#ale watches station 19

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it’s been a hot minute since i’ve gone on a deep dive about station 19 (partially my faul because i’m busy losing my marbles on twitter, what can i say) anyways, i wanted to go in depth about the episodes because it’s nice to do what i started doing and two it allows me to rewatch the episode and catch details that i normally wouldn’t when i’m watching it live. after all that being said, buckle up folks it’s 6x07 time! as usual spoilers ahead:

picking up right where we left off, the incident at meredith’s which of course was the scene where 19 was called at and of course what mortified all of us for more than 100 days, maya’s fall and her injuries once someone found her + also interesting to notice that beckett allowed andy to handle the scene, does that mean he was unable to call the shots or he’s playing safe here? + jack finding maya made sense since he was there but i’m curious, he noticed her turnouts on the floor and didn’t wonder where she was? like if she was on desk duty her turnouts wouldn’t be there in the first place idk

something that lots of people pointed out is that jack just carried maya without any support on her neck and back and i agree with them, he didn’t know the extent of her injuries or how long she was down, i’m wondering why he didn’t call 911 first and just waited for them to help but i guess that was made for the drama (?) + i’m wondering how the whole mayor storyline will unfold, like is montgomery gonna quit being a firefighter or what? unless dixon gets arrested or something for a scandal i don’t know where this is headed

i just wished ross character wasn’t involved romantically with sullivan that would be great + oh travis you messed up big time + this story was wild af, to think that these things happen all the time and they turn way worse than this is disgusting + the way maya pushed herself to that limit hurts my soul, to know that she will get the help she needs down the road gives me a little comfort but right now it hurts + i have to say the cuffs threw me off so badly😂

“where’s carina?” oh no poor maya this is just the beginning of a rollercoaster + “you look guilty” lmao busted + this is so random for sure + poor kid :( + the second carina saw jack she knew something was wrong, the tremble in her voice gave it away + i have to say danielle’s performance is so incredible, you can notice how broken maya looks by just staring at her eyes + and of course she doesn’t realize how bad she is… trauma and abuse is a hell of a thing

hughes, herrera and ross were the mvp of this episode totally + i was so tense the entire scene geez + this scene is so important when jack tells carina about maya, at first i was like ugh not again jack being in the middle of maya and carina but rewatching it i noticed how this seems to be the moment where carina chooses to help maya whether she wants it or not.

these women are incredible and i wished they would fight sexism and the abuse within the force because i know they can

not adrdessing the ladies too much because the two storylines happening are literally the only thing i was able to think for this entire episode

the way maya doesn’t even begin to see how hurt she is and how badly she needs to allow others to help hurts me, the worst part is that so many people can relate to this, growing up under abusive parenting can result into this and even worse things, i just wanna hug maya so badly

i also want to hug carina so badly, i don’t think she knows the extent of maya’s trauma maybe just bits and pieces but not the whole story which makes me wonder if the show will ever let them figure this out and have a conversation about it + i hate how they all worried after maya literally was vanishing in front of them like ugh + i’m surprised how no one has actually caught beckett day drinking, this man has been slipping since he got to station 19 + carina leaving really broke me :(

that was such an emotional episode like wow i ended up having to lay down for a minute or two because my head was spinning. i watched this live, i read lots of opinions about maya and carina and i just have to say there’s no good or bad in this story, maya has endured abuse her entire life and as result she pushes herself to the point of hurting, physically and mentally of course; carina also has endured abuse but the way she was affected by this is clearly different from maya’s, she isn’t a bad person by taking some space and time to understand the next steps, she has to take care of herself and in order to do that she needed maya to understand she needs help too. it’s so easy to point fingers and say “oh maya is horrible for saying those things” or “carina is awful because she left”. maya is hurt and obviously what she said wasn’t nice by any means but i remember reading somewhere that hurt people hurts people, and again carina has spend basically her entire life taking care of others, she needs the space to heal and allow maya to heal too.

station 19 came back stronger than ever and after this episode and 6x08 (which i watched live but i’m gonna rewatch because the streaming was wacky) it makes me feel that we’re getting something far better than we got in season 5 and for that i’m grateful. it may or may not be the writer’s intention but they created the most layered and best character in the entire show and her name is maya bishop. catch ya in the next one!

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little funny fic

was reminded of the pandemic today (nearly 5 years since the first recorded case… good lord how time flies) and the election has me a bit (very) jittery, so I figured might as well make some fanfic, it might get my mind off of kt

so without further ado, my really dumb idea that I might expand upon later

what if the squad were stuck on deployment when future covid struck?

written in my notes app so far styling and spelling and stuff are probably terrible but I’m tired

AL:150, 16th of December 2380

Semperternity:

AL SIGINT division camera 725:

A gremp in a grubby coat wanders into frame, he locks eyes with a portly Terran and they swap paper bags. The human looks inside and walks off.

The gremp opens the bag, removes a cut of raw meat, and yawns. It then rubs its eyes.

18th of December 2380:

Aurora Legion Field hospital patient report 726437:

Species: Gremp

Ailment: unknown 

Symptoms: Persistent cough, fever, nausea, loss of taste and smell.

Treatment: Painkillers (Tylenol 100mg).

Mucus samples sent to lab for testing.

19th of December 2380:

AL neutral zone primary medical laboratory report:

Sample number 283636:

Common cold: negative

Influenza: negative 

Lystergia: negative 

Other respiratory viruses: negative

Notes: I ran these tests multiple times. Whatever this thing is I haven’t seen it before. Tests indicate it can infect at least 10 different species of sentients.

Quarantine the subject immediately.

January 4th 2381: 

Current semperternity case count: 284.

Tyler: My fancy new cybernetic eye really saves me so much trouble sometimes. I can sit in my dorm and read the news while sipping my coffee, saves me from having to get the physical copies from down in the cafeteria.

The legion is bumping up resources being sent to semperternity, I heard some whispers about a new virus or something? I have mission with the squad to deliver some medtech out that way later today.

March 12 2381:

Current total case count: 1,002,933

Current cases in the legion: 726

Scar:

My first thought when they sent us out to a listening post for an easier mission was “this will suck”. Imagine my surprise when our deployment is extended from 20 days to 20 weeks at the earliest because of this new virus, Covid-80 or something. Came out of semperternity and theirs big worry it’s some kinda of Rahaam offshoot, cause ya know, of course, once in a century pandemic just after a once in an aeon weed uprising. Just what we needed.

The one benefit is that I get to room with fin for the foreseeable future…. I hope the walls are thick.

Auri:

Time is once again laughing at me. The memories of the last pandemic I had to live through are still fresh. I never got over seeing New York that empty… such a freaky sight. Now I’m stuck in another one… yay? They kept the old naming scheme though, I had Covid-53 but now we have Covid-80. Very futuristic. But now me and the rest of the squad are stuck out in the boondocks on a rinky dink station for the next looooooooooooong while.

Maybe I can finally get everyone to watch the Lord of the Rings movies…

March 21 2381:

Current total cases: 1,103,833,936

Cases in the legion: 2,026

Tyler:

I enjoy reading about history, and I have nothing but free time given my… current situation.. so I’ve started reading the histories of pandemics in the past. I read about the crippling effects of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, of the far reaching social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the political change from the Ghentpox. I’ve called in a favor with an old friend currently working in the labs, and I’m seeing the numbers: I don’t think this will let up any time soon.

I might have to call in some favors, or some company, or both. I fiddle with the Syldrathi Blade on the table, and I make a call.

Finian:

Don’t get me wrong, sharing a bunk with Scarlett jones is quite possible the 2nd best thing to ever happen to me, the only thing better being dating her in the first place, but between her and the lack of zero G I’m barely able to walk. I might have to convince her to share my quarters on the Zero.

Anyways, I’m bored out of my skull, I’m only here for emergency repairs, so I have nothing to do on the average day beyond screwing around with whatever scrap electronics I can find. My Exosuit now has: a second bottom opener, an emergency oxygen system, a gremlin and the EM hardening to resist it in a special power mode, Solar charging, a Maker Damned Cupholder. I and genuinely running out of things to do. Maybe I should make something for Scarlett….

