#and the chinese one was shot at with a gun (non-lethal)

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Talk of the British supreme court… “If this sounds like a nightmare scenario where Brits could pretty much get away with anything short of murder, you're correct.”

This reminds me of a certain British exchange student from a certain game…

(caption isn’t relevant lol,

but the manga: Isabella Bird in Wonderland is adapted on the irl Isabella Bird’s exploration of Japan in the Meiji era to find and learn about the indigenous Ainu people in Hokkaido before they went extinct, as well as Japanese people in general. This includes trekking on the unbeaten path literally no one has gone before (even the natives consider it dangerous and a death sentence) as a 47-year old woman.

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A boycott by bureaucrats is undermining the coup in Myanmar 

For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of Burmese, and sometimes hundreds of thousands, have taken to the streets to protest against the coup. But it is a subtler form of protest that is causing the generals the most grief. Thousands of public-sector workers, from at least 245 districts and 21 ministries, are on strike, according to Kim Jolliffe, an analyst. Government offices are deserted. So too are classrooms. Many public hospitals have in effect shut. Those that have not are so understaffed they are turning new patients away. “Operations at many government departments all but halted this week,” reported the Irrawaddy, a news website, on February 16th.

The banking system is also seizing up. Online banking remains possible, at least when the army allows the internet to operate, but most branches are closed. Reports suggest lending has dried up and most administrative work has stopped. “A dysfunctional financial sector would definitely hurt the regime,” says Ko Ko (not his real name), a manager at a branch of AYA bank in Yangon. He and almost all his colleagues have been on strike since last week.

The government pays bills and salaries and disburses pensions via Myanma Economic Bank (MEB). But so many of its employees are on strike that it is at a “near standstill”, says Mr Jolliffe, who is studying the civil-disobedience movement. With many tax collectors on strike, too, the coup leaders may end up with neither the infrastructure nor the money to pay staff. “This is a real pressure point and is something the military probably did not include in their game plan,” says Mr Jolliffe.

Why Myanmar’s military will win in the end 

“This is no bunch of knuckle-dragging old men,” notes the Yangon lawyer. “They may be ruthless, but they are smart and have built a loyal corps of officers whose wellbeing is tied to their ascent in the army.”

That much has been apparent in its campaigns against ethnic pocket armies around the nation’s remote borderlands. In bitter wars with ethnic rebels in northeastern Shan and western Rakhine states, the Tatmadaw has turned to increasingly well-integrated combined-arms campaigns integrating operations between infantry, artillery and air power underpinned by information technology and supported by drones.

Even if still rudimentary by the standards of advanced militaries, these evolving tactics have marked a significant advance for an army traditionally centered on infantrymen supported, if lucky, by some artillery and logistically reliant on human porters.

A similar capacity for innovation, coordination and willingness to learn on the job is being displayed on today’s battlefields in downtown Yangon, Mandalay, Naypyidaw and a score of other urban centers.

Tatmadaw leadership has almost certainly been blindsided by the sheer scale and scope of popular protest which has brought scores of thousands of people from all walks of life onto the streets in a massive campaign of protest and civil disobedience reinforced by an international outcry.

Strikingly, though, the military’s nerve, discipline and cohesion have all so far held, and in a sharp break from the reflex violence of 1988 and 2007 top command has opted for a strategy of slow attrition aimed at waiting out the storm and restoring a degree of normality and economic stability as soon as possible.

At the most basic level, one statistic illustrates the strategy and arguably highlights its prospects for success: over two weeks of tumultuous confrontation at a watershed juncture in the nation’s political trajectory there have been only two critical casualties – a young woman shot in the head in Mandalay last week and a policeman the junta has reported was killed.

Three key factors have underpinned the war of attrition. At street level, the protest movement’s insistence on non-violence has been central. Articulated by National League for Democracy (NLD) party leaders and observed by demonstrators with remarkable discipline, non-violence has secured the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) the moral high ground.

Equally, however, it has played to the military’s objective of waiting out the crowds without spilling blood, setting up a contest that turns on time and resolve to decide which side can outlast the other.

Military restraint has also turned on a second factor, the absence of which would almost certainly already have demanded swift and brutal crowd dispersal: peace in the borderlands.

The critical importance of avoiding war on two fronts and balancing conflict with the array of ethnic armies ranged around Myanmar’s frontiers has been an enduring element of Tatmadaw strategic thinking for decades.

It was most famously demonstrated in the series of ceasefire pacts thrown together between 1989 and 1991 as the military struggled to deal with the fallout from its crushing of the 1988 uprising in central Myanmar.

The same mindset was on display in the run-up to the military’s latest power-grab.

In retrospect, there can be little doubt the Tatmadaw’s surprise decision last November to agree to an ad hoc ceasefire with the Arakan Army (AA) in western Rakhine state pointed to contingency planning for a possible coup to remove the NLD government after the crushing electoral defeat inflicted on the military’s interests and long-term agenda.

Setting aside already well-advanced preparations for a dry season offensive that would normally open in December, the post-election ceasefire secured peace in a theater of operations that since 2019 has tied down nearly half of the army’s mobile reserves, allowing thousands of troops to be redeployed between January and early February to the country’s heartland.

The importance of peace in the borderlands was further underscored in one of the coup regime’s opening statements that pointedly stressed its interest in pursuing the stumbling peace process within the context of the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA).

And, to date at least, neither the bloc of NCA-signatories nor, far more importantly, the powerful alliance in northern Myanmar led by the Chinese-leaning United Wa State Army (UWSA), has shown any inclination to distract the military from its focus on containing the challenge of democratic forces in the ethnic Bamar heartland.

Finally, beyond the borders of Myanmar, even the Tatmadaw — renowned for deep (and invariably misguided) paranoia over external threats – can have been broadly confident of a permissive international stage on which to launch a coup.

Boilerplate support at the United Nations from Russia and China, a characteristically flaccid reaction from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Western agonizing over a response that balances moral outrage with apprehensions over pushing Myanmar into the arms of China have all combined to shape a favorable international environment for a blatant seizure of power.

Against this strategic backdrop, the Tatmadaw’s tactical response at street level has centered on rules of engagement (ROEs) mandating minimum use of force. Even in the case of often inadequately trained and overstretched police, manning the frontlines for the first two weeks of the crisis, these ROEs have been observed for the most part with striking discipline.

Minimum force has translated into a range of less than lethal measures and systems used only sparingly. These have included water cannons, tear gas and non-lethal baton rounds typically fired from shotguns.

On the streets of Mandalay, troops have also been spotted armed with air guns with telescopic sights, apparently intended to target – if necessary – protest leaders. As one military expert explained: “These are not enough to punch a hole in someone but certainly enough to make them stop whatever they are doing.”

Beginning overnight on February 14 and 15, the deployment of military units in key cities reinforced but did not significantly change the dynamic established by the police. A new and important tactic though was introduced with night-time internet shutdowns between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m.

Without unduly inconveniencing daytime commercial activity, the shutdowns have permitted army troops – mostly mechanized infantry units from the Tatmadaw reserve of Light Infantry Divisions (LIDs) — to deploy under cover of an information blackout and, in coordination with police, to step up arrests of protest leaders with over 500 now detained according to UN sources.  

The military has also turned to drones, already used extensively in rural counterinsurgency campaigns for surveillance of the urban battlespace and movement of large crowds. Likely to follow in the coming days will be the invisible imposition of a security grid and a tightening squeeze on areas of population density.

“What you’ll probably see is a division of urban areas into sectors and districts with operational responsibility assigned to different battalions, companies and platoons,” noted the Western military analyst who was briefed on similar operations by the Thai military in Bangkok in 2010.

“Over 10 or 15 days they’re going to be identifying protest organizations, groups and leaders. Then at night-time they’ll clean it up, making arrests, intimidating, beating people up,” he said.

“So, first the Civil Disobedience Movement faces a loss of leaders at the mass level. Then it’ll come down to the tactical street level. And once leaders have disappeared, either detained or gone into hiding, there’ll be a real personal impact on individuals in different organizations.”

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Ranking Of The Best Mods For Ravenfield

Hello my name is marco and i like to play the game called Ravenfield, and i created this blog to  rank the best mods from the steam workshop to play in ravenfield game, all this mods i have tested and compared with another mods from the same class and i had chosen as the very best, so you gonna save a lot of time by picking up the mods that i am recommending, lets go to the list:

All this mods you can find on Steam community workshop or download from another game websites that storage mods for download.

VEHICLES

Jeep slot - None

Explanation: i dont think a jeep without weapons could help my gameplay, it only increase the pollution of the battlefield and consume performance from the pc, so better cut if off

MG Jeep slot - EQ2050 PACK(CWP) by Lezvin 

I think this is the best truck for troop transport including an MG seat that turn 360 degrees araound, this chinese truck seems like american humvee, nice design, nice health, support 5 passenger including the pilot, and the Ai (Bost) play very well using this vehicle, machine gunner is very accurate.

Quad slot - LKX 250 by c2holic_second

I dont know you but i dont like original Quad, instead it i do prefer this motorcicle that seems like that one from PUBG, nice design, nice sound effect and the rump passenger shoot while pilot drive it through the battlefield, very noice.

Tank slot - SA-9 Gaskin by Mr_2005 

I use this SPAA in the tank slot because some maps do not have APC slots and i think an SPAA is more important than a common tank, this is the very best SPAA in the ravenfield steam workshop, trust me, i have tested many other SPAA, the other ones keep focusing in ground target or simply ignore important air targets, they fail in accuracy and damage also,  what make it non sense for a anti-air vehicle, this one is the most deadly SPAA, defeat the very fast fighter jets and powerfull helicoters fastly, definig who command the skies, meantime it floats in the water also, please use it to protect your airspace. (Overpowered SPAA) Obs: other great quality is the fact that modder let you to use this vehicle in another slots, so you can calibrate it.

APC Slot - C1 Ariete PSO by  SouthernWolf67

believe me you will not find another tank better than this one from the ravenfield workshop, i have tested many many others, all that fail in healt, optimization, fire range and accuracy, but not this Ariete, this is the most accurate tank that you will find after the steelraven update that make bots fire while piloting  resulting most tank mods to be worse in accuracy, luckly that one continue to be accurate, and you still win a very nice design, very nice optimization, yes it play well in potato pc and firing effects are very realistic, please use this tank in your gameplay and you will not regret, note that i prefer to set this tank in APC slot, because as i say before, i give priority to SPAA in tank slot.

Attack Helicopter - MIL MI-28 HAVOC by Mr_2005 

And the  best award as the best helicopter goes to Havoc from Mr_2005 modder, i have tested a lot of helicoter mods and this one wins because the rain of rockets that he make above the enemies, the machine gunner have explosive projectiles and he fires at long range, what make this helicopter to be the most agressive chopper from the workshop, i only think the health could be bigger following the soviet doctrine of to make the vehicles the more resistent possible so it could last longer in the battlefield, hear that Mr ? make this a flying monster by increasing the health plox ?! second place goes to WZ-10 by Ninjagrape

I just want steelraven  release an update to improve bot skills in piloting and flying with helicopters, even if it’s the best mod, bots are still very slow to fly and don’t know how to do evasive maneuvers, which makes helicopters ‘’easy preys‘’ and last little in the battlefield, steelraven please make bots more hardcore when piloting attack helicopters thanks.  

Transport Helicopter slot - None

Explanation: i dont think a transport helicopter could help my gameplay, we already have jeep and boats for troop transport, so why we need more transport vehicles ? just to pollute the skies and nothing more, so i prefer to not use a transport helicopter. 

Attack Plane slot - MIG - 25 Foxbat by Mr_2005

You will believe me when i said that this is the very very best attack plane in that shitty workshop because i have fucking tested all the other attack planes you can imagine, what makes this plane special is the fact that it have only one weapon that is a tracking missile, so bots dont spend time firing machine guns or wired guided missiles that always miss the target, no bullshit in this plane make it very focused only in what matters: air superiority, it fires on sight and do not spend time letting the enemy survive, what makes it a very deadly plane, he fire ground targets also using tracking missiles, it never miss the target, if you dont like this one, keep with YF-23 by Lezvin that comes in second place or F-35B by noob kut ku comming in third  place, they are overpowered jet fighters too, but they spend time making some bullshit as i said before.

Bomber plane slot - A6 Intruder by Mr_2005 

If youre looking for a bomber plane to do some ground attack in vehicles targets this is the very best, he make rain fire in ground targets dropping some napalm bombs and raining a lot of rockets, some of the other bomber planes keep spending time flying around the targets and firing absolutely nothing i dont know why, this not happen with this bomber, he is always in action putting some terror in the heart of enemy soldiers in the floor, the fire effects are very impressive, much better than default explosion effects used by another bomber planes, there is a second seat for co-pilot and it does a lot of damage by firing guided missiles, which further increases the lethality of this plane.

Attack Boat slot - Silurus-Class Fast Attack Boat by noob kut ku

All we that play ravenfield and have a potato pc was sad because the only good attack boat that we had in the past was the RCB-90 from urban warfare modder, but saddly that boat was very laggy, so noob kut ku make my day when lauched this attack boat what is very similar, theres no bullshit like mortar that you can find in the original attack boat or in that piece of shit called vanilla boat, instead it we have a strong machine gun with explosive bullets that makes infantry be thrown away and a motherfuckin rocket that blows anything leaving a smoke trail behind , amazing boat, thank you very much noob, he fires you even if youre in a helicopter, no escape.

RHIB slot - Original 

Machine Gun, Anti-tank and Anti-air Turrets - None 

Why i need machine gun turret if my bots is already armed with the best weapons they can have ? why i need a anti-tank turret if my bots have decent rocket laucher ? why i need anti-air turret if i already have a SPAA that cover much more territory, so i dont use turrets to avoid the ground pollution in the battlefield

WEAPONS FOR BOTS (A.i)

First of all i deselect all the weapons because i am very carefully with what weapons my bots are using, cause they have worse skills and worse accuracy using the wrongs weapons, so lets pick the weapons carefully here.

If you agree with me, so you think that Hard dificulty mode from ravenfiel still is easy, one way to increase the dificulty beyond the normal is giving the right weapons for your bots, they play better using the right weapons.

Eagle Main Assault Rifle:  [Project WW3] M4A1 (1st version) By Mellamomellamo 

I like this weapon because it remember me my old times of call of duty modern warfare series, and because bot have long range firing using it, so is the main assault rifle of my eagle team, in my test A.i could shot at long range using this weapon, what did not happen with a lot of another weapons.

Eagle Anti-Tank: Dagger (Original)

Raven Main Assault Rifle: AKM by SAVANY 

This is the very best AKM that you can define to your enemy team, in my test bots have the longest range and the most accuracy while shootting with this AKM you will have much more challenge in your gameplay, i dont know why but bots play better using this assault rifle than using the defautl assault rifles, strange but luckly,  the bursts are usually accurate and do not spread as much as in mods of other assault rifles (Overpowered AKM)

Raven Anti-Tank: Dagger (Original)

Weapons for Both A.i teams Eagle and Raven

Sniper rifles:  SL Defender (Original) and Recon LRR 

(i dont know why but in my tests, bots only play well using default sniper rifles, so dont give another sniper rifle mods to your bots or they will play more badly)

Close quarters: TTI Benelli M4 by suzushiInfantry 

Another weapon that increases the game dificulty, bots they like to use this shotgun a lot, and the shots are very accurate even in a medium range,  in close range so they are very quick on the trigger, you will die several times due to the lethality of this shotgun (Overpowered shotgun)

Infantry support: M249 Saw (only) - Urban Warfare: Machine Guns by Laureen Keqing 

Don't ask me why but bots become extremely deadly when put their hands on M249 SAW that belong to this pack (i only recommend it from this pack), M249 SAW give to your bots high range and letal accuracy, sometimes they hit your a lot of times at once, seems like bots are using hack when they use M249, and it have a nice shooting effect also, if you want to increase dificulty of your game, select M249 to your enemies. (Overpowered machinegun)

Grenades: Model 1914 Grenade Pack Remaster by Ninjagrape

this is the only hand grenade that i like, why ? because it send everyone to the air when explodes, and it make my game more funny. (Overpowered grenade)

Equipment: The rest of things i use original, medic bag, ammo bag, sabre, skins, i dont like to use unuseful mods to keep filling my game with stupid mods that can decrease my gaming performance and polluting my scenario, so this things i prefer to keep original.

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2019: A Timeline of Fascist And  Extreme Right Violence

(CONTENT WARNING FOR EXTREME RACIST LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE) In keeping with our 2017 & 2018 lists of fascist and extreme right violence, we thought it smart to continue this year.  The date of each incident noted and other details will yield the original media source(s) with some web searching.  We will be updating this on the regular, so check back once in a while.  Here’s hoping we have a much smaller and less-lethal list this year! January 2019: LGBTQ+ activists in Russia have reported to media outlets that 40 people have been detained by authorities in Chechnya and at least two have been tortured to death. January 1, 2019:  A 50-year-old man intentionally drives his Mercedes into a crowd of asylum seekers in Bottrop, Germany, after trying twice earlier to run over pedestrians.  When arrested, the assailant made several anti-foreigner and racist remarks to police. Eight people are injured in his attacks. January 1, 2019: 52-year-old José David Muñoz Vargas is attacked by a group of men in Porvenir, Chile after they discover he is gay.  The men forcing him into scalding hot water, causing severe burns.  Vargas is hospitalized in critical conditions for days as a result of his injuries. January 1, 2019: A 24-year-old man is attacked by men he is sharing a ride with in a vehicle when they overhear him speaking on the phone to his partner and realize he is gay.  He is driven to a rural area near Valparaiso, Chile, where the men burn him with lit cigarettes, stomp on his genitals, and attempt to smash his head in with a large rock.  The man passes out and is left for dead, only regaining consciousness the following day.

January 1, 2019:  Terrorists detonate a small bomb at the front door of the home of a Moroccan family in Mariglianella, Italy. January 1, 2019: A man approaches two racialized women in Macerata, Italy, calls them “niggers” and throws a lit firecracker at their heads, then seig heils them and walks off.  50-60 people witness the assault but none intervene. January 1, 2019: Arsonists in Hebsack, Germany set fire to the home of a refugee family, who had received death threats in the past.  Three family members are treated for smoke inhalation.  

