#Zimbabwe police

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Zimbabwe Police Detain Poll Monitors, Raising Concerns About Election Manipulation

In a sweeping clampdown, Zimbabwean police arrested 41 poll-viewing individuals on accusations of vote count manipulation. This latest development has raised concerns about the credibility of the nation's much-delayed presidential election.

[nando161mando]

Uncritical solidarity with our Goblin comrades.

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The move follows the recent arrest of two traffic enforcement officers in Harare, who were filmed accepting bribes from public transport operators, a situation that sparked significant public outrage. Authorities in Zimbabwe have banned police officers from using mobile phones during working hours. This directive, which requires officers to hand over their personal devices to supervisors upon…

[bipolarism2047]

ur acc is just genocidal cope

also every US politician: “the UN is not legally binding”

israel really is just another western puppet to destabilize a region they dont belong in

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Police in Zimbabwe have initiated and then intensified a special operation against drug traffickers in the country.  Among others, a policeman has been arrested.

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Does anyone remember a children's book set in a futuristic Zimbabwe (?) where the children of a police captain are kidnapped by a gang leader, and three psychic detectives are sent to find them? I remember the cover being shades of purple with some traditional mask on it.

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In May, pro-independence demonstrations spread across New Caledonia, a small Pacific island territory that has been ruled by France since 1853. Waving the flags of the Indigenous Kanak people as well as the flag of the pro-independence Socialist National Liberation Front, demonstrators took to the streets to protest voting reform measures that would give greater political power to recently arrived Europeans.

Curiously, however, they also waved another flag—that of Azerbaijan. Although the similar colors of the New Caledonian and Azerbaijani flags led some to speculate whether the demonstrators had inadvertently acquired the wrong flag, other observers viewed the presence of the Azerbaijani flag as an indication of ideological support from Baku.

It turns out, the Azerbaijani flags were not mistaken. Since March 2023, Baku has strategically cultivated support for the New Caledonian independence movement under the guise of anti-colonial solidarity. As payback for French diplomatic backing of Armenia after Azerbaijan’s 2020 invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku has disseminated anti-French disinformation related to New Caledonia. Following the outbreak of protests this May, France publicly accused Azerbaijan of doing so.

Baku’s influence campaign successfully inflamed long-simmering hostilities toward French descendants in New Caledonia, culminating in violent demonstrations and riots, which triggered a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron—as well as French police forces—even though Macron ultimately issued a de facto suspension of the reforms.

The incident in New Caledonia is hardly an isolated one. Anti-colonialism, which rose as a powerful ideological force during the 1960s and 1970s, is having a resurgence, and its philosophical underpinnings continue to shape some of the biggest geopolitical crises of the day, from Gaza to Ukraine. But unlike the decolonization movements of the Cold War era, this wave is being driven by opportunistic illiberal regimes that exploit anti-colonial rhetoric to advance their own geopolitical agendas—and, paradoxically, their own colonial-style land grabs.

The basic aims of the decolonization movement during the Cold War were twofold: securing national independence for countries colonized by the West and preserving sovereignty for postcolonial countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, whether through armed struggle or ideological diplomacy. Focused on ending the Vietnam War and fighting white minority rule in southern Africa, the movement quickly became the cause célèbre of the international left.

Despite divergent views on economic and social issues, the movement’s proponents coalesced around a central belief that Western imperialism, particularly the U.S. variant, singlehandedly held back the advancement and development of what was then known as the third world—ignoring the fact that many anti-colonial movements often had their own internal issues of graft and corruption. Disheartened by the West’s history of imperialism, many on the left even embraced authoritarian leaders, such as Zimbabwe’s anti-colonial freedom fighter-turned-despot Robert Mugabe and even former North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.

Today, the anti-colonial movement is less about securing independence for the few remaining colonial outposts or debating the proper developmental pathway for countries in the global south. Bolstered by powerful state-backed media corporations in the capitals of authoritarian states, the current movement is largely a Trojan horse for the advancement of global illiberalism and a revision of the international rules-based order.

Authoritarian governments in Eurasia have taken their influence operations to social media, where they hope to inflame grievances—possibly into actual conflicts—to divert the attention of Washington and its allies from areas of strategic importance. This is the case for not only Azerbaijan, but also for China in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Iran, which provides financial support to anti-Israel protest groups in the United States.

