were not embarrassing enough, the foreign embarrassment begins at the latest when one comes across the countless emojis with kisses and strong upper arms that are exchanged between the holders of power - an infantilisation of politics.

There has always been a lot of post-hunting in Austria, as well as interventions in the media because of critical reporting. But here a striving for totalitarian control and manipulation of media reporting becomes public, which has taken on dangerous proportions. The chat about a conversation Schmid had with the General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference, Peter Schipka, shows how power is abused and how people are humiliated. Apparently as revenge for criticism of the government's refugee policy, tax privileges of the church were to be questioned. The chancellor cheered the official on: "Please go full throttle." Schmid cheered in his reply, "Yea! That suits me just fine." Afterwards he reported, "So Schipka was done! He was first red then pale then shaky."

The view of the Church held by the leader of the conservative People's Party, which refers to its Christian roots, is likely to have a repulsive effect on part of the electorate - which means that the "Buberl Protocols", as they are called in the Austrian media, could have a lasting political impact.

While Jörg Haider(right wing politician that managed to kill himself by driving against a tree high on coke on the way to his lover - he was anti lgbt of course) once gathered young men, his "Buberlpartie", around him like a court, this troupe now sits at the levers of the Republic. They govern publicly with emotions and internally with emojis. Phrases like "Do it for me" give an insight into the political establishment, about which the current Finance Minister Gernot Blümel complained in an orthographically not quite correct form: "Yes, everything is a mess".

But all this is no reason for a public debate on decency in politics, a reason for an apology or even a resignation - at least not in Austria. An Austrian solution was found for Thomas Schmid this week. The supervisory board he handpicked took note that Schmid's contract expires in 2022. And Finance Minister Blümel, in a TV appearance, only wrestled his way to the realisation that he had "not necessarily always chosen the right wording" in these chats. Thomas Bernhard wrote so aptly in his play "Heldenplatz": "Austria itself is nothing but a stage on which everything has rotted and degenerated and decayed."

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/oesterreich-politik-kurz-bluemel-1.5259818 (Translated from German)

And I still haven’t even started about the laptop in the baby stroller.

#austria #politik #europe #austrian stuff #österreich #sebastian kurz #politics

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No Power Left to the Vanquished

My feelings, Conscript Fathers, are extremely different, when I contemplate our circumstances and dangers, and when I revolve in my mind the sentiments of some who have spoken before me. Those speakers, as it seems to me, have considered only how to punish the traitors who have raised war against their country, their parents, their altars, and their homes; but the state of affairs warns us rather to secure ourselves against them, than to take counsel as to what sentence we should pass upon them. Other crimes you may punish after they have been committed; but as to this, unless you prevent its commission, you will, when it has once taken effect, in vain appeal to justice. When the city is taken, no power is left to the vanquished.

- Sallust, quoting Cato the Younger, Bellum Catilinae

In the late years of the Roman Republic, a conspiracy arose from within the ranks of the Senate. The aristocrat Lucius Sergius Catilina attempted to seize control of the government after his bid for consulship failed. One of the consuls, Cicero, exposed the conspiracy and Catilina fled Rome to prepare an army. Five of the conspirators were captured after the letters they wrote, in which they urged people to join the conspiracy, were intercepted. The letters were read before the Senate and Cicero urged for the execution of their authors.

Julius Caesar pled for patience and clemency; after all, Rome had laws and customs to observe. He did not want to set a precedent that the ways of Rome could be set aside because they were inconvenient. Cato the Younger, a longtime (and future) opponent of Caesar, spoke next. His appeal won out because the Senate understood the reality of the scenario he was describing: when an institution is in imminent danger from those who seek to dismantle it, you must question if strict adherence to the institution’s laws and customs is worth more than the existence of the institution itself.

Fourteen years later, Julius Caesar, champion of Roman laws and customs, crossed the Rubicon in defiance of law, custom, and the explicit order of the Senate to mark what would become the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of Caesar’s rule of the Roman Empire. Caesar’s respect for Roman norms and civitas ended when they put him in personal danger. As for Cato, he died with the republic and subsequently became its most lionized martyr.

In 1923, Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff, accompanied by hundreds of other Nazis and members of the paramilitary Sturmabteilung staged the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempted coupe d'état against the regional Bavarian government. Hitler’s goal was to pressure the elected representatives in Munich to turn against the federal government in Berlin through a public show of force and violence. It failed. Hitler was imprisoned, but he used his trial testimony to continue spreading his propaganda and dictated Mein Kampf while serving his sentence. The Beer Hall Putsch was a success for the Nazi party in spite failing to achieve Hitler’s goals.