January 1, 2019: Arsonists set fire to a refugee shelter in Weimar, Germany while 120 people were sleeping inside.  The fire destroys one wing of the building but fortunately no one is injured or killed.

January 1, 2019: At the end of New Year’s Eve two friends walking home in Lyon, France see a group of around 15 people attacking a man lying on the ground. When they rushed to help the man the group turned on them, yelling racist insults and punching and kicking them, after which the attackers ran away. Some of the attackers were recognized by the victims as members of a local far-right group.

January 2, 2019:  Arsonists set fire to a trailer housing migrants in Lonato del Garda, Italy.  When one of the occupants exits the front door to escape the fire, assailants shoot him with a rifle, seriously injuring him.  The man undergoes life-saving surgery.

January 2, 2019:  In Torino, Italy, a dozen people attack a man in the building he lives in, beating him while shouting homophobic epithets at him.  The man suffers several facial contusions and a nose broken so badly that it requires surgery to repair.  

January 3, 2019:  A 36-year-old man is racially abused by a stranger in Berlin, Germany, and then punched and kicked by the man, who then flees.  The injured man is treated in hospital.

January 5, 2019: A racialized homeless man taking shelter under a Christmas tree in the town center of Caserta, Italy is attacked, leaving him lying in a pool of his own blood when found.  He is rushed to hospital with numerous injuries. January 6, 2019: 26-year-old Buckey Wolfe, a member of the Seattle branch of the fascist street gangs Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, murders his own brother by stabbing him in the head with a 3-foot-long sword. January 6, 2019: Dana Martin, a 31-year-old racialized trans woman, is found shot to death in a ditch in Montgomery, Alabama.

January 6, 2019:  Two Eritrean men in Hettstedt, Germany are confronted by a 36-year-old man shouting racist insults at them, who then chased them down the street and punched both of them.  

January 7, 2019: 21-year-old Houston resident Albert Gallegos, who has a documented history of randomly assaulting black people, approaches a 92-year-old man waiting for a bus and beats him unconscious.  Police charge Gallegos with a hate crime.  

January 10, 2019:  A black man asks for and receives directions from a resident of Andria, Italy.  A third man approaches the two, abuses them with racial taunts and insults, and assaults them.  The two men run away separately from the attack, who follows the man that gave directions to his home and kicks through the locked door before police intervene. January 10, 2019:  A 47-Brazilian woman attempting to order a pizza is interrupted by a patron of the Mereto di Tomba, Italy pizzeria, who complains loudly that she is not speaking the regional Italian dialect.  Shouting “here we are in Friuli and we must speak Friulian by law!��� he follows the woman outside and attacks her, breaking her nose and fracturing other facial bones before the woman’s son intervenes.  

January 11, 2019:  The “National Socialist Offensive” calls in bomb threats across Germany, forcing the closure of court houses throughout the country.

January 12, 2019: A Jewish man walking past a Crown Heights laundromat is confronted by a group of teenagers, who challenge him to a fight, punch him in the face, and knock him to the ground.  The man is hospitalized with minor injuries to his face and head. January 12, 2019:  A Jewish man at the Nikolassee S-bahn station in Berlin, Germany is insulted by a man there, who then attempts to hit him in the head with a rock. January 13, 2019: During a charity event, Pawel Adamowicz - Gdansk, Poland’s left-leaning mayor and a frequent target of the far-right, is stabbed to death by a 27-year-old ex-con with a history of violence who claimed to be a political opponent.   January 13, 2019:  Two people on a motor scooter pull up to a Senegalese street vendor in Pisa, Italy, and throw bleach in his face, causing burns to his eyes that put him in the hospital.

January 13, 2019: A Syrian refugee in Stralsund, Germany is injured in an assault by three men, who berate him with Islamophobic and racial slurs as they beat him.

January 14, 2019: 24-year-old Andrew Ramsey is asked to leave a Salem, OR. convenience store after causing a disturbance.  He returns minutes later to assault the Sikh store manager by throwing his shoe at him, knocking him to the ground, and attempting to steal his turban.  Ramsey tells arresting officers that he took those actions to disrespect the store manager because ��“he was Hindu and prays to Vishnu the catfish god.“

January 15, 2019:  34-year-old Arthur Martunovich walks into a Brooklyn Chinese restaurant, produces a hammer, and attacks Asian restaurant staff with it while allowing non-Asian staff to pass by unarmed.  Three Asian staff members are bludgeoned to death.  Martunovich told police he was inspired to commit the triple homicide by "a movie about Chinese men mistreating women.” January 16, 2019:  A Jewish man walking down the street is punched in the chest by a passerby in a completely unprovoked assault caught on video.  

January 16, 2019:  German police raid twelve apartments in eight states belonging to members of the National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland, seizing over 100 weapons.

January 17, 2019:  Transgender woman & reality TV star Tia Latham is pursued by two man brandishing metal poles, who attempt to attack her.  She manages to get into her house and lock herself in, leaving the pair to smash up her car while yelling homophobic/transphobic slurs at her.  

January 18, 2019:  A Bangladeshi immigrant riding his bicycle in via Fanneli, Italy is shoved off his bike by two people on a motor scooter, causing him to smash his head on the pavement.

January 19, 2019: Two gay men leaving an Austin, TX gay club are accosted by a man yelling homophobic slurs at them.  While distracted, four other men attack the couple, beating both of them unconscious and leaving one seriously injured.  

January 19, 2019: While transporting buffalo to market, 24-year-old Naushad Muhammad is pulled over in the village of  Bhalaut, India, where local residents pull him from his vehicle, accuse him of “cow smuggling,” tie him to a pole and beat him for two hours.  When police eventually arrive, they arrest Muhammad and leave him chained to a bed post in the police station over night without any medical treatment for his injuries.  

January 19, 2019: Around 15 members of the Identitäre Bewegung, armed with pepper spray, attack the opening of a left-wing social center, injuring several attendees.  Police detain several of the attackers. January 20, 2019: Fascist Golden Dawn members attack journalists covering their rally in Athens, beating them with clubs and stealing their cameras and equipment.  Three journalists are injured, one badly enough to require hospitalization.

January 20, 2019: A 14-year-old girl observing a march by extreme right-wing bigots in Roßlau, Germany is attacked by the marchers for “looking left-wing,” sustaining injuries to her ribs and head.  

January 20, 2019: Two well-known, armed neo-nazis in Saalfeld, Germany ambush an antifascist, beating him until they are chased off by passerby.  The antifascist is seriously injured.   Both attackers are arrested and charged with weapons violations.

January 21, 2019: Florida resident Mark Bartlett reacts to a group of young black men staging a “bikes up guns down” protest in Miami by screaming racial epithets at them and then pulling out a pistol and threatening to shoot them. January 22, 2019: Police arrest four men in Greece, New York for a terror plot against the small Muslim community of Islamberg, NY.  Investigators seize 23 rifles and shotguns as well as three IEDs. January 23, 2019: 21-year-old Zephen Xaver walks into a bank in Sebring, Florida wearing a bulletproof vest, produces a handgun, and executes five women in the bank for no apparent reason, before surrendering to authorities.  Xaver’s facebook page shows that he was a fan and supporter of Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.

January 23, 2019: Police discover a potentially-lethal pipe bomb decorated with nazi symbols on a school route in Raken, Germany.

January 24, 2019:  While waiting to use the changing station in the washroom of an Edmonton, Canada Costco, an Indigenous woman holding her baby is assaulted by a woman leaving the washroom, who rams her elbow into the Indigenous woman’s side and shoving both her and her baby against the stall of the bathroom.  As she fled the scene, the attacker made mocking sounds and gestures pertaining to Indigenous people, called her a “dirty Indian,” and called a black woman who attempted to intervene a “nigger” several times. January 25, 2019:  The spokesman of the Anti-Fascist United Front (FUA) was ambushed in Braga by three Neonazis, with two attempts to run him over with their car, followed by a pursuit on foot.  He escapes uninjured.

January 26, 2019: A group of armed Israeli settlers march on the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir, firing tear gas followed by live bullets at the villagers there.  Eleven Palestinians are wounded in the attack and one, Hamdy Na’asan, is shot dead as he attemps to pick up a wounded villager from the ground.

January 26, 2019: A 31-year-old woman is approached at a subway station in Berlin by a stranger, who screams xenophobic slurs at her before attacking her with a blunt object.  The woman manages to fend off the attack but injures her thumb during the struggle.  

January 26, 2019: A mob in Trepuzzi, Italy arrive at the home of 22-year-old Sierra Leone migrant Alhaji Turay.  They smash their way through the front door and corner Turay in his home, calling him a “dirty nigger” and telling him to “go home!”  When Turay attempts to escape by climbing out of a window, one of the racist attackers smashes a chair across his back.  Turay manages to flee but sustaining injuries bad enough to require three weeks to heal.  This is the second time in less than a year that Turay has been attacked; in October he and other migrant were attacked by baseball-bat-wielding racists.  

January 28, 2019: Right-wing extremist, Islamophobe, and “Yellow Vests Canada” member Tony Green is arrested after pointing a loaded pistol at an off-duty RCMP officer in Campbell River, BC, Canada.  Police then spend four days searching Green’s property, recovering explosives, homemade silencers, prohibited high-capacity magazines, and over 100 firearms, including a machine gun, zip guns, and firearms with their serial numbers removed.

January 29, 2019:  Three students in Gela, Italy are charged with assaulting a classmate from Senegal, leaving him seriously injured.  They are further charged with extortion and stalking due to their continued harassment of the classmate.

January 30, 2019: Three men assault two Hasidic Jewish men in two separate attacks just fifteen minutes apart in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.  One of the Hasidic men is hospitalized with his injuries.

January 30, 2019: A 70-year-old Muslim woman selling food from a makeshift stall is attacked by eight members of the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal gang.  They throw hot curry in the woman’s face, scalding her, before setting her food stall on fire.

January 31, 2019:  Ossuele Gnegne, a 28-year-old immigrant from Ivory Coast is riding is bicycle to work in Arzano, Italy when a car deliberately runs into him, knocking him to the pavement.  Several men, armed with iron bars and bats, exit the vehicle and beat Gnegne as he lays on the ground.  Gnegne’s arm is badly broken and he suffers other injuries as well.

January 31, 2019: Camila, a trans woman who had recently been deported from the United States to El Salvador, is admitted to a San Salvador-area hospital with multiple serious injuries stemming from an attack.  She dies in hospital three days later.   January 31, 2019: Two people beat a refugee in a park in Plattling, Germany, leaving him injured and lying on the ground as they flee.

February 2019: FBI arrest 20-year-old college dropout and Atomwaffen Division member Benjamin Bogard after being tipped off to a number of videos posted by Bogard advocating for white supreamacy, discussing how to obtain bomb-making materials, and talking about his desire to murder racialized people.  FBI agents testify in court that they believe Bogard could be the country’s next mass shooter or bomber and reveal that they also uncovered child pornography on Bogard’s cell phone.   February 2019: An Italian of Brazilian descent and his girlfriend at accosted by four teeangers in Reggio Calabria, Italy, who shout racist slurs that the couple before assaulting the man and stealing his phone.  The couple take refuge in a pharmacy but their four attackers wait outside, shouting racial abuse until police arrive and arrest them.

February 2, 2019: A 27-year-old man and his 54-year-old father confront two Afghan refugees at an S-bahn station in Berlin, insulting and beating them.  

February 4, 2019:  A 25-year-old man of Indian descent is waiting for a tram in Dresden, Germany when another man pops out of a door, shouts at him and punches him in the face before fleeing.

February 4, 2019: Two Indian men are harassed and racially abused on a bus in Gdansk, Poland. When they leave the bus, one of them is punched in the back of his head. 

February 5, 2019:  As a 19-year-old Gambian man walks out of his workplace in Syracuse, Italy, a man waving a knife confronts him, calling him a “black bastard,” threatening to kill him and then chasing him.  Police intervene before the attacker can make good on his threat. February 6, 2019: An 18-year-old woman on her way to work in Corsenza, Italy witnesses two men beating a migrant in the street.  When she attempts to intervene, the two men turn on her and assault her.  

February 6, 2019: Two Cuban women on a bus in Brescia, Italy are racially abused by another woman, who then assaults them and tries to steal one of their purses before bystanders intervene.  Both Cuban women sustain injuries in the attack.

February 6, 2019: An 18-year-old German in Mühlhausen, Germany racially insults a 19-year-old refugee from Syria and then tries to stab him with a jackknife. The refugee is able to parry the attack and take the knife from the attacker. February 7, 2019: Two Indonesian students in Canberra, Australia are waiting for a bus when two people began harassing them for their dress and headscarves.  The two students attempt to ignore the harassers, who escalate to punching the women in the head before running off.

February 7, 2019: A 26-year-old German attacked an asylum-seeker from Iran on the street in Zittau, Germany. First, he is said to have insulted the injured racially. Then he hit him with a bottle on the back of the head, splitting his head open.

February 7, 2019: A woman from Dominica is riding the escalator in a Rome, Italy subway station when two men yell racial slurs at her.  When she reacts, they punch her repeatedly in her face.  One man is charged while the woman is treated in hospital for her injuries. February 8, 2019: Ndudzu Prosper, a 26-year-old  Zimbabwean studying in Annaba, Algeria is confronted by three men who attack him with clubs and knives, stabbing him to death.  The assailants denied the police theory that they were attempting to rob Prosper, telling the police they were calling him racist names before they attacked him.  

February 8, 2019: A trans woman named Lolita is hacked to death in a machete attack in El Salvador.  

February 9, 2019: Assil Belalta, a 21-year-old medical student in Algiers, Algeria, is found stabbed to death in his dorm room.  His killers left behind a homophobic message scrawled on the wall of Belaita’s room in his own blood.

February 9, 2019: A man in Berlin approaches two Syrian girls (15 and 16 years old) while they were talking to each other. The stranger racially abuses the girls, then punches both of them several times in the face before fleeing.  The two girls suffered facial injuries.

February 10, 2019: Galia Petkova, a gay woman in Sofia, Bulgaria, is walking through the city when a man begins following her, before punching her in the face and warning her not to be seen in public again.  Petkova loses two of her teeth in the homophobic attack.  

February 10, 2019:  Mattia Casciani, defender with the Italian football team Borznese, violently attacks an opposing player and then his own team mate with punches, kicks, and a litany of racist slurs at the end of the match with Real San Prospero.

February 10, 2019: Three men are attacked by a group of five bigots as they exit a gay bar in Bordeaux, France. One of the men suffers serious facial injuries and has to be treated in the hospital.

February 13, 2019: John Crain walks into a Marysville, CA. 7-11 and throws hot coffee in the face of the Sikh store clerk.  Upon arrest, Crain tells police he did it because he “hates Muslims.”  

February 14, 2019:  After enduring weeks of racist abuse by her neighbors, a mixed-race Italian woman is punched and kicked as her neighbor yells racist slurs at her and tells her to “go back to her country.”  

February 15, 2019: Two assailants smash out the plate glass window of a Brooklyn synagogue while 15 people were inside.

February 15, 2019: A 49-year-old white supremacist and Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson is arrested in his Silver Spring, MD. home on guns and drugs charges.  Police recover 15 firearms, over 1000 rounds of ammunition, steroids, human growth hormone, and a “hit list” containing the names of prominent Democrat politicians and journalists from CNN and MSNBC.  Prosecutors have also obtained emails Hasson wrote to neo-nazi groups and allege that Hasson was using the manifesto of Norwegian white supremacist terrorist Anders Breivik as a model for his own plans.

February 16, 2019:  A group of men in downtown Salt Lake City are approached by a man berating them with homophobic slurs.  When one of the group begins recording the man on his phone, the man punches him in the head.

February 16, 2019:  33-year-old Dustin Passarelli escalates a Carmel, IN. traffic disagreement with four foreign-born American citizens by shouting xenophobic and Islamophobic slurs at them.  When Passarelli draws a pistol, one of the four, 33-year-old Mustafa Ayoubi, begins running.  Passarelli shoots Ayoubi in the back several times, killing him.    

February 18, 2019: Five drunk Polish men in Stoke-On-Trent, UK were arrested after attacking a Muslim security guard and two others, kicking and punching them while yelling that the Polish would remove Muslims from the country. February 18, 2019: Four young men in Wolow, Poland beat up an Egyptian man who was walking home after work, because of his nationality and skin color, injuring the man’s arm and knee.

February 19, 2019: Maajid Nawaz, who has publicly defended white supremacists,  is called a “fucking Paki” while outside London’s Soho Theatre and punched in the face by an unknown assailant, who runs away after the attack.

February 20, 2019: A 47-year old Ivorian woman who has been living in Italy for 30 years is attacked by a group of men and women in the city of Bari, who yell racist insults at her while she is walking home from work in the afternoon on a busy street, then begin punching and kicking her.  None of the bystanders come to the victim’s aid. February 20, 2019:  Fascist activists of the youth group of CasaPound, Blocco Studentesco, were leafleting at Benedetto Da Norcia high school in Rome, Italy. When a student folded the leaflet to put it in his pocket the fascists thought he was ripping it up and beat him to the ground, also attacking the girl he was with.

February 20, 2019:  A 12-year-old Egyptian boy is physically attacked in the streets of Portuense, Rome, Italy.

February 21, 2019:  A 29-year-old man screams racial slurs at an 11-year-old Roma boy on a subway in Rome, Italy before stabbing him in the head.  

February 23, 2019:  At a hockey game in Saint-Jerome, Canada between the Jonquiere Marquis and the St. Jerome Petroliers du Nord, Marquis player Jonathan-Ismael Diaby was targeted by racist opposing fans, who taunted him and his family and forced them to leave the game early. When Diaby, who is black, was sent to the penalty box in the first period, the so-called ‘fans’ began shouting racist insults. They also harassed Diaby’s family, with several people crowding around them, pushing and hitting his father and pouring beer on his girlfriend.

February 23, 2019: 22-year-old Antonio Valdez randomly attacks a 67-year-old Korean man in Santa Rosa, CA.  While assaulting and robbing him, Valdez demands that the man tell him his citizenship.  Valdez faces hate crime charges.