April 2nd 2381: 

Total cases: 1,356,736,378

Cases in the legion: 7362

Kal: 

I have come to understand why my culture emphasizes time to be alone and time being away from one’s Besh’mai. Without that, we would all spend all our days simply lying in bed with our beloveds. I have had amble opportunity to do so, and my heart aches when I think of when this will all be over.

I wake up with my Besh’mai next to me, we eat breakfast together, we play the card games Scar organizes together, we watch the pirated holovid movies finian has together. My heart is full to bursting with joy. Even my words here cannot describe it, for how does one describe a rainbow to a blind man? How does one describe an orchestra to a deaf man?. I can say this much, it is true peace to have her here, and I thank the ghosts of syldra for smiling at me so.

Saedii:

My shuttle was the last vessel to leave new syldra. I received special admission to travel from the Galactic Health organization. Gone are the days where my mighty ship sailed the void with no care for such organizations, but such things must be put aside to rebuild a culture.

I arrived at the backwater station after 16 hours of folding. Tyler Jones had personally invited me here, and though I loathed to admit it, I missed his company. I guide my personal shuttle into the docking bay, next to that hideous ship that I had planted a tracker on what was only months ago. And what long months they were. From officially organizing the reintegration (NOT surrender) treaty of the unbroken into sydrathi society to reorganizing the warbreed away back into a part of the whole, I had scarce time to catch my breath

Part two coming sometime maybe

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) - Watched on August 5, 2023

It spirals to its inevitable conclusion. We revisit a moment, a scene. A little more plays out, we step back or step forward. We live transfixed in a moment. Sometimes a scene mirrors another, it's all the same but with different details. There is no escaping fate, we can only be sucked closer and closer to our inevitable conclusion.

Stop Making Sense (1984) - Watched on October 5, 2023

I genuinely don’t think this needs any explanation or justification at all. I could watch it over and over and over and over and over.

Possession (1981) - Watched on October 17, 2023

It took me three sittings to get through this film and I wasn’t sure I liked it immediately after I finished it. And then it just simmered in my mind for days and weeks after until it finally clicked into place. I love the way Sam Neill moves in this. Everyone comments on the haunting way Isabelle Adjani looks directly into the camera, and yea. Yeah. Ok. Yeah. Yeah.

The Devils (1971) - Watched on June 26, 2023

I thought going into it with the full knowledge of Urbain Grandier would defang it, and perhaps this did soften the blow a bit, but it's audacious, frenzied, sensual. You get tangled up in its themes, its sensations, its torture.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Watched on January 13, 2023

This set off a brief and ferocious obsession with Al Pacino. I have a strained relationship with films based on true crimes, but this slides past my qualms, perhaps just on the strength of the fact John Wojtowicz himself did write a review of it.

Bound (1996) - Watched on April 5 and August 19, 2023

The way Corky and Violet can come together with genuine trust so quickly. The way Ceaser can misunderstand Violet so fundamentally. The literal betrayal in realising who someone is.

Häxan (1922) - Watched on October 27, 2023

The 1922 equivalent of a Youtube video essay where a guy is like, "Guys, I just learned a bunch of fucked up facts about witches and witch trials. I think maybe we just execute women for being poor and mentally ill. Also aren't mental institutions a bit fucked up?" but like, a bit hornier than you would expect for the subject.

Cruising (1980) - Watched on January 17, 2023

It’s all about looking and being noticed. The camera is looking. Al Pacino is looking. The men are looking. And the ambiguity of the gaze and the plot.

Pontypool (2008) - Watched on October 4, 2023

It's a film about words. It's a film about broadcasting from a radio station and seeing nothing. Our imagination fills in the visual gaps. It's so much more horrifying to be piecing everything together from the safety of a recording booth.

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) - Watched on February 1, 2023

Hugh Grant—looking like a lesbian—who is a freaky little rich boy who believes in cryptids, Peter Capaldi—looking like a lesbian—sucking snake venom from a neck bite, an incredibly sexy snake woman with a house full of snake stuff, a giant snake puppet, surreal dream sequences, the coolest game of snakes and ladders ever made, snake dicks, weaponised bagpipe music, homoeroticism, and giant strap-ons.

Ravenous (1999) - Watched on October 19, 2023

This film is so offbeat and strange. It has the strange feel of a comedy, while being a really understandably grim depiction of cannibalism as manifestation of greed, expansionism, and colonization. I kept having these moments of shock that this was a studio movie, that studios were willing to make this film that so thoroughly deconstructs the American mythology.

Penda's Fen (1974) - Watched on July 6, 2023

The first movie in a long time that has made me feel as though I need to pick it apart like an essay, to rewatch multiple times and take notes and repeat sentences until I’ve done a thorough analysis. I've never had a film hit me in quite this way before.

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Re: the bucktommy endgame tags. I agree it could potentially be a Travis/Emmett type break up and get back together thing. Though hopefully not as toxic as they have been lol

Yeah! Tbh I don't watch nearly enough Station 19 to be able to comment much on the nuances of Travis and Emmett's relationship, but yeah, if BuckTommy were endgame I think it would probably happen a little like that. Idk, the vibe I get from Tim et. al is that he was bored of what was going on with Buck's romantic life and wanted to inject new life into it through this storyline. Buck being attracted to men opens up a brand new avenue for Tim to be creative, and I don't think he'd want to cut off all those future possibilities for Buck by sticking them together in Buck's only relationship for the rest of the series so fast.

But I do think in a world where Buck and Tommy's first go-around ended amicably (which is sort of what I'd foresee for them anyway) and the show didn't intend to go forward with making Eddie the endgame, Tommy could definitely come back around later to become the endgame relationship for a lot of the reasons you mentioned in your tags. I don't think it would be very narratively satisfying for Buck to end up with someone who's not a first responder and doesn't have firsthand experience with that life, and I think Tommy would be a really good option that would make Buck's endgame LI fit seamlessly into the world around them through his connections with the other mains instead of just something on the side to tide Buck over in his own singular storylines. Very interested to see where they go from here with them, and I do hope we at least get the rest of this season with BuckTommy, if not more!

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The Pregnant Resident (Andrew DeLuca x Alex Karev’s Sister Imagine)

Previous Chapter Here

Age Rating: 12+

Chapters: Three of Four

Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy

Ship: Andrew DeLuca x Amber Karev (Alex Karev’s Sister)

Canon Episode: Season 19 Episode 2

Summary: Benson Kwan says the ‘Q’ word in the pit causing Amber to get annoyed as a massive trauma is called in. Amber becomes fed up with Teddy and Owen fighting in the pit and yells at them setting them straight.

Words: 1508

September 12th, 2022

Amber slumps on the chair behind the nurse’s station at the pit finally able to relax after checking out five patients that came in. It would have been ten but Benson Kwan proved to be useful after all taking half of Amber’s load and treating them accordingly under his chief resident’s watch.

Mika Yasuda was ordered back into Hunt’s service by Altman and despite her growing frustration Amber let her do it since she didn’t want her hormones to make her jobless. Over the past twelve hours in the pit Hunt and Altman have been bickering nonstop in the middle of the pit and it made her patients request being moved to a private room.

She didn’t blame them of course, ever since Hunt has been suspended by the medical board Altman has been on his case 24/7 and making her resentment evident to him and everyone else in the hospital. It got so bad her baby kicks every time one of them raises their voices. Amber thinks the baby is trying to look for a way out of the cringing situation not that she can blame her.

Kwan puts a can of ginger ale in front of Amber and gives her a grin, “Ginger ale at your request Dr. DeLuca.”

Amber mumbles thanks before opening the can and gulps the soda greedily.

Kwan sees his chance to ask a question, “So Dr. DeLuca-”

Amber interrupts him with a loud belch that last for a second and takes Kwan by surprise as he looks disturbed that such a burp can come from a woman.

Amber groans at the burp, “Sorry never get pregnant unless you want to be disgusting 24/7.”

Kwan clears his throat, “It’s fine I’m gonna have to get used to it if I want to be a doctor. I was gonna ask if I could watch Chase’s surgery from the gallery. I’ve already handled your half and the pit is pretty quiet so-”

Amber stops him with a hard set down of her soda can causing him to stop and look shocked by the sudden change in her demeanor, “Did you really just say the 'Q' word during my ER shift?”