But more than any other country, it is Russia that is attempting to ride the resurgent anti-colonial wave and position itself as a leading voice of the global south. Russian leadership describes itself as the vanguard of the “global majority” and claims to be leading “the objective process of building a more just multipolar world.”

After his visit to Pyongyang in June, Putin wrote in North Korea’s main newspaper that the United States seeks to impose a “global neo-colonial dictatorship” on the world. In the United States, several Russians alleged by prosecutors to be intelligence agents have been accused of funneling financial support to an anti-colonial Black socialist group to promote pro-Russian narratives and justify Russia’s illegal military actions in Ukraine. And in regard to New Caledonia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova fanned the flames when she said in May that the tensions there stemmed “from the lack of finality in the process of its decolonization.”

Moscow’s primary stage to project itself as the spearhead of a new global anti-colonial movement is Africa. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union provided ideological and military support to numerous national liberation movements and anti-colonial struggles in sub-Saharan Africa on the grounds of proletarian internationalism and socialist solidarity. According to a declassified 1981 CIA report, Namibia’s SWAPO guerilla group received nearly all of its arms from the Soviet Union, and Soviet military personnel trained South African anti-apartheid guerrillas in Angola-based training camps. Moscow also trained and educated a large number of African independence fighters and anti-colonial rebels at Communist Party schools and military institutes back in the Soviet Union.

This legacy of Soviet internationalism and socialist goodwill generated lingering sympathy for the Kremlin, and Russia continues to be widely perceived as a torchbearer of anti-colonial justice and national independence on the continent, particularly in the Francophone Sahel region. Before his death in August 2023, former Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin blamed instability in the Sahel on Western interventionism, saying, “The former colonizers are trying to keep the people of African countries in check. In order to keep them in check, the former colonizers are filling these countries with terrorists and various bandit formations. Thus creating a colossal security crisis.”

Despite Moscow’s own imperialist legacy and its current war of recolonization in Ukraine, Russia is increasingly seen as an anti-Western stalwart in the Sahel and a key supporter of anti-French political movements. Kremlin-backed mercenaries from the Wagner Group’s successor, Africa Corps, have supplanted French security services as the primary counterinsurgency force for fragile West African governments. And in addition to the counter-insurgency operations, Russian mercenaries have provided personal protection for key African military and government leaders.

But the shift from French to Russian interventionism in the Sahel raises the question of just how much national sovereignty the governments in the affected countries have.

Military juntas in West Africa exploit anti-French sentiments among the general public in order to obscure the fact that they are merely relying on a different foreign state for regime security, effectively trading one colonialist power for another. Most importantly for the juntas, unlike the French, the Russian security forces have no qualms about violently cracking down on political dissent and committing war crimes. For example, in late March 2022, Russian mercenaries assisted the Malian military in summarily executing around 300 civilians in the Malian town of Moura, according to Human Rights Watch.

With its colonial baggage, France has struggled to penetrate pro-Russian propaganda in its former African colonies. For instance, Afrique Média, an increasingly popular Cameroon-based television network, often echoes the Kremlin’s positions on international events. In April 2022, Afrique Média promoted a Russia-produced propaganda video that depicted a Russian mercenary escaping his African jihadi captors and then revealing U.S, and French flags behind an Islamic State flag, suggesting that these Western countries are supporting religious extremists.

Russia’s anti-colonial crusade belies its efforts to advance its own political and economic interests. Moscow’s efforts in Africa are borne from a desire to undercut Western influence in the region; shore up diplomatic support for itself in multilateral forums, such as the United Nations; and reinstate Russia’s reputation as a global superpower. Moscow may also seek to secure access to Africa’s vast natural resources, including criterial minerals, and take advantage of illicit networks, such as illegal gold mining, to circumvent international sanctions and fund its war in Ukraine.

Authoritarian regimes, including those in Russia, China, and Azerbaijan, would not exploit anti-colonial rhetoric if it did not continue to resonate in the global south. Long-standing economic disparities with the global north and painful histories of Western interventionism, especially the post-9/11 U.S. wars in the Middle East, have fostered sympathy for revisionist authoritarian regimes. The current humanitarian crisis in Gaza has heightened feelings of Western hypocrisy among some commentators and public figures in the global south.

As Kenyan journalist Rasna Warah explains, “There is deep sympathy and support [in the West] for Ukrainians who are being bombed and made homeless by Russia but Palestinians being killed and being denied food and water are seen as deserving of their fate.”