February 23, 2019: A middle-aged couple follow a Muslim woman into a Kettering, OH. grocery store, screaming ethnic and racial slurs at her.  The woman tries to ignore them and while she is reaching for a gallon of milk, the man in the couple shoves her into the display. March 2, 2019: Four gay men are injured in three separate mob beatings that take place during and around Sydney’s LGBTQ+ Mardi Gras parade & events.

March 2, 2019: A 60-year old women and Thai immigrant tending bar in Pordenone, Italy is assaulted by a male customer, yelling things like “Salvini is right” and “Go back to your own country.”

March 2, 2019: A group of eight neo-nazis in Leipzig, Germany harass a 22-year old African man on a tram, and attack him as he leaves, leaving him badly injured.

March 2, 2019: Neo- nazis of the Identitäre Bewegung assault two young women and a man in front of their Halle, Germany headquarters, beating them and attacking them with pepper spray.  All three were hospitalized as a result of their injuries.

March 3, 2019:  A 65-year-old Jewish woman is returning to her home in Bamberg, Germany when someone comes up from behind her and douses her with acid, seriously burning her.

March 6, 2019: Members of the extreme right Vishwa Hindu Dal group attack two Kashmiri dried fruit sellers, beating them with clubs.

March 7, 2019: Nine fascists in Ferrol, Italy attack three friends who are walking home after recognizing them as leftist activists. A 40-year old ends up in hospital with a fractured skull.

March 8-9, 2019: A 37-year-old woman goes on a spree of pepper spray attacks, exclusively targeting white pedestrians and using racist language in at least two of the attacks.  At least eight people are injured in the attacks.  NYPD file hate crime charges against the assailant.

March 10, 2019: Four neo-nazis chase a 23-year-old gay man through the streets of Leon, Spain, beating him to the ground when they catch up to him and stabbing him repeatedly in the neck.  The man is rushed to hospital with serious injuries.

March 10, 2019: Police raid a militia meeting near Dorfmark, Germany, recovering a machine gun, a submachine gun, other weapons, and nazi artifacts.

March 11, 2019: Over a hundred racist youth in Urk, the Netherlands invade the home of a family of Moroccan background, looking to beat up their son. In the attack they also beat the mother and daughter of the family, all while chanting the name of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders. March 13, 2019: A black man got into a tram in Ukkel, Belgium, when another man starts verbally harassing him, calling him a monkey and saying that he wants black people gone. When the victim confronted the man he was threatened, pushed and shoved by the racist, after which the tram driver helped the man to safety. March 13, 2019:  A white driver rams his car into Chuck Crockett's car on a North Portland, OR., then  jumps out and repeatedly calls Crockett a "nigger" and other racial slurs, threatens to attack him, and then drives away.  When Crockett reports the incident to police, several officers refuse to accept his report of a hate crime. March 15, 2019: 28-year-old Australian man and white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, armed with an assault rifle and shotgun decorated with neo-nazi symbols, opens fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people and injuring 19 others.  Tarrant, who live-streamed the mass murder, leaves behind a 74-page manifesto in which he describes the attack as a terrorist act against “mass migration,” designed to “incite violence” against Muslims.  

March 15, 2019: Three men drive by an east end London mosque shouting racist & Islamophobic abuse.  When some of the worshippers there respond, the men climb out of their car and attack the worshippers with a baton and a hammer.  One of the worshippers sustains a head injury in the attack.

March 15, 2019 A peaceful protest outside a meeting of Dutch fascist party FvD in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is attacked by a group of ten people. One protester is injured on his hand and a megaphone is smashed. The attack is quickly repelled, allowing the protest to continue. March 16, 2019:  50-year-old Vincent Fuller dons a mask and walks down the street in Surrey, UK swinging a baseball bat and a large knife, shouting “white supremacy,” “kill all Muslims,” and racial slurs.  He then stabs a 19-year-old man in a Tesco parking lot.  Fuller is charged with attempted murder and hate crimes.

March 16, 2019:  A hijab-wearing Muslim woman standing outside of her mother’s home in Brooklyn when a strange man rushes at her from across the street, attempts to trip her, then kicks her in her right leg before walking away. March 16, 2019: A mob of at least 20 people attack a van in Colombes, France occupied by two Roma, injuring both of them. March 17, 2019: Two days after the terrorist attack in Christchurch, NZ., a fourteen-year-old boy threatens a Victoria, Australia mosque online, claiming he will “be visting (sic) this mosque and kill as many invaders as i can in the time i get. I will then shoot myself in front of police.”  

March 17, 2019: A 16-year-old biracial boy is walking home from a Leesburg, FL. convenience store with his 12-year-old sister when they encounter two men who call them “niggers,” demand that they leave the area, and fire a gun at them.  James Robert Reidnauer and Brent Van Besien face charges from the incident.  Reidnauer was previously arrested in 2016 for the domestic abuse of a disabled adult.

March 17, 2019: The FBI arrests 22-year-old New York resident Thomas Alonzo Bolin for plotting a terrorist attack.  Bolin, a Greek immigrant who managed and was active on several white supremacist facebook groups, was plotting online with his cousin to commit a mass shooting of Muslims in Baltimore.  Bolin told FBI agents in an interview that he wanted Muslims out of the country because they were “contributing to a corruption of his culture.”  Agents seized a mask and shotgun from his rented room.

March 18, 2019: A man walking his dog in Berlin, Germany, insults two women for wearing headscarves.  When they respond he punches one of the women, who is pregnant, in the stomach. She had to be treated in the hospital for her injuries.

March 21, 2019:  55-year-old Patrick W. Carlineo, Jr. decides to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racism by calling the offices of Rep. Ilhan Omar to threaten to “put a bullet in her fucking skull” for being Muslim,  Carlineo is arrested for threatening to assault and kill Ilhan.

March 21, 2019: Austin Shuffield becomes involved in a Dallas, TX. parking dispute with L’Daijohnique Lee, a 24-year-old black woman.  Shuffield approaches Lee with a pistol in his hand, then calls her a “stupid nigger,” knocks her cell phone out of her hand and into the street, and punches her in the head several times until she is knocked out.

March 22, 2019:  Description: Two Muslim women in Ukkel, Belgium, were walking to their children’s school and crossing a crosswalk when a driver of a car refused to give them the right of way. He opened his window to yell that he’s a racist and hates women in headscarves, and then drove into one of the women, who had to be treated in the hospital for injuries to her leg.

March 23, 2019: During an unauthorised march of around a hundred fascists of Forza Nuova in Prato, Italy a group of fascists targeted a young man who was sitting on the fountain’s edge in the gardens and filming their passage with his mobile phone, by violently throwing him to the ground and hitting him with kicks and punches.

March 24, 2019: An arsonist sets fire to a mosque in Escondido, California, while seven people are inside, leaving a note behind referencing the mass murder/white supremacist terror attack at another mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand earlier in the month.  A month later it’s revealed that the culprit is 19-year-old John Earnest, after Earnest enters a San Diego synagogue with an AR-15 and shoots four worshippers, killing one.

March 24, 2019: A member of far-right group Soldiers of Odin attempts to assault Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini at a farmers market in Vantaa, Finland. The attacker is overpowered by security before he can hit Soini.

March 25, 2019: A mob of at least 50 people, armed with clubs and knives, descend on a Roma encampment in Bobigny, France, setting fire to several vans Roma people were living in.  Police arrest 20 of the mob. March 25, 2019: A violent mob chases a group of Roma through the streets of Clichy-sous-Bois, France, only stopping when the Roma take refuge from them in a supermarket.

March 27 - April 4, 2019: In the course of one week, three predominantly black churches in St. Landry Parish, LA. are completely destroyed in fires investigating authorities are calling “suspicious.”  Police arrest 21-year-old Holden Matthews, singer in a “black metal” band, self-professed worshipper of the white supremacist Asatru religious cult, and the son of a police deputy.  

March 29, 2019: A man wearing a MAGA hat and shouting homophobic abuse approaches a group of people outside of a roller rink hosting an LGBTQ+ event.  When one of the event-goers confronts him, the man produces a sword and slashes them, leaving his victim bleeding profusely as he runs away.

March 29, 2019: The offices and archives of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market Tennessee burn to the ground overnight in a mysterious fire.  A fascist symbol adopted by local members of the white supremacist Traditionalist Workers Party are found on-site.

March 30, 2019: A 25-year old Muslim woman is verbally abused by an elderly woman in Vienna, Austria, when the old woman spots her at a metro station. She spits at the victim and tells her the fascist party “FPÖ will get rid of all of you”. When the Muslim woman confronts her the old woman produces a sharp object and threatens to stab her.

March 30, 2019:  Three teenaged boys verbally abuse a transgender teenager in Essex, UK, before one of the boys produces a knife and slashes the transgender teen in the face, causing injuries severe enough to require hospitalization. March 30, 2019: 27-year-old trans woman Ashanti Carmon is shot dead in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

March 31, 2019: Racist & transphobic far-right gang “The Hiwaymen” arrive at the Arkansas state capitol and attack attendees at an event to mark the Trans Day of Visibility, punching and kicking them on the steps of the capitol building, injuring at least one person.

March 31, 2019: During a rally against Algeria’s then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Paris, France, 31-year old transgender woman Julia was insulted with transphobic slurs and  attacked with punches and kicks by three men as she made her way through the crowd.

April 1, 2019: Jaswinder Singh, a Sikh cab driver  in New York City, is berated by a racist passenger mocking his race and religion who then pulls out a knife and slashes Singh’s throat, nearly killing him.

April 3, 2019:  Four members of fascist youth group Blocco Studentesco have been arrested for their attempt to poison a fifth member of the fascist group using Ricin in 2018 in Turin. Italy.

April 4, 2019: A 24-year-old man walking near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park is approached by another man yelling anti-gay slurs at him.  The first man is then punched before his assailant runs away.  

April 5, 2019: A man in Bourdon, France said he stabbed his neighbor because he “wanted to kill a Jew.” The 58-year-old victim was stabbed 15 times in his abdomen and face. He was injured in the liver and gallbladder and underwent surgery. He was saved by a friend who was with him at the time of the assault, and came between the victim and the attacker.

April 6, 2019: Emmit Davis, a transgender man in Colorado Springs, Co,, is sitting on the porch of his home with his partner when three men passing by jump over their fence and begin verbally abusing them with homophobic and racist slurs, then attack Davis, leaving him with facial injuries.

April 6, 2019: A drunk father and son walking their dog yelled insults and punched a 15-year old Muslim boy in Waddinxveen, Netherlands, who fled into the mosque. The drunk father followed him and angrily pounded on the door. Several men, including the elderly chairman of the mosque came outside trying to calm the man down, who yelled racist slurs at them before punching the elderly chairman in the face. Two more men were injured in the fight that followed.

April 7, 2019: After an event by far-right party AfD in Köln that was completely outnumbered by counter-protesters, a car carrying two people who were present at the AfD event deliberately drives into a group of counter-protesters on their way home at a stoplight, injuring one person who ended up on the hood of the car. The car then drove off. The injured victim had to be treated in hospital.

April 7, 2019: In Lipník nad Bečvou, Czech Republic, a brutal assault was committed against three Romani children by an adult man and woman yelling racist insults. The man is said to have punched the children in the chest and face, and eyewitnesses say he even kicked one child in the chest. A 14-year-old boy has been hospitalized with a bruised back and a concussion, while a girl has been hospitalized with an injured thoracic cavity and another 12-year-old girl has been hospitalized with a bruised spine and dislocated nose. Klára Bartošová, a relative of the assaulted boy, told news server Romea.cz that the man had attacked the children because, several days ago, his 16-year-old daughter had an argument with a Romani child. “Those were absolutely different children, though. He just came up and began beating any Romani child he could get his hands on,” she said.

April 8, 2019: An Israeli settler from the illegal settlement of Gush Etzion deliberately rams his car into a Palestinian teenager, critically injuring him before fleeing the scene.  

April 8, 2019:  Two men attack a Congolese man in Warsaw. They yell racist insults, punch and use pepper spray in the attack. Both men were arrested. One of the perpetrators turned out to have an earlier conviction for giving a fascist salute.

April 9, 2019: An anti-Romani mob attacked and destroyed homes of Romani people in Gabrovo, Bulgaria after a video was posted online of three Romani men fighting employees in a shop. The three men had been arrested and released after 24-hours by the police. This sparked anti-Romani protests by non-Romani residents. The protests then became a riot in which a large mob of non-Romani men vandalized the homes of Romani people, with Romani children still inside in some cases.

April 10 2019: A high school student at an East Brunswick, NJ school attacks a fellow student, who is Muslim, by spitting on her, ripping off her hijab, knocking her to the ground, climbing on top of her and punching her repeatedly in the face.  The attacker later brags about the attack on social media, peppering her post with Islamophobic slurs.

April 10, 2019: A university lecturer riding a tram in Warsaw, Poland overhears a fellow passenger speaking in Ukrainian on his cell phone.  The lecturer goes over to the man and assaults him.  

April 10, 2019: As she is leaving morning prayers at her Milwuakee, WI. mosque, a Muslim woman is assaulted by a stranger who tries to tear off her hijab.  When she resists, he throws her to the ground, beats and stabs her.  The woman is hospitalized because of her injuries.

April 11, 2019: Osher Band, a 15-year-old transgender girl from Ashkelon, Israel,  was hospitalized with a brain injury and organ damage after being attacked by a classmate. Osher hadn’t gone to school for more than six months.The incident that made Osher stop coming to school last summer occurred while she was sitting with some of her classmates. Two boys from her grade began taunting her. Then, “they threw chairs at me, and one of them said that if I stay here, he would stab me, and pulled out a pocketknife,” she said. Since then, she said she has been afraid to leave home. On Thursday April 11, she finally returned to school, but she said had an argument with another girl who chased her, knocked her head around and hit her until she managed to flee and call the police. April 12, 2019: After being involved in a minor traffic collision in Dallas, Texas, a transgender woman is confronting by a mob of people who stomp and beat her for several minutes while screaming transphobic slurs at her until she manages to escape them.  The woman is hospitalized for her injuries.

April 12, 2019: Two members of Italian fascist party CasaPound - one of whom is a Vitarbo city councillor, beat and rape another CasaPound member in a bar frequented by fascists, after telling her to come party with them and getting her drunk.  They videotape the rape on their cellphones.

April 13, 2019:  Landon McCaa and Tomas Sion Brown invite several people to their Wayne County, MS. home for a party, then suckerpunch and attack party guest Trevor Gray, breaking his jaw in two places as they yell homophobic slurs at him, after they mistakenly assumed he was gay.

April 13, 2019: A trans woman in Dallas, TX. is stabbed multiple times.  

April 16, 2019: After threatening to kill an interracial couple the week before and calling the woman in the couple a “nigger lover,” 50-year-old James Descant spots the couple walking to a Metairie, LA. convenience store and attempts to run them over in his pickup truck, seriously injuring the woman.

April 16, 2019:  Two young gay people are surrounded by six other young people after leaving a club: “They started slapping, punching and kicking”, says one of the two “first my friend, then me”. They use homophobic insults and threaten to come back and stab them if they tell anyone about the assault.

April 17, 2019: Arsonists set fire to Moscow’s  Torat Chaim yeshiva in Moscow just ahead of the Passover meal celebration after spray-painting swastikas on the building. There were about 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time.

April 19, 2019: A child on San Vicente Blvd. in Los Angeles is attacked by a man shouting racial slurs at them while repeatedly kicking them. April 21, 2019: Eight coordinated suicide bombings, targeting Christian churches, hotels popular with foreigners, and a cinema, kill 253 people and injured a further 500.  The attacks are attributed to National Thowheeth Jama'ath, a fascist group with ties to Daesh/ISIS.  A further seven people are killed when the wives of one of the suspect detonates a bomb in her home as police are raiding it, killing herself, three police officers, and three of her sons.

April 21, 2019:  A 22-year old Czech politician was attacked by two men who used racist insults against him. He had to be treated in hospital for a large cut on his back.

April 22, 2019: As he was attempting to flag down a cab in Liverpool late at night, 32-year-old Jon McMahon is approached from behind by a group of people shouting homophobic slurs at him.  Before he can react, they attack him from behind, beating him unconscious and stealing his wallet.  

April 22, 2019:  Dr. Joanna Malinowska is attacked with pepper-spray by three masked men in Wroclaw, Poland after having given a feminist lecture.  The men refer to her as a leftist and make further threats as they attack her.

April 22, 2019:  A Muslim woman leaving a Wal-Mart in Milton, Ontario with her four-year-old and two-month-old daughters is approached in the parking lot by another woman who bumps the four-year-old and then immediately starts punching the mother in the face while she tried to shield her children from the attack.

April 23, 2019: 34-year-old war veteran Isaiah Peoples is on his way to deliver food to his Sunnyvale, CA. bible study group when we decides to ram his car into eight pedestrians crossing the street at a crosswalk.  Police quickly discover that Peoples, who kept repeating “thank you, Jesus!” immediately after the attack, chose to do so because he believed the pedestrians were Muslims.  Several of the victims were severely injured, including a 13-year-old girl who is in a coma.

April 23, 2019:  A masked man arrives at the North Austin Muslim Community Center in Austin TX and attempts to set it on fire.

April 25, 2019: Santi Leon Martinez, a 48-year-old registered Republican working at a Goodwill store in Denver, CO., confronts an anti-fascist who is removing neo-nazi Patriot Front stickers from a streetpole outside the store.  After a brief discussion during which Martinez states that “maybe some people deserve to be in concentration camps,” he produces a large folding knife and chases the anti-fascist down the street, stabbing him five times.  The anti-fascist nearly dies from blood loss.  

April 26, 2019: FBI arrests Army veteran Mark Steven Domingo for plotting to bomb a white supremacist rally in Huntington Beach, CA.  The FBI alleges that Domingo is a “violent jihadist” who has pledged allegiance to Daesh/ISIS and had previously considered attacking a synagogue.  

April 26, 2019: At a Cronulla, Australia rally for racist politician Fraser Anning, a 19-year-old Anning supporter threatens a TV journalist and then attacks her photographer when he intervenes.  