Kwan looks confused and speaks to clarify, “What word? Qu-”

Amber stammers in anger to stop him from saying it again and his eyes widen at it, “Stop! Listen to me intern I know you were still sipping apple juice when Michael Jackson died so you don’t know the secrets around hospital procedures. You do not under any circumstances ever use the ‘Q’ word while on shift. That is like walking under a ladder or talking about a no hitter at a dugout.”

“I didn’t think you were superstitious.”

“It is not superstition it is fact!” Kwan is startled by Amber yelling that is interrupted by the multiple phones on the station ringing that the nurses answer and Amber picks hers up while she glares at Kwan who looks frightened by the coincidence, “Grey Sloan Emergency…uh-huh…uh-huh…okay we’ll set up a triage unit when you get here and set up OR’s. Bring the most critical up front and we’ll get trauma to the bay right now.”

Amber hangs up and growls under her breath at Kwan who swallows and asks uneasily, “Who was that?”

“Massive MVC on the highway. Ambulances are twenty minutes out and so far; we have 28 patients incoming because you jinxed us!” Amber quickly pages the residents and interns to the pit, “I am gonna get Hunt and Altman so we can set up a second triage unit in the clinic where you are gonna treat minor injuries.”

Kwan sighs, “Dr. DeLuca I-”

“Nope!” Kwan quiets, “You and your big mouth are going into the deep end because I am worried your gonna induce labor in me while I try to save people. Now go to the clinic and make sure we’re stocked up on gauzes and syringes and have Dr. Marsh come and monitor you guys while I set things up here. Go!”

Kwan groans but does as he’s told and heads to the clinic. Qadri, Parker and Schmitt walk up to Amber who is on the phone with paramedics to know who should be first on the scene.

“Hey we got your page what’s up?” Parker asks.

“Damn intern jinxed us. He said the 'Q' word and now we have multiple MVC’s incoming, their 18 minutes out.”

“Who uses the 'Q' word in the pit?” Levi asks frustrated as well, “It’s like saying Voldemort and he actually shows up at Hogwarts.”  

“I need residents and attendings for serious injuries and interns for non-serious.” Amber looks around the pit and groans frustrated, “Where the hell are Hunt and Altman? The one time I want to be around them!”

Qadri looks up at the trauma room in the corner where Hunt and Altman are clearly arguing with Andrew DeLuca as an awkward stand by in the corner, “They’re in the trauma room arguing and I think your husband is in there too.”

Amber growls and holds the phone out to Schmitt, “Take this while I get Hunt, coordinate with the paramedics and page who we need. Parker start setting up the second triage unit and work with Hunt after I drag him out by his ear. Qadri you and I are going to the ambulance bay and sending patients to either the OR, trauma room or the ER beds. It’s gonna be a busy night guys.”

Qadri sighs, “Maybe Taryn wasn’t crazy to switch to bartending after all.”

Levi takes Amber’s place and talks to the paramedics. Amber quickly walks out of the station and heads inside the trauma room where she frowns at Hunt and Altman fighting at a time like this. Also, she’s angry her husband got pulled into this.

“I didn’t intubate him Yasuda did I talked her through it!”

“And that makes it better!” Altman yells back at Hunt, “You let an intern do a procedure she never did before instead of taking a second to call DeLuca because your ego was too fragile?”

“There wasn’t time to call DeLuca!”

“Guys.” Amber tries to stop them, but they ignore her.

“No there was!” Teddy yells back, “He was only two rooms away and you didn’t think to page him or me!”

“Unlike you I know not to take attendings away from their own patients!”

Andrew addresses Amber, “They’ve been at this for ten minutes I don’t know if they notice they’re not the only ones here.”

Altman retorts back to Amber’s annoyance, “Attendings that wouldn’t be called away if the medical committee didn’t feel that you needed to be supervised 24/7 after they suspended your license! And then you left an intern in charge of tubing a patient do you really think your actions have absolutely no consequences for you and your family?!”

“ENOUGH!” Amber bellows out so loud the couple stop and look shocked at how loud her voice goes. The windows are open so the nurses, residents and interns who just arrived stop and look at the scene.

Amber pays not attention as she addresses Hunt and Altman, “We are running an emergency department, not an episode of Marriage Boot Camp. I don’t give a fuck about Hunt’s suspended license or Altman’s need to emasculate him every minute of the fucking day!” Hunt tries to speak but Amber gets ahead of him, “You even speak one word while I’m on a roll and I will rip your throat out and shove it down your wife’s!”

Hunt closes his mouth and Altman sees the multiple staffers looking in and feels embarrassed being yelled at by a resident, “I don’t care if my husband is supposed to babysit Sergeant Ginger here instead of treating his own patients. I care about the multiple MVC patients that are 15 minutes out and the ambulances about to line up halfway around the damn block! And while I am about to do that, I am six months pregnant and coming off a 12-hour shift!”

Andrew purses his lips at his wife getting to the point that makes Hunt and Altman look guilty as she continues, “So stop fighting and get your heads in the game! Do it like lives are at stake because they are. And get me more staff and more beds and a second triage unit so we can start helping people right now!”

With that Amber walks out the door leaving Hunt and Altman to freeze for a moment in shock that pisses Amber off more as she stands outside the doorway.

“NOW!” The single word snaps Hunt and Altman as they run out the door along with DeLuca who grins at his wife’s passionate attitude that she ignores as she gets a trauma gown.

The residents are still at the station with Qadri smiling in victory and says to the boys, “I win, you owe me 50 bucks boys.” Parker and Schmitt groan as Qadri walks away to join Amber in the ambulance bay.

Next Chapter Here

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Cornwall 2024 - Tag 17

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Heute sind wir am westlichen Punkt Englands angekommen: Land’s End. Da es sich um eines der Top-Reiseziele in Cornwall handelt, ist frühes erscheinen erforderlich.

Dieser ganze Rummelplatz mit Vergnügungsmeile und Bespaßung ist uns deutlich zu viel. Wir waren jedoch gut vorbereitet und fuhren direkt auf den links daneben liegenden Hotelparkplatz. Von dort kann man genauso gut sehen, ohne diesen ganzen Klimbim.

Dabei ist in der Vorsaison noch nicht einmal richtig viel los. Wie groß muss der Trubel erst in der Hochsaison hier sein?

Uns beschleicht der Verdacht: jeder Brite muss hier einmal gewesen sein. Die Schönheit der Natur, der Ausblick, das Meer, die Wanderrouten, all das interessiert nur die Wenigsten.

Die Besucher hier sind laut, jeder nur mit sich, seiner Familie und natürlich mit dem Smartphon beschäftigt.

Nix wie weg! Haken dran, Beweisfotos machen und schnell weiter fahren.

Nur rund sechs Kilometer von dem trubeligen Land’s End entfernt liegt das sehr viel stillere Cape Cornwall, landschaftlich nicht weniger schön.

Eine kleine Straße, gesäumt von den typischen Mauern und Hecken, führt auf den Parkplatz des National Trusts. Dort befindet sich ein kleines Besucherzentrum in dem man sich über diesen Zipfel Cornwalls informieren kann.

Wir haben Glück, die See ist heute ruhig an dieser rauen Küstenlinie. Doch davon darf man sich nicht täuschen lassen.

Auf der Seeseite des Hügel sehen wir eine Station der Coast Watch. Hier, am Cape Cornwall, gibt es, wie überall an der Küste, Freiwillige die Dienst zur Überwachung und Sicherung der Küste machen.

Im 19. Jahrhundert operierte hier eine Zinnmine, die schon von weitem, durch ihren 1864 erbauten Schornstein, zu sehen ist. Dieser Schlot erinnert an die harte Arbeit vergangener Generationen, die ihre Spuren in den Felsen hinterlassen haben.

Ein kleines Turmgebäude, es sieht ein wenig wie ein Leuchtturm ohne Leuchten aus und ist auch das Letzte, was von der Cape Cornwall Mine übrig geblieben ist und wird heute im Volksmund "The Heinz Monument" genannt.

Im Jahr 1987 kaufte nämlich die, weltweit durch ihren Tomaten-Ketchup bekannte Firma, Heinz Company das Gelände an der Atlantikküste auf und schenkte es dem National Trust. Dieser nahm dieses Geschenk natürlich mit Kusshand an.