Therefore, it is crucial for Western governments to acknowledge the shortcomings of the current international liberal order to governments in the global south, rather than attempting to gaslight them into believing that it is equitable and just. The Western-led international order has a long history of violence and instability in the developing world. The trauma of Western imperialism and colonialism should not be forgotten but rather reworked into developmental programs that help to build robust institutions and infrastructure in the global south.

For example, Germany’s joint declaration with Namibia in 2021, which acknowledged the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples between 1904 and 1908, committed $1.2 billion over the next 30 years to funding aid projects in Namibia, which are more likely to have a long-lasting positive effect on the development of Namibian institutions than individual financial handouts to descendants of colonial-era violence.

In the near term, the United States and its Western allies should actively counter propaganda from Baku, Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing that seeks to portray these nations as free from interventionist pasts. Exposing their disinformation campaigns in the global south—starting with labeling social media accounts linked to state-run media—could help to alert the public to the presence of bad-faith actors, who exploit genuine anti-colonial grievances for their own political and economic goals.

While the Soviets were certainly no saints, there was a genuine internationalist and collectivist spirit in their interactions with the Cold War anti-colonial movement. The same cannot be said for Russia today.

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UK: Jew Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Finally Forced to Resign Over Pederast Conspiracy.

This took literally forever.

Everyone has known for years and years that Jewish “Archbishop” Justin Welby is a pederast involved in a vast conspiracy to sodomize young boys.

There was nothing surprising about that. People should have known this was happening as soon as they saw his face.

It is frankly a bit surprising that he finally got charged over this. Usually, these people just keep getting away with it.

AP:

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday amid the fallout from a long-running sexual abuse scandal. Welby stepped down after an independent investigation found that he had failed to inform police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it. Here are the answers to some questions about the Church of England, Welby’s decision and its global significance. The Church of England, also known as the Anglican Church, is a Christian denomination and the official church of England. It was created in the 16th century when the English church broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. The church is part of the global Anglican Communion, a family of churches that has over 85 million members in more than 165 countries. Britain’s monarch is the supreme governor of the Church of England and has the power to appoint bishops and other church leaders. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the head of the Church of England and is traditionally seen as the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion. Each of the 46 churches that comprise the Anglican Communion has its own primate, but the Archbishop of Canterbury is considered first among equals. … An independent investigation last week released its long-awaited report into the late John Smyth, who sexually, psychologically and physically abused more than 100 boys and young men at Christian summer camps in the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and South Africa over five decades. The 251-page report concluded that Welby failed to report Smyth to authorities when he was informed of the abuse in August 2013, soon after he became Archbishop of Canterbury. Had he done so, Smyth could have been stopped sooner and many of his victims wouldn’t have been abused, the report found. Welby initially refused to resign, saying he was wrongly informed that police had already been notified and he shouldn’t do anything to interfere with their investigation. But his position became untenable after a growing number of church leaders and victims criticized him for failing to take responsibility for the scandal.

Although you don’t have to be Jewish to be a homosexual pederast, it helps.

Why was a Jew the head of the Church of England?

Didn’t anyone think that was strange ?

Andrew Anglin for the DailyStormer

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*🌍 A҉F҉R҉I҉C҉A҉*

*𝒁𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒘𝒆'𝒔* 🇿🇼 gold-backed *𝒁𝑰𝑮* , which stands for Zimbabwe Gold, being the country's sixth attempt at a stable currency in _15 years_ , is facing headwinds five months on.

It was introduced in April at a rate of *13.6 ZiG per U.S* . dollar and has since lost almost 80% of its value on the black market.

Wheat farmers have refused to be paid in the local currency instead they want payment solely in United States dollars.

President *_Emmerson Mnangagwa_* 's government has buckled under pressure and will now pay in US Dollars.

For now, the use of the local currency has been turned into part-time legal tender.

In May, the government unleashed Republic police, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission on people rejecting new ZiG currency and to try to enforce the acceptance of ZiG.

Some businesses, such as gas stations, refuse to accept the ZiG in favor of U.S. dollars.

Across Zimbabwe, it is widely used for paying rent, school fees and to buy groceries. Many citizens, including government workers, take their local currency earnings to the black market to trade for dollars.

Some departments, like the office that issues and renews passports, also accept only greenbacks. Many others still list their fees in U.S. dollars, although they accept the equivalent in local currency.