April 26, 2019: Gunmen on motorbikes attack a Protestant church in Djibo, Burkina Faso, killing six Christians.  

April 27, 2019: 19-year-old white supremacist John Earnest enters a San Diego synagogue and opens fire on worshippers, injuring three people and killing one.  After turning himself into police, Earnest also confesses to attempting to burn down a mosque in Escondid, CA. the month before.

April 27, 2019: Arsonists attempt to burn down the homes of two socialist politicians in Solothurn, Swizterland by starting fires in their mail boxes.

April 27, 2019: Cody Morse is standing outside of a Hattiesburg, MS. bar when two men run at him and begin punching him in the head - one while holding keys in his hand - and then assault and injure a woman who attempts to intervene.  Morse, who was left with multiple contusions and lacerations on his face, believes he was targeted because he is gay.  

April 27, 2019: A 23-year-old trans woman is followed out of a Denver, CO. bar by two men who start harassing her, then attack her, punching her several times in the face and breaking her jaw in three places and causing possible permanent nerve damage to the right side of her face.  

April 28, 2019: An arsonist attempts to burn down the African-American New Hope Baptist Church in St. Paul, MN.

April 30, 2019: 43-year-old Adelaide, Australia resident Aaron Ellis - a self-proclaimed Islamophobe and ultra-nationalist - is arrested after police raid his home and discover pipe bomb materials and homemade explosive chemicals in a fridge inside a shed.  

April 30, 2019: Two Christian extremists set up a booth and PA system in the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village and begin preaching homophobic hate speech & attempting to pass out anti-LGBTQ+ pamphlets.  As a crowd gathers and tensions escalate for over an hour until the religious extremists assault two people, bloodying one and injuring the other badly enough to require hospitalization.  

May 2019:  Five neonazis, including a police officer, are arrested in France for being in a terrorist cell, hoarding weapons and explosives and planning to attack Jewish or Muslim places of worship.  

May 1, 2019: Joey Gibson and about 15 far-right supporters arrive at a bar in Portland hosting a May Day event.  They proceed to pepper spray attendees, then challenge people to fight.  When bar patrons rally to defend themselves Ian Kramer, one of Gibson’s group, clubs a woman over the head with a baton, knocking her unconscious and fracturing her vertebrae before the group runs away.

May 1, 2019:  An Indian student studying in Rome was attacked by 5 or 6 young people while on his delivery job. They hit him with rocks and eggs while yelling racist insults.  The student is nearly blinded in one eye.

May 2, 2019: Stephen “Tommy Robinson” Yaxley-Lennon and his supporters attack a group of anti-fascist women on the streets of Warrington, UK, breaking one woman’s nose.

May 2, 2019: After harassing & threatening his transgender neighbor for months, a man in Campania, Italy attacks her with a cudgel spiked with rusty nails.

May 3, 2019: 52-year-old Johnny Juica-Pena starts an argument with a Muslim man on a commuter train in Morristown, New Jersey over a bathroom and escalates to punching the Muslim man in the face while yelling racist slurs at him.  Juica-Pena faces assault and hate crimes charges.  

May 4, 2019:  A 42-year-old Jewish man is walking down the street in Brookyn, NY when a group of men yelling antisemitic slurs rush at him.  The Jewish man is called a “fucking Jew” and punched in the face before the men run off.

May 5, 2019:  After decorating the outside of their Monroe, OH. home for the first night of Ramadan, the only Muslim family in an all-white neighborhood are cleaning up after breaking fast when someone fires a gun into their home.  One of the bullets narrowly misses one of the daughters of the family.

May 7, 2019: An orthodox Jewish man walking down the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is attacked from behind by a man that runs up behind him and punches him in the head before running off.    

May 7, 2019:  The parents of a refugee family in Enschede, the Netherlands, are beaten with sticks in front of their children in their own home by a large group of racists.   May 10, 2019: 25-year-old Jimtarius Hampton enters a Southaven, MS. Waffle House and immediately begins an argument with a 22-year-old trans woman in the restaurant with her friends.  After enduring transphobic insults from Hampton, the woman tries to walk away from him.  Hampton draws a firearm and shoots the woman in both legs.

May 10, 2019: After a day at school, 22-year-old Fatoumata Camara boards a Bronx bus when about a dozen passengers begin taunting her with racial, sexist, and Islamophobic slurs.  When she exits the bus the group follows and attacks her, leaving her with a broken nose and head injuries before stealing her bag.  NYPD arrested three of the attackers but then released them and refused to investigate further until Camara obtained surveillance footage and released it to the media.  

May 11, 2019: A man steals a vehicle from a construction site in Edson, Canada, drives it through the town’s courthouse, and then gets out of the vehicle and spray-painted antisemitic graffiti inside of the courthouse.

May 11, 2019:  Mena Mangal, a journalist and women’s rights advocate, is shot dead in broad daylight in Kabul, Afghanistan, while she was on her way to work.   Just days before, Mangal had said she feared for her life after receiving threats.

May 12, 2019: Arsonists set fire to the Diyanet mosque in New Haven, CT., seriously damaging it.

May 12, 2019: A Vancouver man is approached by two other men who tackle him from behind and kicked him while calling him homophobic slurs.  

May 12, 2019: A black man having drinks with his white wife in a bar in Volusia County, FL. is approached by three white men, who make racist and insulting remarks towards him, racist and sexually-abusive remarks to his wife, then began calling him a “nigger” and his wife “a nigger lover,” then attack the man.  Warren “Randy” Stratton, Troy Noe, and Noe’s son have all been charged in the attack.

May 14, 2019:  The wife of the leader of Helsingborg, Sweden’s Jewish community is stabbed nine times in an anti-Semitic attack, severely wounding her.

May 15, 2019: A 22-year-old Muslim woman boarding a Montréal subway is approached by a man who hits her in the chest and attempts to rip her niqab off of her head before running away.

May 15, 2019: A Palestinian teenager is hospitalized after being attacked by a mob of Jewish teens chanting “Death to Arabs!”

May 16, 2019:  Arsonists set fire to two Jewish centers in Arlington, MA., which were also the homes of two rabbis and their families.

May 16, 2019: 52-year-old Nayeem Shah is driving cattle in his vehicle when he is intercepted by at least six people in Bhaderwah, India.  The mob shoots Shah dead and seriously wounds his passenger, Zahoor Ahmed.  

May 16, 2019:  Two AfD council candidates in Freiburg, Germany attack two cyclists with a metal pole and pepper spray after suspecting them of belonging to local anti-fascists. 

May 18, 2019: 23-year-old transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, who was beaten in the street by a mob six weeks prior, is found shot to death on a Dallas road.  

May 18, 2019: A journalist covering a Blieburg, Austria memorial service commemorating the surrender of Croatian fascists in WW2 is attacked by the participants, who spit on him, punch him, and kick him.

May 19, 2019: 29-year-old Grady Wayne Wilkes - a former paratrooper who holds Islamophobic, extreme-right political views - greets police responding to a domestic disturbance call in an Auburn, AL. trailer park wearing body armor & camouflage & begins shooting at the police, killing one and wounding two others.

May 19, 2019: An arsonist attempts to set a synagogue in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago on fire by hurling three Molotov cocktails at the building.

May 19, 2019: Michelle “Tamika” Washington, a 40-year-old trans woman in Philadelphia, is shot dead.  Police charge 28-year-old Troy Bailey with the murder.

May 19, 2019: 27-year-old Brandyn Hernandez sends the Islamic Center of Greater Miami-Masjid Miami Gardens a series of threats of facebook, indicating that he intends to send the center on fire and “kill Muslims one by one.”  Police file hate crimes & other charges against Hernandez.

May 19, 2019: Twenty seig-heiling neonazis try to attack a cultural festival in Bautzen at least three times, but are chased away each time by festival goers. 

May 21, 2019:  Two drunk racists in Warsaw harass and try to pick a fight with a group of non-Polish people. When they try to attack they are knocked out by one of the victims, and his friends are nice enough to put the racists in the recovery position afterwards. 

May 22, 2019:  An 18-year-old Muslim woman walking down the street in Lincoln, NE. is accosted by two men, who make Islamophobic remarks to her before beating her to the ground and kicking her, leaving her with injuries to her leg, forearms, and face that are treated in hospital.

May 24, 2019: Six men in Seoni, India arm themselves with clubs and attack three Muslim teens, beating them mercilessly and forcing one of the teenagers to beat his girlfriend with a club.  The attackers film their assault and post it on social media.

May 24, 2019:  33-year-old Charles Patton, upon seeing a house in Soulard, MO. displaying a gay pride flag, runs up to the home screaming homophobic slurs before kicking in the front doors and telling the residents that he is “going to slit your throats!”

May 24, 2019:  Neonazis of Der III. Weg are in a van on their way to put up their racist posters when they recognize some antifascists standing in a crowd of people outside of a local pub in Fürth, Germnay. The nazis drive their van into the crowd, pepperspray them and threaten people.

May 24, 2019: Attackers throw a burning torch at the mobile home of a Roma family with the intention of burning it down while the family were sleeping inside of it, in Dellmensingen, Germany. 

May 25, 2019: Two gay men and a transgender woman are shot and killed in their east Detroit home; two others are injured in the attack. 18-year-old Devon Robinson is charged with the murders.

May 26, 2019: Mohammed Qasim is stopped in the street in Begusarai, India by a man and asked his name.  When he answers and the man realizes he is Muslim, he produces a gun and shoots Qasim, wounding him.  Qasim manages to escape with his assailant, Rajiv Yadav, is reloading his weapon.  The police take Qasim to the hospital for treatment but fail to arrest Yadav for the attack.

May 26, 2019:  A 25-year-old Muslim man returning home from his mosque is attacked by four men in Gurgaon, India.  They demand he take off his Muslim skull cap and demand he repeat Hindu chants.  When he refuses, they beat him with a baton.

May 25, 2019: Two gay men are threatened and insulted with homophobic slurs in Berlin by four men, one of whom throws cold tea on one of the victims and punching the other in the face.

May 27, 2019:  As he is walking home in Morgantown, WV., Jared Rote - a black, gay man and drag performer - is assaulted from behind by three attackers.  "This is what you get!“ they tell Rote as they punch and kick him.  Rote is hospitalized as a result of the injuries he sustains.

May 30, 2019:  An American-Palestinian student, visiting Poland to study the history of fascism in Poland in the second world war, is attacked by two men for his skin colour outside of his hotel in Wola, Poland.

May 31, 2019:  A 16-year old is stabbed in the neck by a stranger who was yelling islamophobic insults at him and a friend on a tram in Bremen, Germany. The attacker fled and the victim had to be taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

June 1, 2019:  The body of Chynal Lindsey, a 26-year-old black trans woman, is found at the bottom of a lake in Dallas, TX.  Lindsey’s body showed clear signs of a homicide.  

June 2, 2019: 27-year-old Griffin Murray attacks two men on a street in San Francisco while screaming homophobic slurs at them.

June 2, 2019: Hesse, Germany politician Walter Lübcke is found shot to death in his home.  Lübcke had received several death threats because of his stance in favor of immigrants.  Police arrest a 45-year-old extreme right wing activist for the murder, later revealing the man was previously convicted for attempting to bomb a refugee shelter and has ties to Combat 18.    

June 5, 2019: 18-year-old Jeremy Lloyd approaches a group of black teens in Hopkins Park in Dekalb, IL., calls them “niggers,” then stabs two of them.  Police charge him with hate crimes.

June 6, 2019: As he is walking to work in Decatur, GA., 28-year-old Ronald Peters is confronted by a gunman who calls Peters a homophobic slur before shooting him several times, then making off with his bag.  Peters dies o the scene.  Police are describing the murder as a hate crime.

June 6, 2019: 23-year-old trans woman Chanel Scurlock is found dead in a filed in Lumberton, NC. after police responded to reports of shots fired in the area.

June 6, 2019: A group of men confront a woman in the parking lot of a Janesville, WI. Wal-mart, yelling racial slurs.  When a bystander intervenes, one of the men - 20-year-old Anthony Kreyer - pulls a handgun and threatens both him and the woman.  

June 8, 2019: A theatre in Southampton cancelled performances of a play about an LGBT couple after two members of the cast were attacked in the street.They said two actors in the company were assaulted on their way to work. “The assailants verbally abused them and threw stones from their car window, one of which struck an actor in the face. They have sustained only minor injuries but are hugely shaken from this cowardly, homophobic hate crime”.  

June 9, 2019: A 22-year old man tries multiple times to drive his car into a group of people in front of a club in Niklasdorf, Austria, after having yelled that all foreigners should die. SOURCE: 

June 9, 2019: A rabbi in Rosario, Argentina, was attacked Sunday night by three men. The men shouted anti-Semitic epithets before removing the rabbi’s hat and trampling it on the ground, then beating the rabbi, who was walking alone. The attack was stopped when passersby intervened. 

June 10, 2019: Police arrest 23-year-old Ross Anthony Farca at his mother’s Concord, CA. home after Farca posted online threats to commit a mass murder at an area synagogue.  Police seized an assault rifle with 13 magazines, a three-foot sword, ammunition, and books about Hitler and nazis.  

June 11, 2019: 20-year-old Tyler Cruse arrives at the home of an elderly HIspanic man in Grand Island, NE. and tries to smash the door in.  When the man wakes up and goes around the house to ask what Cruse wants, Cruse brutally assaults him while yelling racial slurs and telling the man that he is not American and does not belong in America.

June 13, 2019: Anti-fascist Yannis Youlountas was hospitalised after he was attacked in Piraeus, Greece, by a group of ten Nazis because he was wearing a T-shirt of Free Social Space Favela.

June 14, 2019: Fort Myers, FL. police raid the home of 40-year-old Joshua John Leff after being tipped off that Leff had made multiple social media posts admonishing his followers to take up arms and murder gay people, Jews, and African-Americans.  Police seize handguns and ammunition and charge Leff with several offenses.  

June 15, 2019: Christian extremists and white supremacists confront attendees at a Pride event in a city park in Hamilton, Ontario, abusing them with homophobic slurs before attacking them, triggering a massive brawl as event attendees successfully defended themselves. June 15, 2019:  Seven LGBTQ+ teens leaving the Pride parade at Stoke-on-Trent, UK are pursued by a larger mob of about a dozen people shouting homophobic slurs.  The teens try to flee in a taxi, but the mob run after and catch up to the taxi, pull the doors open, and begin punching and kicking the passengers.  

June 15, 2019: A man parks his car in front of a Washington, DC community center for transgender people, pulls out a gun and threatened some of the transgender youths staying there. June 15, 2019: 46-year-old Darrell Lee Abbott interrupts a conversation between two strangers on an Iowa City street, telling one of the men "I'm a killer," "I'm gonna show you I'm a killer," and "I'll kill you nigger." He then walks home and retrieves a large metal pipe, telling his mother “I’m going to kill me a nigger” as he leaves, returning to the two men and beating one of them with the pipe.   

June 15, 2019: Two men in a white Lexus drive through a Brooklyn neighborhood.  When they an orthodox Jewish person walking down the street, the passenger gets out and knocks them to the ground before jumping in the car and driving away.  This pattern is repeated up to nine times that night.

June 16, 2019: A gay couple walking along Washington DC’s U-Street corridor are attacked by a mob of at least ten men, shouting homophobic slurs at them and beating them, injuring both men.  

June 17, 2019: 22-year-old Brian Clyde, who had previously posted on social media endorsing the “libertarian national socialist green party,” arrives in downtown Dallas wearing a mask & body armor and begins firing at people in a federal courthouse with an assault rifle before being shot and killed by Dallas police.  

June 17, 2019: A man yelling racial slurs at another man in Minneapolis, MN. pulls a knife and stabs his victim, seriously wounding him.  

June 18, 2019:  Michal Szewczuk, 19, from Leeds, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, from west London are sentenced for terrorism offenses after running an online propaganda campaign under the group name Sonnenkrieg Division to encourage others to commit violent hate crimes against “race traitors,” Jews, racialized people, women, and babies.  

June 18, 2019: 49-year-old Missouri resident Edward Terry is charged with making terrorist threats after emailing the Pride St. Louis organization and threatening to “come to pride fest with my guns to kill every gay person I can before I kill myself.”

June 19, 2019: A Christian church in Renton, WA. is bombed in the second attack in one week, after putting up a display in celebration of Pride month.  The culprits left a homophobic message spray-painted on the church.     June 19, 2019: After complaining to her son's school principal about him being racially taunts and told to "go back to Mexico" by other students at his Planfield, NJ school, 35-year-old mother Beronica Ruiz is attacked one of those students as she walks down the street with her two children.  She is beaten unconscious and hospitalized for two days. 

June 19, 2019: 59-year-old St. Paul, MN. resident Steven C. Parker walks out of a Walgreen’s yelling racist slurs at the manager after being accused of shoplifting, then returning with a second man and assaulting the manager.  Minutes later, Parker approaches a man sitting on some steps, demands to know if he is “from the USA,” asks him “what are you doing in my country?” and then punches him several times in the face, fracturing his face in several places.

June 19, 2019:  A 22-year old asylum seeker from Mauritania leaves his Penzlin, Germany home and is immediately insulted and threatened by two men because of his background, police said. According to the asylum seeker, he was told to go back to his country and called racial slurs. The man also told the police that the attackers threatened to kill him. When the victim ignored them, one of the racists tried to assault him. The victim defended himself by beating the man with his bike lock, after which he ran away and alerted the police. 

June 19, 2019:  A Jewish-American tourist in Berlin was attacked and injured in an anti-Semitic attack, Berlin police said Wednesday. Police said the tourist filed a complaint after three men split off from a group of 10 people and started harassing him and asked if he was Jewish. When he replied yes, the men attacked him. June 20, 2019: A Muslim schoolteacher traveling by train to Hooghly, India is confronted by a group of men in his train carriage who demand that he recite Hindu chants. When he refuses, they beat him and push him off of the moving train. The schoolteacher, Hafeez Mohd Sahrukh Haldar, escapes death but is injury in the attack & fall from the train.  June 22, 2019: Two men walking in Liverpool are approached by three teenagers who shout homophobic slurs at them before stabbing both of them.