Heute ist es Teil der Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. Die US-Firma, die Niederlassungen auch in Großbritannien hat, wollte mit dieser großzügigen Geste an die ersten hundert Jahre erinnern, in denen Produkte der Heinz Company im Königreich verkauft wurden.

Bauunternehmer hatten schon ein Auge auf diese großartige Landschaft geworfen, da kam dieser Eingriff von Seiten der Firma Heinz gerade recht. Eine Steintafel, die eine Inschrift trägt, am Monument erinnert an die Schenkung.

Vom Parkplatz aus schlagen wir den Weg über eine Wiese zum St. Helen's Oratory ein.

Die Überreste dieser Kapelle und des Gebetsoratoriums liegen an einem grasbewachsenen Hang mit Blick auf das zerklüftete Meer und die Küste rund um.

Das Oratory umfasste ursprünglich eine mittelalterliche Kapelle mit zugehörigem Wohngebäude und Gehegen für die Nutztiere. Die Kapelle ist als kleines, dachloses Gebäude mit einer Länge von 6,1 m und einer Breite von 4,2 m erhalten geblieben, das bis zur Traufhöhe reicht.

Südlich und westlich der Kapelle befindet sich eine ebene Plattform, die vermutlich ein zugehöriges Wohnhaus darstellt, das größtenteils als vergrabene Elemente und Ablagerungen erhalten ist.

Um das Wohnhaus herum und an die Kapelle angeschlossen ist eine Einfriedung, die durch eine Stein- und Erdbank begrenzt wird, die bis zu 17 m lang und 9 m breit ist und an die Kapellenwände anschließt.

An einem ruhigem Tag ist es hier herrlich, muss aber unvorstellbar hart gewesen sein, als die Atlantikstürme hereinbrachen, da der Ort allen Südwestwinden ausgesetzt ist. Es ist wirklich ein Standort am „Ende der Welt“. 

Wanderer sitzen auf den Bänken, die überall an den Wegrändern stehen, und genießen den Ausblick. Der Blick in die Ferne findet keinen Halt. Ja genau, das nächste Festland ist dann tatsächlich Amerika.

Abseits des Trubels und der Massen bewahrt sich Cape Cornwall eine gewisse Authentizität. Wir sind froh, das Land’s End all die Touristen anzieht und wir nur wenige Kilometer weiter so einen netten Platz finden.

Noch einen Fun Fact am Rande. Vor der Küste von Cape Cornwall liegt im Meer eine Felsenformation, The Brisons, die in der Region noch einen anderen Namen hat, nämlich „De Gaulle in der Badewanne“.

Und tatsächlich, wenn man genau hinschaut, sieht man den Kopf des früheren französischen Staatspräsidenten mit seiner charakteristischen Nase und seinem Bauch aus dem Meer herausragen.

Vom Cape Cornwall aus startet auch der Tin Coast Wanderweg. Die sieben Meilen lange Route verläuft entlang der alten Zinnminen vom Cape Cornwall bis zum Leuchtturm von Pendeen und den Tälern im Süden. Damit sind alle Fans der TV-Serie Poldark bestens vertraut.

Die Serie spielt in der Zeit des Zinnrauschs. Zahllose Schmelzen und Zinndörfer entstanden und Cornwalls Minen, in denen mehr als 50.000 Menschen arbeiteten, deckten 2/3 des Weltbedarfs.

Hier haben die Menschen das Gestein seit Hunderten von Jahren abgebaut und auf der Suche nach Zinn und Kupfer ihre Stollen tief unter die Erde und manchmal unter das Meer getrieben. 

Diese reiche und zerklüftete Küste ist von der Bergbaugeschichte Cornwalls geprägt. Die Tin Coast, die seit 2006 zum Weltkulturerbe gehört, verfügt an ihrem zerklüfteten Rand über beeindruckende verlassene Bauwerke und verfallene Maschinenhäuser.

Hier gibt es jede Menge Geschichte. Daher ist es an einem so abgelegenen Ort mit Blick auf den Atlantischen Ozean leicht möglich, sich vorzustellen, wie das Leben vor mehreren hundert Jahren hier aussah.

Heute rahmen zerstörte Maschinenhäuser und Schornsteine ​​die Landschaft ein und schaffen eine ganz besondere Atmosphäre.

Unsere nächste Station ist Botallack. Der National Trust besitzt und unterhält auch die Zinnminen Botallack und Levant. Wir machen auf jeden Fall das Beste aus unserer Mitgliedschaft.

Für unseren Besuch in der Zinnminen Botallack nutzten wir den Parkplatz The Botallack Count House. Dies liegt direkt neben dem Zinnbergbaugebiet Botallack und ist mit der Mitgliedschaft kostenlos.

Als sich am Nachmittag der Himmel immer mehr zuzieht und Nebel aufkommt, fahren wir zurück ins Cottage.

Good Night!

Angie, Micha und Mister Bunnybear

[fixed-signs]

Marzana, Marzana

Marzana, Marzana - Chapter 4

Pairing: Josh x original female character (you read that right despite starting with Jake)

Warnings: NSFW MINORS DNI, drinking, weed, implied sex

Eventual pregnancy and angst, we got slow burn, we got fluff

Word count: 700 (a shortie)

“Are you sure you don’t want to come?” Sara asked.

Hadley munched on the rejected and leftover sour apple hard candies Sara had brought home from work. The house was always filled with random sweets from the local candy store she worked at. During covid Sara had discovered that glass blowing and sugar based foods were very similar— and that people always wanted candy. 

Hadley shook her head ‘no’, “I think I have a stomach bug anyways.” 

“Ok…” Sara eyed the bag of candy and then up to Hadley.

“Please, they’re the only thing I can keep down lately.”

“Ok, but please eat at least one solid meal today- you’re looking….”

“I know, it’s just been busy at work and this flu I’ve had.”

Sara shoots her a look.

“Really, it’s nothing.”

*

Card tables dotted Jake and Josh’s living and dinning room. The family, including Danny’s, was scattered about the house. Someone was already sleeping in the guest bedroom, a game of scrabble was going at a card table set up in the living room, and stories were being regaled at the kitchen island. Josh was busy refilling everyone’s drinks and appetizers, Jake was in the backyard with a small crowd gathered to watch him fry the turkey. 

Stars and warm hanging lights dotted the sky around the grill. Jita hung around the deep fryer and Jake with a fire extinguisher- both casually held drinks in their hands and giggling at each other.

*

Hadley was half asleep on the couch, TV on the blank home screen waiting for the next selection, the same tik Tok had been play for 10 minutes, and it was only 7:30. 

Burl barked loudly in the dining room, startling Hadley awake. She groggily sat up and called for Burl. He didn’t come, just continued on in the dining room. 

Hadley stood slowly and rubbing her eyes, “Burl! Come here!” She called out. 

The only light in the house was the gleaming TV and single lamp in the living room. Her eyes adjusted as she went to were her dog was causing a commotion. 

He was frantically half circling a chair in the dining room. He stopped as soon as Hadley flipped on the light. It blinded her, but immediately stopped Burl in his tracks. 

“Come on, outside.” She muttered and he trotted happily to the back door in the kitchen. 

*

Hadley awoke in her room, Burl as close a humanly possible, without being in her skin, under the covers next to her. Last night was just another drowsy fever like night spent mostly pretending to watch TV and falling asleep on the couch then moved to partially snuggled in her bed. 

It was late morning, she shifted and Burl groaned. She laughed at him and muttered at him to stop making such human noises. He sighed heavily and managed to get even closer to her and taking up more room on the bed. She slung an arm around him and with the other reached under her pillow for her phone on the charger. 

The most recent text from Josh

“Sorry for my belated happy thanksgiving, friends and family I didn’t have the chance to see yesterday. The turkey was so good it felt like my face fell off and then was getting a face transplant al a Nic Cage in Face Off. The blissed out, turkey induced tryptophan trip was the most enlightening piece of my year (even better than the Ayahuasca I got from that gas station bathroom in Florida when I was 19), however, this hangover and bloating is not. I hope all is well and I hope to see you all at some point during this holiday season.” 

She laughed at the attached picture of a very puffy face Josh. 