*Source: @Reuters, @AP,* *@NewsDayZimbabwe.* 🇿🇼

*@𝑴𝒈* 💕🕊️

*#A҉F҉R҉I҉C҉A҉_U҉N҉I҉T҉E҉D҉* 🌍

*𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭𝓹𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮𝓸𝓯𝓪𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪.𝓸𝓻𝓰*

☕︎☕︎☕︎

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-state-media-says-several-israeli-missiles-hit-damascus-2024-02-21/

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hi! i love your blog :D. this might be a weird one but do you have any recommendations for possession or demon movies that DON'T deal with Christianity or where Christianity isn't the solution? thanks!

thank you ❤️!!

Suspiria (1977; Italy): occult/giallo; the students of a dance academy begin to die horribly; no specific religion

The Evil Dead (1981; USA): occult/horror comedy; a group of college kids discover an occult tome while vacationing in a cabin; no specific religion

Hellraiser (1987; UK): occult/supernatural horror; a puzzle box that summons interdimensional sadistmasochists falls into nefarious hands; no specific religion

Evil Dead II (1987; USA): occult/horror comedy; a young man is beset by demons while staying in the cabin of an occult researcher; no specific religion

Army of Darkness (1992; USA): occult/horror comedy; after Evil Dead II, Ash finds himself fighting deadites in the Middle Ages; Christianity is there but not the solution

Noroi: The Curse (2005; Japan): occult/found footage; a paranormal investigator tries to tie together a series of bizarre events; Shinto

Evil Dead (2013; USA): occult/slasher/reboot; a group of friends run afoul of demons while trying to help their friend get sober; no specific religion

Jug Face (2013; USA): occult/cosmic horror; a young woman tries to evade fate in a village that worships a bloody thirsty entity; fictional cult

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014; USA): occult/found footage; a documentary crew follows a woman dealing with dementia (warning: there is a racially insensitive aspect regarding Native American beliefs)

Baskin (2015; Turkey): occult/surrealist; a police squad stumble upon a horrifying ritual; Islam

Satan's Slaves (2017; Indonesia): occult; after dying of a strange illness, a woman returns for her children; Islam

The Ritual (2017; UK): occult; a group of friends get lost in an eerie Norwegian forest; fictional Nordic cult

May the Devil Take You (2018; Indonesia): occult; an estranged daughter seeks an explanation for her father's strange illness; religion not specified

8: A South African Horror Story (2019; South Africa): occult; a financially struggling family contends with sins of the past; South African folk religion

The Vigil (2019; USA): occult; a young man struggling with his faith sits vigil for a recently deceased man; Judaism

The Night House (2020; USA): occult/supernatural horror; a woman fears her home is haunted after her husband's suicide; fictional occult beliefs

Nevanji (2021; Zimbabwe): occult; a family turns to traditional magic to save their son; unspecified Zimbabwean religion

The Old Ways (2020; USA): occult; a reporter returns to her home in Mexico and is accused of being possessed; traditional Nahua faith

The Offering (2023; USA): occult; a man returns to his father's funeral home to try to repair their relationship; Judaism

Evil Dead Rise (2023; USA); occult; a boy accidentally awakens an ancient evil that plagued his family; Christianity is explicitly stated to NOT be the solution

When Evil Lurks (2023; Argentina): occult/supernatural horror; two brothers try to outrun evil after encountering a "rotten," someone spiritually gestating a demon; God is declared dead

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max's august 2024 reads

this was my recovery-from-intense-writing-workshop month, by which i mean the month where i read nonstop at work and two (2) bad shakespeare retellings drove me to frothing fits of madness

fiction

Queen Goneril by Erin Shields (review)

King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth and Stephanie Kate Strohm (review)

Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker (review)

Selkie Stories Are For Losers by Sofia Samatar (I hate selkie stories. They're always about how you went up to the attic to look for a book, and you found a disgusting old coat and brought it downstairs between finger and thumb and said "What's this?", and you never saw your mom again.)

Zimmer Land by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (on working in a near-future police brutality simulator)

The Clown Watches the Clown by Sara S. Messenger (idk how to describe this one it's so delightfully weird and thoughtful)

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong (review)

finished my A Tale of Two Cities reread

Aktis Aeliou, or The Machine of Margot's Destruction by Natalia Theodoridou (on the romance of obliteration, and also meeting god in a spaceship crash)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (review)

The Place of the Rainbow by Rutendo Chidzodzo (THAT'S ONE OF MY CLARION WEST FRIENDS!!!! YOU READ THIS BEAUTIFUL OPTIMISTIC LOVE LETTER TO ZIMBABWE RIGHT NOW!!!)

Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies by Isabel Cañas (this is flash and much more fantastical than it sounds and it stuck me in the heart)

nonfiction

the end of Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (review)

Details That You Should Include In Your Article On How We Should Do Something About Mentally Ill Homeless People

Inventing the Crisis by Kay Gabriel (proposing that the recent trans moral panic is also a weapon directed against teachers, which is not something i'd ever thought about but this article sells it pretty well)

other

i watched the first 5 episodes of the righteous gemstones and now the fucking cutesy corny church song is in my head and won't leave

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As Africa was recovering from the wounds inflicted by slavery on the continent, colonization crept in, and till date, most African countries that were subjected to European imperialist aggression and military invasions continue to counts their loses.

This was especially true as Europeans, before leaving Africa made sure they amassed any valuable item they could lay their hands on.

Though most African states have successfully recovered some of their “taken” valuables from colonial masters, the world’s largest diamond referred to as the ‘Star of Africa’ that was taken from South Africa during colonization might never leave the British crown jewel collection.

Today, used by the British Monarchy in their Crown Jewels selection, the Cullinan diamonds as they are formally known remains the largest diamond ever found.

The stone was discovered near Pretoria in South Africa on 26 January 1905.

As history holds, after the Boer republics, Orange Free State and the South African Republic were defeated in battle by the British who went on to institute their leadership throughout modern-day South Africa . In 1907, the Cullinan was presented to King Edward VII by the Government of the Transvaal (a former province of South Africa bordering with Botswana and Zimbabwe to the North.)

Britain insists it was a symbolic gesture intended to heal the rift between Britain and South Africa following the Boer War. However, history recounts that the British were the ones paying repatriations.

The stone was taken under heavy British police escort to Sandringham and formally presented on the King’s 66th birthday.

Today, the South African diamond plays a vital rule in British monarchy as it lights up the Imperial State Crown which holds 317.4 carats Cullinan II on the front.

The remaining numbered diamonds were kept by Asschers (the diamond cutter) as payment for their work.

Cullinan VI and VIII were later brought privately by King Edward VII as a gift for Queen Alexandra, and the others were acquired by the South African Government and again back to the British. According to the Royal Collection Trust, the remaining piece from the “Star of Africa” was given to Queen Mary in 1910, in memory of the Inauguration of the Union.

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Helpful context for the US support of Israel (which extends far further than the occasional end-times evangelical)

But Israel’s new role as US watchdog was not just regional. In fact, in the ensuing decades, Israel carried out this role globally: providing arms to dictators and regimes worldwide that the US could not openly support and training military and police forces in repressing uprisings and controlling migration. After 1967, Israel began to establish its own full-scale arms industry. Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Israel covertly and overtly supported Latin American dictatorships, apartheid South Africa, and the Iranian shah with arms and paramilitary training. At times, it served as a direct conduit for US arms, providing weapons to regimes notorious for their brutality that the US could not support directly. Israel supplied the vast majority of arms imported by the right-wing military government of El Salvador and its paramilitary death squads and gave millions to the Salvadoran regime. Israel acted as major arms supplier to Guatemala’s police force, even as it was “condemned by Amnesty International and other human rights groups for its part in official death squads responsible for the murders of thousands” and to the Somoza regime of Nicaragua, supplying more than 90 percent of its arms as the regime killed tens of thousands. Somoza bombed the slums of Nicaragua “mainly with Israeli-made Arava and West Wind planes.” This pattern was widespread, as Israel also supplied arms to dictatorial regimes in Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. All these regimes killed and disappeared thousands in their “dirty wars.”

The US also used Israel to supply and train repressive regimes across Africa, including Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), Malawi, and apartheid South Africa. In South Africa—where the racism of the state had isolated it from most of the world’s countries—the US funneled helicopters through Israel to circumvent the embargo. Israel did the same with South African products, selling them globally. This was in addition to extensive economic and military collaboration between the two states. This same pattern was repeated in Asia, with Israel supplying the regimes of Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Israel even sold arms to Iran, including during the hostage crisis, with Ronald Reagan’s covert consent. In short, Israel has supported regimes around the world bent on crushing democratic movements that might pose a challenge to an oppressive status quo—one that both the US and Israel rely on to maintain their global dominance.