June 22, 2019: Brandon Killian and Devan Johnson brutally beat a 36-year-old black man outside of a bar in Shawnee, OK., in what police are describing as a hate crime.  Their victim suffered brain damage and an injured eye socket as a result of the attack. 

June 26, 2019:  Three members of neonazi group Shieldwall are arrested after placing fake ad on Grindr and luring a gay man out to their rural Arkansas home where they assaulted him and vandalized his car. The 3 had planned to go to Knoxville Pride and were using this to warm up on beating up gay men.  June 27, 2019: When 25-year-old cab driver Faizal Usman Khan's taxi breaks down in Kharsawan, India, three men on a motor scooter come upon him and start abusing him with Islamophobic slurs and demand that he recite Hindu chants.  When he refuses, they drag him out of his vehicle and beat him unconscious. June 27, 2019: A hijab-wearing Muslim woman visiting an amusement park in Toronto is confronting by four people who tell her to tell her to “go back to her country” before punching and kicking her and tearing her hijab off.  

June 27, 2019: Two people, including the Imam, were wounded in front of the Pontanezen mosque in Brest, France, on Thursday after a man opened fire at the mosque. The shooter was later found dead, after having committed suicide. 

June 28, 2019:  After they ask him for a cigarette near his house in Vilnius, Lithuania, a group of youths starts homophobically insulting a gay man, who ignores them and leaves. When he later returns with a friend the youths insult and attack him. Police arrive but decide not to arrest any of the youths.  June 29, 2019: An “irate” Paula Custodio and an unnamed man approach two transgender women in Queens, NY. and attack both women with pepper spray, hospitalizing one of them.  

June 29, 2019: A 17-year-old was kicked, stamped on and punched with brass knuckles by ten thugs who had been shouting homophobic abuse at his friend in Rotherham, UK. 

June 29, 2019:  Maya, a 19-year-old transgender woman had left home and was living with friends in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. Her family attempted to bring her home on Saturday. Maya’s friends, concerned for her safety, contacted the police. But the officers allowed family members to take Maya home to the city of Nowshera. Maya’s bullet-ridden body was discovered just hours later, on Saturday night, beside a river bank in Nowshera.  

June 30, 2019: After he sends threatening letters to property owners in his neighborhood threatening to shoot any visible minorities that move in, police raid the Sun Luis Obispo home of 62-year-old Richard Orcutt, seize three dozen firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and charge him with hate crimes.

July 1, 2019: Three fascists racially insult a black stranger who walked past them in Hannover, Germany, after which one of the men made his dog attack the man, who was bitten in the leg.

July 3, 2019: A 28-year-old man and woman aged 25, suspected of planning a terror attack on London Pride have been arrested by police in Luton, UK. They were planning a crude strike with a car and knives at the mass rally.

July 4, 2019:  17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin enters a Peoria, AZ. convenience store & is followed inside by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams, who approaches the teen from behind, stabs him with a pocketknife and slits the boy’s throat.  Adams tells arresting officers he murdered the teen because he “felt threatened by the music” Al-Amin was playing in his car; that rap music makes him feel "unsafe;"  and that people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community.”

July 4, 2019: An 18-year-old woman isn "beaten black and blue" in a homophobic attack in a street in Hull, UK. The teenager was attacked by two women she thought were her friends. "Because she is gay they called her a 'f****** lesbian, you and your girlfriend are going to get it 10 times worse next time'. 

July 4, 2019:  40-year-old Santa Ana, CA. resident Joe Martin Rodirguez threatens his two gay roommates with a knife and a handgun after making homophobic remarks.

July 4, 2019: A Somali woman in a park in Spicer, MN. for Fourth of July celebrations is accosted by a man demanding she answer his questions about her religion and her hijab who then pepper sprays her and runs away.  Minutes later, the same individual pepper sprays a woman supervising a group of adult with developmental disabilities.  

July 5, 2019:  A group of fascists attacked visitors of a bar in Nantes, France with batons, pepper spray and a smoke bomb, looking for antifascists. Several people had to be treated because of the pepper spray. Eight fascists were arrested. 

July 6, 2019:  Demetris Nelson uses Grindr to meet up with two gay men in Detroit.  He shoots both of them,  killing 31-year-old Brian Anderson and critically wounding 26-year-old Malcolm Drake.  Nelson faces hate crime, murder, and attempted murder charges.

July 6, 2019: William Lamb is having drinks in a Hillsboro, ND. bar with his husband when a group of patrons harass them with homophobic slurs.  When Lamb steps outside of the bar to smoke, one of the homophobes follows him outside and beats him unconscious, shattering his ankle and breaking his nose and some of his teeth in the process.  Lamb has to undergo surgery to repair the damage done.  

July 6, 2019: 27-year-old Johnathan Hall is at a nightclub in Kamloops, Canada when two men confront him, calling him “nigger” and “darkie.”  When Hall’s friend attempts to defuse the situation, the two men attack, throwing Hall to the ground and kicking him repeatedly in his head.

July 7, 2019: A lesbian couple walking down the street in Long Island, NY are sexually harassed by a group of men, one of whom swiftly escalates the situation by assaulting one of the women, who is taken to hospital to be treated for the resulting injuries.      July 9, 2019: Self-proclaimed “white power skinhead” Justin Indiveri encounters a protest against ICE in downtown Portland, OR.  Indiveri confronts the protestors, pulls out a knife, and repeatedly threatens to stab them.  Indiveri has previous convictions for arson and domestic battery. 

July 18, 2019: A 62-year-old Hindu priest  iswalking near his temple in Queens, NY when a man approaches him from behind, screaming “this is my neighborhood!” and beats him, hospitalizing him. 