‘You should get that checked out’ 

Hadley replied and then began about her morning routine. By the time she had come back from letting Burl out, starting coffee, and going to the bathroom herself (while checking her emails on the toilet no less), Josh had already responded.   

‘Looking better already’ Josh sent another picture. This time he has sunglasses on with his parents next to him.

‘What an honor your parents get to see you mildly hungover’

Immediately ‘…’ started on her screen from him.

‘How was your Thanksgiving?’

‘Oh so many thanks. Can’t even count. ‘Btw the guitar is coming along much better than I thought it would’ 

‘Excellent!! Well, what’s your #1 thank-give?’

‘I didn’t get sick last night (not from drinking, the flu you degenerate)’

‘Lol, I can’t wait to see what’s in store for you for Christmas’ 

‘Dream big’

[halepo]

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Favorite Color: it's always been apple green, but I am leaning pretty heavy on blues lately

Last Song: spotify says 'What Was I Made For?' by the one and only Billie Eilish

Currently Watching: last season of Station 19. I am four episodes in and gotta say... Not enjoying it as much. Coming up next is House of the Dragon!!

Also, currently reading: Dark disciple, by Christie Golden. Five chapters in, loving it.

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Fullmetal Alchemist Chapter 19

When reading FMA as a whole, you can tell how Arakawa had almost everything planned from the start. This arc is one of maybe two things I'd argue was likely not in Arakawa's original plan. Most of the characters we meet in Rush Valley don't appear later in the series which is really noticeable when pretty much everyone else in the series makes reappearances.

Despite my assumptions, Arakawa was able to use this arc to further develop Winry as a person, give her a personal drive, and make her more integral to Ed and Al's journey.

Since her first appearance in the manga, she's complained about Ed and Al never telling her anything or letting her in on their woes and she's finally breaking through to them. This in turn has inspired her to become a better engineer to make their journey easier.

On the Elric side of things, the boys are humbled once again over being unable to do something themselves and having to let others take charge. They couldn't make a bridge to town and they couldn't do anything to help with Satera giving birth. All they could do is leave things to others and pray it goes well. Alchemy can't do everything.

And of course Ed would find the whole process of development and birth to be amazing. He tried to create a life and look what happened to him.

Ed and Winry's discussion about his watch shows that once again, Ed does not like being on this journey and has to force himself to keep going. He burned down his house so he'd have nowhere to return to, and now we see he keeps a reminder etched onto something he has to keep on him at all times. Ed does not allow himself to forget what he's done and why he's on this journey.

Onto some more lighthearted things:

I want to know more about Pinako. WHAT?!?

I think the doctor who was brought by Dominic is the same doctor from Paninya's flashback.

Paninya does not get tired at any point during the trip back to Rush Valley and the train station. Makes sense with her legs being mechanical.

We see a picture of Ed, Al, Winry, and Den when they're all little. Den's a little puppy so he's probably 7 or 8 years old.

And now we're at Dublith. We meet a man named Mason. We learn their teacher is named Izumi and she lives at a butchery.

Wait? Do they sell mammoth meat or are they having a mammoth sale?

back

[mariacallous]

Over the past decade, Beijing has invested heavily in trying to upgrade its major state media outlets such as China Global Television Network (CGTN), Xinhua News Agency, and China Radio International (CRI), and to make them seem more professional. It has tried to normalize them to audiences as little different from the BBC, CNN, or Al Jazeera—most likely Beijing’s preferred model—a station based in an authoritarian state but producing respected work.

For years in the 2010s, China hired respected foreign reporters to staff bureaus of outlets such as CGTN in the United States, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and other places, and initially gave them a bit of room to cover interesting stories—as long as those did not directly affect China. The global journalism market is terrible: Between 2001 and 2016, newspaper publishing in the United States lost more than half the jobs in the industry, a higher rate of loss than in coal mining, not exactly an industry of the future. China’s outlets found many willing and credentialed reporters to join. Today, the Chinese government’s funding for state media dwarfs that of any other country’s state media funding, including that of the United States. In 2018, CGTN reportedly spent around $500 million to promote the network in Australia alone; it has also engaged in extensive promotion in Europe and North America.

In an effort to expand its influence within the domestic politics and societies of other countries, China in the past decade dramatically expanded other tools of influence as well, which I chronicle in my new book, Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. These have included the use of disinformation online, payments to politicians to spout pro-China ideas, control of Chinese student associations in many countries, the funding of programs at universities, and other tactics.

But state media has been central to China’s efforts to influence other countries, control information about and protect the party, and gain what Chinese leaders and officials have called “discourse power” to amplify China’s narratives about its policies, its party, its leader, and its role in the world. Beijing’s cause is helped by a global environment in which resources for quality media are decreasing, democratic and authoritarian leaders alike are demonizing media, and publics’ trust in journalism is falling. Such a set of circumstances would seemingly make it easier for Chinese outlets to win readers, listeners, and viewers.

Yet China’s state media (excluding local-language Chinese media within specific countries), other than Xinhua, has hardly been a triumph for President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), even with money gushing in.

Indeed, Xi’s bold goal to wield state media power globally, a priority noted in CCP documents, has not worked to great effect—and that goal is fading even faster as the world sees the failure of Xi’s China model, which was heavily advertised in state media abroad. China’s global influence efforts, fueled in part by state media, have not prevented publics in many countries from souring on Beijing’s increasingly assertive diplomacy; being angry at the initial cover-up of COVID-19; fuming at how China increasingly uses economic coercion against other states, even tiny ones like Lithuania; or seeing the flaws in China’s own politics. In public opinion studies released in 2020, 2021, and 2022, such as those conducted by Pew, opinions of China in states from Sweden to South Korea to Australia turned sharply negative. Negative views of China reached historic highs in many states.

What evidence shows how China has failed to use state media effectively? China’s biggest state media outlets, other than Xinhua, have not sold many programs abroad or gained noticeable audience shares in most countries. China’s training programs for journalists, while rapidly expanding (at least before zero-COVID), have not created a shift in how foreign reporters cover China.

Take one example, the appeal of Chinese TV show exports globally. South Korea, a far smaller country, regularly outpaces the value of Chinese TV show exports. South Korea also has exported increasingly successful films and scripted shows—as well, of course, as one of the most popular bands in the world.

Similarly, while China ranked second in the Lowy Institute’s annual Asia Power Index, Beijing’s lofty numbers come mostly from its high rankings in economic relationships, diplomatic influence, and future power. The Asia Power Index’s measures of China’s influence over the region’s information landscape, including the influence from state media, show far less impressive results. The Lowy study uses influence maps based on internet search trends to assess Asians’ interest in regional media outlets. These maps have shown that CGTN is only the 10th-most popular broadcaster in the Asia-Pacific, and its reach is a fraction of outlets such as CNN. The maps show that CGTN’s “reach is inconsequential,” as noted by the coordinator of the influence maps. Other Chinese outlets save Xinhua also fare badly on these influence maps.

Using the Freedom of Information Act, I obtained more than 20 studies, produced by Gallup as a contractor for the U.S. government, of viewing habits in countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, and South and Central Asia, among other regions. They generally show that even though Chinese state media are widely available in many countries, they usually attract minuscule viewership or listening numbers. In Laos, for instance, a country on China’s border with a growing population of Chinese speakers, one Gallup study of viewership in Laos found only 1.2 percent of the country’s population regularly watched Chinese broadcasting, a much lower figure than those who watched Voice of America or Radio Free Asia or Thai channels.

Chinese media outlets’ audience shares and perceived credibility lag behind local news sources, the BBC, and other Western broadcasters even in regions like Africa, where public opinion toward China is not as negative. In Ivory Coast, for instance, CRI has expanded its programming, but the Gallup study I obtained shows that CRI was listened to by less than 1 percent of Ivorians weekly, among the worst figures of any radio station’s reach in the country. (The BBC was listened to by 13.7 percent of Ivorians.) In Nigeria, a bigger target for Chinese state media, both CGTN and CRI performed abysmally in a similar Gallup study. In Nigeria, CGTN had 3.7 percent viewership, a quarter the audience of the BBC.

Even in Kenya, the hub of CGTN operations in East Africa, Chinese outlets have fared poorly. Studies suggest most Kenyans who consume news do not even utilize Chinese state media.