Ten years later, Hitler was the presidentially-appointed Reichskanzler of Germany. While the Nazis had the most seats in the Reichstag, it was still a minority party. To ensure the passage of the Enabling Act, which gave the chancellor the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag, Hermann Göring, President of the Reichstag, suspended the rules for quorum and outlawed the opposition KPD (Communist party) from participating. Sturmabteilung forces entered the assembly chamber to surround and intimidate the non-Nazi representatives into voting for the law. The passage of the Enabling Act marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Hitler’s dictatorship over the German Reich.

The differences between the Beer Hall Putsch and and the Enabling Act were differences of organizational power, instruments, and outcome, not intent. In both cases, the same bad actors were seeking to overthrow an existing government. President Paul von Hindenburg and Franz von Papen failed to recognize that Hitler and the Nazis not only threatened the principles of the aristocracy or their other political opponents, but the Weimar Republic itself.

Was the Weimar Republic worth saving? It was, by most accounts, including the little my grandmother remembered of it, an awful state. Its government was, putting it mildly, dysfunctional. Many of its citizens lived through an era of terrible poverty and violence following the end of the first World War. But the Reich is what came after. All other avenues of evolutionary institutional or truly revolutionary change ended with the fall of the republic. The world suffered for it.

Trump and his allies have been attacking American institutions for the last four years. Trump doesn’t have the ideological drive of Hitler or the strategic acumen of Caesar. He just has the most base populist instincts to agitate a mob. What he shares with Hitler, Caesar, and other would-be dictators is a desire to remove opposition and the institutional mechanisms of opposition through whatever means are at his disposal. If he can do it through an executive order, he will. If he can do it through political pressure, he will. If can do it through intimidation, quid pro quo exchanges, and other illegal actions, he will. And if it requires a mob of supporters to storm the capitol during a Senate session to overturn their certification vote, he’ll try use that, too.

People have been likening what happened in the U.S. capitol to the Beer Hall Putsch. It’s a fair and reasonable comparison, though Hitler did actually march in his own coup attempt and was wounded during its defeat; Trump just gathered people together, lit a fuse, and watched them go. But it’s important to remember that the differences between the Beer Hall Putsch and the Enabling Act were of organizational power, instruments, and outcome. What if there had been more pro-Trump agitators at the capitol? What if the Senate had not been evacuated in time? What if Trump had more supporters within the Senate to begin with? What if Trump were even mildly more intellectually competent or the various online factional leaders in his mob were more coordinated in their tactics and goals?

Facebook, twitter, and other social media sites have deplatformed Trump. Several companies have suspended hosting services for online communities that have been involved in coordinating fascist, white supremacist mobs in the past. Trump’s supporters, in ignorance or bad faith, have decried that this violates 1st Amendment rights. They are wrong, but even if they were not, the events of January 6th, planned armed protests on the 17th, and threats of violence against Biden’s inauguration on the 20th, represent the kind of imminent institutional danger that Cato spoke of during the Catiline Conspiracy. “When the city is taken, no power is left to the vanquished.”

We have wrestled with how the government and corporations should moderate social media since these platforms emerged. We will continue to do so in the future. While we must take guard against the transformation of severe actions in time of crisis into the de facto way of handling our day-to-day problems, we must also recognize and act to resolve crises as soon as they appear if we have any interest in preserving the institutions they threaten.

I think of myself as a socialist. My political thought is not as educated, as principled, or as nuanced as many other socialists I know, some of whom think that any efforts to preserve or work within existing American institutions is, at best, naïve; in practice, counterproductive; and, at worst, actively reactionary. I often look at our institutions through the lens of a designer. When I do, I see systems that do not work to produce meaningful social change. I see systems which do not often work to accomplish any goals of its body politic. In practice, our systems serve the needs and interests of the ruling class and the powers that have the means and knowledge to manipulate the members of that class. The systems confine the use of violence and its instruments to the state, as the state sees fit, often to the detriment and mortal peril of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable among us. It is hard for me to sympathize with those who deify the state and its institutions, especially a state like America that treats its citizens so cruelly. It becomes even harder when adjacent political cousins perennially denounce any hesitance to support milquetoast centrist candidates as tantamount to treason. Even so, when fascists, white supremacists, advocates of genocide are positioning themselves to imminently dismantle these institutions through intimidation and violence, it is not difficult for me to see the value in their immediate preservation.