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❚Opeɴιɴɢ Bᴀᴛᴄᴀᴠᴇ Fιleѕ❚ L o a d i n g….. ❚eɴтer тнe pαѕѕword❚ « ∘∘∘∘∘∘∘∘∘ » ❚Acceѕѕ Grαɴтed❚ P R O C E S S I N G…. ❚Selecт ғιle yoυ woυld lιĸe тo opeɴ❚ 【Iɴᴅɪᴠɪᴅᴜᴀʟs ᴏғ Iɴᴛᴇʀᴇsᴛ】             ↳ Gᴏᴛʜᴀᴍ             ↳Mᴇᴛʀᴏᴘᴏʟɪs             ↳Bʟᴜ̈ᴅʜᴀᴠᴇɴ             ↳Sᴛᴀʀ Cɪᴛʏ             ↳Cᴏᴀsᴛ Cɪᴛʏ             ↳Cᴇɴᴛʀᴀʟ Cɪᴛʏ             ↳Lᴇᴀɢᴜᴇ L o a d i n g…..             ↳ Aʟɪᴇs             ↳Eɴᴇᴍɪᴇs L o a d i n g…..   [Aʟғʀᴇᴅ Pᴇɴɴʏᴡᴏʀᴛʜ | Pᴇɴɴʏᴏɴᴇ]   [Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Gʀᴀʏsᴏɴ | Nɪɢʜᴛᴡɪɴɢ] →〘ᵘᵖᵈᵃᵗᵉ ʳᵉᵠᵘᶤʳᵉᵈ ᵗʳᵃᶰˢᶠᵉʳ ᵗᵒ ᴮˡᵘ̈ᵈʰᵃᵛᵉᶰ ᶠᶤˡᵉ〙   [Jᴀᴍᴇs Gᴏʀᴅᴏɴ]     [Bᴀʀʙᴀʀᴀ Gᴏʀᴅᴏɴ | Bᴀᴛɢɪʀʟ]   [Jᴀsᴏɴ Tᴏᴅᴅ | Rᴇᴅ Hᴏᴏᴅ]   [Tɪᴍ Dʀᴀᴋᴇ | Rᴇᴅ Rᴏʙɪɴ] ➤ [Nᴀʏʀᴀ Wᴀʏɴᴇ | Jᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ]         ➵ [Yes]      [No]   [Kᴀᴛʜʀɪɴᴇ Kᴀɴᴇ | Bᴀᴛᴡᴏᴍᴀɴ]   [Dᴀᴍɪᴀɴ Wᴀʏɴᴇ | Rᴏʙɪɴ]   [Sᴇʟɪɴᴀ Kʏʟᴇ | Cᴀᴛᴡᴏᴍᴀɴ]     [Cᴀssᴀɴᴅʀᴀ Cᴀɪɴ | Oʀᴘʜᴀɴ]   [Sᴛᴇᴘʜᴀɴɪᴇ Bʀᴏᴡɴ | Sᴘᴏɪʟᴇʀ] L o a d i n g….. ❚eɴтer тнe pαѕѕword❚ « ∘∘∘∘∘∘∘∘∘ » L o a d i n g….. ██░░░░░░░░ 20% ████░░░░░░ 40% ███████░░░ 70% ██████████ 100% → Aᴄᴄᴇss Gʀᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ Fɪʟᴇ: Nαуrα Ɯαуηє ❚Do yoυ wιѕн тo coɴтιɴυe?❚ ✔ Yes No Ｆｉｌｅ  ｌｏａｄｅｄ   ｓｕｃｃｅｓｓｆｕｌｌｙ． ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬          ┊ Sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ₁﹕ Gᴇɴᴇʀᴀʟ Iɴғᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ┊ ┃ ᴺᵃᵐᵉ:     ─Nayra 映月 Wayne ┃ ᴺᵃᵐᵉ ᴹᵉᵃᶰᶤᶰᵍ:       ─Nayra:〘 Pronounced: Nah-y-ra 〙                    Nayra is another spelling of the girl name Naira. They are the same name and have the same meaning and pronunciation. Both spellings are acceptable. A name of India origin which means Beautiful         ─映月:〘 Pronounced: Ying Yue 〙                  Reflection of the moon        ─Wayne:〘 Pronounced: w AI n 〙                 This interesting name is of early medieval origin and is a metonymic occupational name for a carter, a driver of a wain or waggon, and sometimes for a waggon-builder. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century "Waegn", "Waegen", Middle English "Wain", meaning "cart" or "waggon". In some cases, the modern surnames, which can be found as "Wain(e)", "Waines" and "Wayne", may derive from a topographical name, used to denote residence at a house distinguished with the sign of the "Wain". This was probably so from the constellation of the Plough, known in the Middle Ages as "Charles's Wain", referring to the Charlemagne. One John Attenwayne (1327, Derbyshire) is named from this source. Church recordings include one Margaret Wayne who married Morgayne Cotterell on January 30th 1568 at St. Dionis Backchurch, London, and Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wain who was christened on October 10th 1652 at St. Dunstan's, Stepney. One John Waine and his wife Amyte are recorded as early setters in Virginia in 1624, having arrived in 1618. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Wayn, which was dated 1319, The Essex Fees Court Records, during the reign of King Edward 1st, Edward of Caernafon, 1307 - 1327. ┃ ᴺᶤᶜᵏᶰᵃᵐᵉˢ:     ─N     ─Birdy ┃ ᴬˡᶤᵃˢᵉˢ:     ─ Swift               :  Swift; like the small birds from her was chosen by a young Nayra after first becoming a vigilante at the side of the Green Arrow, she wanted a name that would pay homage to Dinah Lance the Black Canary while still remaining something of her own. She chose the name specifically for the birds were common and still are in er home and it was a small detail she longed to commemorate.   ─ Justice              :  After returning from her time with Salde Wilson and the League Of Assassins, Nayra no longer felt like the child she had been and in an effort to reflect that and step into a new realization of herself and her abilities she took the name Justice as a promise to others and a reminder to herself of what she stood for. ┃ ᴬᵍᵉ:     ─ 16+ ┃ ᴳᵉᶰᵈᵉʳ:     ─Female ┃ ᴺᵃᵗᶤᵒᶰᵃˡᶤᵗʸ:     ─Chinese     ─American ┃ ᴿᵃᶜᵉ:     ─Half Chinese half Caucasian ┃ ᴼᶜᶜᵘᵖᵃᵗᶤᵒᶰ:     ─Student     ─Vigilante       ┃ ᴬᶠᶠᶤˡᶤᵃᵗᶤᵒᶰ:     ─Arrow Family     ─Batfamily     ─Teen Titans ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬   ┊ Sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ₂ Pʜʏsɪᴄᴀʟ Aᴘᴘᴇᴀʀᴀɴᴄᴇ ┊ ┃ ᴴᵃᶤʳ:     ─Black     ─Usually falls to her mid back in characteristically straight fashion ┃ ᴱʸᵉ ᶜᵒˡᵒʳ:     ─Dark blue eyes ┃ ˢᵏᶤᶰ ᵀᵒᶰᵉ:     ─Olive ┃ ᴮᵘᶤˡᵈ:     ─Lanky     ─Lean     ─Extremely fit and toned ┃ ᴴᵉᶤᵍʰᵗ:     ─5’8 ┃ ᵂᵉᶤᵍʰᵗ:     ─130lbs ┃ ᴰᵉˢᶜʳᶤᵖᵗᶤᵒᶰ:     ─Nayra is a beautiful young woman with features that greatly resemble her mother and asian heritage. With soft features, large moonlit eyes and dark hair. Her eyes are her most striking feature and the one which lingers in the memories of others while she is long gone, the dark almost unnatural blue. She shares those blue eyes with her father and cousin Bruce Wayne, although not in the exact same shade. While she looks like her mother the resemblances to her father’s family are quite visible after only a short period after meeting her as all of her mannerisms and even some vocal intonation resemble her stoic cousin.        She is tall and often described as lanky, as a child she was quite gangly with knobby knees and bruised elbows however as she has grown up she has grown into her body. While she lacks the curves of other women her age her body is quite muscular and toned from years of training and a demanding physical lifestyle. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬              ┊ Sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ₃﹕ Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟ ┊ ┃ ᴾᵉʳˢᵒᶰᵃˡᶤᵗʸ:     ─In her youth Nayra was known for her quick temper and callous remarks as well as a stubborn nature which has yet to lift. Never one to let people see her own weaknesses she constantly pointed them out in others and frankly bullied those around her whenever they  attempt to get close. To stubborn to admit she wanted the affection of her family she constantly acted out to get her cousins attention, which when received was rebuked like a Anxious Ambivalent Childs attachment. This lasted for the four years she lived in Gotham after the death of her parents     ─Her anger has always been an issue for her, as she has never found a proper and healthy outlet- and could greatly benefit from seeing a therapist. It has often lead to many short relationships and unsteady friendships. That being said, once she regards someone as a close friend the facade she puts on for the world falls away and she can be quite calm and charming.     ─She is regarded as aloof and guarded when it comes to those she does not know, she goes out of her way to alienate people and make them feel unwelcome in her presence. When out of the costume she is known to flaunt her wealth and lives vivaciously, when in the costume she flaunts her talents and her skills.     ─These childish antics however have calmed in past years and as she has matured she has grown to be extremely loyal to those she trusts as well as protective. While not a bad person Nayra has gone through many trials in her life and they have left her scared and broken, she is healing but it takes time and reaching out is hard. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬              ┊ Sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ₄﹕ Fᴀᴍɪʟʏ ᴛɪᴇs ┊ ┃ ᶠᵃᵐᶤˡʸ:     ─Parents:                       Father: James Wayne 〘ᴰᵉᶜᵉᵃˢᵉᵈ〙                       Mother: 阮歌飞 ‘Ruǎn gē fēi’ 〘ᴰᵉᶜᵉᵃˢᵉᵈ〙     ─Extended Family:                       Grandmother: Unknown name〘ᴰᵉᶜᵉᵃˢᵉᵈ〙                       Grandfather: Patrick Wayne 〘ᴰᵉᶜᵉᵃˢᵉᵈ〙                       Aunt: Martha Wayne〘ᴰᵉᶜᵉᵃˢᵉᵈ〙                       Uncle: Thomas Wayne〘ᴰᵉᶜᵉᵃˢᵉᵈ〙                       Cousin: Bruce Wayne                       First cousin Once removed: Damian Wayne     ─Adoptive siblings:                       Brother: Richard Grayson                       Brother: Jason Todd ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬              ┊ Sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ₅﹕ Wᴇᴀᴘᴏɴs ᴀɴᴅ Aʙɪʟɪᴛɪᴇs ┊ ┃ ᵂᵉᵃᵖᵒᶰˢ:     ─Escrema sticks:                       : While she can fight hand to hand she prefers to have Escrema sticks on her when in the suit     ─Extendable batons                       : When she is not in suit N carries with her two extendable batons that are easily concealable and transportable. while most of the time they are not needed- she does live in Gotham.     ─Utility Belt:                       : Birdarang: explosive, electric as well as a few others                       : Handheld Grappling hook/gun:                       : Smoke pellets/ bombs                       : Rebreather                       : taser                       : lock picks                       : Binoculars/night vision goggles                       ─Wrist Computer                       : Small computer built into the armored glove she wares on her right hand. It is linked to the Bat-computer and can be used for analytical problems and to track police wires.               ─Bow and Arrow                       :  Nayra was trained with a bow for the first few months with a bow and arrow. With Oliver as her mentor it was to be expected but it soon became clear that she was much better suited to be using a more physical weapon. Even though she does not use it in the field she has a decent shot and can fight with the bow as a weapon.     ─Hooked Swords                       : During the five months that Nayra was held captive and trained by Slade Wilson she discovered a talent with Hooked swords. She only used them for a short amount of time but still can leave devastating injuries as well as fight non lethally with them. ┃ ᴬᵇᶤˡᶤᵗᶤᵉˢ:     ─Genius level intellect                       : Something she inherited from her parents, her mother was a renown doctor who traveled the world going to school and working with patients. Her father had a mind of business and while not as bright as his wife was not by any means dull. N is very bright exceeding in school although she doesn’t apply herself and can many times out think her opponents. Although in the past she has not always put her mind to the best work, whether it be devising ways to get out of school or things she wants.     ─Trained in hand to hand combat                       : Nayra Wayne has been trained by some of the best fighters in the DC universe, beginning with the Green Arrow and the Black Canary she continued her training under the watchful eye of Batman, later in life her list of teachers Included the famed Mercenary Assassin Deathstroke and the Ancient League of Assassins. She is one of the best hand to hand fighters in the world due to her training and constant practice and is truly a formidable opponent.     ─Master instigator                       : Ever since she was little N has been unruly but that morphed into blatant instigation as she got older and while she still works to keep tendencies under locks, she often times insults opponents. This started in school when she would instigate fights with other children, even without training she did it for the attention, this later transitioned to her hero work when she would take on those way above her caliber to an extent its been referenced as almost suicidal.     ─Leadership                       :  Having mellowed considerably with age and having worked with many different groups and organizations in her life N has developed a very strong sense of leadership. She is intuitive when it comes to battle and while she might clash with people on e personal level there is no doubt she is a strong leader who keeps the best interests of others in mind._     ─Tactician                         :  After much training and experience N has learned how to properly read a situation and strategize to her own benefit, she is a remarkable tactician on the field and even capable of commanding teams to success._ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬              ┊ Sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ₆﹕ Bɪᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ ┊ ┃ ᴾˡᵃᶜᵉ ᵒᶠ ᴮᶤʳᵗʰ:     ─Nanning China ┃ ᴾˡᵃᶜᵉˢ ᵒᶠ ᴿᵉˢᶤᵈᵉᶰᶜᵉ:     ─Nanning China     ─Gotham City     ─Star City ┃ ᴮᶤᵒ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₁﹕ Oʀɪɢɪɴs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Nayra Wayne is the daughter of Billionaire James Wayne and Doctor Ruǎn gē fēi Her father was James Wayne, Tomas Wayne’s younger brother. The two brothers didn't get along through any of their childhood and when James turned eighteen he left. He took his part of the family fortune and became an entrepreneur as well as a globetrotter. On one trip back to America he met and fell in love with a Harvard Medical student by the name of  阮歌飞, after she finished her PHD they moved to Nanning China. While she didn’t have any family this was where she had grown up and preferred to live. James had the money to help and after a few years of dating they married. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₂﹕ Eᴀʀʟʏ Lɪғᴇ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Nayra was born a few years later and as her parents had done everything in their power to keep their lives out of the spotlight that had followed the Wayne family for years, Nayra was rather unknown to the public. She grew up in all the comforts she could ask for but more then anything she reveled in the attention of her parents. Amazed by both their professions she was constantly asking questions and became very intuitive at a young age. Her father took special pride in raising her, he made sure she never had to want for anything but at the same time that she understood her standing. His dislike of his family tainted her view of America however and while she took to english easily she rejected that part of herself. That was until the fire. One night when Nayra was eight the home her parents had raised her in caught fire. Her parents rooms were on the top floor of the house and the fire started just below them. Trapped they never made it out of the fire. A rescue team however was able to find and save N as she attempted to get up the flaming steps towards her parents. In the process off her attempted rescue she burned her hand leaving her forever scared on her left palm. She was taken by authorities to a nearby hospital where she was treated for burns and smoke inhalation. In that time not only were her parents confirmed dead but her only living relative, a now adult Bruce Wayne was contacted of the tragedy. Bruce willingly agreed to become guardian of his younger cousin and traveled to Nanning to meet her for the first time. She was kept in the hospital for over a month as the Doctors made sure she was safe to travel, in that time she got to know her cousin and came to realize the harsh terms of what had happened. Everything she had ever known and loved was burned away in the fire. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₃﹕  Gᴏᴛʜᴀᴍ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Bruce took her back to Gotham, a place she already disliked from her father's stories and began her life there. Albeit begrudgingly. Incredibly stubborn by nature and still traumatized by what had happened N refused to attempt to connect with anyone she met, instead of speaking English which she spoke brokenly and understood perfectly she only spoke in Mandarin. This shared lasted for well over half a year as she struggled to cope with her new life. While she did not know this, Bruce was already Batman, her new cousin Dick Grayson, already Robin and she was not to know of any of it. While she did not know of the secret between her and the other members of the household she felt it, she never felt truly accepted in the home and her cousins long absences only fed into her anger. While it was not his fault that he was busy N needed someone to be there for her, and while she had Alfred and Dick she wanted Bruce to be the figure she lost. But he never was. His seeming lack of interest caused N to lash out to get his attention, she caused problems at school and more often than not there was a call home about her behavior at least once a week. She in the four years after moving to Gotham she moved schools four times. Despite her disciplinary record her grades were always top notch showing just how brilliant the young Wayne could be- if she actually tried. When she was twelve a combination of things happened, one she was kicked out of the fourth school she had attended, the first Middle school and there were serious talks about her eligibility to continue attending schools in the District. The second was a different fault of her own, having become very close to her adoptive cousin Dick Grayson, who she thought of as a brother by then, she was shocked when he left the manor. She knew that he was old enough to leave but the bad blood between him and her cousin made the move worse for her. At that time Jason Todd was also brought into the fold and while the two hit it off quite well the secret’s forced between them once again turned N sour. The final was the decision of the girl herself that Gotham would not make her happy, despite her young age she knew that the city, which she had always found to be dark and dismal and so completely without hope, was no home for her. So she began researching programs outside of Gotham that would challenge her academically and provide enough distance between her and the cursed city. The program she chose was one in Star City, across America and closer to her native home. Bruce, realizing that her decision to leave was one that would not only keep her away from the family secrets but also be better for her in the long run agreed and Nayra enrolled in the Academy as soon as she possibly cool. It was a move that arguably changed her life for the better. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₄﹕ Sᴛᴀʀ Sᴛᴜᴅᴅᴇᴅ Aᴅᴠᴇɴᴛᴜʀᴇs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬  The school was wary of accepting N at first due to her record but Bruce payed them a substantial amount of money which helped soften their decision. While in the academy, which featured a language intensive program Nayra flourished. She didn’t feel the need to show off or act out in anyway that harmed her learning or that of others. She easily stayed in the top of her class, challenged by the courses and with much of her day focused on something she loved, her birth language, N thrived. It was in Star City that N met the man who she would come to think of as the closest thing to a father she had. Oliver Queen, aka the Green Arrow. There first meetings were quite by chance, Nayra had a tendency to find danger and the Green Arrow had a tendency to be there when she did. After the fifth or six time they had met under similar circumstances Oliver decided enough was enough and that if Nayra was to be in constant danger she would need to learn how to defend herself. The training started five months into her schooling in Star. Oliver keep his hood up but the more N grew to be a very proficient protégé the more Oliver realized she was made for the job. He revealed his identity to her and her training took on a more official sense. N spent months training rigorously with Oliver until he deemed she was ready to put on the mask. She chose the mantle of Swift, not only due to her speed but she had recently completed a biology unit and the Swift birds were one of the first that came to mind. She was fourteen when she took up the mantel publicly and gained media attention in Star city. Media however wasn’t the only attention she gained, her cousin was soon aware that GA had taken up a new protégé. It didn’t take the Batman long to realize what had happened but it did take some time for him to decide how to act. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₅﹕ Tʜᴇ Rᴇᴛᴜʀɴ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Nayra was 14 almost fifteen when she returned to Gotham, her cousin having come to her in Star City and quite blatantly told her what he knew. Before he could reveal his secret however N put it together. Shocked and angered by the revelation N did not wish to return to Gotham despite her cousins insistence that she was not ready to wear a mask. It took many hours of deliberation with Oliver before she agreed to return to Gotham. Swift changed her life in more ways than one, besides giving her a second life it also gave her a place to channel her anger and her rage. She changed when she put on the mask, becoming in many ways a better person then she had been before. She was not a lost as she had been when she first came to Gotham and her return was very much a rebirth. Her first months in Gotham she was not aloud to venture out in mask. Instead her cousin kept her under strict training until he deemed she was ready. It took weeks before he let her out on patrol and despite his staunch stance that she was not to patrol without him, she did it anyway. During her first few months and her first few years she was not alone in the Batcave; an old school friend was wearing the mantel as Robin. Tim Drake- one of the few people she’d deemed acceptable for her young self to be around. He had started out as Robin a few months before Swift took to the streets of Star and the shared age made the two not just rivals but close friends. For the next few years Nayra, as Swift grew up on the streets of Gotham. She threw her whole life into it. School took up exactly six hours, homework another six and then- and then she was flying. She learned quickly on the streets and after a few ass kickings she found and made a name for herself. She never took the Bat symbol anywhere on her suit a stark distinction to most of the family- even though her ties were obvious enough. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₆﹕ Fᴀᴍɪʟʏ Tɪᴇs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ As she grew older N began splitting her time between Star city and Gotham less and less, she found it harder to leave Gotham- the unhealthily pull her rathe thad talked about that kept so many people trapped it in. She felt as though no matter what she did as Swift she never truly made much of a difference and so each night was a mother chance to prove that she was making a difference. It became almost addicting and as such her time spent elsewhere decreased dramatically, though her work with the titans still continued the free time she spent with them decreased noticeably as well. Finally after some deliberation with Dick and Tim, both of whom knew and shared her struggles she took a break from Gotham and traveled to Star City. She stayed with Oliver in Star for two months and when she returned she barely recognized Gotham. A new vigilante was on the scene, one who didn’t subscribe to Batman’s strict no killing code- The Red Hood. Nayra arrived just as the newcomer had secured his position with the local drug trade, killing off competition and any who got in his way. Swift found herself in a deadly game between her cousin and the Hood, one that ended with the latter’s unmasking. Getting caught in the cross fires however brought a very painful truth to the surface however when the Red hood revealed his identity to her some days after Bruce himself had discerned it. Jason Todd, one of the many uncertainties of her life had come back from the dead. Since N had been in Star when he had died she hadn’t made it back for the funeral, she had never been given a clear answer as to how he had died either. No one wanted to talk about it and left Nayra questioning the morality of leaving some villains alive.  In an attempt to keep them out of further play in the Hood’s game, Bruce grounded Tim and Nayra. Nayra did not take to it very well but before she could disobey her cousins orders it was over. Jason had revealed himself to Bruce who already knew of him- the Joker had been put back in prison and Jason had disappeared seemingly getting what he wanted. This didn’t last long, however as Jason made the Red Hood a regular player on the streets of Gotham- taking his own version of justice to those he felt needed it. Despite this Jason and Nayra met a few times in and out of the mask, working together to take down criminals and reconciling the past. Things changed once again however when Talia Al Ghul dropped her ten year old son on her cousins doorstep- pretty literally. Damian Wayne was precocious, spoiled, violent and everything Nayra had been when she came to Gotham for the first time- with the added benefit that the young boy was a trained assassin. Damian represented a unique challenge for Nayra- a way for her to make up for her troubled past she did everything in her power to protect the youngest Wayne. Often times her attempts fell to mockery but every now and then, the slightest hint of gratitude would shine through the sarcastic and venomous exterior that N was used to portraying herself and she knew it was worth it. Her actions worked however, her attempts to make her young cousin feel at home aided in the development of their relationship, both of them quick to call the other out on bullshit they became like siblings and for the first time N found someone she truly felt responsible for. She would do anything to keep him safe. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₇﹕ Bʀᴏᴋᴇɴ Bɪʀᴅ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Despite the many changes that came with Nayra putting on the mask, she always had trouble connecting with people. She loved her family and her friends but it didn’t stop her from feeling isolated and alone from them. She felt trapped by her anger and her rage and it wasn’t long before someone used it against her- and those she loved.   While out on patrol one night with Robin and Batgirl, the three vigilantes where caught in an explosion which left them all unconscious and dazed. Red Hood and Red Robin responded to the explosion in time to find Damian and Barbara before to much damage could be done to them, but the body of Nayra was never discovered. Due to the insensitive of the fire, it was assumed she had perished in its blaze, and without another clue or idea as to what might have happened to the vigilante her family mourned her death. Nayra however, while having been caught in the blast did not perish instead she was taken by Slade Wilson, the man who had set the trap in the first place. Beaten and then incapacitated she was taken to a safe house where the man used a drug to turn her anger into a weapon. He convinced the drugged Nayra that all her insecurities were true, that her family did in fact feel the gap between them- that she would never be one of them. That no matter how hard she tried she was nothing but another soldier, he turned her inside out with her rage and her hate until she truly believed she hated them. The process took weeks but once successful he offered her a place to call home, a family. For six months he trained her, pushing her farther and harder than anyone ever had or ever would. She learned from him, her anger driving every action as her talents moved from impressive to deadly. And then Deathstroke deemed her ready, the two returned to Gotham and Nayra staggered back to her family. Playing the victim of a villainous plot she was taken back in by family who for all their paranoid graces did not realize what they truly had brought into the cave. Nayra spent less then a day undercover with her family before Deathstroke was ready, in that time she incapacitated Tim and Damian, making sure they would not be a problem. She had given Deathstoke information as to how to access the Batcave and once inside he took Batman by surprise. Bruce had realized something was different about his cousin but he didn’t realize how far she had gone until Deathstroke attacked, sadly Bruce was not the only one in the cave. Dick Grayson was also there, Dick Grayson the one person Nayra held on a pedestal and who despite everything she had not found it in herself to hate. Despite this N fought her pseudo brother, all the while unable to block out his words. The battle lasted longer then N might have expected, her new training and her brothers unwillingness to truly harm her made it hard for him to get the upper hand. Once he did however he was able to incapacitate Nayra. Bruce managed to win his battle against Deathstroke, taking it out of the cave. Slade escaped however but the bat family was more worried about taking care of their own, Nayra was taken to the sick bay were an antidote for the drug she had been on was introduced into her system. When she woke up she woke up to the truth of what she had done. She realized that she had turned against the only family she had on the words of a madman and had been ready to end them all. It showed N how dangerous her rage could be, it showed her how toxic that part of herself was and she vowed never to let it dictate her life again- at least not without much thought. It took months for her to fully recover from the incident, mentally, emotionally and physically she was unstable for many weeks before Bruce finally forced her out onto the street and she began her own path to redeeming herself. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pᴀʀᴛ ₈﹕ Tʜᴇ Mᴏsᴛ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀғᴜʟ Wᴏᴍᴀɴ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ After the ordeal with Slade Wilson, Nayra Wayne found herself to once again be a very broken girl. Struggling to understand exactly what to do with herself given the circumstances she was soon approached by a man she had never expected to meet. The grandfather of her cousin, Ras al Ghoul, the man invited her to dinner and over dinner they discussed many things. Nayra at first believed this was another attempt to get close to the family and his grandson, however the conversation soon turned towards her and she found that she was the object of the meeting. Ras told her he had known of everything that happened with Slade, he gave her his condolences and then offered her a proposition. He offered her a place in Nanda Parbat with no strings attached, a stay for as long as she liked, training from the best in the world and a place for her to once again find herself and what was important to her. Nayra, who had felt so lost for so long accepted and only a few months after returning to Gotham once again left this time on even more dubious reasonings. True to his word N was given a place in Nanda Parbat free of all charges, she trained there and she found peace and for a while she began to heal again. She became well acquainted with various other members of the league and for a while felt as if she’d found her place there. But, she could not bring herself to accept their ways and so after six months while around them, she left. She returned to Gotham, this time healed from her ordeal and a considerably larger threat then she had been before. Many of her former rivals now found themselves underestimating her, her return while not quite in the public eye- was felt by the criminal underworld of Gotham. Of course, the new found power Nayra had found only lasted a short time and that respite- the return to what seemed normal to her was ended abruptly when Ras returned again to her and this time asked her to do something which would forever color her future. He asked her to become the next Head of the League of Assassins, to take his place. Kill him and become the most powerful woman in the world. She wanted to say yes. If she did, all she would have to do is rid the world of one of its most toxic individuals and she would be able to influence it for good. Or in truth, anything she wanted. She could become one of the most valuable allies of the Justice League, she could finally step out of her cousins shadow. By taking what he had refused, she could surpass him and make sure her name survived outside his shadow. And she said no. Instead, validated by what Ras, Slade and Oliver had seen in her- Nayra realized she truly had surpassed her cousin in the way that mattered. She was no longer dependent on her teachers, she had become a skilled enough Vigilante to make a name for herself. And furthermore she realized that staying in Gotham, and Star City was now no longer an option. Wishing to start anew and fully grasp the new skills and life that had been bestowed upon her through years of hardships Nayra left the name Swift behind in turn favoring the Alias Justice. Justice as a promise to others, and as a reminder to herself for what she stood for and what her mission was. And so she left Gotham, instead choosing to strike out on her own, blaze her own trail instead of following in the footsteps of others. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬               ┊Aᴅᴍɪɴ ┊ Hello! Its Admin Elle. This is a DC OC which means everything written on this page is mine (Unless expressed otherwise) So please do not take anything without asking. Feel free to reshare posts but if you use something of mine please give credit! → Ƭнιѕ ρяσƒιℓє ƒσямαт ωαѕ cяєαтє∂ ву мe , ρℓєαѕє αѕк вєƒσяє υѕιηg ιт ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

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China has developed a new portable laser weapon that can zap a target from nearly a kilometre away, according to researchers involved in the project.

The ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is classified as being "non-lethal" but produces an energy beam that cannot be seen by the naked eye but can pass through windows and cause the "instant carbonisation" of human skin and tissues.

Ten years ago its capabilities would have been the preserve of sci-fi films, but one laser weapons scientist said the new device is able to "burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire".

"The pain will be beyond endurance," according to the researcher who had took part in the development and field testing of a prototype at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi province.

The 15mm calibre weapon weighs three kilos (6.6lb), about the same as an AK-47, and has a range of 800 metres, or half a mile, and could be mounted on cars, boats and planes.

It is now ready for mass production and the first units are likely to be given to anti-terrorism squads in the Chinese Armed Police.

In the event of a hostage situation it could be used to fire through windows at targets and temporarily disable the kidnappers while other units move in to rescue their captives.

It could also be used in covert military operations. The beam is powerful enough to burn through a gas tank and ignite the fuel storage facility in a military airport.

Because the laser has been tuned to an invisible frequency, and it produces absolutely no sound, "nobody will know where the attack came from. It will look like an accident," another researcher said. The scientists requested not to be named due to the sensitivity of the project.

The rifles will be powered by a rechargeable lithium battery pack similar to those found in smartphones. It can fire more than 1,000 "shots", each lasting no more than two seconds.

The prototype was built by ZKZM Laser, a technology company owned by the institute in Xian. A company representative confirmed that the firm is now seeking a partner that has a weapons production licence or a partner in the security or defence industry to start large-scale production at a cost of 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) a unit.

Given their potential for misuse, the design and production of the devices will be tightly monitored and the only customers will be China's military and police.