These figures are consistent with the still-low audience shares of CGTN, CRI, and state media outlets, save Xinhua, in many other regions of the world. In Asia, Chinese broadcast and radio state media outlets have not reached a large audience. A Gallup study of the weekly reach of television stations in Vietnam found that CGTN was only watched by 0.7 percent of Vietnamese adults, far less than the BBC, CNN, France’s TV5 Monde Asie, and South Korea’s Arirang TV. Two-thirds of Vietnamese who watched the BBC said they trusted that outlet a great deal, but only about 7 percent who watched CGTN said the same.

In Western democracies, too, in Europe and North America, CGTN has largely fizzled. In the United Kingdom, which has a sizable audience of people who are fluent in Chinese, a study found that CGTN was being watched by a minimal number of Britons—even before the British government kicked CGTN off the air in 2021 because it did not have autonomy from the Chinese state. Similarly, though CGTN launched a European subsidiary in 2019 via its London hub, it has made few inroads into the continental European market. And throughout Latin America, including in several large democracies, CGTN’s Spanish-language channel has significantly expanded the number of households in which it is available over the past decade but has not proved popular. A comprehensive study of CGTN-Español, CGTN’s Spanish-language channel, by Peilei Ye and Luis A. Albornoz, suggests that the Chinese government usually releases information only about the size of the audience CGTN potentially reaches—the number of households it is available in—and not the actual audience, most likely because the actual audience size is embarrassingly low.

Why has China’s state media—other than Xinhua, which I’ll come to later—failed so badly? It simply produces, in the Xi era, content that is too boring, staid, and timid. In an era more restricted than the 1990s, one in which China has today become much more authoritarian, state media reporters now instinctively tailor their stories to ensure they do not anger anyone at headquarters back in Beijing, which makes for weak and bland reporting.

CGTN reporters note that while they had more freedoms six or seven years ago, now the biggest focus in their minds is whether the stories will prove acceptable to the top leadership in Beijing rather than news consumers in foreign countries. This is “domestic signaling,” as the Guardian called it in an exposé of China’s soft- and sharp-power efforts—“telegraphing messages [via reporting in state media] that demonstrated loyalty to the party line in order to curry favor with senior officials.”

This does not make for exciting journalism. Further, a considerable part of the state media’s efforts to reach foreign audiences was designed to advertise China as a developmental success story—Xi was the first recent Chinese leader to openly embrace a Chinese model of development. But the past three years of China’s disastrous zero-COVID strategy, protests, supply chain disruptions, and serious economic slowdowns—all visible to the world, and even more so now that protests are raging in China—have undermined that main prong of the state media’s foreign messaging.

Chinese state outlets are going to find it harder to gain audiences as many leading democracies put roadblocks in their way. These have included the United Kingdom pulling CGTN’s license and the United States forcing state media to register as agents of foreign influence, which drives away U.S. national and Chinese national reporters who do not want to be tagged as influence agents. Some democracies have created commissions or legislation designed to closely examine foreign investment and influence inside their borders, such as Australia and Singapore. European states, too, are assessing ways to better monitor foreign investment and influence in media and information sectors.

Xinhua, alone among China’s biggest state media outlets, has expanded significantly while also boosting its global audience and gaining some credibility. Beijing has placed a high premium on modernizing Xinhua and getting foreign news outlets to use Xinhua stories by signing content-sharing deals, in the process legitimizing Xinhua to some editors and readers. Xinhua has inked many such deals, including for stories in many languages other than Chinese, and because it covers so many topics unrelated to China, its reporters sometimes have more room from Beijing to operate. It is likely that, in the next decade, with the pandemic forcing more outlets to cut staff, and with media outlets around the globe continuing to suffer financially, the appeal of signing deals with Xinhua, a cheap or free newswire, will only increase. Indeed, Xinhua could become China’s most powerful information weapon.

As of this writing, Xinhua has not yet forged enough connections to consistently write the first draft of global news stories, as wires do. Since some major outlets such as the BBC and the New York Times do not regularly use Xinhua stories, distrusting them, Xinhua still does not circulate as widely among elite publications as stories from Reuters or The Associated Press or Bloomberg. But that may be changing rapidly. In recent years, Xinhua has inked cooperation agreements with major global and regional newswires, including Agence France-Presse; news services in Australia; Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur; Poland’s Polish News Agency; Class Editori in Italy; Le Soir in Belgium; Athens News Agency in Greece; RAI, Italy’s public broadcaster; and ANSA, Italy’s leading wire service.

And on many occasions, in places where it has a massive manpower advantage, like Southeast Asia and, of course, China itself, Xinhua is beating competitors to stories or is covering stories competitors do not have the resources to cover. As Xinhua grows (and offers its service free to many outlets in developing countries), and as other newswires struggle financially, the Chinese newswire will get to more stories first—and earn editors’ and publishers’ trust. It is rapidly opening bureaus. By early 2021, Xinhua had a reported 181 bureaus globally. This would give Xinhua a reach close to that of The Associated Press, which has around 250 bureaus worldwide, or the BBC, which is a giant in Africa, Asia, and other regions. Meanwhile, the Chinese newswire has a massive advantage over most of its competitors in that it does not have to make a profit.

Xinhua also is attempting to boost its credibility in other ways in Southeast Asia and other areas physically close to China or where populations have relatively positive images of China. In Southeast Asia and Africa, where Xinhua has poured resources into expansion, the Chinese state newswire can cover stories that may not get mentioned by other media organizations such as Reuters, The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, or large international newspapers with foreign staffs. One former U.S. official analyzing China’s expanding state media called this a “hyperlocal approach,” a strategy focused on offering detailed stories in regions that some global outlets ignore.

Eventually, if governments and news organizations do not put roadblocks in its place, Xinhua copy, via content-sharing deals, will appear in more and more news outlets, shaping public and elite opinion in a growing number of countries, as it already does in places such as Thailand. A range of evidence shows Xinhua’s growth in size and influence. There, Xinhua has signed content-sharing deals with many top Thai publications, including those of the Matichon Group, the most-respected Thai-language news organization. These deals have allowed China to shape news narratives in Thailand, where many more Thai outlets now run Xinhua copy. Overall, not only is China portrayed more positively in the Thai media than in the past, according to many Thai journalists, but serious critiques of China are vanishing from many Thai outlets.

A range of evidence shows Xinhua’s growth in size and influence. The Lowy Institute’s maps of digital influence in Asia show Xinhua is making inroads across the region. Indeed, the maps show that Xinhua has become the second-most-influential news agency regionally, behind only The Associated Press, and that Xinhua is making significant gains in influence in the media environment of several Northeast Asian and Southeast Asian states. And unlike with, say, a television station that a viewer has to actively turn on, and probably knows the channel, most print or online readers do not check the bylines of news articles—making it easier for Xinhua copy to slip through to readers.

Notably, media outlets have been signing deals to carry Xinhua even in countries where the U.S. government—and private nonprofits hailing from democratic states—have invested heavily in promoting the creation of a vibrant local media. In Afghanistan, for instance, where donors including the United States have plowed money into the local media, an International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report shows that Xinhua has inked contracts with 25 to 30 Afghan media outlets. These deals include ones with the biggest television stations and websites in the country.

The IFJ report notes that China’s content-sharing deals have helped reshape journalists’ messaging about Beijing in multiple countries, including those known for robust local journalism. Its survey of Philippine journalists found that China’s increasingly close links with the Philippines’ state television, the Philippine News Agency, and the Philippine Information Agency, built through content-sharing and training programs, are having an effect on Philippine news outlets’ coverage of China.

Indeed, China’s closer links to Philippine media, and the spreading use of Xinhua in the Philippines, are depriving Philippine news consumers of independent reporting on Beijing. These shifts are depriving Filipinos of independent coverage even as Beijing squeezes the Philippines in the South China Sea, and even though the population as a whole in the Philippines has not become markedly more pro-China. “The way they write their stories now, they reflect the way how Xinhua or how the state media in China is writing their stories,” one Philippine journalist told IFJ. “It’s normally propaganda.” Another told IFJ, “Instead of getting insights on journalism from free countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Western Europe and even Japan, they [journalists in the Philippines] are learning state control.”