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean (2020) Click here to download the free ebook from Haymarket Books

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On where the money goes

Genocide:

noun

the deliberate killing or severe mistreatment of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group:

The Khmer Rouge lost power in Cambodia the year before I was born.

Mugabe, in Zimbabwe, orchestrated a genocide of the Shona people (and others, there are always others) from 1982 until 1987.

Between 1987 and 1989, the famine in Somalia covered up an ethnic genocide, as well.

People “disappeared” under Pinochet in Chile until 1990.

Between 1981 and 1993, it was unofficial policy in the United States to ignore AIDS.

Guatemala systemically eradicated their Maya population until 1996.

And of course, there’s Bosnia-Herzegovina, the former Soviet States, Myanmar, the Kurds . . .

Which leads me to Palestine.

There are a lot of people upset right now that fans of a certain show are spending time, money, and effort to get their show back on the air. Time, money, and effort that their detractors feel could be better used to help victims in Palestine.

First: it’s never ok to police how someone spends their free time, free money, or free energy.

If that doesn’t deter you, then, let me explain why I started with the Khmer Rouge. If you follow the timeline, there has been at least one, and usually more than one, active genocide every year since I’ve been born. 

This has been quiet and loud, with no international intervention and with very high-powered and high-dollar international intervention. The UN has been involved. The Red Cross (and Red Crescent). The EU. NATO.

But, even more telling, depending on the political winds in the United States (where it seems the majority of these fans, and the company they are protesting, are based) we may be looking at a cultural genocide of our own.

In big ways and small ways, the LGBTQIA+2S community is being outlawed, state by state, community by community. Canceling the art that showcases queer actors and characters is a beginning part of that.

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KNOWN ALIASES, PART TWO:

Over the years, River has taken up many new aliases out of necessity, Sister Cantica, Miss Spritz, River Allegro. The list is as endless as it is frankly, obvious, which serves the dual purpose of being easy to remember and, a private joke she can enjoy. Of the many, many names, there are four that she finds herself coming back to over the years.Though these particular aliases are active for a long period of time, it does not mean that she lived linearly, keeping careful note of when it was safe to jump back and forwards between her own time-stream.

Here are the final two of those aliases ...

ALLEGRA MARLOWE verse; Post Library ( arc: I could take the whole world with me. )

Name meaning: Allegra typically means joy or lively in the original Italian. She chose it for it's semblance to Allegro however. ( musical term ) Marlowe she chose for it's French origins, meaning from the hill by the lake. Occupation: Anthropologist Qualifications: Doctorate in Anthropology, University of Edinburgh Time zone: Europe/Asia 1980-2008 Nationality: Scottish. Fictional Biography: Allegra comes from a very loving home in Scotland, where her mother supposedly still resides. She is most probably human ( her words ) and not not from around here. Allegra loves to travel and claims she has a rich benefactor which explains the houses in her name dotting the coast lands from the Greek islands all the way down to the Maldives. Her favourite home however is a small yacht she purchased to travel in, which is almost always hosting a party onboard. Despite her lifestyle and her openness to embrace new friends, little is truly known about Allegra. She died in 2008 on June 6 when Soputan erupted in Sulawesi, her body never recovered. Some say a flying saucer passed over head that same day.

NIAMH BERTRUN: verse; Post Library ( arc: Gloria, did you finally see that enough is enough? )

Name meaning: In Irish mythology, Niamh is the daughter of the god of the sea. Bertrun from the ancient Germanic name means secret lore. Put together, the literal translation is, secret song. Occupation: Museum Curator. Qualifications: Double degree in Archaeology and Paleoecology, Queen's University, Belfast. Time zone: Ireland 2010 -2026. Nationality: Irish.( Born in Zimbabwe ) Fictional Biography: Unlike Allegra, Niamh was quiet, reserved, the kind of woman who entered a room last, and left first. Little is known about her save two facts. Niamh Bertrun doesn't let anyone close enough to know her truths, and she certainly wouldn't want to. A museum curator by trade, she has scarcely left Ireland. Indeed the furthermost point she's gone is to travel down to Dublin where she now resides. She owns a house in the country, away from everyone and everything. She went missing over a weekend in late May of 2026, her absence only missed the following Monday when she failed to turn up at the Museum. Her colleagues reported her missing and it was thoroughly investigated by police, but the trail ran cold. Curiously, footage has unearthed nearby of a police box appearing beside the local pub around the time she disappeared.