But if the state and its institutions do survive the next few weeks, we will still live in a world where social media and the principles of freedom of speech are vulnerable to the predations of those who would use their contentious legal status to spread lies, foment popular dissent, and, if necessary, coordinate another violent coup d'état when the time is ripe. The next time, perhaps the popular figurehead will not be as ignorant, as incompetent, as craven, as plainly stupid as Donald Trump. You can already see his would-be successors positioning themselves for 2024 in the waning hours of his presidency. The next time, the populist agitators may be more focused in their goals, more coherent in their strategy, more careful in their communication. Those among them who have witnessed the spectacular failure of imbeciles like Jake Angeli, Adam Johnson, and Richard Barnett may be shrewd enough to learn from the disaster as they prepare for the future.

The Weimar Republic became vulnerable to the schemes of the Nazi party because its representatives failed to address the needs of its citizens and because its leaders failed to recognize the magnitude of threat posed by leaders like Adolf Hitler, propagandists like Goebbels, and paramilitary groups like the Sturmabteilung. Our elected representatives may have finally, at this recent brink of disaster, comprehended the threat that Trump and his supporters pose to the existence of the state. After they make their way through January 20th, the federal government will have to address the needs of a disaffected, impoverished, violently-policed, often disenfranchised populace. They will also have to disentangle the mess that the government has created through their laissez-faire attitude toward social and news media regulation. Their actions in the immediate future will tell if they intend to effect meaningful change or if they are content to use the next four years to pave a road to the ruin of the republic.

#essay #politics

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sethnorth · 2 years ago

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#bodybuilder #wrestling #muscle

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rawiswhore · 3 years ago

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Triple H, New Age Outlaws, Val Venis x Fem Reader- "Achtung, Baby"

This was the fanfic I wanted to post today, yet since today is Barbra Streisand's 80th birthday, I've typed 2 fanfics related to her.

"Achtung" means "attention" in German.

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When you were at the height of your wrestling popularity in the late 1990's, you were criticized for being "an attention whore" (with emphasis on the "whore"), a "provocateur", "attention seeking", "controversy and sexuality over talent", "a media whore", "raunchy", "slutty", "trashy", "vulgar", "obscene", etc.

Although, wasn't the World Wrestling Federation's Attitude era of the late 1990's like that in general?

You were a product of your time, but so was the Attitude era in general.

To clap back at your critics, accusations and name calling, during a "Monday Night Raw" episode in August of 1998, you had entered a men's locker room backstage wearing a rather provocative outfit, an outfit enough to give a man an erection.

You were filmed from behind your back, the camera filming the back of your head as well as your back.

When you marched into that locker room, Triple H, the New Age Outlaws and Val Venis were standing inside the locker room busy talking to each other and standing in front of you.

Triple H had his long hair hanging down, so did Billy Gunn.

You strolling into the locker room, as well as them hearing the light clacking of your high heeled stilettos, had interrupted the New Age Outlaws' and Triple H's conversation.

"May I have your attention, please?!" you shouted and asked to them.

You shouting that made Triple H, the New Age Outlaws and Val turn their heads and look at you, all of their eyes were examining you up and down.

All of these aforementioned men's eyes had grown wide while they checked you out and saw you.

"You've got my attention, alright" Triple H said with a smirk while his eyes studied you.

That sounds like something Val Venis would say, but Triple H during his first D Generation X days used to crack infamous dick jokes in the ring.

"Yeah!" Val agreed with a grin, not saying that loudly in a shout or exclaim, his hands moving to his nipples where his fingers horizontally rubbed back and forth on his areolas, stimulating sexual arousal.

"Mine too" the New Age Outlaws chimed in, not saying that in unison, those 2 nodding their heads and smiling.

"She can say that again!" Billy Gunn joked, sticking his index finger under his shirt collar and stretching it out, as if to motion how hot and sexy you are.

Val also made one of those silly wolf whistles at you, like how men make at an attractive woman.

"You get my attention all the time" Triple H purred with a smirk, raising one of his hands and placing it behind your back while he walked closer to you.

"Me too" Val said, walking closer to you and smiling while he placed one of his hands behind your shoulder.

Billy Gunn's hands were covering the crotch area of his shorts, pretending to hide a boner.

You're actually not disgusted over them saying those things to you, as well as not grossed out over Val rubbing his nipples.

In fact, you want Triple H and even Val saying those things to you.

What is attention?

A concentration on the mind on a single object or thought, to watch or listen to someone with interest.

This moment was filmed and broadcast on television, shown all over the world and dubbed in foreign languages.

Later on after this moment, you still continued doing many attention seeking, provocative things and were still called an attention whore (with emphasis on the "whore"), a provocateur, etc.

#triple h #new age outlaws #billy gunn #road dogg #val venis #1998 #90s #attitudeboys #wwf attitude #wwf

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