Xinhua is gaining readership in many states through such content-sharing deals, or simply because more news outlets are choosing to use Xinhua stories. And as Xinhua buys access—and gets into more websites, newspapers, and magazines—its stories will become as ubiquitous as those of The Associated Press. Then Xinhua, still a state company, still a propaganda organ that provides intelligence briefings to top Chinese leaders, will be able to shape even more of the world’s news coverage. It is indeed the only true weapon, among China’s state media, that has come of Xi’s grand desire for more control over global “discourse power.”

If Xinhua, inking more and more content-sharing deals, is able to write the first draft about stories outside of China, which is what wires provide, and set the tone and parameters for international coverage by other outlets, as wires do, it could have a huge effect on how the global public understands the news. As The Associated Press and Reuters have done for years, Xinhua would be able to initially define many news stories for the world—a dangerous proposition for free and independent media and for honest coverage of China.

[meetthetruthblogger]

Memorial Day 2024

May 24, 2024

Coming up on Monday is Memorial Day when we honor those military heroes who gave their full measure for the United States of America. Today we will highlight eight people, the first soldier, sailor, marine or airman to give their life during each of America’s major wars.

Revolutionary War:

Isaac Davis (April 19, 1775) a gunsmith from Action, Massachusetts, served as a minuteman during the Battle of Concord and was shot through the heart as his company advanced upon the enemy.

Civil War

Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth (May 24, 1861) a Union officer leading his troops into Alexandria, Virginia to assist in the occupation of the city, the day after the state’s citizens voted to secede from the Union. In the city, while taking down a Confederate flag, he was shot point blank by an innkeeper.

World War I

Joseph William Guyton (May 24, 1918) was attached to the 32nd Infantry Division in a German-held area of France and served as an automatic gunner, firing off intermittent rounds on a post near the line of resistance. The enemy shot a barrage of machine gun fire into the line where Guyton was struck and killed instantly.

World War II

Robert M. Losey (April 21, 1940) a captain in the Navy, was serving as an air attache’ in Finland when Germany invaded Oslo. Losey and his chauffeur were assisting in the evacuation of American staff and dependents from the United States Embassy. Losey was killed when a bomb exploded nearby and a fragment pierced his heart.

Korean War

Kenneth Shadrick (July 5, 1950) was assigned to the 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, serving as an ammunition carrier in a bazooka squad sent to stop communist tanks near Sejong, South Korea. As he aimed a rocket at an enemy tank, he stuck his head and shoulders above the gun pit to watch; the tank’s machine gun returned fire, sending one bullet through his right arm, another through his chest, killing him instantly.

Vietnam War

Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. (June 8, 1956) was a member of Detachment 1, 1173rd Foreign Mission Squadron, United States Air Force. Fitzgibbon was not killed in action, but murdered by a deranged American airman who shot him as he was handing out candy to local orphans in Saigon. He and his son, Richard B. Fitzgibbon, III, are also known as one of three father-son duos killed while serving during the Vietnam War. Acknowledgement of Fitzgibbon’s death as the first casualty of the Vietnam War did not come until 1999.

Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan

Johnny Michael “Mike” Spann (November 25, 2001) was serving in the CIA’s paramilitary Special Activities Division, having previously served in the Marine Corps as a captain. Spann was dispatched to Afghanistan soon after September 11, 2001, to find Osama bin Laden. Near Mazar-e-Sharif, the CIA was holding al Qaeda fighters in the recently captured fortress of Qala-i-Jangi. Spann was killed while interrogating Taliban fighters, in particular, American Taliban John Walker Lindh. Spann was attacked when the Taliban fighters launched themselves at Spann, who took out seven men with his pistol before being killed. Spann is now memorialized with a star on the CIA Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.  

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Therrell Shane Childers (March 21, 2003) served as a second lieutenant Marine Corps assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division – one of the first cleared units to enter Iraq. After the battalion secured a pumping station at the Rumaila oil fields, 20 miles north of the border with Kuwait, Iraqi soldiers unloaded from a pick-up truck and in a drive-by, Childers was shot once in the stomach. The injury became fatal when his motion to fire at those in the truck lifted his body armor, leaving him exposed.

Each of these stories makes me proud and sad at the same time; proud that each of these heroes were willing to sacrifice themselves for our country; sad their lives were cut short.

Every person reading this post will know of family members, neighbors or others who have chosen to serve the United States of America; please take a moment to reflect and give thanks for these people.

From 1868 to 1970, Memorial Day was observed on May 30. Since 1971, it has been observed on the last Monday of May and has become the unofficial start of summer.

Enjoy your Holiday and Thanks for being here.

Tom Maloney

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the ruling. (Photo: Reuters - Piroschka van de Wouw)

Pro-Israel activists gathered near the International Court of Justice, as the hearing occurred. (Photo: AP - Patrick Post)

The judgement by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was not a knockout victory for either side.

South Africa brought an accusation of genocide against Israel.

Israel knew it needed to do everything in its power to ensure there was no finding of genocide.

South Africa came to The Hague with two aims: to have a finding of genocide made against Israel and, as a result, for the ICJ to order an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Neither of these things happened.

By global affairs editor John Lyons

ABC News - 27 January 2024

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Rawan Arraf said Australia should actively review its economic, trade and military ties with Israel in light of the ruling.

(Photo: ABC News - Adam Griffiths, file)

Human rights groups say Australian government must act after ICJ ruling on allegation against Israel

The Australian government has been "put on notice" by several human rights organisations following the top UN court ruling that South Africa's accusation Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people is "plausible".

By political reporter Chantelle Al-Khouri

ABC News - 27 January 2024

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YouTube video >> Starvation as a Weapon of War: Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel for Denying Gaza Access to Food (Democracy Now! video production) [Released 23 December 2023 / 10mins.+46secs.]:

Democracy Now!

Amy Goodman interviews Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir

Israel is deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food and fuel in Gaza, prompting Human Rights Watch to accuse the occupation of utilizing starvation as a weapon of war. Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir, says 97% of the groundwater in Gaza is unfit for human consumption after the destruction of pipelines and treatment sources, the rejection of humanitarian aid and the collapse of the medical system under incessant bombing, leading to mass dehydration and contagious disease. Shakir calls on the international community to condemn Israel's actions and to increase pressure on U.S. support in particular. "The United States and Israel are isolated in the international community," Shakir says. "The use of double standards in Israel and Palestine harms civilians all over the world."

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"IS JAILED FOR YEAR AFTER WILD CHASE," Toronto Star. September 18, 1943. Page 23. --- John McLay Gets Additional Three Months for Dangerous Driving --- "A" Police Court, City Hall, Magistrate Browne. Following a wild chase up and down streets and lanes in the Dundas-Jarvis district at 1.15 a.m. today by Constables John Murray and Cecil Payne, John McLay, 19, was arrested on charges of theft of a motor car and dangerous driving. Before Magistrate Browne, he pleaded guilty to the theft charge and was convicted on the dangerous driving count.

"Accused is a first offender, but is making a fool of himself. He comes from a good family, but got himself mixed up with the Jarvis St. gang," declared Crown Attorney Malone.

On the theft charge he was given one year definite and three months indefinite. For dangerous driving the sentence was three months, to run consecutive.

P.C. Murray said he and P.C. Payne were driving east on Dundas St. when he saw a car proceeding north at about 45 m.p.h. "We gave chase up Mutual St., along Gould St and through lanes on Gerrard St., Dundas St., Dalhousie St, and Pembroke St. When going down Pembroke St., he went over a lawn and then tried to go into a lane. He blew a tire and we got him. He had been drinking, but he handled the car all right."

"It is a serious matter. Some person might have been killed," said the court.

Earl Scott pleaded guilty of stealing a sweater from a downtown store. Det. B. Anderson said accused walked into the store, took the sweater and left.

"Has this man a record?" asked Magistrate Browne.

"He has been in a little difficulty. There are just two typewritten pages. I have not the time to read them all," replied Crown Attorney Malone.

"Four months." said his worship.

"You have done nothing else but steal all your life. You will go to Kingston penitentiary for two years," said Magistrate Browne to John Hanlon, [pictured] after he pleaded guilty of stealing two watches from a jewelry store on Bloor St. H. Mann, store proprietor, said accused came into his store yesterday afternoon and made a small purchase. "I was suspicious of him and while I was wrapping up his purchase I saw him take two watches valued at about $65. I held him until the police arrived." he said.