A technical document containing basic information about the weapon was released last month on the Public Service Platform for National Civil-Military Integration, a website run by the central government to facilitate collaboration between the military and commercial sectors.

Chengdu Hengan Police Equipment Manufacturing company, a major hardware supplier for Chinese law enforcement agencies, also released a laser "machine gun" last month.

The weapon has a range of 500 metres and it can fire several hundred shots per charge, according to the company's product brochure.

Only a decade ago, such powerful laser weapons were something out of science fiction. In 2009 a US attempt to design a handheld laser gun resulted in something that "only works on nudists" because its beam was too weak to even penetrate a shirt.

But in 2015 Beijing upped the ante with a two billion-yuan fund to develop compact, powerful laser devices - an unprecedented budget for the field and one that triggered concerns in the US and other Western nations.

In recent years US forces operating in strategically important areas such as the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea have complained that they have been subjected to an increasing number of laser attacks from Chinese military bases or vessels that look like fishing boats.

Last month, the US government lodged a formal complaint that a "weapons-grade" laser device fired from a Chinese naval base in Djibouti had left two military pilots with minor eye injuries.

Wang Zhimin, associate researcher at the Research Centre for Laser Physics and Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said technological improvements in recent years meant scientists were able to develop smaller and more powerful devices in the same way that mobile phone manufacturers had done.

"This is no longer science fiction. They are already a fact of life," he said.

In the early days, due to technical limits, it was necessary to fire several beams and get them to converge on a target to cause any damage. They also needed a precise distance reading to have any chance of working.

Furthermore, the only devices available were slow, bulky and heavy, had a short range and required enormous supplies of power.

But the latest devices fire a single beam and can cause as much damage as large, truck-mounted laser cannons would have done.

But these developments increase the risk that the weapons could more easily fall into the hands of criminals and terrorists who could exploit their destructive capacity, for instance by conducting arson attacks without being detected.

Wang, who was not involved in the Xian project, warned that allowing these weapons to proliferate could be a threat to all countries.

There are no specific international protocols in place to regulate the development or use of this type of laser weapon.

The United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, initiated in 1980 and signed by over 100 nations, concentrates on earlier generation weapons and prohibits the use of those that could cause permanent loss of eyesight.

The document on Chinese government website classifies the ZKZM-500 as a "non-lethal weapon", meaning they are deemed less likely to kill a living target than something explicitly designed to do so, such as a gun.

The lasers cannot kill a target with a single shot, but if fired at a person for long enough the weapons would start to burn a hole in their body, cutting through them like a surgical knife.

Researchers stress that scientists in this field generally agree it would be inhumane to use more powerful weapons that could "carbonise" a living person.

Instead the document lays stress on the non-lethal applications of the technology.

For instance it says law enforcement could counter "illegal protests" by setting fire to banners from a long distance.

It also says protest leaders could be targeted by setting fire to their clothing or hair which, the document says, would mean they lose "the rhythms of their speech and powers of persuasion".

But one Beijing police officer said he would prefer to stick to more traditional crowd-control methods such as tear gas, rubber bullets or electrical stun guns, such as tasers.

"The laser burn will leave a permanent scar," he said. He said it would be a "horrid sight" that risked causing panic or transforming a peaceful protest into a riot.

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Defenders of Aura - A Battle Century G Campaign Diary

Sorry for the delay, laser eye surgery makes staring at large blocks of text difficult. Session 7 Sadly Juyon's player was not able to make this session. Juyon was assumed to be working in the background during the game. We begin this session where we left off: Floating in the middle of space having been saved from death by an alien vessel. The Naul (a race of horned humanoids) tell us that they were tracking the ship that attacked us and when they saw we were in trouble they came to help. Our ship is being held together by a tractor beam and not much else, so after the initial panic has worn off, the ship's crew and the Naul begin working together to fix things. Fiona and Ax lend a hand fixing the holes in the hull (Fiona's mech in particular being designed for this kind of work), Spectre and Eric head to the medical bay, and Sinclair helps getting the ship's computer up and running. The android is given two options for the ship's computer; either try and repair it as best as he can, or try and bypass it using his own brain to run the ship until full repairs can be done. Sinclair's response? Sinclair: *gasp* I've always wanted to be a ship's computer! However, after the GM reports the difficulty level of the two options, Sinclair decides to go for the longer, but less risky, method of repairing the computer. Perhaps next time. After completing their respective tasks the group meets up and finds one of the nauls in one of the corridors, looking confused as she places her hand on one of the walls. She says she doesn't understand why she cannot detect the "Life Energy" of our ship. It seems Naul ships are organic in nature, grown rather than built. She turns to Sinclair in fascination at the concept of a lifeform that was built rather than born. She asks many questions and expresses an interest in learning more about our human ways. We ask her questions too, especially about what appears to be the magic that the Naul are using. Right on cue, a wormhole appears next to us and a naul comes out to invite us onto the naul ship to speak with their captain. When we enter the wormhole we exit in what appears to be a large forest. We look up and find ourselves staring up at what appears to be open space. GM: Everyone roll 1d10 plus willpower to avoid freaking out. Fiona: *rolls a 10* It's a window. I've seen them before. Sinclair: *rolls a 1* Oh my god sensors don't detect any glass what is happening ahhhh! It's actually a projection of the outside. So the ship is space Hogwarts being run by space elves. Neato! The captain is an older-looking naul with a cane. He greets us and tells us that he is from Camelot, the planet with the human-alien alliance. The ship that attacked us was a member of the Ebon Order, a group of humans and nauls originally tasked with hunting the aliens that the cultists we fought in session 1 are supposedly working for. The Ebon Order went rogue not long after they entered dark space and since then have been attacking other ships indiscriminately for no apparant reason. The captain wants to enlist our help in capturing this rogue order. We ask about the Chinese ship we were supposed to be meeting. The captain tells us that they passed a human ship on the other side of Miranda that seemed abandoned. We decide we'll check it out after dealing with the Order. Our team and the captains of each ship get together to discuss plans to take the Ebon Order ship down. After checking the information from our recent battle, Eric notices something unusual about the enemy shields; when they lauched their mechs to counter ours, the shield frequency changed to allow low-speed objects to pass through briefly. This seems like our best shot of stopping them, so we plan to lure them in by pretending the Naul ship is broken down, then the Cruel Odysseus will come up behind them and catapult us towards the enemy ship as soon as the enemy mechs launch. Then we'll disable the enemy shields and engines in order to allow the Naul to board. It's a crazy, risky plan, but that's what we're here for! For additional power, Fiona builds an anti-spaceship sword for her mech out of scrap metal from the Odysseus and also finds a nuclear missile onboard. Why does this junky old ship have one of those? I don't know. So the bait is set and we wait. We don't wait for long, as the Ebon Order ship arrives quickly and immediately begins firing on the Naul ship. The Odysseus moves from its hiding place in the gas giant's cloud and we are launched in time to catch the shield at its weakest. We pass through, aiming to land at the rear of the ship between the engines, where we can do the most damage before we are noticed. The GM makes us roll for the landing. Sinclair once again makes a perfect landing (3 for 3!) while the others get scattered across the ship's aft. We go to town on whatever we can find that looks important; Sinclair hacks the engines to disable them while the others bring their weapons to bare against shield generators, weapons, and suspicious-looking chunks of metal. Soon enough we are set upon by enemy mechs. Fiona gets two artillery units appear close to her, Ax and Sinclair get two mid-range mechs, and Spectre ends up dueling the commander mech from the last fight, who's only communication is "DIE SCUM!". Fiona dodges between weapons arrays and the artillery hesitate, not wanting to blast apart their own ship. Sinclair shields Ax from attack while the rock star uses his bazooka and heavy-duty anti-mech cannon with impunity, blasting one mech clear into space and disabling the other. Fiona and Spectre perform a double team maneuveur against the commander, with Spectre pushing her towards Fiona who then leaps off a wall and down with her ridiculously large anti-spaceship sword, which smashes into the commander and the ship, causing all three mechs to crash through a section of the hull and into some kind of small hanger. Sinclair considers following Fiona and Spectre, but the hanger is already cramped and Ax's low speed makes him a sitting duck against the artillery mechs, who are now free to attack since most of the ship's systems around us have been destroyed. Sinclair repairs Ax's mech up to almost full health, but sadly a full salvo from each of the enemy mechs is enough to smash his mech to pieces. It survives at 1 hit point, due to GM fiat, just long enough for a retaliatory blast from Ax to put them at critical HP. Luckily, now that the shields are down, we get some support fire from the Odysseus, putting the remaining mechs out of commission. Ax's mech gives up the ghost (RIP Riggnarok) and Ax is badly injured. Sinclair ejects from his own mech to perform some emergency first aid on the rock star, using duct tape and superglue to hold his wounds together. Ax sadly retrieves a broken guitar neck from his cockpit as a reminder. Meanwhile, the three mechs in the hanger are striking each other at point blank range, each taking heavy damage. The commander runs a sword straight through Spectre and Eric's mech, forcing both of them to eject (RIP Eagle). Fiona strikes back with her jackhammer punch attack, but the commander is able to get one last attack in before her mech is destroyed and Fiona's mech is downed at the same time (RIP Arc Gear). Sinclair: Honestly, I take my eyes off you for one minute... By the time Fiona comes to, Spectre is gone. Eric informs her that the woman that the two of them fought has dragged him off. Sinclair and Ax meet up with Fiona and Eric and go to find the kidnapped doctor. Spectre comes round to find the mech commander standing over him. She's clearly injured with a bleeding side wound, but she's pointing a gun at him. She begins barking questions at him, strange questions like "Are you with them!?" and "Do you hear the voices?". Spectre informs her that he doesn't know what she's talking about, he's only here because he's looking for his father, Victor. The woman hesitates for a moment. "Yes, yes. You look like him. I'm taking you to see the captain." Spectre is then dragged off by his collar. He tries to fight back, but he's a scrawny scientist and she's a trained soldier so he doesn't get anything other than a bash on the head for his trouble. Meanwhile, the rest of Delta Team is on their way to the bridge to find Spectre and take over the ship. We get waylaid by soldiers so we need to take cover and try to fight back. Naturally the only team member with any non-mecha combat skills, Juyon, is not here. We take a few potshots from behind cover (Sinclair using a non-lethal stun gun, Ax using a flamethrower) but we're cornered. Thankfully we get help from some Naul soldiers who have been able to warp on board now that the shields are partially down. On the bridge, Spectre is brought before the captain, an older gentleman with a severe expression. Spectre asks about his father and the captain tells him that Victor worked with their order for some time, but eventually he left for parts unknown. There's more talk about them and the voices with no real explanation. The captain offers Spectre a place on his ship instead of Victor, asking him to finish his father's work. Before Spectre can answer, Delta Team and the Naul arrive. There are many naul guards around so we duck behind some consoles. The captain grabs Spectre to use as a human shield, effectively recinding his offer of employment. Fiona shoots the lights out, plunging the bridge into darkness. This probably would have been a good idea if we had thermal vision and the enemy didn't instead of, y'know, the other way around. Well, Sinclair has infrared vision so he drops a smokebomb to double blind everyone. So the entire bridge is a mess of soldiers staggering around trying to determine if who they just punched is friend or foe. Fun times. Fiona decides to try a bluff. She yells out to the enemy forces: Fiona: If you don't stand down we will fire a nuke at this ship and there will be no survivors! Cultist: No survivors is what we live for! [beat] Sinclair: Wait... what? Well, it was worth a shot. The injured mech commander tries to attack Fiona (who has decided that they are now rivals) but with her wound slowing her down, Fiona is able to simply pin and handcuff her. Sinclair administers some first aid to the prisoner. The captain seems to be trying to make a break for it, with Spectre in tow, when a wormhole opens andout steps the captain of the naul ship. The two captains seems to have some history as they exchange some quick banter. And then both of them draw beam swords and starting having an actual light sabre duel on the bridge! While we're getting all the Star Wars quotes out of our systems, the captain's elite guard, the Reaper, appears, lunging for the injured Ax. Ax does the only thing he can in this situation: he stabs the reaper with the neck of his broken guitar. Reaper: You... killed me... with a guitar. Ax: And there's nothing more Metal than that! After this, the naul captain wins his duel and the remaining guards surrender. We won! We did lose 60% of our mechs though, so it's a fair cost. The naul captain thanks us for our help and invites us back to Camelot to receive rewards. We accept but decide to check out the abandonded human ship they mentioned first. Upon arriving, however, we find that this is not the Chinese ship we were supposed to be meeting, and is from the old mining colony we passed last session. It's been abandonded for a long time, and already looted, so it's of no use to anyone. We're confused as to what happened to the Chinese ship, but we decide we'll deal with it later. We head to Camelot where we meet with the human president, who thanks us for a job well done. As thanks, we'll be getting access to some of their advanced technology to take back to Aura (and use to rebuild our mechs). He also agrees to help Spectre in finding any information on his father. We head back to Aura to report the missing ship. When we meet with Nina she tells us... that the Chinese ship has already arrived. What's more, they say they already met us and that we told them we were going to investigate a distress signal. And that research station we checked in with? Doesn't exist. What the-? Sinclair requests that the team be placed under quarantine until this matter can be sorted out and the team agrees. And there ends session 7! There's a large amount that I missed out because this was a busy session and this log is long enough, but it was easily my favourite of the campaign. I'm sure the action and plot twists don't come across as exciting and interesting with my writing style but I hope you enjoyed reading. Sessions 8&9 will hopefully be posted next week. Bonus quotes: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...postcount=1239

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China Firm Develops 'Laser Gun' That Can Set Fire to Protesters' Hair

New Post has been published on http://omgnewsy.com/china-firm-develops-laser-gun-that-can-set-fire-to-protesters-hair/

China Firm Develops 'Laser Gun' That Can Set Fire to Protesters' Hair

A Chinese firm has developed a laser gun designed for police use that can set fire to protesters’ hair or banners from a range of almost one kilometre.

The general manager of the ZKZM fiber laser company, who asked to remain anonymous, said the weapon would “immediately” produce a “strong pain response” in the target but stressed it was designed to be “non-lethal”.

“The weapon is designed to do things such as setting fire to illegal banners at a protest or setting fire to the hair or clothing of a protester,” general manager of the ZKZM fiber laser company told AFP.

“It is not designed explicitly for killing like a gun that uses bullets and cannot cause the ‘instant carbonisation’ of human skin and tissues,” he added.

The 15-mm calibre weapon weighs three kilogrammes (6.6 pounds), has a range of 800 metres (2,600 feet) and can pass through glass and other transparent obstacles.

It can be mounted on cars, boats and planes, the firm said, adding that it was “seeking a partner that has a weapons production licence or a partner in the security or defence industry to start large-scale production”.

It is “mainly expected to be for Chinese police use”, the manager told AFP.

He said it would need to be upgraded to a “laser cannon” — with increased power — to become lethal and confirmed his firm was working on such a weapon.

But he noted there was an international agreement not to develop killer lasers and said any such weapons would be “inhumane… the pain would be unimaginable”.

Some experts were sceptical of the unveiling, saying laser weaponry was still a matter of science fiction.

Specialist website Techcrunch noted that “laser weaponry capable of real harm has eluded the eager boffins of the world’s militaries for several reasons”.

“The power required to set a person aflame instantly from half a mile away is truly huge,” the website stressed.

“The idea of one that weighs a handful of pounds and fires hundreds of instantly skin-searing shots is just infeasible today.”

Development of such laser weapons is not limited to China, with all the big defence players in the US working on prototypes for the Pentagon.

Last year, Lockheed Martin announced a 60-kilowatt laser weapon that is invisible to the naked eye and will be deployed against mortars and small drones.

– AFP

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Some links, excerpts, and thoughts on Gun Control

Police halt marathon while chasing suspect

A woman wielding a pellet gun prompted police to briefly shut down San Diego’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon on Sunday and halt thousands of runners before she was taken into custody, officials said.

The woman, identified by police as Mona Elease Williams, 58, had not targeted the marathon and the incident was not connected to the race, San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said at a news briefing.

The incident, in which a pursuing police officer shot himself in the leg, ended after about 30 minutes, and the marathon soon resumed, Nisleit said.

The events began late Sunday morning with a report to an officer working the marathon that a driver had fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident in San Diego. Police attempted to pursue her but backed off and called for help when she brandished what appeared to be a gun at them.

A team was formed to chase her, but one officer was wounded when his gun accidentally went off, police said. Officers eventually chased her into a parking lot, where she surrendered.

Dancing FBI agent accidentally shoots bar patron in Denver: police

An off-duty FBI agent dancing wildly at a downtown Denver bar accidentally shot a man in the leg when the agent tried to pick up a gun that fell from its holster as he performed a handstand, Denver police said.

A bystander recorded video of the incident involving the unnamed agent, which authorities said took place early on Saturday at the Mile High Spirits and Distillery night spot, and the footage was shared widely online on Sunday.

In a statement, the Denver Police Department said the agent “was dancing at a night club when his firearm became dislodged from its waistband holster and fell onto the floor. When the agent retrieved his handgun an unintended discharge occurred.”

Another bar patron was hit by a bullet in a lower leg, sustaining a non-life-threatening injury, said the statement by a department spokeswoman, Marika Putnam.

The agent was taken to police headquarters, Putnam said, and later released to an Federal Bureau of Investigation supervisor. The Denver District Attorney’s office will decide whether to press any charges against the agent.

Denver district attorney spokesman Ken Lane said by email on Sunday morning that the DA’s office had no comment as the incident remains under investigation by the Denver Police.

Denver FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders also said that Denver Police are leading the investigation and that it was a ‘personnel matter for the FBI.” She did not say how the FBI has or will discipline the agent.

Two stories from over the weekend that re-piqued my interest in the ongoing gun debate, interesting in the fact that these two men did not intend to accidentally discharge their weapons but nevertheless did, thankfully without fatalities, and on the same day. 

Excerpt from Gun Violence is a Symptom of a Troubled Society

Andrew Exum, a former U.S. Army officer who was part of General Stanley McChrystal’s review of the American strategy in Afghanistan, wrote recently in The Atlantic, “After the September 11 attacks, I spent several years at war and then lived abroad as a civilian for another several years. And when I finally returned to the United States in late 2008, I noticed something different about the gun culture in the country to which I was so eager to return. For one, driving with my mother from our home in East Tennessee to Nashville, I noticed how many billboards on the side of the highway advertised guns. And not just any guns—these were not .30-06 hunting rifles or shotguns, but rather, the kind of tactical firearms, including assault rifles that I had carried in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why in the world, I thought then, would anyone have a need for such weapons?”

From The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn’t Guns. It’s People

You can’t fix people who want to harm others for their various reasons by taking away guns. You can only make it harder for the rest of us to defend ourselves against them.

Take away guns, and you get knives. Take away knives and you get improvised explosives. There is no way to take away the yen that some people have to kill others.

To imagine a scenario where a new Adam Lanza or James Holmes (insert mentally ill gun-wielding man here) has a ‘spree’ planned out but in a ‘new world’ where guns are unobtainable and knives are drastically reduced in supply and access (or filed down to a far less lethal extent) has decided to somehow improvise an explosive device is laughable, to say the least. 

In China, where firearms are tightly restricted, it’s probably no surprise that those who want to hurt people found another way to do it. The dramatic rise of knife attacks around the world shows that the problem these days isn’t with guns. It’s with people.

All humor aside, some folks in the US who want to do away with the Second Amendment are probably saying smugly, “Well, knife attacks are bad, but only people with GUNS can kill dozens of victims quickly.”

The key word here is ‘quickly’ and it is undoubtedly true that you can kill a lot more people using a firearm than a blade. I wonder, using the same sort of scenario that has occurred in China, if you replace than knife with a gun, how the number of casualties may differ. At the same time, take the recent shooting at the high school in Santa Fe and replace the gun with the knife, if even one person would die. Context is missing from a lot of these events because neither we, nor the reporter or even possibly the reporters ‘sources,’ were actually present to witness the series of events as they transpired. 

In the UK, there has been a deadly knife attack every third day of 2018. In 2017, Met Police recorded 37,443 recorded knife offenses and 6,694 gun offenses. The problem is so bad that a judge has suggested banning the sale of large kitchen knives and that those who already have kitchen knives should file them down to avoid stabbings.

In 2016, two soldiers were attacked by a man with a knife in Belgium, and a few days ago, a prison inmate on day leave stabbed two police officers then took their guns and shot them.

Four people were injured and one was killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked them in Paris last week.

A few observations, first, that the attacks that are happening ‘every third day’ are apparently related to a resurgence of ‘postcode wars’ between rival gangs, which have resulted in the deaths of innocent people, but is not an isolated incident, especially not one that occurred at a school. The two soldiers were attacked and did not perish, the two police officers were stabbed and then had their guns taken away from them, which issued the fatal bullets, and finally four people were injured but only one died. All of this is evidence of the difference between attacks using bladed weapons and those that use firearms. 

From Not Just Sandy Hook: China’s Terrifying Knife Attacks

The Chinese knife attack wounded 22 kids and an 85-year-old woman at Chenpeng village in the southern province of Guangxi. (Gun ownership is tightly controlled in China, where mass attacks usually involve men with a knife, cleaver, or machete.) The high number of casualties is just the latest in a string of school attacks, and it underscores inadequacies in the country’s antiquated—and in some places virtually non-existent—system for diagnosing and treating citizens suffering psychiatric distress.

Inadequate care for sufferers of mental illness, sounds familiar. 

The timing of the four incidents suggested the possibility of a “copycat” phenomena, in which criminals mimic sensational incidents after learning of them from media. The stabbing spree alarmed government authorities, who enhanced security at schools; a Chinese regulation now also requires people to register with their national identity cards when purchasing large knives. 

The expansion of Big Brother in China is frightening, on a recent episode of HBO’s Vice ("Battle for Jerusalem & A face in the crowd"- aired 4/13/18) we are taken to China and introduced to a man who explains his companies facial recognition capabilities to our host, and when asked why the AI system is called ‘Skynet’ makes the remark that Terminator 2 is the favorite movie of his boss. They now have what are basically Citizen Scores where the value of an individuals contribution to society is measured and enforced using facial recognition and AI technology. The immediate concern about this concept is who determines what makes an action ‘of value to society’ and what doesn’t. Neither China nor England have a constitution to act as a sort of both Compass and Anchor, especially anchor because without an ‘anchor’ established in legislation, government has no restraints to speak of. 

More on China and its ‘Social Credit’- http://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit

From Gun Studies: Permit Laws Reduce Murders; Red Flag Laws Cut Suicides

He says the picture is more "nuanced" in Connecticut, which passed a red flag law in 1999. He says there was little effect in the first few years — just a 1.6 percent decrease in gun suicides — but he thinks that's because the law wasn't enforced much at first. After the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007, he says enforcement increased dramatically.

Gun permit laws, on the other hand, do seem to have an effect on murder — according to another new study.

"Requiring handgun purchasers to obtain a license prior to purchase was associated with a 14 percent reduction in firearm homicide," says Cassandra Crifasi, at the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Her newest research looks at how state gun laws affect the incidence of homicide in large urban areas.

"There are lots of conversations right now about gun policies that are effective at reducing violence," she said, "and this study adds to a fairly robust and growing body of literature showing that requiring prospective handgun purchasers to obtain a license is one of the best policies to reduce violence."

It's not clear why a license requirement reduces the firearms murder rate. Crifasi says it may be attributable in part to the fact that higher bureaucratic barriers in acquiring guns may reduce the number in circulation — which means fewer are available to be stolen from homes and cars.

But she says higher homicide rates in urban areas are also associated with a state's adoption of "stand-your-ground laws," which allow greater legal cover for people to defend themselves with firearms.

"In counties in states with right-to-carry laws and stand-your-ground laws, we saw increases in firearm homicide," Crifasi says.

One aspect of state gun laws that still needs study, she says, is the effect of differing requirements to obtain a concealed carry permit. Some states, such as Texas, demand training and testing, while others, such as Washington state, don't.

"Gun policy people have tended to lump these right-to-carry states together," she says. "But training standards are very, very different across states. So our next steps in our research is to parse out if there are elements of concealed carry laws that are effective or maybe protective against firearm violence, compared to others."

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KNOT 4 PROPHET

By Michael M Clements

Open your mind and take this journey with me for a minute. I believe, like many artists, that when an artist creates, especially extemporaneously, they are channeling into an unknown place and time and connecting with a part of the time space continuum that we, as humans, have yet to fully understand. It’s a place where time is not linear; where clues, frequencies and vibrations from present, past and future exist as one in a nebulous caldron of ideas, thoughts and happenings which have all been released from our linear concept of time and thus exist as one, at the same point in non-time, like a living dream. I know this from experience. About 20-25 years ago, I had a stretch where I did a lot of extemporaneous drawings mostly on paper with pen, marker, oil crayon, highlighter and whatever else I had laying around. I had no training. This wasn’t for any reason or exhibition. In fact, I didn’t even know I was an artist them. I would just draw because I felt like I had to. It was before I worked in canvas and paints. Today it’s considered Outsider art. What it lacked in technicality it made up for in proficient prophecy. Over the years, the works have revealed themselves to be rather prophetic foretelling and producing images and scenarios that eventually came to pass, and many still to come I believe. In a Nostradamian way, they are cryptic and open for interpretation; but the connection to current events can not be denied. I knew none of this when I created them; at the time, I was merely channeling and tapping into this intangible cosmic universal mind (our better yet, “cloud”) to cull references and elusions from the ether. Finally, after several decades, I’ve begun curate some of the images for an exhibition entitled “Knot 4 Prophet”... now, if I could just decide on a date in the future...?  

1. SWAN SONG, circ. 1996

Then... A blonde haired man, large—a centerpiece; looks solemnly on. His swan song is silenced by a vagina. There is a web. A sting. Deception. And a lot of  disparate lines and images creating a frenetic and disjointed information pattern. Is that a cheese grater? 

What’s come to pass... Well, hello Donald Trump. This tells your future too. When you are eventually silenced in your final swan song. 

Today’s themes ... #trump #metoo #timesup

Artist, Michael M. Clements; Mixed media on paper, 8.5x11. Image by Genki Media® LLC. All rights reserved, 2018.

2. HE TALKS ABOUT NOTHING, 4 IN A ROW, 1994

Then...  A political themed piece. Voters line up to a ballot box but a monkey pulls the strings. Meanwhile an authoritarian clad figure emerges from a dump truck called “friend” devouring all he can in an endless buffet called “Eat for Free.” A bullet pierces the US flag emblazoned with the word “Vote.” Words like “He talks about nothing,” “That’s questionable,” “Mansion,” “Hawaii,” “Its’ too old and difficult to maintain,” “Spacious and elegant.”  

What’s come to pass... The monkey is Putin. He pulls the strings to the election resulting in an authoritarian leader that is devouring our state’s riches.  Its all about the vote. 

Today’s themes ...#russianbots #electionmeddling #nra #gunculture #authoritarianism #trumpism #corporategreed #votersuppression #democracy #uselections #fairelections

Artist, Michael M. Clements; Mixed media on paper, 8.5x11. Image by Genki Media® LLC. All rights reserved, 2018.

3. THE GREAT FLOOD, 2003

Then... This is the new China: government control and economic growth in a constant struggle against environmental breakdown and the great flood of information. A damn breaks and water floods the countryside. A man with a wall around his head stands with a keyboard in his hand; a PLA soldier stands next to him outwardly firm, yet inwardly conflicted. Forcing his weapon down is a women dressed in a Buddhist robe; she rips though the painting to remind us all that the ecological clock is ticking. The lush mountains of the idyllic China countryside are just a façade; behind them reality – strings of gray industrial centers covered in toxic air and POAD signs.

What’s come to pass... Remember this image was before the great internet wall of China was in full effect. I’d say, this represents China today— the battle between gov to censor its people. The fight for Tibet / spiritualism. One interesting note is that its the female embodiment of Buddhism that is pushing the central figure’s—representing the Chinese Communist party—gun down. Effectively disarming it. That, has yet to come to pass.  

**Today’s themes ...  **#china #statecensorship #digitalprivacy #riseofchina #chinesepollution 

Artist, Michael M. Clements; Mixed media on paper, 8.5x11. Image by Genki Media® LLC. All rights reserved, 2018.

4. VOTE FREEDOM / THE FLAG IS BURNING, 1993

Then...A comment on America’s use of force to solve international issues. The flag is burning – the flag of freedom, the flag of culture, the flag of our global community. Between a stylized U.S. & Chinese flag and the outline of Africa lies a highway, representing the technological divide between the have and have-nots. In the centre, a warship and jet cascade carry bombs and freedom. To the right, a characterized Middle-eastern man has shot himself in the hand; he sits on top of the pillars of “oil,” “wood” and “food.”

**What’s come to pass... **This is more tied to Obama and the foreshadowing America’s first African American president. Words like “culture,” “society” and the use of a highway dividing the art work. I also, now see that the flag looks like a combination of US, Chinese and Confederate flag. There is a hand grabbing a pipe. Legalization? All the military references are as poignant 25 years later as they were then. 

Today’s themes ... #obama #usmilitary #suburbia #middleeastturmoil #naturalresources

Artist, Michael M. Clements; Mixed media on paper, 8.5x11. Image by Genki Media® LLC. All rights reserved, 2018. 

5.TECHNOLOGY TOO BIG, 1998

Then... An eerie premonition of both the events of 9/11 as well as the ongoing rise of AI. This was before smartphones. Before AI. Before google, facebook, etc; before the concept of the singularity. Originally meant to be a comment on the pace of technology and it affect on culture. A train barrels through a tunnel. In its headlights, two humans that look like germs. There is a piano with music being uploaded to a human brian.  A human head on a computer chip. In the top right, a helicopter over a burning metropolitan sky line of New York and a man holding a gun in one hand and a bird of peace in the other...

What’s come to pass... with the burning sky line of New York and a man holding a gun in one hand and a bird of peace in the other… the piece has taken on a new dimension following 911, essentially its a prediction of 911 14 years early. But, this piece reverberates today. Technology continues to barrel forward. And AI is taking over. Eventually our brains and the computer chip as one—indeed this piece sees “the singularity.” This piece sees it all and more. 

**Today’s themes ... **#911 #AI #computertakeover #thesingularity #technology #futurism #brainchips

Artist, Michael M. Clements; Mixed media on paper, 8.5x11. Image by Genki Media® LLC. All rights reserved, 2018. 

6. BOY IN THE BALLOON, 2002

**Then... **A man reads a book, it resembles a bible, he holds a large peach balloon. Within that, a boy holds a red balloon, beside him, a cuckoo clock. Around them, hectic scenes of movement and modernity: An apartment building blasts to the sky, dinner falls from an upside down table, sharks circle an electric plug connected to a mouse. The man holds a needle – does he intend to pop his balloon or dive into the modern world? The man about to pop it all is reading a religious textbook. 

**What’s come to pass... **A couple things. First the upside down table has a stock chart on it. This foreshadowed the stock market meltdown on 2008. Sharks in the water. Electricity in the water. All dangerous. Lethal.  The peach, the ballon, they are both bubbles about to be burst. The biggest future shout out is the rocket. Humanity taking to space to live. The man about to pop it all is reading a religious textbook. How about the religious counteraction to all of this? The entire bubble bursting is being influenced while the man read scripture.  

**Today’s themes ... **#stockcrash #stockmarketbubble #spaceexploration #humansinspace #religionandtechnology

Artist, Michael M. Clements; Mixed media on paper, 8.5x11. Image by Genki Media® LLC. All rights reserved, 2018. 

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Summer Work

I have chosen the director study, and I will study Quentin Tarantino. I chose this director because recently I have become a lot more obsessed with his work, and I noticed how each of his films have incredibly similar traits. The interesting complex plots, the non-linear narratives, the focus on gore and blood as a means to entertain, and the iconic title sequences. I also noticed that throughout each of his films, Tarantino implies western traits, so I wanted to explore more of how the conventions of the western genre are entrenched into his filmmaking. Furthermore, I wanted to study how Tarantino represents females in his work, since the majority of his films have lead female roles in, and for the most part they are portrayed very similar- strong, relentless and often revenge-fuelled.

The three focal film texts I have chosen are Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill (Vol.1):

Pulp Fiction- As well as being my all-time favourite Tarantino film, I chose to study this 1994 Crime Drama for a number of reasons; one being the iconic non-linear sequence and the many different inside narratives that occur throughout the film. In addition, I will focus on the role of Uma Thurman (an actor that is iconic to Tarantino) as a lead female role. The iconic Mia Wallace is central to the film despite not having an extensive amount of screen time in relation to the entirety of the film- she is the strong-willed, mysterious wife of notorious gang leader Marsellus Wallace, whose only role is his wife yet she is portrayed as so much more. Apart from Mia, the general pop culture references in Pulp Fiction is something I find interesting, and is a common trait of Tarantino’s. There is also the typical relations to violence and gangs.

Jackie Brown- Featuring a lead female role, Jackie Brown is a key focal text to study female representation in Tarantino films. The 1997 Crime Drama follows Jackie as a flight attendant that smuggles money into Mexico and thus ends up in a lethal situation with gang members. She is represented as an independent strong-willed woman who isn’t afraid to pull a gun up to someone. The violence and gang-related crime is iconic of Tarantino and thus Jackie Brown is a great example of a focal text that will help me a lot in my study.

Kill Bill- Uma Thurman is the lead role in this 2003 Thriller/Action, as a revenge-fuelled female assassin that seeks vengeance after the attempt on her life and the murder of her fiancé and unborn baby. I chose to study this focal text because it too has a non-linear complex narrative, and I think it is especially interesting how the film has clear western references while being dedicated to Kung Fu and a Chinese/Japanese theme. I also wanted to study it because of the clear female dominance and the very interesting female representation. My short film is going to use Kill Bill as a main influence since I plan on including a female protagonist who has recently escaped an assassin squad, run by a male antagonist such as ‘Bill’.

Quotes

· ‘His fascination with genres is well known, from the heist movie terrain of Reservoir Dogs to what he calls “the bad-ass chick revenge movie” of Kill Bill’- Benjamin Secher, The Telegraph [i]

· ‘It (Kill Bill) empowers girls by the fact that Uma Thurman is a female warrior, she’s a female avenger. Revenge is one of the classic staples in drama’- Quentin Tarantino [ii]

· ‘Westerns reflect the decade in which they were made, more than musicals, more than period dramas, even more than comedies’- Quentin Tarantino [iii]

 Short film plan

For my short film I am going to focus on Kill Bill as the main influence and focal text. As a basic summary of the plot, my film is going to be about an ex female assassin gang member that betrays her gang and escapes. The leader of the gang (a male antagonist based on Bill) sends the rest of his female assassins after her to kill her and then send him a photo of her dead corpse. They track her down at a desolate location where they all fight. After fighting they all stop and engage in dialogue- the main protagonist saying she doesn’t want to have to kill them and they don’t have to kill her. After Tarantino-like conversation they agree to help her stage her death and send a fake photo of her dead corpse to their gang leader. However, even though they agreed not to kill her this time, they warn her that things aren’t over- she can escape but they will have to come after her again soon and their leader will eventually find out she’s still alive and come after her himself. The short film ends with a long shot of the main protagonist driving away into the sunset with an iconic ‘to be continued’ title over the shot.

My film will follow a non-linear narrative: the opening shot will be a close up of the main protagonist’s eyes- seemingly dead laying on the floor. It will then cut to her at the desolate location alone, sat waiting as she knows her gang are coming after her. The fight-dialogue scene pursues and it is linear from then on.

[i] Benjamin Secher, Telegraph.co.uk. 2010. Quentin Tarantino interview: 'All my movies are achingly personal' - Telegraph. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7165045/Quentin-Tarantino-interview-All-my-movies-are-achingly-personal.html. [Accessed 10 September 2017].

 [ii] Kron 4 News, YouTube. 2011. Quentin Tarantino Interview (2003) - Jane - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7k4GQSGvx8. [Accessed 10 September 2017].

 [iii] YouTube. 2016. Quentin Tarantino on the Western Genre - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RoebUgre6A. [Accessed 10 September 2017].