Robert Harris, 17, pleaded not guilty of taking a motor car without consent of the owner. Det. Herbert White told the court that accused, with three juveniles was in a car stolen from Sherbourne and Gerrard Sts. "Accused told me that one of the juveniles took the car and picked him up. He admitted that he knew the car was stolen," the officer related.

Harris said he knew the car was stolen but that he did not steal it nor drive it. He was remanded on his own bail until Sept. 24, for judgment.

Sydney T. Smith, convicted of failing to remain at the scene of an accident and careless driving, was fined $25 and costs or 20 days in each case. If the fines are not paid. the jail terms will run consecutively. He appeared in "D" court.

P. C. Dorkin stated accused was passing a parked car when he struck Miss Ruth Haggins and injured her foot. "He did not stop. I chased him to his home on Withrow Ave," he said. Smith, pleading for leniency, said he had three sons in the army and three children at home.

'CUPFUL OF GAS' ---- County Police Court, at County buildings - Magistrate Keith. On bail of $50 each. Stanley and William Martin, charged with theft of gasoline from an Agincourt service station, were remanded to the 21st. William Martin also faces a charge of driving without an operator's license.

"It was only a cupful of gasoline to get a stalled car off the road," said Paul Hinds, defence counsel, in asking for bail. "The police will verify that."

[AL: Hanlon had been in the penitentiary before, many years ago, and served several terms in the reformatory. He lived with his wife in Long Branch, a suburb of Toronto. He was 30, with no kids, and worked as a commercial labourer. He was convict #7432 at Kingston, and worked mostly in the kitchen. He was released April 1945.]

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The Earth Station DCU Episode 324 – Rogues of War

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The Earth Station DCU Episode 324 – Rogues of War

This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs watch as the Rogues go to war! Slam Bradley learns the truth behind his partner death in Gotham City: Year One #5. Harley Quinn comes to Seattle to visit Ivy in Poison Ivy #9. Batman and Joker must lighten the weight on a train before the villain crashes them into the Martha Wayne Memorial Train Station in Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo #4. Bruce Wayne searches for a solution to return to his Earth in Batman #132. The Origin of the Fraction is revealed in The Flash: One-Minute War Special #1. While the older speedsters find a new base of operations, Bart and Wallace sneak across enemy lines to learn more about the Fraction in The Flash #792. Raven, Trigon, Nightwing, City Boy, Red Hood, The Vigil, Dead Eye, Amanda Waller, Red Canary, Flatline, Ras Al Ghul, and a kid named Liam must all deal with the fallout of the Lazarus rain in Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn #1 and Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution #1. Monkey Prince discovers his father in the Phantom Zone in Monkey Prince #11. All this plus, DC News, DC TV, Shout Outs, and much, much more!

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0:01:12 DC News

0:23:30 Gotham City: Year One #5

0:32:19 Poison Ivy #9

0:35:49 Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo #4

0:43:28 Batman #132

0:49:26 The Flash: One-Minute War Special #1

0:55:28 The Flash #792

1:07:32 Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn #1

1:13:09 Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution #1

1:17:17 Monkey Prince #11

1:24:58 The Flash S9 Ep3 – Rogues of War

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Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution #1

Monkey Prince #11

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Today, Pusey House at Oxford University is celebrating the Death of God ... Today, Pusey House at Oxford University is celebrating the Death of God at a price of £15.00 per person. https://youtu.be/qDIryRVr-QA These professors of Theology are Super Donkeys carrying the Holy Books. Sat, 04 Mar  |  The Chapel of Pusey House, Oxford Faure: Requiem & Schütz: Musikalische Exequien Join us in celebrating the beginning of our 2023 series of concerts, taking on Faure's ethereal "Requiem" and Schütz's sublime "Musikalische Exequien", two crucial musical settings of the mass of the dead. Time & Location 04 Mar, 19:30 The Chapel of Pusey House, Oxford, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LZ, UK About the Event Today, Pusey House at Oxford University is celebrating the Death of God at a price of £15 per person Lizi Vineall, Soprano Ben Watkins, Bass   A Meditation on the Death of Christ, with readings and hymns.   Taking inspiration from the traditional Lenten devotion of Stations of the Cross, this musical meditation seeks to engage with the theological crux of Lent and Passiontide. Given the inevitability and hope of  Easter, it can be easy to forsake the most sacrificial aspects of our  Lenten journey; it is the equivalent of Lent without Holy Week. This concert will allow time to meditate on the most challenging questions posed by this journey: the sacrificial and saving nature of the Death of  God, articulated in two of the most profound settings of the Requiem  Mass Ordinary. Join the critically acclaimed Luceat Choir for their second concert in partnership with the Centre for Theology, Law and  Culture at Pusey House, in the House’s stunning and atmospheric chapel. Tickets Price Quantity Total Adult More Info + £15.50 £0.00 Student More Info + £7.50 £0.00 Total £0.00 Checkout Holy spirit, common sense, shatters the fetters of the dead letters, the Holy Books. If we have One God, our Supernatural Father of our souls, then there should be one Faith. In Christianity, Jesus said One Fold called the Church of God headed by One Shepherd, our Bridegroom Christ Jesus/Christ = Satguru Nanak Dev Ji, the Second coming of Jesus. Solid Proof; this Golden Temple is of the same size as the Holiest of Holy that used to be in Jerusalem and its Curtain held the Secrets of the Oral Torah = His Word was rendered from the Top, the Temple High Priests, to the Bottom, the village Rabbis off you go – Luke 16v16; Law and Prophets were till John and thus, everyone makes a direct approach to God through His Word = Logo = SATGUR PARSAD. So, these hireling Dog-Collared Priests and Mullahs, cannot give your account to God as the Rabbis used to give at Passover. So, they are "ANTICHRISTS" that have a following of the spiritually blind Super Bastard Fanatic Devils - John 8v44 -, Hindu, Jew, Sikh, Christian, Muslim, etc. Outwardly, and not spiritually inwardly. These spiritual selves Hindu, Jew and Christian, are never born like Christ, the Title and they never die but the tribal selves Judah, Levi, Jatt, Tarkhan, etc. were born and they will die. Thus, Jesus was born and Jesus died on the Cross and rose on the Third Day and NOT CHRIST, THE TITLE. Books:- ONE GOD ONE FAITH:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/bookfin.pdf Greatest Blasphemers and Killers Blair and Bush being considered by Anti-Christ Bishops for Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize should rather go to Assange and the Iraqi Journalist who threw both his shoes at the hypocrite Bush in Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHdTpTXHvE&list=PL0C8AFaJhsWz7HtQEhV91eAKugUw73PW1 Christ Jesus was killed by the Temple High Priest Hypocrite/Blasphemer against the Holy Spirit and so are these Bush and Blair who at the backing of Jewish people in the USA destroyed one country after the other starting with the cradle of Humanity Iraq, the Land of the forefather of the Chosen People who are no more faithful to Abraham but has become sons of the Highest Satan Al-Djmar Al-Aksa. Blair and Bush’s blasphemies against Holy Spirit are bearing Fruit in economic chaos created by Virus https://youtu.be/0WBYOmpDuCs American Jews are today – http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/GrimReaper.htm Destroying one country after the other, so that the scripture is fulfilled. Also, do not forget the partition of India and how the dirty hearted-British divided the homeland Punjab of the brave Jatt tribal soldiers who fought in the two World Wars for the British. ATOMIC WAR PREDICTION – MATT. 13V24-30. “Kingdom of Heaven”:- http://gnosticgospel.co.uk/faithfat.pdf Another:- https://youtu.be/qDU964t_0i0 www.http://gnosticgospel.co.uk/starttrib.htm https://youtu.be/FQIjTHe_pOs Putin:-https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C8AFaJhsWxdHW_ZY0_o1k5xkUrjeAXM… http://gnosticgospel.co.uk/GrimReaper.htm My ebook by Kindle. ASIN: B01AVLC9WO Full description www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/Rest.htm My Books:- ONE GOD ONE FAITH www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/bookfin.pdf Punjabi KAKHH OHLAE LAKHH  www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/pdbook.pdf John's baptism www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/johnsig.pdf Trinity www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf